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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam

@tarunyumnam.bsky.social

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🦋 animal colour, phenotypic plasticity, PCMs, anti-predator, looking for Postdoc | runner

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Dec 27

joining the #Xit with a butterfly image as first post to match the logo.

𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘶𝘴 | Mohali, India

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · 21d

A great conference week @behaviour2025.bsky.social meeting new & old colleagues. Presented our work on butterfly seasonal wing polyphenism: influence of humidity+host plant quality & bird vision modelling of wing patterns. Glad to have received the Best Poster Award (+ a beautiful painting)!

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 18

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Amir Patel ⭐

Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how Dr Patel’s team decoded cheetah locomotion and its far-reaching implications for biomechanics and high-speed robotics. 🐆

Learn more: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 19

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy ⭐

Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how @avispatica.bsky.social Dr Mora-Kepfer Uy’s team uncovered captivating ways in which parasites reprogram the behaviour and lifespan of insects. 🐝🪱

Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jul 11

🎥 Missed it live? Catch the replay!

Get practical tips on resilience, communication, and building healthier research cultures with our amazing panellists Marion Miezenbeek, Raquel Cossío-Bayúgar & Karla Rossanet Dzul-Rosado.

▶️ Watch now: youtube.com/live/4g6bv3Q...
#AcademicCareers

Round Table Series 2025: 1. Coaching early career scientists

YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jul 10

We welcome the 2nd plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌🙌

@anna-stoeckl.bsky.social‬ from @uni-konstanz.de‬ reveals how insect pollinators interpret floral patterns to guide foraging. From hawkmoth vision to neural templates—this talk will bridge behaviour, neuroethology & sensory biology. 🦋🪻

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jul 14

We have not done predation experiments as a part of this study; that’d be very interesting to do and build on the existing predation experiment studies

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks Abhishek

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you all for your help during the project and my lovely partner for being by my side during this PhD journey!

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jul 8

We’re thrilled to announce plenary speakers at #ABL2025. 🙌

Dr Amir Patel @ucl.ac.uk blends robotics & biology to decode the cheetah’s lightning-fast moves. 🐆 From deep learning to legged robots, get ready for a wild sprint through biomechanics, evolution & tech!

#Biomechanics #Robotics

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jun 19

📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN!

🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025

🎤 Choose from:
🔹 15-min live or recorded talk
🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!)
📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

#ABL2025

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thank you 😊

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jun 5

What a fascinating study on the false heads of some butterflies! 🤩🦋 Great presentation by @tarunyumnam.bsky.social #EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks @empseb30.bsky.social for the best conference so far. Such amazing planning and execution with so many cool and enthusiastic people all around to enjoy while discussing science. And the award was an added sweet memory to this beautiful experience.

Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jun 6

Huge congrats to @tarunyumnam.bsky.social for getting the #EMPSEB30 prize for best talk! 🦋🥇 Very well deserved! 👏🏼

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thank you. It was so nice meeting you in person

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jun 6

💥💥 Our annual conference #ABL2025 is back! 💥💥

Join us 13–14 Nov 2025 for 2 exciting days:
🔹 6 sessions
🔹 6 stellar plenaries
🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics
🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌍
Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss #ABL2025!

📌 Stay tuned—registration details will be announced soon

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aardhra21.bsky.social @aardhra21.bsky.social · May 13

"Co-evolve with vision" is my entry for the art competition by @ssegrad.bsky.social. #EvoArt2025.

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Cristian Gutierrez-Ibañez @gallinaciega.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain.
This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Apr 15

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2025📣
We are kicking off 2025 with our first seminar.

📆Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT on our Youtube channel: @damienfarine.bsky.social will talk about “The costs of collective behaviour” 🐦

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...

This event is free, no registration required. 🤗

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Apr 12

Found an interesting co-author in an interesting paper.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hello World!
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

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ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Mar 21

Wood Sandpiper,
Vellayani Lake, India

Observed during the #GBBC2025 . Big shout out to Kushankur, who led the #birding

#birds #nature #nikon #Kerala #sandpipers #wetlands

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Feb 3

A mating pair of the dark-brand bush brown, 𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘴.

#Kerala, India

#butterflies #lepidoptera #insects #nature #macro #wildlife

ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · Jan 11

The beautiful bipectinate antennae of 𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢!

IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India

#moth #insect #lepidoptera #macrophoto