Dr. Erin Brandt

Postdoc at U Chicago studying jumping spider locomotion, sex, physiology, ecology. Spreading arthropod love literally and figuratively. She/her

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

Before this website goes down in a blaze of…well, not glory, I want to talk about my recent preprint in the @NatashaMhatre lab. Have a look at the #tweetprint below! The thrills of #cricket acoustic tool use! 5304 #modelling parameter combinations! https://t.co/KRmslANx80

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@DrTainaConrad @AnimBehSociety @magdalenammair @SteigerLab Excited to see this out!

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@SarahMackAttack @CoreyDanks One of those movies where you remember 0% of the plot, but you can't shake the atmosphere and visuals if you try!

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@DrTainaConrad Awesome, I'll see you there! I'm giving two cricket symposia talks.

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

En route to NYC to participate in this symposium! Looking forward to a day of excellent talks.

[ITS@CUNY @ITSCUNY1]

Next Friday (Mar 1): excited to welcome 9 student+postdoc speakers with @phybiofunc. Please join us! Registration and details https://t.co/7XESGQq2BJ

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@_JulietLu I will never share my turnip secrets!

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@_JulietLu "Root Vegetables" (presumably some kind of journal) has been hounding me for years now.

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@JacquelynGill My lowest exam score ever was an 8 (eight) percent in Organic Chemistry. With the curve it was *barely* a failing grade. Went on to do a masters and Ph.D. in Bio. I think most passed the class, by grace of the ridiculous curve. Prof was a pretty nice guy, adding to the weirdness!

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Tree crickets sport baffles to increase the efficiency of their forewing mating calls. But most crickets don’t need baffles because the ground reflects sound upwards and enhances the insect’s acoustic energy. In PNAS: https://t.co/h0rr7br50B

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@GinaGoesOutside Strongly recommend the emergency poisons mushroom/plants group. Fascinating and useful!

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

Also! Check out this great article written by our excellent media relations specialist @JeffRenaud99 https://t.co/JaL2BDthuA

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

@BugsOrBust Also talk to students *outside* the lab about what they think the lab is like. Students in the lab might not feel comfortable snitching on their advisor, but other students in the department will often see what's going on and are more willing to spill the tea.

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

Again, big thanks and congrats to my co-authors Natasha Mhatre @natashamhatre Sarah Duke @sduke7463 and Linda Wang. I may follow up with another thread about the process of data collection for this project. It was a truly heroic effort by our dedicated students!

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

Now out in PNAS! And a cool update/discovery about this work below: https://t.co/QT6A3w2pBj

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

Before this website goes down in a blaze of…well, not glory, I want to talk about my recent preprint in the @NatashaMhatre lab. Have a look at the #tweetprint below! The thrills of #cricket acoustic tool use! 5304 #modelling parameter combinations! https://t.co/KRmslANx80

[Dr. Erin Brandt @ArachnoGal]

At the end of the day, our pandemic-era work-from-home modelling project about crickets made us rethink something fundamental about acoustic ecology. We're thrilled by the new questions, hypotheses, and avenues of research now open to us.