Carrie Branch

I am a human. I study animal behavior. I like tiny, angry things. I've been known to crack a joke or two.

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

I'm never *glad* I checked Twitter...🤨

[Joseph Welklin @j_welklin]

New Chickadee paper! Over a lifetime of studying chickadees and tits (family Paridae) @CognitiveEcol noticed that females are often smaller than males within breeding pairs, even though male-female size distributions usually overlap.

[Joseph Welklin @j_welklin]

Now published in @AnimBehSociety, we set out to test whether this anecdotal observation was real and whether it was driven by mate choice or environmental effects.

[Joseph Welklin @j_welklin]

Link for the paper, please DM if you need a pdf.
https://t.co/5w2eUKyWcX

Coauthors include: @branchinalong, @PiteraAngela, @Sonnenbird, @LM_Benedict, @virginiakheinen, @dkcorvus86, @CognitiveEcol

[Western University @WesternU]

"Waking up the next morning and finding that food store is the difference between life and death for these birds."
#WesternU professor involved in a decade-long study found backyard feeders may help chickadees survive. @BirdsWesternU @westernuPsych 
https://t.co/GyAzr7s7uY

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

@georgy_semenov 😊

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

Awesome piece from ⁦@CornellBirds⁩ highlighting our work in those clever mountain chickadees I’m always on about : >
#scienceisateamsport
⁦@CognitiveEcol⁩ ⁦@Sonnenbird⁩ ⁦@Dr_Scott_Taylor⁩ https://t.co/tDV3uNowAM

[Sarah Khalil @SarahInTheField]

Traveling Costa Rica with an #ABS2022 star-studded crew, including Outstanding Young Investigator awardee @KateLaskowski and Allee best presentation awardee @shailee_shah93. 🤩🌋

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

Extremely excited to be starting my very own lab this fall! I will be recruiting highly motivated and curious graduate students to start fall 2023!
#animalbehavior #animalcognition #animalcommunication #chickadees

[Social Sci @WesternU @westernuSocSci]

Carrie Branch (@branchinalong) has joined @westernuPsych. Branch researches animal behaviour and cognition, with a focus on the interplay between cognitive abilities and communication systems. https://t.co/qonktK4Jcb

[Ben Sandkam @EvoEcoAquatics]

🚨 PhD available - Fall 2022
Want to explore how #animalbehavior is shaped by #evolution of the #genome 🧬?

Accepting PhD students in Neurobiology and Behavior @Cornell University! @CornellNBB

https://t.co/p7VeJNC0Zq
[email protected]
Pls RT!
#PhDposition #AcademicChatter

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

Check out our new paper in Current Biology! We show there’s a genetic basis of spatial cognitive abilities in those very clever mountain chickadees! A true collaboration with ⁦@CognitiveEcol⁩ ⁦@Dr_Scott_Taylor⁩ https://t.co/VDQt4vhW2q

[Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) @Sonnenbird]

A few follow-up photos of our odd depigmented male Mountain chickadee.
The loss of pigment was asymmetrical as you can easily see in the tail.
#ornithology #chickadee #fieldwork

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

5 stars! Highly recommend!

[Matthew Toomey @mbtoomey]

Great work @s_m_aguillon! The potential interactions between mechanisms of melanin and carotenoid pigmentation are really fascinating.

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

Hey thats me!

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Testing the greater male variability phenomenon: male mountain chickadees exhibit larger variation in cognitive task performance compared with females #ProcB https://t.co/V4XD5LgiI2 @branchinalong @Sonnenbird @PiteraAngela @LM_Benedict @dkcorvus86 @CognitiveEcol #ornithology

[Carrie Branch @branchinalong]

Chickadees have a secret...but DNA won’t let em keep it! Would love to see you virtually at the Live Q&A on Tuesday July 28 @ 11 EST

[Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) @Sonnenbird]

Presentation uploaded! Come hear about chickadees and their nest parasites in Ecological effects 3! #abs2020 and I'd love to see you at the Q&A on July 30 @ 4pm ET US! @AnimBehSociety

[Virginia Heinen @virginiakheinen]

#abs2020 Let's do this! Come find out how social learning differs between mountain chickadees at high and low elevations! And join me for the Social Behavior 2 Q&A on Wednesday, July 29, 11 AM ET!