Upama Aich
@UpamaAich
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Postdoc, Wong Lab @MonashBiol. Interested in sexual selection, ageing, behaviour, and evolutionary biology. PhD from Jennions Lab @EcoEvo_ANU she/her 🇧🇩 🇦🇺
Melbourne, Australia
Joined May 2013
The first official experiment @GioPolverino and I did @ @MonashBiol, @BBM_Wong lab with an amazing group of people: @Farin_yp @gabriela_melogc @HungTan_ James & @NosratiR is out now! We think it opened new research avenues in ecotoxicology. Read the full paper below👇🏾
Multigenerational impacts of neuroactive pollution on behaviour, life-history and reproductive traits in fish. New OA paper in @AnimalEcology co-led by @UpamaAich and @GioPolverino. #BobWongLab @MonashBiol @unitusviterbo
https://t.co/0GXQFdeDi8
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Happy to share our new review in @RSocPublishing on the role of chemical pollutants in shaping biological invasions Part of our upcoming Special Feature issue on 'Wildlife behaviour and movement ecology in a human-dominated world'! Open Access 👉 https://t.co/DPtjLzCUpj
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Behavioral plasticity can be a double-edged sword for genetic adaptation. Have a look at our experimental demonstration published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
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Behavioural plasticity can play a key role in evolution by either facilitating or impeding genetic adaptation. The latter occurs when behaviours mitigate selection pressures that otherwise would...
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Our latest paper on pharmaceuticals in the environment is now out. Congratulations to @NahumAtYork for his first paper. https://t.co/9IOgSQwHEu
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Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are emitted to the environment via various pathways. Consequently, there are concerns over the potential impacts of APIs in the environment on ecological and...
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Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird #bird #Cognition #NumberSense
https://t.co/LIJg5U09sE
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Women, non-native English speakers & researchers from low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found female non-native English speakers from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 https://t.co/MN2E4xyXCJ
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Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://t.co/us3EsSV2mS
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Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great 🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟
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We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate at @MurdochUni to work on bat movement ecology 🦇 with a focus on predicting wind energy impacts 🌬️ https://t.co/zSeBCtH2Kz
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Having Sir David Attenborough narrate a story based on our findings on the dyeing poison frog never popped up, even in my wildest dreams. Now it’s happening, in the new BBC series “Parenthood” (Episode on Freshwater)! 🤩 https://t.co/OzZi6bCTT5 📸: Screenshot from trailer
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Calling all evolutionary biologists! AES 2025 Conference 📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct Talks close 1 Sept Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community! 🔗 https://t.co/wBRY7EHiVJ
#AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci
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Call for DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme‼️ iDiv’s Graduate School #yDiv invites highly motivated international candidates from the #globalsouth to apply for DAAD-GSSP Scholarships 2026 funded by @DAAD_Germany! 2 scholarships available, each with a funding period of
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For the new kids in back: If you hate statistics, you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. https://t.co/GnOYGex9Yg
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🚨 Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology position @CurtinUni. Candidates with strong marine invertebrate or benthic ecology background are encouraged. 📍 Perth, AU Closes: 13th June 2025 🔗
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Aligning Behavioural Ecotoxicology with Real-World Water Concentrations: Current Minimum Tested Levels for Pharmaceuticals Far Exceed Environmental Reality https://t.co/StlyUEhKhc
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Very happy to get this paper published in @NatureEcoEvo on how divergent selection and plasticity promotes reproductive isolation in the early stage of speciation. Thanks to 1th author, former postdoc @bjmjarrett for this excellent collaboration: https://t.co/Nm5mlFpFI8
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Please RT. We are hiring domestic/international #PhD students to work on citizen science, insect migration/conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests here. https://t.co/X84FQlr5Ff.
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🎉 Huge congrats to PhD student @melhado_gabriel, who received an award at the @ASABSpring2025 conference in Liverpool for presenting his research on how pharmaceutical pollution impacts the behaviour and immune system of our Aussie native rainbowfish. Way to go, Gabriel! 🐠🔬
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Postdoc in Avian Behaviour (2.5 yrs) Study evolution of escape behaviour in threatened birds. ARC-funded project w/ Matt Symonds & Mike Weston (Deakin), Lee Ann Rollins (UNSW). Exp. in bird behavioural ecology required Apply :
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"Understanding different types of repeatability and intra-class correlation for an analysis of biological variation" DOI: https://t.co/5nZp5FVHQr
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We’re at the Ezone 207, Zoology stall for UWA Open Day today! Drop by to chat about all things animal behaviour, conservation, & evolutionary biology. Come find out what research at CEB is all about and take a photo w Darwin! #UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience
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