Alexandra Duffy, PhD
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Assistant Research Professor @ North Carolina State University • Behavioral Evolution, Social Interactions, Chemical Ecology • She/Her
North Carolina, USA
Joined December 2009
An essential paper, one that will guide conservation and restoration for landscape connectivity at local to global scales.
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Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances...
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I’m taking a break from my mental health to focus on my academic work
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Online now: Deriving meaning from acoustic data in hyper-diverse ecosystems https://t.co/bzdM1EYszv
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The graph that surprises nobody A simple line, that's all we needed in our recent @Nature paper, to show the strong relationship between biodiversity and humans' footprint. It's clear: we need to battle that human footprint to conserve biodiversity! https://t.co/rnsB6c0FNo
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Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in @ScienceMagazine! This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years! You can read the paper here: https://t.co/bRLCqSpjQ1!
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Psychiatric disorders can be perceived as energy landscapes. OCD has deep valleys - neural activity gets stuck. Schizophrenia has shallow valleys - neural activity roams too freely.
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A/Prof Daniel Noble, a leader in evolutionary ecology and ecophysiology based @ScienceANU, has been awarded the Fenner Medal which recognises outstanding research in biology.
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Online now: Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors https://t.co/3gylHpXHqE
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Hot off the press: Country spiders and City spiders adjust their webs differently based on environmental noise! Check out the amazing research of @BrandiPessman @UNLsbs #spiders Web transmission properties vary with a spider’s past and current noise
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@EthologyScience @AnimBehSociety What, preferably free, video tracking software are people using these days.? I’m gonna have videos with multiple pairings of spiders, need to uniquely identify and track the movement, proximity, and cannibalism in these pairs. @kajaya_kiwi
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🌍Did you know that preserving biodiversity is crucial for our own well-being?🤝 Check out this eye-opening infographic that reveals the undeniable link between #biodiversity and human health. via @WHO, @EU_Commission & @UNBiodiversity
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Our newest paper in @SpringerANCO linking stress and cognitive lateralisation by looking at brain gene expression in zebrafish. @UniFerrara
https://t.co/bRkAiIdTmD
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Animal Cognition - Cerebral lateralisation, the differential cognitive processing in the two brain hemispheres, is variable among individuals in most vertebrates. Part of this variance has been...
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Both plants and people are dependent on pollinators for survival. 🐝 A decline in pollinator populations would result in a decline in plant diversity and a reduced crop yield. via @FAO
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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Early-career conservationists (≤35) in the Americas & the Caribbean, apply for the Fonseca Species Conservation Fund (FSCF)! Grants support priority projects via @IUCN SSC. Deadline: March 30, 2025 Apply here: https://t.co/Emvzq3ucVV
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Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. Sir David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now:
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It was an honor to celebrate the career of this amazing scientist and even better human. You have influenced more people than you could ever imagine, Fred! Cheers! #entomology #AcademicTwitter
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Our paper is out. And it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science
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Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in...
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This manual describes in detail the Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) methodology required for TGBS certification, including the application form, remote sensing and field survey, as well as the assessment process and scoring system 🔗 https://t.co/096IkblKwN via @CIFOR_ICRAF
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Head over to the Methods Blog to find out the story behind YOLO-Behaviour, a framework for automated behavioural coding from videos! 🐦 @AlexHHChan
https://t.co/UnbHAL0A1L
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