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Helgoland field campaign 2025
The third autumn fieldwork campaign on Helgoland is now complete! Together with Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior researchers, we tagged 54 blackbirds to study their movement ecology and link it to physiological parameters. Some of this data...
Post · January 16, 2026
New paper published on hormonal regulation in migratory Blackbirds!
In a new study published in Hormones & Behaviour, in collaboration with Dr. Alex T. Baugh (Swarthmore College), we measured circulating levels of the gut hormone peptide YY (PYY), a hormone known in mammals to signal satiety after feeding. We comp...
Post · January 16, 2026
Nandini Interviewed by The Tribune at Mcgill University
We are pleased to share that Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj was interviewed by The Tribune, a student-run newspaper at McGill University, on the effects of Generative AI (Gen AI) use on cognitive skills. You can read the interview here
In the intervie...
Post · January 16, 2026
What are the Laws of Nature?
I have been thinking about the possible views on laws of nature vs nature. On the one hand, the safest bet seems to be one where laws of nature are our mental constructions that map to how the shared world works, so that with those mental construc...
Post · January 13, 2026
What Taiwan can teach recruiters about precarious student pathways
In late 2025, I was awarded (largely to my surprise) a student research award by AIRC (The Association of International Enrollment Management) for a paper based on my dissertation research fieldwork I conducted in Taipei earlier that year. The Mar...
Post · January 12, 2026
Czym naprawdę jest „Ruski Mir”?
W ostatnich latach termin „Ruski Mir” (Rosyjski Świat) nie schodzi z ust polityków, analityków i dziennikarzy. Często słyszymy go w kontekście wojny na Ukrainie, gróźb wobec państw bałtyckich czy napięć w Mołdawii. Ale czym tak naprawdę jest ta ko...
Post · January 12, 2026
In What Sense are AI Tools Useful?
I think it's fair to say the following rule is useful for guiding how we use it: when it comes to known knowledge and tool sets, AI is very good—it can even correct us if we're saying something obviously wrong.
But for unknown knowledge—the kinds...
Post · January 11, 2026
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