Abandoned Building Brewery, Sci Tech Cafe

Linking Diet, Song, and Evolution in Tropical Birds

– Why do birds sing?
– How are birds’ songs shaped by their diets?
– What does all this have to do with bird evolution?

Dr. Jeff Podos is a Professor in the Department of Biology at UMass. His research focuses on vocal behavior and evolution in songbirds, and he has active research projects in the US, Ecuador, and Brazil. Click on the “research” tab above to read more about lab activities and interests. Most every fall Jeff teaches an upper-level majors class in Animal Behavior, and in spring semesters he teaches a class on Writing in Biology. For almost two decades he co-taught a non-majors, general education course on the Biology of Social Issues. From 2011-2018, Jeff served as Graduate Program Director and Leader for the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) graduate program. He is presently executive co-editor for Advances in the Study of Behavior, and editor for Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. Jeff has served twice on the Executive Committee of the Animal Behavior Society, including a stint as society President in 2017-18.

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