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I am a behavioural ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in animal behaviour, sexual selection, same-sex sexual behaviour, meta-analyses and inbreeding depression.

I'm currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Previously I was a postdoc in Marlene Zuk's lab at the University of Minnesota. Before that I was a PhD student in Per Smiseth's lab at the University of Edinburgh.

My research asks how animals adjust their behaviour to help them make the best of bad situations
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News

June 2025 - New paper out now in Behavioral Ecology - an invited commentary on defining sexual selection 

May 2025 - I am now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow! 

September 2024 - I presented my work at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) meeting in Melbourne, Australia  


September 2024 - New paper out now in PNAS - we show that male crickets in poor condition engage in less same-sex sexual behaviour 

Copyright - Jon Richardson 2025

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