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Jon RICHARDSON PhD
Postdoctoral Associate - Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior - University of Minnesota
I am a behavioural ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in animal behaviour, sexual selection, life-history strategies, and inbreeding depression.
I'm currently 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 or life-history strategy to help them make the best of bad situations
News
January 2023 - New paper out now open-access in Ecology Letters - in it we provide meta-analytical evidence that males generally prefer virgin females - at least in invertebrates
August 2023 - ​I presented my work at the Non-Traditional Arthropod Model Systems meeting (NTrAMS) meeting at Bowdoin College, Maine
July 2023 - I talked about my work on mating filters at the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) meeting in Portland, Oregon
April 2023 - New paper out now in Proc B - in it we make the case for an alternative way of thinking about same-sex sexual behaviour in animals
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