Tag: press
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UA Magazine feature!
Our woodpecker research was just featured in The Collegian, a magazine by The University of Alabama’s Barefield College of Arts and Sciences. Two students from the CVN lab, Emma Bowie, an undergraduate, and Preston Herring, a Masters student, both spoke about their woodpecker research at Tanglewood Biological Field station. Read all about it here: Find…
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Talking Audiommunity
Dr. Ackermans was recently a guest on the Audiommunity podcast! Matt Woodruff and Kevin Bonham of the Audiommunity podcast chat headbutting and neuroinflammation, in a discussion about my recent publication reviewing the history of human thought on head-hitting animals. We had a real blast! And even managed to talk about immunity a little bit! Go…
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Featured on “I Know Dino” podcast
July 31st 2024. The popular prehistoric podcast I Know Dino has featured the most recent paper from the CVN lab in an episode entitled The state of Headbutting Science. The “headbutting through time” paper was published this summer in The Anatomical Record and reviews headbutting behavior across various extinct species, including pachycephalosaurids. This collaborative effort…
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CVN in Psychology Today
Dr. Ackermans was interviewed by Mary Bates for Psychology Today about the CVN lab’s newest paper on the neurobiological tradeoffs of headbutting bovids. The article is titled “what can headbutting goats reveal about brain injury?”. Check it out and share!
Nicole Ackermans, CVN lab 