Jon Aguiñaga
@jon-aguinaga
Postdoc @ Brown University in Green Lab. Uses computer vision approaches to study the information ecology of decision-making. Really into raspberry pi computers, automated tracking, and animal personality. Photography instagram: @jon_iguanas
Back in new England after an amazing time at #ISBE2026 presenting on mantis shrimp work (my first time not presenting on fish work). I of course watched the Lotr trilogy on my round trip flights. I think it marks my 111th time.
Animal contests determine access to resources. Come by to my talk today (21 July) in Londra at 3pm to see one of the few animal contest talks at #ISBE2026 and in no other than the biomechanical marvel, the mantis shrimp! Cool videos guaranteed!
Digital art by high school student Emily Gao! Especially drawn for me a mantis shrimp researcher in Patrick Green's lab at Brown U. Ty Emily!
Would love to be added! Im giving a talk on dyadic mantis shrimp fights and giving a sneak peek on my automated tracking of prolonged multi-competitor fights too. My talk is on TU the 21st from 3-315pm in the Social behavior and group living session! Come on by!
One of my best pals gave his exit seminar today!! Congrats Oshi! Can't wait to celebrate with all the pop bio friends next month.
On Thursday, my best pal Oshi was visiting Providence to support a mutual friend during his defense. Soon, he'll be giving his!
Living through a blizzard in Providence right now... My Chihuahua is not happy.
Spent the day staging dyadic contests between mantis shrimp for our field experiment, then drove around Panama to scout for more collecting sites. Pretty great to get away from the freezing temperatures of Rhode Island!
Eager to spend the next several days studying mantis shrimp contest behavior here in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Our fearless leader, Dr. Green, is guiding us on our first season (Liam, left, Hannah, middle) before letting us loose for future trips on our own.
People are beginning to get their belongings back. I'm sitting in lab having my lunch and watching some twitch streams to distract myself. I started an experiment in my tracking tanks today. Hoping to present this work at #ISBE2026.
Haunted mid tempo bass music gets me through the days. Among the top 20 listeners for my favorite artist, worldwide. Can I put that on my CV?
Started my 30th birthday today with a killer leg day, then wobbled over to the office to cut and drill some acrylic for my tracking tanks. 🦐 Thirties are gonna be awesome!
And Rohan will answer! universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc
Are you at #ABS2025 in Baltimore? Come by to my Allee symposium talk this Friday at 3pm in the Annapolis/Baltimore room. I will be summarizing some key portions of my dissertation work. 🐟
We did it!!! 🥳🎉 Commencement was 10 days ago! My dissertation was accepted by grad studies with no revisions required. PhDone ✅ Next up, Baltimore for #ABS2025.
Exit seminar complete! ABD (all but dissertation) left. Amazing intro from my PI @katelaskowski.bsky.social that had me shaken up at the start of the talk! The lab started small but grew over the years. Im so proud of all the Amazing Amazon Warriors 🐟
By the way, I am graduating! If anyone wants to virtually watch my exit seminar, send a DM! (TU 20 May, 4:10-5:10 PST) My work focuses on understanding how behavioral variation impacts group performance in mixed-species shoals using the amazing Amazon-Atlantic molly species complex.
Our PBGG program coordinator mentioned that this was her favorite meeting title shes ever approved :)
Currently ill with a stronger than cold but less severe than covid sickness. I sent my trivia team a middle earth poem about how I would be absent for todays session.
I've never submitted my photos to any art contests, but am excited because I will be submitting my Peeking Joey photo to the UCD Grad Group In Ecology Symposium :)
For our last speaker, Jakob Kaare-Rasmussen (2nd year, Schreiber lab) talks about how waves are secretly circles and how they can be used to get to straight lines, and other cool shapes like elephants (if you iterate enough times). 🐘
Frankentalk 2! Sanaa Khan (3rd year, Laskowski lab) and Mei Blundell (4th year, Baskett lab) hilariously paint a cohesive story about flies and how they like fungi, math, and yellow things? 🤣 What a funny pair to give this final frankentalk!
Julianna Porter (1st year, Bay and Sanford labs) teaches us about their awesome time working at the zoo! Who knew that chinchillas took dust baths? Not me. 🥹
Nicholas Yoong (1st year, Stachowicz lab) shares some AI artwork of the Stach labmates!! Super cool 😱 apparently, AI has a bad time with sea grass 😔
As tradition, we now have our first Frankentalk which features pop bios very own Jay Stachowicz out in a seagrass (?) field. Kristin Hardy (2nd year, Henn lab) and Taylor Bright (1st year, Bogar lab) try their best to make a cohesive story!
Grace Callahan (1st year, Stachowicz lab) talks about homing pigeons. How do they work?? Why are they so special? 🤯 We learned about the role of the homing pigeons in the World wars 😱.
One of my best pals, Oshiomah Oyageshio (5th year, Henn lab) shares some much needed wisdom about how to land industry internships and jobs! Way to go Oshi!! International students have it rough, but Oshi finds a way. 🙌🏼🥹