News, Media, and Outreach
Outreach
Darwin Day, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2025
Gamboa Bat Nights, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Summer 2025
Media Coverage
Data Sketptic, Optimal Foraging, season 5, episode 4
The Bee’s Knees, Pollinators and the Art of Choice: Navigating the Chemistry of Floral Rewards, season 3, episode 3
Night on Earth, Netflix, Episode 3: Jungle Nights
News coverage
2026
Nature: Too much choice overwhelms frogs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02554-w
IFLSCIENCE: Female tree frogs experience “choice overload” when too many males are calling: Maybe it’s possible to have too much of a good thing
NatureVideoChannel: Frog Love Island
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CztBXQMiRLE
DISCOVERwildlife: Scientists recreated the effects of dating apps on frogs. Here’s what happened next.
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/amphibians/treefrog-mating-choice-overload
Earth.com: Frogs settle for average mates when dating gets too noisy
https://www.earth.com/animals/frogs-settle-for-average-mates-when-dating-gets-too-noisy/
Phys Org: When male suitors abound, female treefrogs have trouble picking mates
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-male-suitors-abound-female-treefrogs.html
Science News: Too many choices complicate female frogs’ sex lives
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/choices-female-frogs-sex-mating-calls
EurekAlert: Sensory overload makes it harder for female treefrogs to select a mate
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1139838
2025
The Conversation: Cultivating for color: The hidden trade-offs between garden aesthetics and pollinator preferences
https://theconversation.com/cultivating-for-color-the-hidden-trade-offs-between-garden-aesthetics-and-pollinator-preferences-261631
The Dialogue: Choice Overload
https://artsci.utk.edu/choice-overload/
2024
El Confidencial: Un experiment muestra que las Abejas se comportan como los humanos en un super
The Conversation: Assim como os humanos, abelhas também usam critérios irracionais ao escolher as flores para se alimentar
The Conversation: Bees have irrational biases when choosing which flowers to feed on – just like human shoppers do
2021
STRI News: Irrational choices: Bats fall for the decoy effect,
https://stri.si.edu/story/irrational-choices
AAAS EurekAlert!: What happens when bats are given three choices?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924872
2020
Phys Org: Outsmarting the enemy: Tree frogs rely on illusions to find mates without being eaten,
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-outsmarting-enemy-tree-frogs-illusions.html
Science News: Pug-nosed tree frogs use an auditory trick to evade predators and woo mates
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pug-nosed-tree-frogs-auditory-trick-predators-mating-call
Faculty Opinions: UCLA, Prey exploits the auditory illusions of eavesdropping predators
https://facultyopinions.com/prime/737705844?key=Q8qOQ1eLzc879RK
ETHOlogisch: Auffallen, aber richtig: Akustische Tarnung beim Mopsnasigen Baumfrosch
https://ethologisch.de/mopsnasige-baumfroesche-tarnen-sich-akustisch/