News
- Oct 2025
Nandini presents our crowdsourced palm squirrel work titled "Cataloguing and mapping life of India: Biodiversity informatics in India", a webinar that is part of the series Biodiversity Conversations: India’s opportunities and challenges.
Pooja Gupta begins her art-science research scholarship with Creature Conserve in collaboration with the Sciurid Lab.
Nandini begins her term as the Secretary of the Ethological Society of India.
- Mar 2025
Swati Udayraj presents at the EnviroSummit 2024 at MIT-WPU Pune on 1st March 2024, and wins the Best thematic talk award (Urban Ecology) for her talk titled "Impervious surface area and tree cover predict palm squirrel occupancy across a forest to urban gradient". Authors:Swati Udayraj, Aravind PS, Rakesh Kumar Muni, Senan D’Souza, Anupama M Devi, Rithika S, Debarpita Das, Sushma HS, and Nandini Rajamani.
- Oct 2023
Read our database methods paper and Version 1 of the Squirrels of South Asia database on the GBIF platform.
Swati Udayraj wins 1st Prize for Most Observations by a Woman Observer with iNaturalist. India's Nature-Monsoon Beauty 2023 powered by iNaturalist.
- Mar 2023
Swati Udayraj wins 2nd Prize for Most Observations by a Woman Observer with iNaturalist. India's Nature-Monsoon Beauty 2022 powered by iNaturalist.
- Feb 2023
Harsha Kumar wins the Best Poster Presentation award at the 4th Annual Conference of ISEB. Poster title: Evolution of lifestyle and associated behavioural traits in Lagomorphs, by Harsha Kumar, Nandini Rajamani.
Harsha, Nivetha and Swati present talks and posters at the 4th Annual Conference of ISEB at Ahmedabad University between 9-11 February 2023.
Harsha Jagadeesh wins 3rd position at Talk Your Thesis(#TYT2023)event at India Science Fest 2023. Talk title: "It's a Squirrel Thing".
- Aug 2020
Nandini joins the Editorial Board of Cheetal, Journal of the Wildlife Preservation Society of India, Dehradun.
- Jul 2020
Nandini joins the Editorial Board of the journal Nature Communications Biology.
- Dec 2018
Poster presentations (Aravind, Dhanesh, Senan, Swati) at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Ethological Society of India, and a poster award (Dhanesh and Aravind).