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Karan Odom, a UMBC alumna and current postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, holds a Troupial Oriole. Her landmark paper in 2014 found that at least 70 percent of female birds sing, a result that shattered the long-held belief that only male birds sing. A new paper on which Odom is a co-author has found that women are much more likely to study female bird song than men, indicating the importance of diversity among scientists to gain a more complete understanding of the world around us.
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