Buffalo’s first Nerd Nite will feature music, trivia, fun — and UB anthropologist Stephanie Poindexter.

Held in more than 100 cities around the world, Nerd Nite is a monthly tradition that brings short presentations from a variety of academic disciplines to a general audience. Often alongside these presentations are bands and trivia, enjoyed by a 21-and-over crowd. 

The Buffalo event will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at Resurgence Brewing Company, 55 Chicago St., Buffalo.

Poindexter, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, is one of three experts who will appear at Buffalo’s first Nerd Nite. Poindexter specializes in primatology, with a focus on how primates navigate and utilize their habitats. But her Nerd Nite presentation will center on the cute — and deadly— side of her favorite primate, the slow loris. 

“I think others will enjoy hearing about slow lorises,” Poindexter says. “I spend a lot of time presenting to other researchers and teaching students about primates more broadly, but I rarely get to talk exclusively about slow lorises in such a fun way.”

Poindexter says she feels honored to be chosen for the first of hopefully many Nerd Nites in Buffalo. She will speak along with Del Reid, founder of 26 Shirts, and Jennifer Queeno and Justin Koestler from Central Rock Gym Buffalo. 

But the presentations will not be all-business, Poindexter notes. “The audience can expect tons of pictures of a very cute, yet mysterious, primate and fun facts about their venom and behaviors in the wild,” she says. 

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online.

For further information on this or future Nerd Nite events, contact Sophie Goliber, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geology and past UB undergraduate, who organized this event and brought Nerd Night to Buffalo.”