cool study showing across all placental mammals, recombination is suppressed around the x inactivation center — a region of the genome that always make me think of the severance quote, “the work is mysterious and important”

When I was interviewing for grad school (2011), the “missing heritability question” was THE burning question in genomics 1/

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

I, too, can become aggressive toward my pups (children) when hungry #hangrymom #cantgentleparentonanemptystomach

Anyone out there know of a good public benchmark/dataset for rodent vocalizations? Something intended for benchmarking ML models (detection, classification, etc) would be ideal, eg like AnuraSet but mice/rats/etc 🐀🐀🐀 #bioacoustics #prattle💬 #neuroskyence

A nice, layperson writeup of my latest work, which is now out on eLife! TLDR: Using snRNA-seq, we find cell type abundance differences and sex-biased gene expression differences that may explain innate differences in mating + parenting behavior elifesciences.org/digests/1031...

UGA asking the hard hitting questions on their faculty applications

Excited to share that my preprint about cellular differences in the hypothalamic preoptic region across behaviorally divergent deer mice is now reviewed on eLife! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Hello, world! Always exciting to join a new platform early enough to actually get my name as my handle 💃