It's conference season! #SfN2025 See my poster from the @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser labs @sfn.org on Tuesday @ 1-3pm. ☀️ DM me to meet up in beautiful San Diego ☀️

Next @zeenarivera.bsky.social from UCLA for the first blitz talk on a progressive ratio task using effort.

Had to change all of my "in press" citations in this talk this morning 🤩 #MechanisticBasisOfForaging2025 www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

any other neuroscientists with narcolepsy out there?

What a great lineup of speakers! Glad that @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellow @zeenarivera.bsky.social will present a blitz talk next week 🇬🇧 👏🏼 (data from a collab with the Wikenheiser lab)

🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨 Speakers @mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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remember when emily came in clutch to be my independent study professor after i dropped out of a required senior seminar class in my humanities college in progressive seattle where some of my peers referred to the filipino & the mexican students as The Colored people 🤪 preorder her book already !!!

and definitely won't be ur last ❤️ proud of u

but actually what a fascinating way to engage with studying animal behavior. my guide asked me if the prevalence of fly fishing has changed fish foraging patterns over time. i told him i'd look into it, and now i'm texting him that--yes!! (at least some) fish do some social learning to avoid lures

learned how to fish. when does my lifetime supply of food get delivered

A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.

Per CNN and ABC News: LAPD has declared all of downtown as an unlawful assembly, telling all demonstrators to leave the area immediately. Everyone covering/protesting, please stay safe. (Deleted to repost w/ the link)

Hotline for Immigrant Law Defenders: 213-833-8283 Legal representative line for CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles): 213-201-3797 ACLU Rapid Response Hotline for LA County: 888-624-4752

So on one hand Los Angeles is having to fight back against ICE and state violence and on the other hand Israel just abducted everyone aboard the Madleen including Greta Thunberg and confiscated all aid so everything’s pretty fucking bad

yep and super yep about the absolution part which allows most ‘good’ people to detach and ignore the contradictions. thats who it quiets down the ppl should be pissed every day it’s ignored it’s quickly normalized as a ‘policy issue’ while the killing continues under the headlines

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull. cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

If you live in LA, call your City Council: lacity.gov/directory#el...

Fellow Californians, here's who to call after today's ICE raids in LA: 1. Call your MOC: (202) 224-3121 (switchboard) 2. Call your STATE assemblymembers/senators: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov 3. And call/email Newsom: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

A progressive ratio task with costly resets reveals adaptive effort-delay tradeoffs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657635v1

First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠 Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below. We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations. NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... And please spread the word 🙏

hello foundations, compliance wont save you 🙃

Local LA protest is happening on Friday March 7th at Noon on Wilshire and Veteran! @latimes.com Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I really, truly believe you should watch this with the sound on

Rats forage for play! 🛝⚽ 💕 🐀 Preprint from one of the labs I'm in just dropped! Props should be given to the hard working and talented summer student Raegan Logue & our PI Andrew for probably curating the weirdest purchasing history in our department. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A thread where I show you a series of kitchens and then say something unusual:

I’m looking for more post-docs to join our team at UCLA ☀️ Please share with your 🧠 networks recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09330

👀 I’m looking for a full-time lab technician! This is a career appointment with UC benefits. Please share with interested post-bacs. Job 40709 hr.jobs.ucla.edu/applicants/j...

"manifoldy"

James Merrill’s “Christmas Tree,” written when he was dying of AIDS.

Don’t blink—I’ll be presenting some new results for the data blitz @ Park City Learning and Memory