"phonic lips" 🤯 "Though whales don’t “speak” with their mouths, they produce these vowels with an anatomy surprisingly similar to humans. Within their heads is a set of phonic lips and an air sac that they use to precisely manipulate sound..." currently.att.yahoo.com/news/article...

Great opportunity for behavioral neuroscientists looking for a funded PhD position!!!

Sandwich guy update! (It’s at the end) www.youtube.com/live/jjFct5f...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

As NSF GRFP is in the news, PLEASE spread the word about the new EGFP program they have for past GRFP honorable mentions. Universities in eligible states can apply to get funding for HMs in the same amount as GRFP. My impression is that many depts don't know this exists and so don't apply.

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

This is the end. Gotham is falling. Ra's al Ghul has won. Sad day for our democracy, if I may say so.

Former head of NSF bio, provides invaluable insight into what reviewers are really looking for (and what they're not), how storyboarding helps develop a clear and cohesive proposal, key questions reviewers seek to answer, and what drives funding decisions. substack.com/home/post/p-... #academicsky

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life rdcu.be/eLa9z

“I have hope, faith, that America will defeat and overcome this fascist menace, this authoritarian mania, this MAGA cult, & save our freedoms.” Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's remarks at the ‘No Kings’ rally in DC where he called out Trump for destroying democracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylbr...

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22 apply.interfolio.com/176153

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

Cool new paper on how neurons in my favorite bird's brain encode time. Congrats Millie and Max!! @milliejohnston.bsky.social , @crowbrain.bsky.social

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Trans people are now functionally banned from the University of Virginia, the seventh university to do so.

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

A hypothalamus-brainstem-heart circuit regulated by oxytocin on heart rate variability. Another cool brain-body work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🌟🐭 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🧵

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Benioff apologizes amid criticism, reverses course on National Guard - San Francisco Chronicle

People thought I was bonkers studying courtship and mating in Drosophila erecta nearly 50 years ago. Sometimes you just have to wait.

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

www.nature.com/articles/d41... highlighting our work!

Interesting perspective

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?) Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15. More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

I am delighted to share our new paper! nature.com/articles/s41... Lizzie Kleeman & our Florey Institute team, with WEHI, UoM & others, found that paternal COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including anxiety. This discovery has major (brain) health implications!

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Trump has pushed GOP-led states to redraw maps and add more Republican seats—tilting Congress away from the country we actually are. America is more balanced than that & our representation must respect that Prop 50 is how Californians can defend a fair, representative democracy. Vote #YesOnProp50

After some biochemical sleuthing, scientists now think they have identified one of the molecular mechanisms that gives these wrinkly darlings their longevity: cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Despite the GOP talking points, WE can stay peaceful

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

I'm excited to share our latest preprint on the impacts of maternal licking/grooming on estrogen receptor signaling and genome-wide changes in gene expression and DNA methylation in prenatal bisphenol-exposed pups! Now back to applying for TT jobs in 🇨🇦... #neuroskyence 🐀🧠🧬 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

1/2 Stunning image captured, at Arches National Park in Utah, by photographer Zach Cooley on 28 October 2020 when the Moon was in waxing gibbous phase with an illumination of 91%. Precisely, 91% was the percentage illuminated by the Sun. ➡️ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪 #science #sciart

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

A deep dive on high-impact #ClimateAction from #BBC! As I told Jocelyn Timperley, "Hopefully people going through the jointheshift.earth guide will have a bit of an aha moment, realising, 'wait a minute, I have more power than I thought, and there's more that I can do'." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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