Super excited to have my first, first authored paper in preprint! If you’re interested in sex-biased individual differences, cognitive flexibility, or cool mouse tasks, this one’s for you 🐭🧠

✨smart 🐁 experiments… read 🧵👇

Second, a few months ago we found that you can actually use the precise coordinates of a touchscreen response as a clue to the latent cognitive state of the animal, and of course once again female mice are more systematic. Provisionally accepted for publication so more soon bsky.app/profile/bior...

Firsties, we developed a cool operant set shift task in the touchscreens for meeces, they can do many shifts in a single session The kicker is female mice do better because they figure out how to follow two rules at once bsky.app/profile/bior...

Hi everyone, the lab has been enabling my professional interest in doing weird shit with touchscreens (as opposed to my personal interest) Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead

Snippets of my #StandUpForScience speech at the Minnesota State Capitol 🧪🧬 🧠 #ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence #BlackInNeuro ✊🏾

Yesterday we rallied. Today we educate, call our reps, and get ready to vote. We #standupforscience every day. 🧪👩🏼‍🔬💪🏼

Black in Neuro was built in 2020. nothing can stop good work when good people come together We have to keep sticking up for each other and leading things we believe in!!

Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right? Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK

Out today: cross-species improvement of cognitive flexibility www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/) Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same! Specifically... 1/

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Dr. Angeline Dukes - daughter of Haitian & Trinidadian immigrants 🇭🇹 🇹🇹, proud #HBCU alumna 💙💛, AND #ForbesUnder30 Social Impact honoree 🙌🏾 Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨ #BlackSky #NeuroSkyence

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: I’m Nic and I must plagiarize my writing because I use too many big words that I shouldn’t understand. Courtesy of my 5th grade teacher (ftr, I did not commit the crimes she accused me of 😤)

Here a "LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 in Neurosciences" starter pack. Do not hesitate to share and if you identify yourself within this community raise you hand and you'll be added 😀🏳️‍🌈. Together we're stronger! go.bsky.app/UxfGB3u

Re-posting because I can finally tag her! Welcome to bluesky @nquintus.bsky.social !! 🎉💜

If you're interested in a neuroscience PhD and will be as #sfn24 #sfn2024 swing by the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience booth at the grad fair. Also check out the linked itinerary below for a list of presentations by current students at the meeting!

A real pleasure to talk with The Transmitter about our recent perspective on being less binary when thinking about sex mechanisms in cognition!! Read if you like hearing me rant (I know you do) or want to get your mind blown (natural consequence of my rants) www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Two fresh neuroscience PhD candidates! I passed my oral prelim the same day as one of my grad school besties 🎉

Full cell article here with more detail on steps needed:

This is where the current University positions fall apart. We can't speak out against the genocide because that's antisemitic because it is opposing Israel & Israelis might be sad - but Israelis are *also* speaking out against the genocide & we are punishing them too... Who are we protecting?

Very happy to announce our paper! "Sex mechanisms as nonbinary influences on cognitive diversity" A pleasure to contribute to this special issue of Hormones and Behavior about how to be less binary and more inclusive in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEUROSCIENTISTS, stop pretending to work and read this: Have you ever worried about finding sex differences in your data? Or found a sex difference that led to concerns over mechanism, or worse, overly binary or potentially sexist interpretations? We wrote this for you 🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky

Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative estimate of USA Covid-19 levels based on wastewater data. Report for December 4, 2023. Click through for all the bad news. www.pmc19.com/data/index.php

The sex binary is dead! Long live sex diversity & variability! Sex is one of the greatest sources of variation seen in life. How do we advance the scientific study of sex across the animal kingdom? Read our latest article in Hormones & Behavior to find out! 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence