Annika Boussard
@annikaboussard.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist | brains | cognition | collective behaviour | fish sound 🐟🐠🧠
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Gilles De Meester
about 2 months ago
First 🐟 paper published with
@annikaboussard.bsky.social
! Guppies artificially selected for a larger telencephalon, relative the the rest of the brain, perform better in both an allo- and egocentric spatial learning task.
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Evolutionary changes in telencephalon size affect both egocentric and allocentric spatial learning in guppies
Summary: An artificial selection experiment on guppies shows that enlargement of the telencephalon, relative to the rest of the brain, enhances performance in two distinct spatial learning strategies.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/17/jeb250378/369152/Evolutionary-changes-in-telencephalon-size-affect
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Heading to Behaviour? Come check out my talk 🔥🔥🔥
3 months ago
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🎉🔥👏🏼✨👏🏼🥂🚀🎊 I am truly honored to have been awarded this scholarship. My sincere thanks to Uppsala University and the Lennander Foundation for this generous support – it means a great deal to me and my academic journey.
6 months ago
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I’ve started a short-term post doc position in Per Jensens group at Linköpings University 😃 I will work on brains and neurons in chickens and how they’re related to play behaviour 🧠🐣🔬🧪
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7 months ago
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Josefin Sundin
10 months ago
Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!
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Finally I have some time to work on one of my hobby projects. 🎶🐠🐟FISHSOUNDS 🐠🐟🎶
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#fishsci
#evolution
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11 months ago
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Michael Bertram
11 months ago
Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again
www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews
Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews
https://www.science.org/content/article/it-felt-very-icky-scientist-s-name-was-used-write-fake-peer-reviews
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Why not 😁 First day here. First post. 1 like = 1 AB lore 🤗
add a skeleton here at some point
12 months ago
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