⚡️🧠Thrilled to share our new preprint on pain-related valence cell-types + circuits — A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway for chronic pain aversion Check out the stellar work of Jessica Wojick, in a co-senior collab with KorbLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… THREAD 1/13

The bees that can learn like humans 🐝

Want to learn about a “new” sexual behavior in female fruit flies? Come to @dawnschen’s and Minhao’s poster session this evening! #TAGC24

So sad to hear about Frans de Waal’s passing. He was one of the main reasons I was drawn to Emory. He leaves a lasting impact on primate cognition, animal behavior, and every student he has mentored.

Learn how to use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in R to simplify large data sets while retaining crucial information. PCA is a commonly used tool in statistics for making complex data more manageable. Here are some essential points to get started with PCA in R: 🔹 What is

The paper is published online in Current Biology today: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It's the hippity hops that did me in.

New #Rpackage that provides ecologists and conservation practitioners with a user-­friendly tool to quantify and understand spatial variation in abundance #bayes #wildlife

This is very true I often feel that those working mostly on modelling or data analysis (especially meta-analyses) should ensure they get out in the field - if only to get the feel of the real world in their work (Many do of course) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Some updates on my side: Ant Harvester is going to study harvester ants! I am going to defend my PhD 🪰🎶 on July 16th at 3 PM EDT I will graduate in August and then, I will join Deborah Gordon’s lab at Stanford as a postdoc to study the neurophysiology of ant social behavior!

Let me know if you want to join my defense (virtually or in Philly).

I am PhDone

First day in the field station. 🐜 🐜 🐜

I will go to the ESA 2024 in November! I am too late to sign up for presentations, but please come to say hi if you are interested in how dopamine affects the foraging decision of ants and neurophysiology in social insects. Hope to see some old and new friends there!

A fly brain in a computer? Scientists today announce not only a complete map of the adult fly brain, but a computer simulation that works amazingly well to predict fly behavior. #flywire UC Berkeley news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/02/res… Medical Research Council NSF Princeton Neuroscience Institute

A bad day for the dinosaurs turned out to be a pretty good day for ants. According to a new study led by Smithsonian entomologist and curator Ted Schultz, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. Read more: s.si.edu/47QDtNK

My first postdoc paper is out 🐜 🐜 🐜 a mini review about how dopamine regulates the foraging decision in social insects with two amazing female scientists Deborah Gordon and Franne Kamhi frontiersin.org/journals/insec…