Female mice are less variable than male mice once again! bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We asked researchers for advice on using machine learning to quantify animal behaviors. By Niko McCarty.. Ann Kennedy Nastacia Goodwin Mark Laubach Talmo Pereira 🇧🇷 Mackenzie Mathis, PhD #neurotwitter bit.ly/3ACLmG6

Academia is funny because it's like we put a whole bunch of narcissists who are used to being #1 at everything into a room together, lock the door, throw away the key, and then say oH mY GoD i cAN't bELieVe ThIS iS How iT TUrnEd ouT

Listen to Neuropsychopharmacology newest BrainPod installment featuring a discussion with Dr. Sam Golden @GoldenNeuron from University of Washington talk to us about sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression nature.com/npp/podcast

"Your operant chamber tasks can't possibly mimic the complexity of human risky decision-making behavior" The human risky decision-making behavior:

Hey Sunday #SfN22 attendees! Come check out the exciting research happening at the University of Washington's NAPE Center in the @GoldenNeuron and @treemi groups! Presenters include Eric Szelenyi Nastacia Goodwin Valerie Tsai Kevin Schneider

Although the federal government is no longer providing free COVID tests, they are still available from Washington state through the end of 2022. st.news/3ijFtbB

Can someone help me out, I’ve never been good at math word problems: “Dr. Brandy is a UW postdoc w 2.25yrs experience. She has a BRAIN Initiative F32. The NIH avg for postdoc 2 = $55,632. She works in WA state where the salary min wage = $65,484. What is Brandy’s gross salary?”

🚨 University of Washington has created 👏 pay 👏 inequality 👏 amongst 👏 their 👏 postdoctorate 👏 researchers👏 University of Washington refuses to provide a fair & equitable livable wage University of Washington is directly contributing to the increasing wealth gap, making it difficult for PhDs from low-income bgs to succeed in academia

Yes! Come say hi tomorrow!

Postdoctoral Fellow- Behavior and Circuit Neuroscience TheJuarezLab The Juarez Lab (thejuarezlab.com) is seeking to hire a PD fellow interested in neural regulation motivation and decision-making. jobrxiv.org/job/university… #ScienceJobs #job Ba... jobrxiv.org/job/university…

First publication from my post-bac at NIDA came out today! jneurosci.org/content/early/… Titled “Different effects of peer-sex on operant responding for social interaction and striatal dopamine activity”

Chris and Paul, Emory undergrads, did a phenomenal journal club presenting @GoldenNeuron's SIMBA paper. Check out the amazing graphics Paul illustrated to describe the work flow :)

Excited to share our methods work out in #Neurophotonics today! We coupled a new microprism design with a long working distance objective to track thousands of cells across days in the striatum. doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.…

AI advances studies to link animal behavior to brain activity by more rapid, accurate recording & analysis than can be done by human observers. UW Biological Structure @GoldenNeuron Nastacia Goodwin Simon Nilsson Nature Neuroscience tinyurl.com/37byhfpk

Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience, reconceptualizing behavior as a sharable reagent Nastacia Goodwin Simon Nilsson @GoldenNeuron nature.com/articles/s4159…

So excited to have my first project in the Christine Ann Denny lab finally online! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…! Tl;dr: we made an R software package for scalable mapping and (most importantly) analysis and visualization of 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 brain-wide ensembles.

The first NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Primer is out! Ever wonder how behaviors can be defined objectively using machine learning ? This 2-page article by @GoldenNeuron Nastacia Goodwin on the open-source platform SimBA (Simple Behavioral Analysis) will teach you! nature.com/articles/s4427…

The final paper of my PhD is up on BioRxiv!! I’m so excited to see this out in the world! We conducted multiple genetic manipulations to uncover which NAc cell pop is necessary for opioid receptor modulation of social behavior. *spoiler* it’s not the population you expect!