Great recap by @stefanfatsis of the thrilling game 6 of the world scrabble championship. Real insight into how tournament scrabble players approach the game. slate.com/culture/2023/0…

Enjoying a great visit by @trainorlab to UT. Brian gave a fantastic talk to a full house on new work from his lab on sexual differentiation of stress sensitivity during puberty in California mice. Look out for this great work!

New paper by Hannah Lapp, PhD & Frances Champagne using DeepLabCut 🦄 and SIMBA to produce an automated pipeline for high level analysis of rat maternal care and pup behavior in the homecage. This is a really cool study: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to listen to Dr. Isaac Miller-Crews PhD defense today. And a lovely heartfelt introduction by supervisor Hofmann Lab Congratulations Isaac !

We have an exciting TT job available in Psychology, Natural Behavior and Computation at UT! We're looking for researchers who apply advanced computational approaches to high-density behavioral data collected in everyday environments. More details: apply.interfolio.com/149500

When re-reviewing a paper... does anybody else ever find themselves unsure if they are reviewer 1, 2 or 3? I mean, they *all* sound like the kind of things that I *would* say. Which one is me ???

Up The Villa !!!

There is a new opening for a research associate in the lab of Frances Champagne at UT Austin. Please let anybody know who may be interested! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/UT…

This was the craziest game of scrabble I’ve played in a long time. Can’t be too sad about losing after scoring 561! We both got triple-triples. ACIERAGE for me and MEDFLIES for Jeremy.

Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungevod…

First semester as a Full Professor at UT - looking forward to teaching ~500 students stats !!! Hook ‘em

Nice new work by Hannah Lapp, PhD

I’m thrilled & honored to be starting a new lab @ the NIA!! 🤩🥹 The Computational & Evolutionary Neurogenomics Unit focuses on: • neurodegenerative diseases 🧓🏽 • sex-biased 🧠 aging • comparative neurobio 🐒🐁 We’re looking for postdocs! 👀 Pls RT! DM me for more info ☺️

New publication! 🥳 Thrilled to have this paper out in Hormones and Behavior Journal with Frances Champagne Melissa Salazar doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbe…

Limited bedding reduced pup body weight, changed USVs emitted, and reduced pup core body temperature, as measured by implanted BioTherm tags. Pup temperature was also affected by dam behavior (e.g. nursing) and pup age.

Limited bedding also increased serum testosterone in female pups. Testosterone levels were also positively associated with the amount of licking and grooming pups received.