This week in Nature: Social bonds - Shifting priorities prompt dynamic retuning of dopamine reward system in zebra finch brains Browse the latest issue here: nature.com/nature/volumes…

#CallforPapers Elena Kramer, Irene Liao, Rahul Roy, and I are organizing a special issue for nectary and nectar research at New Phytologist. We are very excited to see all the submissions! Please dm or email any of us if you have any questions. newphytologist.org/news/view/338

Our latest in Curr Bio. We use a VAE to visualize parakeet vocal signatures and identify mechanistic similarities and differences in songbird vs parrot song systems - congrats Zhilei Zhao and team with Han Keng Teoh from @cohen_lab. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iDg13QW8S2S…

[1/3 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry] We have a new postdoc opening. Candidates should have domain expertise in biogeochemistry and be comfortable with dynamical systems (ODEs). More details and apply here apply.interfolio.com/138814, feel free to email [email protected] for inquiry.

An awesome interview with Tim Wright Tim Wright: "Humans are the most parrot-like of mammals" - On his book "Parrots of the Wild" with the late and great Catherine Toft s3.amazonaws.com/wpt_podcasts/t…

Excited to share our new preprint on the evolution of Drosophila courtship song, led by @Justin_T_Walsh , Dajia Ye, and Ian Junker: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you look closely, the song of this Tufted Titmouse can be seen above his/her beak. The chilly morning allowed for a look at the bird's breath.

I may be biased but this should be a fun talk tomorrow! Come learn about how neurons in a special wasp's brain identifies "a wasp" and "which wasp" it is seeing using multichannel electrophysiology in a tiny brain!

Come join us! I’m the postdoc and I’m having tremendous fun working with Jesse! And it’s really a privilege to work on these amazing animals

New BBB seminar! Join us on March 25th to learn all about vocal communication in Budgerigars from Zhilei Zhao and Alondra Villalba 🦜🦜🦜 🗓️March 25th @ 12:00pm EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Tech opening in our lab at Princeton! Mosquitoes, behavior, genomics, neuroscience, evolution. Great for someone with college research experience exploring interests for future directions. For more info: tinyurl.com/McBrideLabResT… Please RT.

🔬 Exciting news! A GRAB sensor for selectively detecting octopamine (OA) is coming! 🌟🌟🌟 The GRAB-OA exhibits a 40-fold selectivity over tyramine (TA). Mingyue Lv RuyiCai Xuelin Li Huan WANG Big Tree Jianzhi Zeng Dive into the details here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. 🧪

Key to Lindy McBride's discovery of how mosquitoes target humans was an instrument built by Stéphan Thiberge that images the neurons inside a mosquito's brain. Learn more about his microscopic work and its impact on #PrincetonU research: bit.ly/3wS6HNX

Free webinar from Dr. Yulong Li: Spying on Neuromodulation with Novel Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensors. Feel free to attend and communicate with us. CET 2:00 PM, March 28th (Thursday) bityl.co/Oz7l

Amazing neuroethology work!

I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of online motor control, leveraging advantages of dexterous tongue kinematics in head-fixied mice. Please DM or email if interested. nature.com/articles/s4158…

New preprint from the lab with implications for olfactory organization in insects doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Happy insanity of chronic Neuropixels recordings in songbirds. Reveals some interesting cross-areal dynamics. First of the manuscripts from this side of the ocean! #Neuroscience #Songbird #sleep #Neuropixels biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My PhD paper is out! We imaged gut neuron activity in living, eating flies (first time in history!), and found a Gut-Brain-Gut neural circuit loop that allows fruit flies to adjust their ingestion bouts based on the sucrose concentration of the food! (1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…