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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our new @behavecol.bsky.social experimental paper is out!

Parent great tits control food distribution in a flexible manner, even when it seems like offspring run the show. Who and what parents pay attention to depends on recently experienced environmental quality

#begging
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Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals

Parents control food distribution in a flexible manner, even when it seems like offspring run the show. New experimental research in great tits reveals wid

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 19

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.

This is wrong.

And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

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Biology Department of Adelphi University @adelphibiodept.bsky.social · Aug 17

How do chickens make choices? Watch this video to see research Adelphi undergrads in Dr. Caro's lab
@shanacaro.bsky.social
are conducting

If you're an undergrad interested in doing research, email a prof about joining their lab group!

www.instagram.com/reel/DLSmYRI...

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · Jul 30

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

www.nature.com

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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is fabulous! Can I use this in my neurobiology course? With attribution of course

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Biology Department of Adelphi University @adelphibiodept.bsky.social · Apr 16

Adelphi Prof. Alan Schoenfeld and 5 student co-authors published in Molecular Biology Reports, uncovering a key mechanism in kidney cancer. Their study shows that PKCι is essential for the VHL tumor suppressor to degrade α5 integrins in renal carcinoma cells.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Protein kinase C iota (PKCι) and pVHL are both needed for lysosomal degradation of α5 integrin in renal carcinoma cells - Molecular Biology Reports

Background von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) hereditary cancer syndrome is caused by mutations in the VHL tumor suppressor gene and is characterized by a predisposition to form various types of tumors, includin...

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · Mar 29

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Mar 5

The newest members of the Caro Lab have arrived at the @adelphibiodept.bsky.social!

These 30 Dominique chicks are going to help us understand how chickens make choices -- generating new insights into avian cognition and metacognition... plus they're adorable!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 1

NYC! 📣🗽☀️

We’re Standing Up for Science in Washington Square Park on March 7th from 12-3 PM!

Share with someone in NYC who should show up & support Science! ⬇️

#standupforscience2025

flyer for stand up for science with a blue statue of liberty drawing, and event details of the NYC stand up for science march at washington square park from 12-3 PM. More information is available at standupforscience2025.org!

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · Feb 3

Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jan 29

OpenAI right now

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jan 28

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Jan 6

I love philosophical dialogues, so I wrote one. It stars Credulus, who thinks consciousness can be attributed to other animals without scientific evidence; Skepticus, a critic with behaviourist leanings; and Moderus, who sees a middle path in the science of animal minds. philpapers.org/rec/BIRWIA-3

Jonathan Birch, Why Is Animal Consciousness Controversial? A Trialogue - PhilPapers

A conversation between three characters: Credulus, who thinks conscious mental states can and should be attributed to other animals without any need for scientific inquiry; Skepticus, a critic with be...

philpapers.org

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Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jan 9

We value things differently depending on the situation. A fascinating paper shows that the hippocampus feeds contextual information to the prefrontal cortex by altering theta wave phase alignment, enabling the PFC to adjust value judgments accordingly.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit - Nature Neuroscience

The brain uses different valuation schemes across contexts. Elston and Wallis show this is supported by hippocampal encoding of context that is broadcast to prefrontal value subcircuits via theta sync...

www.nature.com

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Awani @awanib.bsky.social · Jan 6

The first of firsts is out! 😁🥳

From my PhD project on object play in wild ravens: here we validated findings from captivity and propose that object play in ravens likely serves dual functions - exploration of the physical as well as social environment!

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy New Year Everyone! ICYMI... Our lab is hiring for two positions, a post-doc to work on immune mechanisms of pathogen resistance and a lab technician Deadline is Feb 1 and descriptions of both positions are below or at zamudiolab.org Please help spread the word!

announcement and QR codies for the two positions open in the lab.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Dec 27

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A group of longhorn crazy ants (top) and a group of people (bottom) tackling scaled versions of the same geometrical maneuvering puzzle.

CREDIT: Ofer Feinerman

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Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds @ecobird.bsky.social · Dec 23

New preprint from the lab: To Peck or Not To Peck: The influence of early-life social environment on response inhibition and impulsive aggression in Japanese quails. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Dec 19

“The human prefrontal cortex alone contains enough neuronal hardware to run 5000 [fruit]flies.”

Meanwhile mine can’t even keep me from shitposting on Bluesky after a couple of beers.

Cool paper from @mameister4.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH...

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do at live at 10 bits/s?

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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starter packs

BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Nov 26

A couple days left to apply for a tenure-track assistant professor position in molecular neuroscience at
@AdelphiU (broadly defined!)

due: Nov 29
#TTjob #molecularneuroscience #neuroscience

phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...

Hiring Assistant Professor - Neurobiology, - Garden City, N.Y.

View job details and apply now

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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Nov 26

Excited to be here on bluesky!

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