I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions.
This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials.
#rstats
cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...
Excited to share our most recent work taking a time-resolved approach to understanding Akkermansia growth on HMOs. Here, we show both species-level and media-dependent differences in growth on physiologically relevant HMOs. doi.org/10.1128/spec...
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
tinyurl.com/47udmwhu
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.
Dr. Caro holding a baby chicken
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...
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...
This is fabulous! Can I use this in my neurobiology course? With attribution of course
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...
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
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.
Shana Caro holding a baby chicken
Baby chicks drinking water
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!
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!
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
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.
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
OpenAI right now
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
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
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.
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
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...
announcement and QR codies for the two positions open in the lab.
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!
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
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/...
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...
The unbearable slowness of being: Why do at live at 10 bits/s?
“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...
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...
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...
Excited to be here on bluesky!