#psychology #phd #grad #addiction #cannabis #trauma #ptsd #cognition #brain #behavior #diversity #health #quantitative #EMA

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read ICB’s free read on #butterflies
Engaging the Community in #Pollinator #Research: The Effect of Wing Pattern and Weather on #Butterfly #Behavior
Abbigail N Merrill et al
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Efferocytosis-related gene PLG in prognosis, immune correlation, and contribution to malignant #behavior in vitro and in vivo of clear cell renal cell carcinoma Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-46752-yEfferocytosis-related gene PLG in prognosis, immune correlation, and contribution to malignant behavior in vitro and in vivo of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Efferocytosis-related gene PLG in prognosis, immune correlation, and contribution to malignant #behavior in vitro and in vivo of clear cell renal cell carcinoma SciReports

Join our team as an animal #behavior scientist/ethologist to develop behavioral assays for shrimp health and #welfare.

Aquatic Ethologist/Behavioral Scientist: Crustacean Health & Welfare Assays
Animal Pain Research Institute

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Context-dependent mechanical reconfiguration is necessary for multifunctional #behavior in a constrained hydrostat Muscular hydrostats, muscular structures with no rigid skeleton, are ubiquitous within the animal kingdom, from vertebrate tongues to cephalopod arms, but how they perform complex actions remains poorly understood. One model hydrostat studied for its neural control and biomechanics is the feeding system (buccal mass) of the sea hare Aplysia (Fig. 1). The buccal mass (Fig. 1b) performs multiple feeding behaviors by coordinating intrinsic muscles to move a grasper (odontophore). In this paper, we investigated how mechanical reconfiguration from interacting shape-changing elements facilitates large odontophore protractions. During rejection behaviors, mechanical reconfiguration of the odontophore (elongating its shape to a higher aspect ratio) stretches a protractor muscle (I2), allowing I2 to generate stronger protractions. In biting behaviors, the odontophore has a similar range of motion. However, during biting, the odontophore has a lower aspect ratio throughout protraction, meaning the I2 muscle alone is insufficient to reach observed protractions due to its length/tension property and reduced mechanical advantage. By combining new analysis of MRI movies of Aplysia feeding (Fig. 1) with a new biomechanical model for biting and rejection (Fig. 2), we demonstrate two context-dependent mechanical reconfiguration mechanisms that explain the different ways large protractions are produced in biting and rejection (Fig. 3). The mechanisms integrate shape changes, bending and conforming of muscle structures, and shifts in contact interactions. We propose two mechanical subclasses of muscular hydrostats, "constrained" or "unconstrained" (Fig. 4), that may be morphologically similar but employ different control strategies depending on whether mechanical constraints are reliably present.

Context-dependent mechanical reconfiguration is necessary for multifunctional #behavior in a constrained hydrostat bioRxivpreprint

Playing by whose rules? Issue 153 investigates how societal systems mirror boardroom dynamics. Read 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter exploration.

#monopoly #immersion #society #manipulation #takingadvantage #enemy #government #privacy #behavior hubs.ly/Q048J21l0

Playing by whose rules? Issue 153 investigates how societal systems mirror boardroom dynamics. Read 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter exploration.

#monopoly #immersion #society #manipulation #takingadvantage #enemy #government #privacy #behavior hubs.ly/Q048J21l0

Playing by whose rules? Issue 153 investigates how societal systems mirror boardroom dynamics. Read 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter exploration.

#monopoly #immersion #society #manipulation #takingadvantage #enemy #government #privacy #behavior hubs.ly/Q048J21l0

Playing by whose rules? Issue 153 investigates how societal systems mirror boardroom dynamics. Read 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter exploration.

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Playing by whose rules? Issue 153 investigates how societal systems mirror boardroom dynamics. Read 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter exploration.

#monopoly #immersion #society #manipulation #takingadvantage #enemy #government #privacy #behavior hubs.ly/Q048J21l0

Numerical evaluation on #behavior of an integrated slope stabilization structure under seismic effect Scientific Reports, Published online: 05 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47573-9Numerical evaluation on behavior of an integrated slope stabilization structure under seismic effect

Numerical evaluation on #behavior of an integrated slope stabilization structure under seismic effect SciReports

People who are low-energy all day but wide awake at night often have these underlying tendencies I remember sitting at my desk at 2 PM, staring at a spreadsheet, unable to do the simple math in fro...

#Human #Behavior

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Circulating extracellular vesicle microRNAs mediate immune modulation of social #behavior in male #mice Nature Communications, Published online: 03 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-70469-1Extracellular vesicles carrying diverse molecules circulate the body. Here, the authors show that blood-borne vesicles containing specific miRNAs boost synaptic function and sociability in mice, revealing a non-canonical pathway for social behavior.

ICYMI: Circulating extracellular vesicle microRNAs mediate immune modulation of social #behavior in male #mice @natcomms.nature.com

What Are Great Tits Showing Us About The Genetics Of Personality? Research suggests that personality variations are heritable in humans and in other animal species, and there are many hypotheses as to why…

What Are Great Tits Showing Us About The Genetics Of Personality?

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#behavior #personality #birds🦉 #evolution #ecology grrlscientist.medium.com/what-are-gre...

Rethinking same-sex sexual #behavior: From sensory error to social function Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 13, March 2026.

Rethinking same-sex sexual #behavior: From sensory error to social function @PNAS.org

Octopamine regulates neural circuits in the mushroom body and central complex, influencing sleep and arousal. Sleep is a widespread yet incompletely understood phenomenon, and animals exhibit diverse arousal states beyond the simple binary of sleep and wake. Essential behaviors such as feeding, courtship, and...

Excited to share our latest paper from the lab, now out in iScience! 🧠✨

Huge credit to the incredible team whose creativity and hard work made this study possible—so proud of my team! 🙌

#Neuroscience #Sleep #Drosophila #Behavior #Connectomics

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Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender." The post Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong appeared first on Futurism.

From the #AI / #Futurism / #psychology / #behavior Department

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#ChatGPT

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It's Totally Wrong Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

From the #AI / #Futurism / #psychology / #behavior Department

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#ChatGPT

ICB - The #evolution of same-sex sexual #behavior: Using old theory to answer new questions Brian A Lerch https://lerchta.wixsite.com/lerch-eco-evo https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag015 The evolution of mating preferences and the consequences of the resulting sexual selection are intensively studied topics in #evolutionary #biology. Nevertheless, until relatively recently, the evolution of perhaps the most fundamental of all mating preferences, the preference for mating with opposite-sex individuals, has received little attention. In the past two decades, however, there has been an explosion of literature on the evolution and expression of same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in non-human #animals. Here, I show that literature on SSB has strong connections to many insights from classic theory on mate choice. I argue that explicitly integrating this “old theory” on mate choice proves tremendously informative for understanding the evolution of SSB. To do so, I review what is known about the expression and evolution of SSB. I begin by explaining why selection may favor imperfect sex discrimination (i.e., the failure to accurately assess the sex of potential mating partners), how imperfect sex discrimination manifests in SSB empirically, and the origin of sex discrimination. I then review experimental studies on how varying social conditions such as density and sex ratio influence the plastic expression of SSB. Next, I turn to evidence for adaptive SSB, wherein the act of engaging in sexual behavior with same-sex conspecifics carries fitness benefits. I conclude by arguing that connecting results on SSB to “classic” work on mating preferences leads to a deeper understanding of how SSB evolves.

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The #evolution of same-sex sexual #behavior: Using old theory to answer new questions
Brian A Lerch
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#biology #science

Welfare Assessment of Captive Asian Small-Clawed Otters (Aonyx cinereus) in Korean Private Zoos: Associations of Contact Hand-Feeding Tubes with S-AWAG Scores and Begging #behavior Publication date: Available online 1 April 2026 Source: Applied Animal Behaviour Science Author(s): Ji-yoon Kim

Welfare Assessment of Captive Asian Small-Clawed Otters (Aonyx cinereus) in Korean Private Zoos: Associations of Contact Hand-Feeding Tubes with S-AWAG Scores and Begging #behavior AAnimBehS

Circulating extracellular vesicle microRNAs mediate immune modulation of social #behavior in male #mice Nature Communications, Published online: 03 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-70469-1Extracellular vesicles carrying diverse molecules circulate the body. Here, the authors show that blood-borne vesicles containing specific miRNAs boost synaptic function and sociability in mice, revealing a non-canonical pathway for social behavior.

Circulating extracellular vesicle microRNAs mediate immune modulation of social #behavior in male #mice @natcomms.nature.com

20 Hissterical Pictures of Sweet and Spicy Felines Packed With Purrsonality Cute or chaotic, they always win.

20 Hissterical Pictures of Sweet and Spicy Felines Packed With Purrsonality Every cat is a little bit angel, a little bit devil. Every cat walks a fine line between naughty and nice, and most of ...

#behavior #cat #pictures #lol #nice #feline #hissterical #Cats #funny

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Seals use whisker movement to follow underwater trails—an approach that could improve robotic sensing Seals are carnivorous marine mammals that are well adapted to hunting for fish underwater, where visibility is poor. In such conditions, seals rely on their highly sensitive whiskers to detect tiny wa...

#seals using their #whiskers
#behavior 🦭🧠

The 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting is happening in Heidelberg, Sept 16–18, 2026—and you don’t want to miss it !
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#zebrafish #medaka #killifish #researchmeeting #toxicology #regeneration #behavior #development #biology #emergingtechnologies #diseasemodels

Rewarding Yourself Into Trouble #celebrity #behavior #cautionarytale

What is Normal? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 142

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