“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.” - Ansel Adams #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
Catherine Marler
@cmarler.bsky.social
My lab studies oxytocin and cooperation, hormonal and neurochemical effects on communication, social bonding, behavioral synchrony and division of labor, and we dabble in neuroplasticity and the immune system. Science is fun! Animal behavior is my passion.
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.
I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! zoemce@email.unc.edu
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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When searching the web, Gen AI chatbot prefers: Reddit over PubMed. Commercial sites over academic sites. But it does NOT tell you that. Chatbot web searches are silently homogenizing the results you get, particularly those to your first prompts.
Digital Humanities @ King's College London@kingsdh.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat happens when AI searches the web for you? Our own Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system. 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Fully funded Ph.D. Opportunity - Behavioral Neuroscience @ TCU (Fall 2026) We study how social environments and experiences shape brain function and behavior. How to apply: through TCU’s Experimental Psychology Ph.D. program (graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng...). Deadline: Jan 1, 2026
Emma Hammond explored minor inflammation impacts on sociability! LPS impact based on sex/behavioral phenotype; less affiliative males increased sociability, contrary to classic social withdrawal when sick. Microglia in mPFC/DG (-) correlated with sociability authors.elsevier.com/c/1msOfbrwfU...
Orcas have been heard mimicking human speech. A study found that when prompted, the marine mammal could replicate the sounds.
Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Hell of a flex for your tenure file.
Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 9mo agoNot at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours - Nature
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes the value, salience and valence of learned stimuli along distinct neural dimensions, and the geometry of these representations shapes motivated behaviours in ...
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Very excited that this paper is out! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.
The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies
Children’s cooperative behaviors and norms develop along distinct cultural pathways shaped by local norms.
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news.uci.edu/2026/02/03/h... Happy I could contribute to this exciting project! @talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social
High estrogen levels in brain may increase women's risk of stress-related memory issues
Findings of UC Irvine-led study could lead to new ways of addressing PTSD, dementia
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🚨 New #Blueprint🚨 Ever wondered how the HPC supports learning across different contexts? My newest, a combo of experimental and comp neuro, w @SaraASolla & @DisterhoftLab, uncovers a 'universal' memory code in the HPC—consistent across animals and environments! 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A universal hippocampal memory code across animals and environments
How learning is affected by context is a fundamental question of neuroscience, as the ability to generalize learning to different contexts is necessary for navigating the world. An example of swift co...
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Hey ventral pallidum fans, see our new paper showing that #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting these cells with #DREADDs potentiates active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb. Congrats to Erica Ramirez & Marty Martinez! doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
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Why is same-sex sexual behaviour turning out to be so common among animals? It's often assumed to be a disadvantage in evolutionary terms, but it's looking more and more as if that assumption is entirely wrong 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
Is there an evolutionary reason for same-sex sexual behaviour?
Sexual behaviour among same-sex pairs is common in apes and monkeys, and a wide-ranging analysis suggests it does boost survival
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Please spread the word and join us. Vigil scheduled for 5:00 today at E. 34th Street and Portland Ave S. in Minneapolis for woman murdered by ICE agents.
#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804
The natural world is a wonderful place. This is timelapse video from a few years ago of a marine sponge sneezing. It has mucus inside that traps the sort of particles that might clog it up, and expels them in periodic contractions every 3-8 hours. Atchoo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
Timelapse footage shows a sea sponge sneezing
YouTube video by Guardian News
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