Our study on the effects of running wheel access on female mouse social behaviors has been published! @cornellpsych.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... bsky.app/profile/kati...

Presence of a home cage running wheel, but not wheel running per se, decreases social motivation in adult C57BL/6J female mice

Physical activity offers myriad benefits to health and well-being, in humans and other animals as well. In rodents, voluntary wheel running can attenuate the effects of both physical and social stress...

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Katie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It turns out that home cage running wheels impact the social behaviors of female mice, but not for the reasons we thought! Thanks to our reviewer for a great control experiment suggestion. Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... bsky.app/profile/kati...

Congratulations to newly minted PhD, Dr. Patryk Ziobro @cornellpsych.bsky.social

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It turns out that home cage running wheels impact the social behaviors of female mice, but not for the reasons we thought! Thanks to our reviewer for a great control experiment suggestion. Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... bsky.app/profile/kati...

Katie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New story to share! We routinely put running wheels in our mouse cages. The mice love them, and there's lots of evidence that exercise is great for health. Given our focus on social behaviors, though, we wondered whether running wheels change mouse social behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi friends, we did a new thing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Congrats to authors Patryk Ziobro and @djzheng.bsky.social, and thanks to our undergrad RA co-authors too! @cornellpsych.bsky.social

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So psyched for this year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC! Come join us in May, and please RT!

NMAC GRC 2026@nmac2026.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha... We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The first-ever GRC on Social Behaviors is coming up in March! Looking forward to a great meeting, please RT! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9mo ago

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

My former postdoc @xinzhao322.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD student. Xin is a great scientist and mentor, can't say enough good things about him and his work! Please pass on to your undergrads and please RT!

Xin Zhao@xinzhao322.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

The published version of our study on the early-life transition from isolation USVs to adult-like USVs in juvenile mice is out in Animal Behaviour! authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1YDmjMA4GP bsky.app/profile/kati...

Katie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · last yr.

Another study to share, led by my grad student Nicole Pranic! Before diving in, I'll add that Nicole (who is clever, tenacious, and interested in neural changes that underlie developmental changes in social behaviors) is looking for a post-doc position! Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

Looking forward to applying to the Harvard Trade school for kids who can't AI good.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 10mo ago

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard University after months of negotiations and that the school will pay $500 million.

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with malia.escobar@emory.edu | 675335

Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

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New story to share! We routinely put running wheels in our mouse cages. The mice love them, and there's lots of evidence that exercise is great for health. Given our focus on social behaviors, though, we wondered whether running wheels change mouse social behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a hamster is sitting in a hamster wheel in a cage

ALT: a hamster is sitting in a hamster wheel in a cage

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Controlling the media is one of the items on the authoritarian checklist; this includes not just hard news, and increasingly social media, but also threatening satirists who mock the regime. The FCC is pushing this control, but corporations do not have to fold. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13

New study from the lab! A follow-up to our finding that short-term social isolation promotes same-sex mounting in female mice. Led by grad student Cassidy Malone and post-doc @xinzhao322.bsky.social, with help from undergrad Selina Xu!

bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition@biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · last yr.

Same-sex mounting in single-housed C57BL/6J female mice is not regulated by estrous state https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662591v1

PhDone! Congrats to my student Nicole Pranic for successfully defending this week! We were too busy celebrating to take a picture, lol.

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

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Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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