(1/6) We have a new paper out in #eNeuro! How does the brain’s reward processing change across social contexts? We mapped brain activity (cFos) & found that social context reshapes how reward circuits are coordinated🐭🏆 Read more: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award! Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.

And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. We identified mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 and P...

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New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Everything sucks. Let’s carve out a little space for something that doesn’t. Music League is an app for making collaborative themed playlists. Looking forward to hearing the music that inspires you in times of rage, anxiety, and heartbreak. app.musicleague.com/l/8093706cca... Please RT

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Context-dependent organization of birdsong: experimental evidence from the collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis

While acoustic signals are highly flexible, their context-dependent changes remain poorly understood. Birdsong is a model of choice to explore these a…

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When pregnant mothers experience social disadvantage, the brains of their newborns have measurably different functional connectivity, especially in the amygdala, an area with links to psychiatric disorders. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

In our new preprint, we describe the interplay of oxytocin and sex hormones through the lenses of evolution, development, mechanism, and purpose osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint from our group, led by @kristinaud.bsky.social 🎉 We report a pre-registered meta-analysis on the effects of oxytocin on social and routinized behaviours in autism, with and without publication bias adjustment. Fantastic work from Kristin!

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The effects of oxytocin administration on social and routinized behaviors in autism: A preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis: http://osf.io/nk2rh/

Endogenous opioids gate the locus coeruleus pain generator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.562785v1

Endogenous opioids gate the locus coeruleus pain generator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.562785v1

The locus coeruleus (LC) plays a paradoxical role in chronic pain. Although largely known as a poten

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