My new paper "Ecology, Cognition, and the Hippocampus: A Tale of Two Frogs" is now available at Brain, Behavior and Evolution -part of a special issue that honors the contributions of Walt Wilczynski to integrative, evolutionary neuroscience. #EvolBrain 🧵 karger.com/Article/FullTe…

Congratulations to Alexander Ophir's post-doc, Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳, who received an NIH NRSA postdoc fellowship. To learn more about Ophir Lab and Lindsay, click the link below. 🥳👍 ophirlab.com/lindsay-sailer/

Just out in Psychoneuroendocrinology: Caitlyn Finton, PhD shows that chronic exposure to intranasal #vasopressin during post-ween (adolescent) development enhances spatial memory in #PrairieVoles. Not so much for chronic #oxytocin or acute (adulthood) OT or VP. authors.elsevier.com/a/1estU15hUdX4…

New preprint! Led by PhD student Caleb Vogt with Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦 @DanielSprockett Andy Moeller and others not on Twitter. Spatial and social structure of rewilded laboratory mice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to our Associate Professor, Alexander Ophir, the recipient of the 2022 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising. 🎉👍🏆🥳 as.cornell.edu/about/paul-awa…

Multi-Level Effects Driving #Cognitive and Behavioral Variability among Prairie Voles: Insights into Reproductive #Decision #Making from Biological Levels of Organization ✍️ Alexander Ophir Santiago A. Forero 📖 Brain, Behavior and Evolution ➡️ bit.ly/37DuwN6 JB Johnston Club 🧠| #EvolNeuro

What a great opportunity! Come to Austin and work with a fabulous advisor, in a great environment for animal behavior research.

We have funding for a postdoc to work on the neurobiology and/or evolution of animal signals and recognition systems, focusing on paper wasps. Project possibilities include population, functional, and single-cell genomics approaches in an interesting non-model species.

Si te interesa la bioacústica de insectos, no te quedes por fuera del 1er Congreso Colombiano de Bioacústica y Ecoacústica #CCBE #LaNaturalezaNosLlama 🇨🇴 🦗🎶 Más información: humboldt.org.co/congreso-ccbe2…

Today we release a chrom-length assembly for the Southern giant pouched rat, Cricetomys ansorgei, via collaborative effort with Ehren Bentz & Alexander Ophir Ophir Lab Cornell University! Read about this medal-winning species with insane physiology in blog post below: dnazoo.org/post/pouchies-…

In order to heal the cultural divide, we must first identify what is causing it. Cornel West Coleman Hughes Daryl Davis will try to get to the bottom of it. Minds festival of Ideas LIVE in NYC IRL and Livestream Tickets: festival.minds.com

We will be hosting the 5TH Collaborative Workshop on Modeling Collective Behavior in September UT Austin If this sounds interesting to you please see here for more information: theswarmlab.com/meetings/data_… (1/3)

Multi-Level Effects Driving Cognitive and Behavioral Variability among Prairie Voles: Insights into Reproductive Decision-Making from Biological Levels of Organization ✍️ Alexander G. Ophir (Alexander Ophir) et al. 📖 Brain, Behavior and Evolution karger.com/Article/FullTe…

Article drop: My review paper discussing the current evidence for the interaction of microglia and oxytocin in social behavior development released today. Check it out! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

Just out: A beautiful study by Marissa Rice that takes #PrairieVoles from the lab, to the field, and back to the lab to ask: Does spatial cognition predict mating tactics, or vice versa? 🧵👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1fRAhmjL%7Ed…

My furry valentine: The science of love, in prairie voles. 💘🧵💘 scientificamerican.com/article/monoga…

Check it out! New paper by Santiago A. Forero in Hormones and Behavior Journal demonstrating that DREADD manipulation in #NucleusAccumbens of female #PrairieVoles modulates social saliency of established partners & partner bonds are weakened after becoming mothers! authors.elsevier.com/a/1gqef,QxXkV%…

What if we could bring the field into the lab? Santiago A. Forero and I have been figuring out how to track freely interacting voles indoors For this we have built #VoleCity, an arena where we are able to release #PrairieVoles and track their location with chips in mounted backpacks

May 2023: "Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles" The NAc 🧠 regulates 💑 in a context-specific manner. by Santiago A. Forero, Lindsay Sailer 🧠🇭🇳, @JesusEMadrid, Alexander Ophir et al. tinyurl.com/ytbvxkm6

What happens if the one you love doesn't love you back? Data show widowed female #PrairieVoles don't re-bond, but what if a male is paired with a widow? Will the male bond just as strongly? Find out in this just-out paper by Santiago A. Forero authors.elsevier.com/a/1i8WV_8a4xsH…