@uwalumni Obviously I love my own university in Maryland, but purple and red state outrage is the only the way to save medical research.
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Scott Juntti
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Scott Juntti
@ScottJuntti
Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, studying the roots of social behavior in the brain
انضم Ekim 2015
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Make no mistake, @uwalumni and UM alums, our great universities will be greatly diminished if we allow this to stand!
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There are many changes in DC, but this one is going to cripple education and medical research, even though it sounds minor. The @UWMadison and @UMNAlumni , two places I dearly love, will no longer be receiving indirect costs necessary to keep the lights on.
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This is necessary to pay teachers, maintain the plumbing, and other essential functions. “Indirect Cost Sharing” from the NIH pays these bills, and around 2/3 of these payments have just been slashed under the new administration.
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Aleksandra Marconi@marconi_aleks
Many moons ago I asked @emiliapsantos if she could help me study evo-devo of neural crest using African cichlids for my PhD… and the main results are now published in @MolBioEvol 🎉 doi.org/10.1093/molbev… Thank you @gregverne for joining this chapter of my fishy adventure 🐠
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It's publication day for "Asymptomatic" via @JHUPress. The book explores the paradox of asymptomatic transmission and rationale for proactive steps to confront future pandemics:
bit.ly/asymptomatic-j…
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Biology's Dawei Han and Catherine Carr discovered an auditory "sixth sense" in geckos that could have implications for human hearing and balance disorders.
Using a part of the brain usually associated with balance, geckos can detect faint vibrations. go.umd.edu/geckos
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Wow - super exciting findings, congratulations! Amazed by the conservation of the OR function across fish, and the concept of an intact latent circuit across vertebrates.
Scott Juntti@ScottJuntti
Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biolog…
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@Pselaphinae Well-deserved— glad MacArthur recognizes your super cool work!
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@Juanonyme Clearly we need to borrow those (with the artist attached)!
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Such a great paper! Bravo!
Scott Juntti@ScottJuntti
Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biolog…
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@maxwellshafer Yes! It’s incredible. Both the behavior and the amazing bit of SciComm she does with this.
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This is on Youtube, and is more fantastic than I could have imagined youtube.com/watch?v=CEJAF7…
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And here’s the PLOT TWIST! For most cichlid fish species, only females have parental behavior. Females carry the developing embryos in their mouths for 2 weeks until they’re free-swimming, a behavior called “mouthbrooding”. Best performed by Isabella Rossellini in Green Porno!
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Lots more to unpack: How do sexually dimorphic signals regulate the processing of these olfactory signals? What are the central pathways receiving this pheromonal information? We’ve got a lot left to do!
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Is olfactory receptor evolution a common pathway by which social systems evolve? We don’t know yet, but cichlid fish are an ideal system, with their behavioral variation and experimental tractability.
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Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biolog…
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