Alexander Ophir

Have you ever wanted to run studies with #PrairieVoles but didn't have access to the animals? Now you can! The Cornell Vole Core is now open and able to ship voles to your lab! The webpage is currently minimalistic, but contact them to inquire. [pls RT] volecore.research.cornell.edu

Friends that are living on Twitter & on the social with the blue butterfly… I’m tired of crypto adds and polarizing politics posts I never asked for please help me find you over there! I’ve got the same handle with the “bsky” suffix Maybe I’ll get back on the Science Socials

JOB ALERT at beautiful @EmoryUniversity! The Dept. of Psychology invites applications for an open rank, tenure-track faculty position. We are searching for applicants who examine the neural mechanisms of behavior in small animal systems. apply.interfolio.com/153594 Please retweet!

@vasopressin334 Me too! We’re working on that

Epigenetic aging in prairie voles!! So it turns out that bonding doesn’t keep voles young, but now I want to know if parenthood prematurely ages them.

Does being pair-bonded keep you young ? @LindsaySailer et al explored this question in #PrairieVoles in our recent paper in @SciReports In short: Not really. BUT we did establish a VoleClock and found several genes strongly associated with bonding! nature.com/articles/s4159….

Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungevod…

Since 1986, the Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) at @CornellEinhorn has been addressing the underrepresentation of marginalized students in STEM through programs at more than 50 universities across New York. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

New paper by @L_hiura & @vanessalazaro_ in @HormBehav looks at how absent dads and/or 'boosting' parental care impacts #PrairieVole pups! Social & defensive behav, aggression, & #oxytocin were all effected. Maternal (& Paternal) Mediation Hypoth revisited authors.elsevier.com/a/1jSQR,QxXoKKM

Apply now (deadline Sunday!) for Consider Cornell: Experience (Oct. 25-26, 2024, Ithaca, NY), a two-day, on-campus, expense-paid Ph.D. preview program. Learn more and apply by August 4 at cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a3… @CornellOISE

UW-Madison is hiring 2 social psychologists! -1 tenure-track position (deadline: 9/15/24) -1 tenured/open rank position (deadline: 10/8/24) More info here: #faculty" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psych.wisc.edu/psychology-dep… Please RT and spread the word! Also happy to help with any questions.

1/3 Exciting News! We're hiring at all levels immediately for our lab @UUNeurobiology Join us in cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemical biology! We aim to explore how neuropeptides modulate behavior and physiology. Pls RT!

We are searching for a program coordinator for the ON-RaMP postdoc research program @okstate Apply here: okstate.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… Geat opportunity for anyone interested in improving STEM research training. Quick turnaround on this one so please spread the word

Please join us at the first annual SBN Online Research Symposium this September 12-13, 2024! The all-virtual symposium will be focused on removing barriers to trainee participation in scientific conferences. More information: sbnorsc.wixsite.com/my-site-1

There is a new opening for a research associate in the lab of @fachampagne at UT Austin. Please let anybody know who may be interested! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/UT…

We're hiring two tenure-track assistant professors in behavioural neuroscience to begin on July 1, 2025. Please share with your networks! Apply by Oct 1, 2024 here: bit.ly/PsychBNSPositi…

We have an exciting TT job available in Psychology, Natural Behavior and Computation at UT! We're looking for researchers who apply advanced computational approaches to high-density behavioral data collected in everyday environments. More details: apply.interfolio.com/149500

The last speaker of our first symposium is @katietschida1, who is sharing her lab’s research on how short-term isolation acts via hypothalamic neurons to modulate social behavior in mice! 🐁🧠 #SBN2024

Our last speaker for Symposium #4 is Marlen Gonzalez, who is discussing her lab’s work on developmental calibration of adult neural reward sensitivity via the oxytocin receptor in humans! 👧🧠 #SBN2024

Our Lyn Clemons Travel Awardee is @LindsaySailer--talking about the impacts of paternal deprivation and social stress on patterns of neural activation in the social brain [no prairie vole emoji yet?!] 🐭🐭🧠 #SBN2024

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.@MarkHamill should follow me right now only because my friend Scott doesn’t want that to happen.