Eric S Fortune

💫 We’re over the moon: we’re finalists in the #xprizerainforest competition!💫 This wouldn’t be possible without our amazing team and supporters, including @OutreachRobotic & many more! Follow our adventures as we work to value and protect rainforest diversity!

NJIT biologist Eric Fortune, alongside a team of scientists are inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems. #NJITMakes #sustainability loom.ly/u0vIjlM

I also think that it is intellectually lazy to justify research by saying that "little is known". The paper or the grant should tell the reader why this is important, not just that it's unknown.

I think that "little is known about..." is not a sufficient justification for studying something. Little is known about the composition of the dirt on the floor of my office, but that is not a good enough reason to study it.

There seems to be an increasing use of the justification for a paper being "little is known". Here is the appearance of this phrase in PubMed. It looks like we know less as time progresses. Little is known about why this trend has developed.

Team Waponi - XPRIZE Rainforest Semifinalists! instagram.com/p/CkGJ9IfOChE/…

System Identification of Dog Tail Wagging. A collaborative study.

@Ana_Domi_ Behavior is more difficult than Neuroscience.

I started my postodc with the aim to learn electrophysiology and just realized how much behavior is underrated in those studies. It scares me at the point that I want to go back to pure behavior. #neuroscience #postdoc

@alizurd @animal_prattle Plain-tailed wrens. Screaming pihas.

@sheacshl I resemble that remark.

In all the anxious checking and rechecking as we prepare to submit a paper, I am reminded of the time my PhD mentor and his graduate student misspelled the name of their model species. In the title.

Calling all early career neuroscientists 🧠 — Apply for a 2022 @GrassFoundation Fellowship at the MBL by Dec. 5, 2021! go.mbl.edu/Grass

Animal Behavior 12e will be out in early 2022. We are now looking for a cover photo. Let’s see what you got behavior tweeps!

@Koskinonodon This was a welcome relief after watching videos of arthropods eating vertebrates.

"Amniotes outcompete amphibians in the Late Carboniferous", colourized, 300 MYA

@SynaptoKate @grace_capshaw @cemilycarr OMG so Fabulous!

Packed up @MBLScience lab. Who knew unhooking BNC cables could be so emotional?

Happy to share this interdisciplinary review on resilience in zebrafish, worms, and lampreys! Enjoyed the opportunity to write with fantastic people, and hope you enjoy reading it! :) physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…