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Niko Rigney
@nikorigney.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Hong Lab @UCLA | neurobiology of social behavior | vasopressin | oxytocin | sex differences | music creator | video game nerd https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wnDlANAAAAAJ&hl=en
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John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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September 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!

Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As a Guest Editor for @JoVEJournal, I am organizing a Methods Collection titled “Behavioral and Neural Methods for Exploring Social Behaviors” Interested in contributing? Please reply or submit an abstract here:
app.jove.com/methods-coll...
July 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Check out our new review discussing the concepts and neural mechanisms of prosocial helping behavior! 😁

linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Please check out our latest work! It has been a rough year with the passing of Dr. Larry Young. However, I will never forget his kindness and excitement for science.

Neural connectivity of oxytocin receptor-expressing neurons in the nuc... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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New year new work from the lab! We explore whether aggression experience and observation lead to similar changes in future aggression strategy. (They do!) We perform 2-color imaging across the whole social behavior network across time and track changes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Aggression experience and observation promote shared behavioral and neural changes
The ability to observe the social behavior of others and use observed information to bias future action is a fundamental building block of social cognition. A foundational question is whether social o...
www.biorxiv.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Once more for reviewers in the back: sex differences in behavioral outcomes are very often NOT a product of the estrous cycle and demanding that scientists build estrous metrics into experimental design only shows your own biases about how females (but not males) are primarily hormone-driven.
November 22, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I’ll never get this lucky again. But incredibly grateful! All thanks to my amazing mentors. 😁
November 20, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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I have begun to curate a list of #neuroendocrinologists (and allied research areas) on this site so we can begin to link up and form a community with critical mass. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additions or would like to be removed from the list. 🤓🧠

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November 11, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Time for me to start posting here! Check out our Feature Review @ Trends in Neurosciences:

"Epigenetic mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain and behavior"

Extremely proud of this piece - we did our best to make it as comprehensive & inclusive as possible!

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Epigenetic mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain and behavior
Sex differences are found across brain regions, behaviors, and brain diseases. Sexual differentiation of the brain is initiated prenatally but it continues throughout life, as a result of the interact...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2023 at 11:20 PM