Victor Nieto
victorenc.bsky.social
Victor Nieto
@victorenc.bsky.social
Research Specialist @princetonneuro 🧠🐒
MSc EvoBio MEME 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪, BSc Genomics LCG 🇲🇽
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The most famous hunting behaviour for cuttlefish is the Broadclub Cuttlefish's (Ascarosepion latimanus) "passing-stripe" display.

The cuttlefish will extend its arms and create a pattern of downward moving stripes, which confuses prey long enough for the cuttlefish to strike.

🦑📽️Julian Finn
August 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The other day I had the fantastic opportunity to talk with 7th graders about genomes, brains and evolution 🧬🧠 🦑 thanks to @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
As is usually the case, I was amazed by the kids questions.
They even sent me these beautiful artworks :’)
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals.

Please RT to reach as many students as possible.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Doing science is mostly just realizing that what you initially lack in expertise, you more than make up for with excitement
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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