ioana chiver
@ioanachiver.bsky.social
Research associate interested in behavior, neuroscience. Currently at UC Irvine. She/her
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How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
Zheng and Harpole et al. show that singing mice produce two major vocal modes: ancestral
USVs and novel songs that follow a linearly decelerating rhythm. Although acoustically
distinct, songs and USVs...
www.cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
Looking through recordings from Escudo and remembered how much I enjoyed the bay wrens 🏝️
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking through recordings from Escudo and remembered how much I enjoyed the bay wrens 🏝️
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As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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Jane taught us that every day we live, we make an impact. The choice is ours as to what kind of impact it will be.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jane taught us that every day we live, we make an impact. The choice is ours as to what kind of impact it will be.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
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We were saddened to learn that WOS member Eugene Morton, recipient of the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice Medal, passed away last month.
Obituary information for Eugene Siller Morton
View Eugene Siller Morton's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We were saddened to learn that WOS member Eugene Morton, recipient of the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice Medal, passed away last month.
elsuu.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
Share your most recent findings at the SBN Online Research Symposium!
elsuu.r.sp1-brevo.net
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
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Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
It's 2025, and there's apparently no female mouse atlas.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
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📣📣Interested in writing a proposal to explore coevolution and/or mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation? Check out our team’s current projects and emerging host-parasite system. If these align with your interests , please check eligibility per NSF guidelines and email me! #GRFP #zombiewasps
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
📣📣Interested in writing a proposal to explore coevolution and/or mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation? Check out our team’s current projects and emerging host-parasite system. If these align with your interests , please check eligibility per NSF guidelines and email me! #GRFP #zombiewasps
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I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
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For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more
#neuroskyence #academicsky
#neuroskyence #academicsky
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more
#neuroskyence #academicsky
#neuroskyence #academicsky
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Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
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How can birds keep enough control to fly while drifting in and out of sleep? In an excerpt from their new book published today, @evoneuro.bsky.social and Georg Striedter explore this and other questions about neural mechanisms that regulate bird sleep.
bit.ly/45mfwgn
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/45mfwgn
#neuroskyence
‘Bird Brains and Behavior,’ an excerpt
In their new book, published today, Georg Striedter and Andrew Iwaniuk dive deep into the latest research on the neural mechanisms of avian behavior. This excerpt from Chapter 2 explores how birds…
www.thetransmitter.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
How can birds keep enough control to fly while drifting in and out of sleep? In an excerpt from their new book published today, @evoneuro.bsky.social and Georg Striedter explore this and other questions about neural mechanisms that regulate bird sleep.
bit.ly/45mfwgn
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/45mfwgn
#neuroskyence
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🪰 A team of Janelia researchers & collaborators have created a new set of tools for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies, providing an important #openscience resource for future studies of fly flight & courtship 🧠
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hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🪰 A team of Janelia researchers & collaborators have created a new set of tools for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies, providing an important #openscience resource for future studies of fly flight & courtship 🧠
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
hhmi.news/3H3ohn8
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Female brain holds the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Epp-Sargin lab collaboration led by @dterstege.bsky.social featuring @liisagalea.bsky.social is out in Science Advances. We uncover the mechanisms that make females more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s - in mouse models and human brains 🧠
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Female brain holds the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Epp-Sargin lab collaboration led by @dterstege.bsky.social featuring @liisagalea.bsky.social is out in Science Advances. We uncover the mechanisms that make females more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s - in mouse models and human brains 🧠
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"Estrogen is the Meryl Streep of hormones, its versatility renowned among scientists." -a really great and accessible overview of estrogen's actions on the brain featuring our society's president, Dr. Margaret McCarthy
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases?
A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Estrogen is the Meryl Streep of hormones, its versatility renowned among scientists." -a really great and accessible overview of estrogen's actions on the brain featuring our society's president, Dr. Margaret McCarthy
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sociality in the Tropics
stri.si.edu
March 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Incredible upcoming book (August 5th) about bird brains and behavior by @evoneuro.bsky.social and Georg Striedter. From locomotion to cognition is gonna be a must have for anyone working with birds (and many more)
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
Bird Brains and Behavior
The last few decades have produced extensive research on the neural mechanisms of avian behavior. Bird Brains and Behavior marries the enthusiasm of bird ent...
mitpress.mit.edu
March 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Incredible upcoming book (August 5th) about bird brains and behavior by @evoneuro.bsky.social and Georg Striedter. From locomotion to cognition is gonna be a must have for anyone working with birds (and many more)
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
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I am trying to do something every week to get our message to non-scientists. Last week it was @ucdavis “labs to lives”, next week it will hopefully be getting on local TV…the average voter needs to know that our work has value
The very important thing for scientists to take from this:
The public campaign to defend science is working!
It is harming Trump. He sees that it is effective. And that is why he brought a kid with cancer to this speech.
This is a sign of their vulnerability to public opinion. 🧪
The public campaign to defend science is working!
It is harming Trump. He sees that it is effective. And that is why he brought a kid with cancer to this speech.
This is a sign of their vulnerability to public opinion. 🧪
"And Trump didn’t mention that childhood cancer mortality rates have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1975 — thanks in large part to work done at and funded by NIH and NCI."
March 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I am trying to do something every week to get our message to non-scientists. Last week it was @ucdavis “labs to lives”, next week it will hopefully be getting on local TV…the average voter needs to know that our work has value
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species.
Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU
Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species.
Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU
Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU
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Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years)
careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...
careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...
January 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years)
careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...
careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...
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We don’t have a #lizard #brain. It has been argued that the human brain evolved from the reptilian brain and our brains still contain the old lizard brain. On the contrary, “Evolution doesn’t simply add more stuff on to a species.”
#neuroscience
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
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#neuroscience
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
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The 'lizard brain' lie: How neuroscience demolished the greatest mind myth
www.sciencefocus.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:48 PM
We don’t have a #lizard #brain. It has been argued that the human brain evolved from the reptilian brain and our brains still contain the old lizard brain. On the contrary, “Evolution doesn’t simply add more stuff on to a species.”
#neuroscience
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
🧪
#neuroscience
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
🧪