Second, a few months ago we found that you can actually use the precise coordinates of a touchscreen response as a clue to the latent cognitive state of the animal, and of course once again female mice are more systematic. Provisionally accepted for publication so more soon

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Firsties, we developed a cool operant set shift task in the touchscreens for meeces, they can do many shifts in a single session

The kicker is female mice do better because they figure out how to follow two rules at once
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Ooh yes, very much so! This is so cool! Thanks for tagging me! Seems like a fun one for a future journal club

Also, she gave me a B because of it and I think that’s what pissed me off the most

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Our main character (the OG Gretchen Wieners), mentioning that Lindsay Lohan on the TV looks “just like a girl [she] went to high school with,” mean girls reference #2 💅

This would go so hard as an annual lab social 👀

Okay also, I’m dying to know who you think the mole is 👀

Oh 1000%. And don’t even get me started on the ableism. You’re having a natural fear response to dangling over a deadly drop? Or you’re unable to run 5 miles in an hour? You must be the mole, what’s wrong with you🙄

🙋🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻 The way she said “I’ve seen this equation before” and they STILL ignored her just to listen to the ex cop and get it WRONG? A true commentary on the modern era imo