Very nice to see!

Also a (pre-covid!) conversation at acnp, which also failed (despite ample evidence) to convince either of us this is a dumb career

🥹😎Putting this post on my cv

Some shoutouts!

The set shift is a touchscreen, mouseified adaptation of a task from the incomparable @bita137.bsky.social

And the touchscreen location paper had early inspiration from @drugmonkey.bsky.social, who, when not being a curmudgeon, knows some things about Ye Olde Anymal Behavioure

Did the h*ppocampus force you to say this Marshall

In conclusion I applaud these cool first author stories from @danamaemueller.bsky.social and @nicglewwe.bsky.social and you should too!!

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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Picture of me being chauffeured around by a friend while bundled within an inch of my life is very on brand for me

Au contraire this is the kind of innovation we desperately need! If my brain were worth anything it would figure out how to use cheeseburgers to go infinite

I feel like given today's caloritic availability the brain is too small for our available diets. Our brains could use more folds I feel like they could be something more inkin to a mandal bulb in complexity and design. Also I am not qualified to be giving hot takes on Neuroscience.

Spitting FACTS