NIH K99 postdoc fellow in the @HealeyLab. A mammal studying birds. Bluesky: @jeremyspool.bsky.social

Amherst, MA
Joined April 2015
I'm excited to share with you all our new paper (co-authors the twitterless Anna Lally and @Healeylab) out in @CommsBio!! I've made a tweet thread abstract below, spooky halloween style.🎃 Open access at the following link: doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… 1/14
New preprint with twitterless Anna Lally and @HealeyLab ! 📰doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.08.5… Mystery! Intrigue! Auditory pallium! Social behavioral control? Birds?? Brains?! 1/2
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Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists: - watching flies fuck - giving rats massages - spending years digging into why jellyfish glow - tracking penguin poop from space - using horseshoe crab blood
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We've made lots of friends on Blu*sky in the past 2 days, incl @DMennill @MathevonNicolas @xenocanto Added them to our starter pack with folx like @TessaRhinehart @BerthetMelissa @matspike @BorneanGibbons @pantamallion @MasYoungblood We'd love to add you, please RT! 🧵1/4
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Overall this study is a solid step toward understanding the brain connections between auditory pallium and the social brain. This study was done in female songbirds, and we’re already working on studies tackling how this works in males and across different social contexts. 13/14
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Hey folks! Thrilled to have my first postdoc paper out with the amazing @CarasLab out today in @CurrentBiology. Also with a ton of help from Dr. Lashaka Hamlette (X-less). Please keep reading for some quick highlights of our findings. authors.elsevier.com/c/1jPbG…
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See this thread: BRAIN initiative funding was cut by 40%, seemingly by mistake, and NIH staff is prohibited from lobbying so it's up to us! I just wrote to my representative and senators - took 2 min. Sharing my comment here, which draws from those by @kendmil and @doristsao 🙏🏾
As some of you are well aware, the BRAIN Initiative funding was cut by 40% (braininitiative.nih.gov/news…). “This is truly awful, This large cut to the BRAIN Initiative is, simply put, going to kill jobs and hurt patients over the next 10-20 years.” – Kip Ludwig, PhD
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Undergrads, grads and postdocs! We would like to welcome new members to the SBN community with the third annual Welcome Initiative. Funding will provide membership and conference registration for the SBN 2024 Annual Meeting to NEW first-time SBN members.
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Abstract submission for #SBN2024 is now live! Posters, contributed talks, invited talks, all live! Deadline for submission is April 15th. Show us what you got! web.cvent.com/event/e51fe5de…
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