📢 The preprint of my first project with @NeuroecologyLab, where we investigated carnivoran neocortical sulcal anatomy, is out! 🔥🧠 https://t.co/FBDXWHnrkk #neuroscience #neuroanatomy #evolution

Using non-invasive MRI, we found a pathway in dog brains that predicts receptive vocabulary size. It’s left-lateralized & connects regions that produce and perceive vocal communication. A convergently evolved arcuate fasciculis? Read at @CurrentBiology: https://t.co/nTrX3aQGPV

📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition @JohnsHopkins - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: https://t.co/o0pQPas6Sn And here: https://t.co/Qq73pcK933 And in QT'd thread

Hi #SfN2024, Inti Brazil and I will soon be recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in computational neuroscience of social decision making @DondersInst. Plz DM or email for more information

It's OUT! 🥳My first (shared) first author paper with @kim_doell, Madalina, @jayvanbavel and our 254 amazing collaborators is now published in @ScientificData Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 https://t.co/e5N9fCy4Na

Where do new organs come from? In paired studies, we explore walking fish with "legs" to learn about the evolution of new traits. @MBLScience, @CellPressNews, @CurrentBiology - https://t.co/2z2q31Vaz5 - https://t.co/CxfhKYtPxB

Do extreme head shapes in dogs correspond with altered brain morphology? The answer is yes, according to my newly published paper on skull-brain covariation in dogs!

🌍 Thrilled to share our new preprint and the first part of my thesis! Using machine learning, we analyzed data from 55 countries to uncover key individual and nation-level predictors of climate change beliefs & behaviors. Let's dive in! 🧵 1/12

How do experiences & perspectives differ among scientists working with different species?  We are collecting info about career trajectories, challenges, & research topics for a peer-reviewed journal article.  Please share!  https://t.co/k0W71havkN

Our lab has a job opening for either a full-time staff or postdoc with expertise in neurohistology. We study brain-behavior evolution in dogs, domesticated foxes, humans, and other primates. Will share app links soon but please share & DM me if interested!

🚨 Postdoctoral position between KCL (@CathyFernandes1 and @L_andreae) and Oxford (Jason Lerch) to work on brain development in mouse models with a genetic risk of schizophrenia 🧠🐭🧲 ⬇️ Apply by July 8th ! https://t.co/i5MPYzynyJ

Also make sure to visit @GuranCNA's poster in the same session titled "Observation of social and non-social interactions in dogs and humans: results from fMRI" (#104) to find out even more about how dogs process social interactions 🐕

Curious about how dogs process social interactions? Wondering if unexpected turns elicit a “social prediction error“ analogous to humans & primates? Visit my poster "The neural bases of how dogs navigate their social environment" (#101) this Friday 2-5:30 pm #FENS2024 🐩🧠

Are you joining the upcoming #FENS2024 in Vienna? Interested in discussing statistical neuroimaging, polygenic scores, data fusion or neural networks 🧠🗺️🧬? Then feel free to reach out here or at my poster!

I also want to thank all the collaborators involved in this project, it was a huge team effort! The ones I could find on Twitter: @kepkeeloh @neurabenn @LeaRoumazeilles @kamillaa_asouza @ClausLamm @fmrib_karla @jerome_sallet @b_tendler @NeuroecologyLab

Have a look at our preprint for more insights and novel avenues for further investigations employing a variety of neuroimaging modalities to learn more about carnivoran brain diversity! 🐺🐈��⬛🐆🦦🐩🦊🐅🦡

E.g., we observed complex sulcal configurations in the somatosensory cortex of Arctoidea species with pronounced forepaw dexterity, Canidae had the largest number of major sulci with a unique occipital cortex sulcus, and social canids had an additional frontal cortex sulcus.

Applying this framework, we observed multiple distinct regional variations in sulcal anatomy potentially related to the species' behaviour and ecology.

We obtained primarily post-mortem brain scans from 18 carnivoran species, reconstructed the cortical surfaces using @neurabenn's precon_all and examined neocortical sulcal anatomy to establish a first framework for systematic interspecies comparisons.

I want to thank my co-authors Ludwig Huber (@CDLVienna) & @ClausLamm (@ScanUnit) for their support, our dog neuroimaging team ( https://t.co/ncteuwIXoj) for doing an amazing job in training the dogs & their help collecting our fMRI data, and our amazing dogs & their caregivers🩷