RT @ricky_ortiz: Off to a new adventure in Chicagoland! I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an assistant professor position at @….

RT @wmkenkel: Who runs the world? VOLES.

L. reuteri administration alters the gut-brain-behavior axis in a sex-dependent manner in socially monogamous prairie voles. "Females, but not males, treated with live L. reuteri displayed lower levels of social affiliation".

Save the date REMINDER!.Vole Meeting 2023.Aug 2 - 5, Boulder, CO.Hosted at University of Colorado Boulder from August 2 - 5. This year, we anticipate being able to provide travel awards and delivering workshops on August 2-3 prior to the full meeting.

RT @alexophir: New paper by @LindsaySailer in @CommsBio!. DREADD activation of the lateral septum increases general affiliation for strange….

Check your email, vole researchers! The next Vole Meeting has been scheduled! 🥳

RT @AubreyMKelly: Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social b….

Intranasal oxytocin both reduces ethanol intake (~50%) in male prairie voles AND penetrates the blood brain barrier! Two very cool findings from @ryabininae .

RT @wmkenkel: Prairie voles would never have done this.

Check out the cover of JCN -that’s a vole brain! “Oxytocin receptors are widely distributed in the prairie vole brain” by Kiyoshi Inoue @lyoun03 and colleagues.

RT @LabManoli: Very excited to share the work of Kristen Berendzen and Ruchira Sharma and our collaborators in the….

RT @RikkiSLaser: As I put my poster together for the @SBNTweets conference, I made some illustrations of prairie voles at four days old, fi….

"Helping behavior in prairie voles: A model of empathy and the importance of oxytocin". Oxytocin receptor knockout voles: are they jerks?.

Developmental exposure to intranasal vasopressin impacts adult prairie vole spatial memory. By @BioBookworm and @OphirLab

"Effects of a D2 receptor antagonist on repeated pair bond formation in the male prairie vole". Males voles prefer recent partner over previous. 🚫D2 receptor blocks preference for 2nd partner after loss of 1st but does not preserve preference for 1st.

"Social isolation and oxytocin antagonism increase emotion-related behaviors and heart rate in female prairie voles".by @tangor3d .

Petition to replace Punxsutawney Phil with Prairie Phil & Philipa

Cool @TheAtlantic article on the science of heartbreak featuring @DrZoePhD !.

Multi-level effects driving cognitive and behavioral variability among prairie voles: Insights into reproductive decision-making from biological levels of organization. by @OphirLab .

"Functional connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network". by @ricky_ortiz and colleagues.