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  1. Anyone knows of researchers that compare #Mice and #Rats behaviour (ideally in complex tasks)? It could be in #SpatialCognition but also in other fields. Papers that directly compare both species would also be great.

    #BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice #NeuroRats

  2. The #Tolman "sunburst maze" results (from 1946) are often used to demonstrate shortcut ability in rats... but do they really? More on this later!

    For now, would you know of any #ComputationalModels that were tested in this protocol (whether they replicate the original results or not)? We know of a few (well... 4) but would like to make sure we are not missing any.

    #BehaviouralNeuroscience #SpatialCognition #Shortcuts #CognitiveMap #Neuroscience (kind of)

  3. Anyone has thoughts about this? Couldn't it be the mouse eating its "friend" (yes that's much less romantic I know)?

    Disclaimer, I haven't read the papers in detail yet so it could be 100% what they say

    fediscience.org/@DieterLukas/1 (quoting @DieterLukas )

    #BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice

  4. With the current situation in the #US, several of my former colleagues there are looking for a #PostDocJob in #Europe, to do #BehaviouralNeuroscience or #ComputationalNeuroscience in #SpatialCognition (or adjacent).
    Lots of hashtags I know..

    Do you know a #EU or #UK #Neuroscience lab looking to hire a postdoc in these fields? Let me know and I'll pass it on to them!

    Edit: adding #RodentResearch and #humanresearch for the species concerned (in this case)

  5. CW: List of things to be improved on Masto

    Hey all, still as part of the #MoveToMasto Movement, and because we’re a bunch of honest people, let’s list all the things we think could be improved here on #Mastodon:
    (I’ll start - in no specific order. I've also added workarounds when I knew about them)
    (See this other post for the positive aspects)

    [1] No feedback on your boosts: do people like them? boost them? 🤷​
    [2] You can’t easily see all the answers to someone else’s post
    [unless you go to their instance's website]
    [3] Some great-looking accounts haven’t actually been active for a long time
    [but you can see "last active date" on your "follows and followers" Settings]
    [4] you can't easily quote posts
    [except with some apps, also this is coming soon in Masto!]
    [5] You can easily miss very relevant content
    [a customizable algo might be coming at some point on our instance!]
    [6] (very specific to me) there are not enough #BehaviouralNeuroscience or #NeuroEthology people
    [if you know any, tell them to come here!]
    [7] the new search is great but doesn’t search ALL of Mastodon’s public posts
    [you can always do a search from outside, say with DuckDuckGo]
    [8] you can't easily see only the posts of a profile
    [but you can use justmytoots.com/ for this]
    [9] …?

    Please do add your own!

    Edit: I updated the list, thanks to contributions of @diazona, @thefalcon 🙏​

  6. How to best sound-proof a door between two rooms?

    Say I have a rat maze experiment that involves sounds and I don’t want to disrupt my colleagues’ experiments.
    Or say my rats get distracted by the noises next door and I don’t want to have loud white noise during my task.
    In this case the door is almost never in use, although it would be ideal if it could work on a door that’s in use as well.

    #SoundProofing #Neuroscience #BehaviouralNeuroscience

    PS: I cannot replace the door. The sound seems to come from the space between the door and the door frame.