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Shirdhankar et al. establish a method to record from single neurons in the brain of African mole-rats while they are head-fixed or freely moving, performing natural behaviors. The method allows the study of sensory perception and neural adaptations of these strictly subterranean rodents, well known for their longevity, cancer resistance, and magnetic sense.

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Neuroscience; Molecular neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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There is well-supported scientific consensus and widespread public knowledge that birds can use the earth’s magnetic field to orient. However, Lewin et al. show that long-distance foraging seabirds do...

Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit

About the Opportunity Job Summary The Shansky Lab is seeking a full-time postdoc to conduct National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded behavioral neuroscience research investigating sex differences in...

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Abstract On their first migration, young thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia) must store enough fat to cross ecological barriers such as the Sahara, but carrying too much fuel increases flight cost...

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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

While running experiments and collecting data are important things, they don’t contribute to science unless we write up the results and share them with our colleagues and the world.  This means tha…