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Zoe Donaldson

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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re hiring two postdocs! Join our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social to uncover how the brain resolves behavioural conflicts. Deadline: 22 September 2026 @wellcometrust.bsky.social Please share! www.rezavallab.org
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​ ​Animals must make crucial behavioural choices on a minute by minute basis to survive in a changing environment. A long-standing enigma is, how are alternative options evaluated in the brain...
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We’re recruiting postdocs! Join our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded programme 'Decoding competition in the brain'. How does the brain resolve competing needs and prioritise behaviour? 📅 Deadline: 1 September Apply: rezavallab.org Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM781/r...
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
Recruiting now: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Michael Kelberman @mikekelberman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Incredibly grateful to have been selected by the @simonsfoundation.org as a recipient of the 2026 SCPAB Fellows-to-Faculty award! A special thanks to @neurozoe.bsky.social and the rest of my mentors for their incredible support up to this point in my career.
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 31/07/2026
We're pleased to announce the 2026 class of our Fellows-to-Faculty program! This fellowship supports talented early-career scientists and their research visions as they transition into tenure-track faculty positions in autism and #neuroscience research. See the new class: bit.ly/4yXUjrd
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Announcing the Recipients of the 2026 Fellows-to-Faculty Awards
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2026 class of its Fellows-to-Faculty program.
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Michael Kelberman @mikekelberman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New hot topics piece in @npp-journal.bsky.social where @neurozoe.bsky.social and I argue for the importance of studying the role of social bonds (as opposed to just loneliness/isolation) in determining clinical trajectories during aging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The role of spousal relationships in shaping clinical trajectories during aging - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - The role of spousal relationships in shaping clinical trajectories during aging
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Lisa A. McGraw @lamcgraw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hi friends! Join me in supporting our friend and amazing animal behavior colleague, Laura Sirot, to represent the State Senate in Ohio's 31st district!
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Sirot for State Senate | Finding Common Ground for the Common Good of Ohio
Laura Sirot is running for State Senate in Ohio's 31st District to create a strong, safe, and affordable future where we can all thrive. Explore ways to volunteer and contribute to the movement.
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Zoe Donaldson @neurozoe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excited to have a new piece out in Current Opinions with Caleb Vogt. This accompanies our Voleterra research station going live! Building a field site technologically outfitted for modern neuroscience has been exciting and challenging. The view’s not bad either 😉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nL323Q9h2...
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Dayu Lin @moccalin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression - Nature
In mice, female aggression is governed by an amygdala–to–medial hypothalamus circuit that is strengthened during pregnancy and is dynamically amplified by oxytocin during lactation.
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org
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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Excited so share our newest study using a single-library HiFi-CiFi approach to generate chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of two vole genomes, identifying putative drivers of divergent pair-bonding behavior, namely a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a gene, led by @mabuelanin.bsky.social
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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I had a blast working on this paper! This was the first mammalian assembly paper using the new CiFi tech, and we combined multiple lines of evidence to verify a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a. All methods will be open source and reproducible, enabling the community to build on them.
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Forrest Rogers, PhD @forrestdrogers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)
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Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature
Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...
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Hello Bio @hellobio.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Congratulations to @neurozoe.bsky.social of @colorado.edu who has been nominated by Mostafa El-Kalliny & Yurika Watanabe in the #LabHeroes25 Awards! 🏆 Read Zoe's nomination and tell us about the heroes in YOUR lab: ow.ly/6fqS50XuB5B #LabHeroesAwards #labhero #LabHeroes #scienceawards #scienceprize
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Meenakshi Asokan @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A real pleasure and honor interviewing @neurozoe.bsky.social. Check out her story!
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Michael Kelberman @mikekelberman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New paper from @neurozoe.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We uncover a role for nucleus accumbens calcium permeable AMPA receptors (CP-AMPARs) in pair bond formation. Congrats to first author Mostafa and all the other amazing co-authors!
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Client Challenge
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Will Sheeran @wmsheer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Bit late to the game here, but had a really fun time writing this perspective piece with @neurozoe.bsky.social about a couple of fascinating papers now out in Science. Massive kudos to the Hong and Zhang groups for their work www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An innate drive to save a life
In mice, two brain regions drive the impulse to revive an unconscious companion
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Zoe Donaldson @neurozoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
A few weeks ago I was asked to write an obituary for my PhD mentor, Larry Young. He was the torchbearer for oxytocin research, a giant in our field. He had a gift for connecting people. His loss has been devastating for many of us. Goodbye Larry. rdcu.be/dE0vD
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Zoe Donaldson @neurozoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Excited to share our latest work out in Current Bio led by Dr. Anne Pierce. We found dopamine is required for seeking out social interaction in monogamous voles, and that a pair bonded partner elicits greater accumbal dopamine release than does a stranger. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iPzr3QW8S...
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Zoe Donaldson @neurozoe.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Congratulations to this years Beach Award Winner Deena Walker! A fearless scientist, deep thinker, and lover of Neuroendocrinology!
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