Nachum suggested that we act as “a student of these creatures” to try to get a grasp of how they understand and perceive the world. 🧠 🌍
Learn more in our episode “Neuroscience, naturally” 🎧
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Nachum Ulanovsky says to understand how to study how an animal thinks, we need to try to understand what its like to be in its head (or wings) 🐭 🦇
By learning about the sensory world of a study species, scientists can better design more naturalistic studies.
Listen to the full episode “Neuroscience, naturally” to hear more 🎧
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On our recent episode, guest Nachum Ulanovsky talks about how neuroscience can learn from ecology and from the environment animals experience in the wild to design more naturalistic experiments.
Meet our most recent guest: Nachum Ulanovsky!
Tune into our most recent episode “Neuroscience, naturally” to learn more about how neuroscience can be more naturalistic and lessons that can be taken from behavioral ecology and evolution.
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Nachum makes the case that we need to be studying neuroscience in more naturalistic environments to truly understand the brain and its effects on behavior. 🧠🦇
Episode art by Brianna Longo.
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Episode 146 “Neuroscience, naturally” is out now! ✨
In this episode, we talk with Nachum Ulanovsky, author of the book Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors.
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Meet the Trinidadian Guppy!
Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are small, prolific freshwater fish native to Trinidad, famous as a model for rapid, evolution-in-action studies due to their adaptation to high- and low-predation environments
Read the full blog on our substack 📖
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Image of a quote that says "Herein arises the challenge with the generic definition of placenta mentioned above. If a placenta is simply any “intimate integration of maternal and embryonic tissue,” then “by that definition, all Poeciliids are placental."
Clayton Glasgow writes about David's research and how Poeciliidae, the family that includes guppies, complicate the common understanding of the placenta.
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Read the newest Big Biology blog based on our conversation with Dr. David Reznick, Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside @ucriverside.bsky.social
Hear more from David about this fascinating study system in our most recent episode “Evolution at the speed of life” 🎧️
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As David explains, these “high predation” and “low predation” guppies are distinct in many ways having to do with their life history. However, the main driver of these changes is density dependent selection, not the difference in predation in these sites. 🔄
Our recent guest David Reznick talks about the Trinidadian guppy system that he’s studied for most of his career. As part of this research system, guppies from one site with a high and diverse amounts of predators are transplanted into a site with other guppies where most predators are excluded. 🐟 🐟
Meet our most recent guest, David Reznick.
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Episode 145 "Evolution at the speed of life" is out now!
In this episode, David Reznick, talks about studying adaptation in the wild, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and placental evolution in live-bearing fish.
The African golden cat is one of Africa’s most elusive predators.
Thanks to conservationists like Mwezi Mugerwa, we’re finally starting to understand consistent documentation of how they live.
Learn more about the community-based conservation of the African golden cat by listening to our episode “Heart of gold” 🐱
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Communities were already conservationists, caring for the forest for generations. So when creating a conservation organization called Embaka, Mwezi decided to make a change. He involved the community and created projects that meet the needs of people in the community and support conservation. 🌟
In our latest episode, guest Mwezi Mugerwa talks about why the communities living near Bwindi Impenetrable National Park didn’t initially trust conservatio. These communities saw people coming to the forest for the first time, cutting off their access, and saying it was in the name of “conservation”
Learn more about how local communities conserve the African golden cat and how other projects like Afrikanity help connect people with nature in our most recent blog post 📖
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In this clip from an Indianapolis Prize video, recent guest of Big Biology Mwezi "Badru" Mugerwa describes a conservation program to reduce bush meat hunting and help protect the African golden cat. 🐱
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The African golden cat is one of central Africa’s most elusive predators, so rare that most sightings come from trail cameras!
In our newest episode, Mwezi Mugerwa talks conservation, elusive carnivores, and field research.
Photo credit: Indianapolis Conservation Prize and Sebastian Kennerknecht
Meet our most recent guest, Mwezi Mugerwa!
This suggests what Art says at the beginning, that if the emergence of life were to happen again, a similar amino acid code may emerge as well. 🧫
Hear more in our recent re-release “The Vital Question: The Chemistry of Early Life” 🎧
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