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Off to a new adventure in Chicagoland! I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an assistant professor position at @NIUlive ! The Ortiz Neuroscience Lab will be starting this fall! I am forever grateful for all of the people that have helped guide me! TEAM PRAIRIE VOLE!
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Who runs the world? VOLES
As the world warms, scientists are eager to know whether the world’s tundra will continue to pull carbon from the atmosphere. A crucial part of that equation: three-ounce voles. @brdemuth reports: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
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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"
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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.
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New paper by @LindsaySailer in @CommsBio!

DREADD activation of the lateral septum increases general affiliation for strangers but maintains social selectivity for partners in male #PrairieVoles during a life-history transition in reproductive state

nature.com/articles/s4200…
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Check your email, vole researchers! The next Vole Meeting has been scheduled! 🥳
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VoleBase retweeted
Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social behavior is plastic not only throughout early development, but also well into adulthood.
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Intranasal oxytocin both reduces ethanol intake (~50%) in male prairie voles AND penetrates the blood brain barrier! Two very cool findings from @ryabininae

nature.com/articles/s4138…
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Prairie voles would never have done this
We've been thinking that the Omicron variant evolved from an immunocompromised individual with accelerated in vivo mutations. A new report @PNASNews raises the potential that it emanated from mice -> humans
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…
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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.
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biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Very excited to share the work of Kristen Berendzen and Ruchira Sharma and our collaborators in the @BalesLab and @Shah_Laboratory Strikingly, we find the oxytocin receptor is NOT required for partner preference or parenting behaviors in prairie voles.
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VoleBase retweeted
As I put my poster together for the @SBNTweets conference, I made some illustrations of prairie voles at four days old, fifteen days old, and adult voles. Feel free to use them :) I have .svg and .ai for most of them as well!
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"Helping behavior in prairie voles: A model of empathy and the importance of oxytocin"

Oxytocin receptor knockout voles: are they jerks?
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Developmental exposure to intranasal vasopressin impacts adult prairie vole spatial memory

By @BioBookworm and @OphirLab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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"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.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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"Social isolation and oxytocin antagonism increase emotion-related behaviors and heart rate in female prairie voles"
by @tangor3d
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Petition to replace Punxsutawney Phil with Prairie Phil & Philipa
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Cool @TheAtlantic article on the science of heartbreak featuring @DrZoePhD !
theatlantic.com/family/archive…
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Multi-level effects driving cognitive and behavioral variability among prairie voles: Insights into reproductive decision-making from biological levels of organization

by @OphirLab
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"Functional connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network"

by @ricky_ortiz and colleagues
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