My group's paper out on the cover of Science!

Native Hawaiians are most closely related to the Rapanui of distant Easter Island 😮

Proud of my students the two co-first authors Cole Shanks & former MS student Edward Huang and 3rd author group member Chris Thomassin.

www.science.org/eprint/4HAYG...

Link to the paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Grateful to everyone on this great team!

How does individual behavior reflect the organization of the society it belongs to?

Excited to share our new paper with @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social & team: a naked mole-rat’s spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts its identity, colony membership, and rank within its colony.

Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Each naked mole-rat has its own behavioral identity! The way it moves reveals who it is, its colony, and its social rank! Great work from @yukihaba.bsky.social

Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Proud to share our new work with @marcelomattar.bsky.social and @leaduncker.bsky.social, newly accepted to #NeurIPS2026 arxiv.org/abs/2609.17042. This paper is a precursor to a forthcoming follow up work that I hope will be one of the biggest papers of my career.

Come be our colleague @mpinb.mpg.de ! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/4...

Bonn has a great community of neuroscientists and it's been a great place to start a group! #neuroethology @neuroethology.org

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social
@scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Our single-nucleus immune multiome atlas is now out in @nature.com! 🧬

10M PBMCs from 1,108 @finngen.bsky.social donors recruited by Finnish Blood Service, profiled at @broadinstitute.org with chromatin accessibility and gene expression in the same nuclei, to trace how disease variants act 🧵👇

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod
tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8

Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli
@nature.com
@danionella.bsky.social

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to give an invited seminar for the Hofstra University Biology Seminar Series this Friday! Please come say hi if you are around @hofstrau.bsky.social

www.hofstra.edu/academics/co...