This was a great #symposium on #NaturalisticNeuroscience! Thanks to all speakers for the excellent talks and especially to the organizers and everyone involved in making this meeting possible. You really did a great job! 👏 I very much enjoyed the scientific exchange.
Looking forward to the #NN2026 #symposium, starting today at #UniBonn.
🌍 https://www.nn2026.uni-bonn.de/de
I will present a poster on #IntelliCage experiments in #socially housed mice. The system enables continuous home-cage behavior monitoring, providing data to analyze #learning, stress-related #behavior, and long-term behavioral dynamics.
🦧 New study on #bonobo #SocialBehavior: Arias-Vélez et al. show that #bonobos actively intervene in #SocialInteractions to enforce group norms and reduce conflict. Rather than reacting only to direct threats, bystanders often stepped in during socially disruptive situations, suggesting a form of third-party social regulation resembling proto-norm enforcement.
📝 https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1788 (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads4414)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116493374179009767
Indeed, an excellent recommendation: Tristram D. Wyatt’s “#AnimalBehaviour: A Very Short Introduction” is a useful reminder for #NaturalisticNeuroscience: #Behavior is not just output, but evolved action in ecological and social context. Tinbergen’s questions, costs, signals, conflict, cooperation. This is exactly the conceptual bridge we need between eg #NeuralDynamics and real-world behavior.
🌍 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/animal-behaviour-9780198712152
🧠 New paper by Zipple et al.: Standard laboratory housing may itself shape what we interpret as "#anxiety" in mice. Transferring adult mice to a more #naturalistic environment blocked the persistent fear response normally induced by the elevated plus maze, suggesting that this classic phenotype is environmentally contingent and rapidly reversible. Unfortunately, closed access paper:
Fabrizio Musacchio
Fabrizio Musacchio