ioana chiver
@ioanachiver.bsky.social
Staff research associate at UC Irvine. Interested in behavior, neuroscience. She/her
http://ioanachiver.weebly.com/
http://ioanachiver.weebly.com/
Nice talk last week highlighting the knowledge gap in women's brain health across the lifespan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9eo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9eo...
New Frontiers in Women's Brain Health featuring Emily Jacobs - CNLM Distinguish Lectures
YouTube video by UCI CNLM
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February 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Nice talk last week highlighting the knowledge gap in women's brain health across the lifespan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9eo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9eo...
Interesting thread of papers about how to do behavioral ecology well, the importance of natural history, the burdens of university administration, and quantifying "products" and usefulness.
Impediments to doing good science and a good work/life balance
Here I discuss the reasons for why academics are finding it more and more difficult to do science, teach, and have a balance between work and life.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Interesting thread of papers about how to do behavioral ecology well, the importance of natural history, the burdens of university administration, and quantifying "products" and usefulness.
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Seminar Tomorrow!
These talks are going to be fishtastic, you can get the link to join by registering here:
braincoustics.com
These talks are going to be fishtastic, you can get the link to join by registering here:
braincoustics.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Seminar Tomorrow!
These talks are going to be fishtastic, you can get the link to join by registering here:
braincoustics.com
These talks are going to be fishtastic, you can get the link to join by registering here:
braincoustics.com
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As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans.
That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.
That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.
Mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest prefer human blood
As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans. That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s…
news.mongabay.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:10 AM
As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans.
That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.
That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.
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A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!!
🎉🎉
(in order of release)
🎉🎉
(in order of release)
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!!
🎉🎉
(in order of release)
🎉🎉
(in order of release)
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What can the Brain Knowledge Platform do for you? 🧠📈
Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration
Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
What can the Brain Knowledge Platform do for you? 🧠📈
Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration
Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration
Finally had a moment with the local roadrunner...🪶
January 4, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Finally had a moment with the local roadrunner...🪶
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You've graduated with your bachelor's...now what 😳
Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/
Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/
Internships
Students and early-career professionals in lab research, biology, neuroscience, immunology, and others should apply for our internships and fellowships.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
You've graduated with your bachelor's...now what 😳
Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/
Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/
Our paper looking at manakin vocal and display behavior differences on Escudo Island was just accepted at Animal Behaviour! It took some time but the results are super interesting😍
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Our paper looking at manakin vocal and display behavior differences on Escudo Island was just accepted at Animal Behaviour! It took some time but the results are super interesting😍
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A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis
From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.The last few decades have produced extensive resear
direct.mit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Loving the view of snow capped mountains while eating lunch in summer-like weather 🗻
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Loving the view of snow capped mountains while eating lunch in summer-like weather 🗻
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How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
Zheng and Harpole et al. show that singing mice produce two major vocal modes: ancestral
USVs and novel songs that follow a linearly decelerating rhythm. Although acoustically
distinct, songs and USVs...
www.cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
Looking through recordings from Escudo and remembered how much I enjoyed the bay wrens 🏝️
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking through recordings from Escudo and remembered how much I enjoyed the bay wrens 🏝️
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As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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Jane taught us that every day we live, we make an impact. The choice is ours as to what kind of impact it will be.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jane taught us that every day we live, we make an impact. The choice is ours as to what kind of impact it will be.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.
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We were saddened to learn that WOS member Eugene Morton, recipient of the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice Medal, passed away last month.
Obituary information for Eugene Siller Morton
View Eugene Siller Morton's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We were saddened to learn that WOS member Eugene Morton, recipient of the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice Medal, passed away last month.
elsuu.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
Share your most recent findings at the SBN Online Research Symposium!
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September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
For members and non-members, anyone interested in behavior, hormones, neuroendocrinology…
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Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
It's 2025, and there's apparently no female mouse atlas.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
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📣📣Interested in writing a proposal to explore coevolution and/or mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation? Check out our team’s current projects and emerging host-parasite system. If these align with your interests , please check eligibility per NSF guidelines and email me! #GRFP #zombiewasps
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
📣📣Interested in writing a proposal to explore coevolution and/or mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation? Check out our team’s current projects and emerging host-parasite system. If these align with your interests , please check eligibility per NSF guidelines and email me! #GRFP #zombiewasps
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I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove
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For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more
#neuroskyence #academicsky
#neuroskyence #academicsky
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more
#neuroskyence #academicsky
#neuroskyence #academicsky
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Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.