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Asif A Ghazanfar @LifeofBehavior

Integrative biologist investigating the development of behavior in general, and vocal behavior in particular.

Joined October 2021
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Ahmed El Hady
@zamakany
10 Oct 2025
congrads @LauraGrimaNeuro and all the whole team for this review on Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience , timely and important topic . Check it out : cell.com/trends/neuroscience…
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I had the pleasure of writing a profile of a scientist I greatly admired and whose work continues to inspire me: Dale Purves (purveslab.net): aeon.co/essays/dale-purves-t…
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Animal Prattle@animal_prattle
17 Sep 2024
Enough birdsong tweets, let's talk marmosets 🙊 Now in @NatureComms by @ThiagoTVarella (@LifeofBehavior lab), "Active sampling as an information seeking strategy in primate vocal interactions" nature.com/articles/s42003-0… Are contact calls somehow like electric fish pulses? 1/3

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Darshana Narayanan@dznarayanan
27 Jul 2024
Babies are communicating as soon as they are born, and these abilities are developing in the nine months before birth. My detailed account of how this happens... aeon.co/essays/how-fetuses-l…

How fetuses learn to ‘talk’ while they’re still in the womb | Aeon Essays

When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb?

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Replying to @behaviOrganisms
@behaviOrganisms & I worked on this piece, off and on, for 5 years! Glad that it's finally out into the world. It's about the importance of the individual organism in the development and evolution of brains. It's about Time. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

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We also discuss mistakes folks often make (and I have certainly made) when it comes to thinking about how development and evolution work together.
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I'm still mildly annoyed that it was desk-rejected by at least 4 journals (and, of course, with no meaningful explanation) but happy that it got constructive, thoughtful and rapid reviews at sciencedirect.com/journal/ne…
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Translational illusions: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful… Read this awhile back. I think it's an awesome book. This is my attempt at a distillation.
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sama ahmed@ColumboAhmed
9 Aug 2022
Hey yall - my lab is hiring ! We're looking for a research tech to work on the neurobiology of multitasking in Drosophila ! 🧠x🪰 = 🔥 please RT job ad: uwhires.admin.washington.edu…

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Model Systems in Biology by @georg_striedter looks good, like a gut check! Just got it yesterday. On the "to read" shortlist.
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My 3-year experiment in signing all my manuscript reviews is over. I finally came across some studies where revealing my identity hampered expressing my critique. That is, I doubted that the authors would take well what I had to say.
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"When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage." Thought-provoking paper by Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin that explores the implications of this statement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking

In a scale-free biology, the dynamics at every scale influences, and is influenced by, the dynamics at higher and lower scales. Each scale has a “toolbox” of capabilities that act upward as state...

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I wanted to keep my twitter acct focused on "science" but this was too incredible not to share. What Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’ nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opini…

Opinion | What Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’ (Published 2022)

In a new short film, Warsaw residents express their deepest worries and anxieties.

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This is worth checking out if you're a PI. I wish had this doc when I was starting out. A group approach to growing as a principal investigator cell.com/current-biology/ful… See also civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab… (Thanks to @ColumboAhmed for the pointer)

A group approach to growing as a principal investigator

Greco et al. describe their experience learning to be more effective and humane PIs. The key to their growth was regular and consistent work with a diverse group of their peers aided by the guidance...

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Can someone point me to a study that shows that human infants/toddlers use imitation as part of their vocal learning strategy? I'd be much obliged. #vocallearning
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Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton princeton.edu/acad-positions…
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Systems & Quantitative Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton princeton.edu/acad-positions…
Was thinking about my past work and how I got into neural oscillations for one rewarding phase of my career. My memory chain quickly brought me to this great paper by the late Peter Lakatos. It had a big influence on me. journals.physiology.org/doi/…

An Oscillatory Hierarchy Controlling Neuronal Excitability and Stimulus Processing in the Auditory...

EEG oscillations are hypothesized to reflect cyclical variations in the neuronal excitability, with particular frequency bands reflecting differing spatial scales of brain operation. However, despite...

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Many thanks to @jonasobleser for his obituary highlighting Peter's many accomplishments. rdcu.be/cGmXM
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