Ruchira Sharma

[UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @UCSFPsychiatry]

.@labManoli is calling the role of #oxytocin into question. In a new study with @BalesLab and @Shah_Laboratory, they showed prairie voles without oxytocin receptors can bond, give birth, and feed their young https://t.co/MSBStuRNV8

@UCSF #UCSFWeill

[Manoli Lab @LabManoli]

Prairie voles that don't have oxytocin receptors still bond and parent, as we (@UCSFPsychiatry and @UCSF), @BalesLab & @Shah_Laboratory show in @NeuroCellPress

https://t.co/bN3tGRlvNk

[Manoli Lab @LabManoli]

https://t.co/PrGG8zWkF6
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.

[Manoli Lab @LabManoli]

Their work really shows the power of genetics and that the brain can be wired for bonding during development without OxtR function even when acute disruptions of the pathway in adults dramatically interferes with it.

[Ruchira Sharma @cruhari]

Thanks @evolbrain! Happy to work on this exciting venture... Vole researchers can get access to the database via https://t.co/8XCql0Y5JJ

[Steven Phelps @evolbrain]

Ruchira @cruhari kept us focused on the concrete details of implementing the database, and worked tirelessly to make @VoleBase happen.

[Steven Phelps @evolbrain]

Vole are fascinating beasts. Some form pairbonds, others don't. They have strange chromosomes, and diversified very quickly upon arrival in North America. Their ability to form bonds has made them a leading animal model for studying the neural and hormonal mechanisms of bonding.

[VoleBase @VoleBase]

Hello! We are VoleBase, a resource sharing platform built on the Open Science Framework intended for vole researchers to help each other advance science.

@OSFramework @evolbrain @AnnalieseBeery @cruhari @wmkenkel

[Eugene Gu, MD @eugenegu]

Marsha Blackburn sent two armed US Marshals to my home in Nashville to subpoena me to Congress for the fetal tissue research that Trump ended up using to save himself from the coronavirus while nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court so that she can ban it permanently.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

India mum as China effects a political sea change in Hong Kong by violating a UN-registered treaty. No word from India over China's Muslim gulag, teeming with over a million inmates. India stayed mum as China changed SCS's geopolitical map. China, however, took J&K issue to UNSC.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

I'm shocked. Shocked to see COVID cases rising in states that aggressively reopened.

[Jennifer Wright @JenAshleyWright]

This aged poorly.

[Pilaz Lab @ljpilaz]

I am looking for a postdoc or a staff scientist. Keywords: cortical development, epigenetics, RNA localization, and the 2 most amazing cells in the universe: #radialglia and #neurons as runners-up. 😁 #SfN19 https://t.co/VmcBR0LLhN

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Mathematicians have just discovered a third way to represent 3 as the sum of three cubed numbers. The first is 1³ + 1³ + 1³, the second is 4³ + 4³ + (-5)³, and the third is 569936821221962380720³ + (-569936821113563493509)³ + (-472715493453327032)³.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

An incoming Harvard freshman, a 17 year old Palestinian boy, had his visa cancelled & was deported because US officials searched his phone/laptop & said his friends had social media posts that were critical of the US.

Yup.

https://t.co/FUGZNtE132

[Jenn Cremins @CreminsLab]

At what point do we report % effort for trying to access university systems via two-step authentication?

[yedoye @yedoye_]

Hey, I have a podcast called Dark Tank where I make white people pitch solutions to racism to a panel of black people. If this appeals to you or people you know, consider a retweet.

[James Corden @JKCorden]

This commercial was banned from TV for being too political. I think everyone should see it x

[Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt 🏳️‍🌈🧠👩🏼‍🔬 @ohambiguity]

NOOOOOOOO
They just showed the “ah mig dah lah” and showed the PITUITARY.

I’m shook. @netflix - there are many neuroscientists (including me: 🙋🏼‍♀️) that would be happy to consult with you to ensure scientific accuracy!

[martin fortescue @matinfue]

Telling people you identify as non-binary is the polite thing to do. In fact, it should be done as soon as you meet someone new.
It identifies you as an insufferable bore, and gives others the chance to run away before they have to listen to more of your bullshit.