Integrative biologist investigating the development of behavior in general, and vocal behavior in particular.
Princeton, NJ
Joined October 2021
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Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
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…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
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?
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Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
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…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
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…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
What I learned from years on graduate admissions committees is that they don’t predict success - they determine it. Everyone has a pet theory, rarely based on evidence, and never based on good evidence, about what makes a successful student.
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
Every year on December 1st ( World AIDS day) I remember the generation we lost for government negligence, societal complicity , media orchestrated moral panic and homophobia. Too many souls were lost too early. #WorldAIDSDay #WorldAIDSDay2021
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
Finally, after many delays (all my fault) Stefan Linquist and I have produced a completely rewritten version of the SEP entry on the innate/acquired distinction. History! Analyses! Controversies! It's all there!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/i…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
"Analytic philosophy is an intellectual pastime for people who are clever but do not want to think seriously."
newstatesman.com/ideas/2021/…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
What's evolution generally maximizing? Not happiness or intelligence. Total biomass? Introduce into a new world, a system reproducing itself w/ imperfect heredity: knowing about evolution allows us to predict what? What if anything are we guaranteed to find when we return later?
