@neuroprototype

Ph.D student @GC_CUNY studying how the brain and behavior is affected by the environment. I want to learn about evo. origins of social behavior! #alvaradolab

 Queens, NY
Joined July 2020
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I think my data is haunted... #sciencetwitter #color #fish
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If you think a majority of the academic workforce lives elitist lifestyles, you've clearly never met anyone who works in academia.
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Replying to @paryzhak @Nature
Why are hardworking taxpayers expected to finance the elitist lifestyles of these academic scholars For questionable research that we may never hear about, let alone benefit from
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Ekaterina Likhtik@ELikhtik15 Feb 2025
The ruthless and baseless purge of NIH staff is continuing through the weekend. Please publicize as much as possible. www-nbcwashington-com.cdn.am…

‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired Friday

Scientists and medical researchers being let go by President Donald Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Friday afternoon...

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New Research: Male bluegill vary in color and behavior relative to their position in a lek frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #Ethology

Frontiers | Male bluegill vary in color and behavior relative to their position in a lek

Animals organize into social groups to increase collective fitness. These groups use behavior and morphological traits like color to communicate social statu...

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First paper down! Plenty to go. Really excited to share my work on bluegill, social interactions, and body coloration. Hope you all enjoy it! #biology #science #behavior
Sebastian G. Alvarado@Sebcredible16 Jan 2025
New work from our group led by @neuroprototype in @Frontiersin Ethology! Ever wonder how mating leks may form in the wild? We think animal coloration may be shaping their formation! frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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When you're reading a relatively peaceful chapter on mate choice and come upon some surprise calculus...
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Check out the preprint of my very first paper!
biorxiv_behav@biorxiv_behav22 Aug 2024
Facial and body colouration are linked to social rank in the African cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_behav
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Really not helping the "Americans will use anything but metric" stereotype. I wonder how 0.15 hamsters would pan out as a fish mass at #alvaradolab. 🤔
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@CNN16 Jun 2023
The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in Sri Lanka – and it’s about the size of a grapefuit, as long as a banana and as heavy as four hamsters cnn.it/3JjyMRg

World’s largest kidney stone removed – and it’s the size of a grapefruit | CNN

The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in Sri Lanka – and it’s about the size of a grapefuit, as long as a banana and as heavy as four hamsters.

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Steven Phelps@evolbrain14 Jun 2023
A nice piece, but also a great example of how repeatedly mainstream neuroscience routinely overlooks the insights of neuroethologists who have been making these claims and employing these ideas for decades.
Vivek Kumar@Vivekdna14 Jun 2023
Nice coverage of an emerging field by @minikerri Lots of colleagues provide input including @IshmailSaboor @Datta_Lab @Antihebbiann @SarahLisanbyMD @VAbraira @TrackingActions and more. Good to see our lab's work mentioned. Lab mice go wild nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Lab mice go wild: making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain

Nature - Armed with technologies to track a creature’s every move, neuroscientists are gaining insights into animal — and human — behaviour.

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran6 Jun 2023
Reminder: The tools that protect us from COVID — masks, air filters, and structural policies like expanded healthcare access — are the tools that we need to protect us from the climate crisis, which is causing a decrease in air quality and increase of disease outbreaks.
Picture of NYC skyline shrouded in orange smoke from Canadian bushfires.

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It's got spots, so it HAS to be a cheetah.
Sebastian G. Alvarado@Sebcredible6 Jun 2023
Guess the animal!
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Who needs a blue check when you have a BLUE WHALE?
A photo of the Museum’s iconic blue whale, suspended from the ceiling. It is posed as if diving down into the Museum.

ALT A photo of the Museum’s iconic blue whale, suspended from the ceiling. It is posed as if diving down into the Museum.

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Do you love data science and want to cry? Do you want to see the UGLIEST #rstats plot to ever exist? Look no further because my students crushed their good plot/bad plot assignment and really took making the worst plots possible to heart. #ggplot🧵⬇️
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Please take a minute to read and share. @QC_News lost a beloved colleague, Mr. Cesar Castillo, who leaves behind a widow and 3 young children. gofundme.com/f/support-wendy…

Donate to Help support Wendy, a sudden widow and mother of 3, organized by Shari Zimmerman

Our dear friend César Castillo, beloved biologist and educator at Q… Shari Zimmerman needs your support for Help support Wendy, a sudden widow and mother of 3

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An incredibly kind person and a phenomenal birder, César Castillo, passed away earlier this week. César was the person who opened my world up to birds. Please consider donating to a gofundme to help his wife and kids with medical and living costs: gofundme.com/f/support-wendy…
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Mike@EnergyBolt21 Mar 2023
Tell me where the lie is? @LIRR #trainsarepacked #platformschaotic #newschedule
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I was recently interviewed by @Megan_Nicolett @WIRED about body horror and the insular cortex! We discussed an HR Giger inspired survival body horror video game @scorn_game and its relationship to embodied cognition and the neuroscience of disgust. wired.com/story/game-horror-…

What Creepy Video Game Sounds Do to Your Brain

Horror games like the new 'Dead Space' tap into humans' deepest-seated anxieties.

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Looks like a wonderful visit. Nice to see Graduate Center Ph.D. student @neuroprototype in the video (at 1:36) in the lab of Prof. Sebastian Alvarado (@Sebcredible)! @GradCenterBio
Queens College Today@QCToday22 Nov 2022
Her Majesty Queen Diambi Kabatusuila Tshiyoyo Muata of the Democratic Republic of Congo came to campus last week. A @CUNY alumna, Queen Diambi stopped by the lab of @Sebcredible & @MaralTajerian (Biology) to learn about their research. ow.ly/nw7450LKTsV
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The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY1 Nov 2022
Love in the Mina Rees Library! Ph.D. students Michelle Coleman and Matthew Hackett (@neuroprototype) took their engagement photos in the dissertation room – see more of the photos here gc.cuny.edu/news/celebrating… @cunyGClibrary @GCUrbanEd @gradcenterbio #alvaradolab
Michelle Coleman and Matthew Hackett in the dissertation room of the Mina Rees Library

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