@ericfortunephd

Mechanisms of animal behavior • Mecanismos del comportamiento animal

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Joined August 2013
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Mode switching in organisms for solving explore-versus-exploit problems

Nature Machine Intelligence - Organisms show complex behaviour resulting from a trade-off between obtaining information (explore) and using current information (exploit). Biswas et al. observe a...

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Limelight Rainforest 5K - Race to Build an Insect Database

Race with us to fund 5000 insect identifications in the Amazon!

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NJIT Professor Advances to Finals of $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

NJIT biology professor Eric Fortune and a team of scientists, known as “Team Waponi”, have reached the final stage of the five-year, $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition. In June, Fortune and 13 other...

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💫 We’re over the moon: we’re finalists in the #xprizerainforest competition!💫 This wouldn’t be possible without our amazing team and supporters, including @OutreachRobotic & many more! Follow our adventures as we work to value and protect rainforest diversity!
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NJIT biologist Eric Fortune, alongside a team of scientists are inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems. #NJITMakes #sustainability loom.ly/u0vIjlM
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Paul Katz@pskatz18 Nov 2022
I also think that it is intellectually lazy to justify research by saying that "little is known". The paper or the grant should tell the reader why this is important, not just that it's unknown.
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Paul Katz@pskatz18 Nov 2022
I think that "little is known about..." is not a sufficient justification for studying something. Little is known about the composition of the dirt on the floor of my office, but that is not a good enough reason to study it.
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Paul Katz@pskatz16 Nov 2022
There seems to be an increasing use of the justification for a paper being "little is known". Here is the appearance of this phrase in PubMed. It looks like we know less as time progresses. Little is known about why this trend has developed.
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Team Waponi - XPRIZE Rainforest Semifinalists! instagram.com/p/CkGJ9IfOChE/…
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Noah Cowan@NoahCowan26 Jun 2022
System Identification of Dog Tail Wagging. A collaborative study.
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Calling all early career neuroscientists 🧠 — Apply for a 2022 @GrassFoundation Fellowship at the MBL by Dec. 5, 2021! go.mbl.edu/Grass
Grass Fellowships in Neuroscience | Independent Summer Research Opportunities at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Grass Fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, support investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their career. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The Foundation also has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. Apply By Dec. 5, 2021 go.mbl.edu/Grass

ALT Grass Fellowships in Neuroscience | Independent Summer Research Opportunities at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Grass Fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, support investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their career. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The Foundation also has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. Apply By Dec. 5, 2021 go.mbl.edu/Grass

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Lily Hall@lilymhall18 Aug 2021
Packed up @MBLScience lab. Who knew unhooking BNC cables could be so emotional?
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Happy to share this interdisciplinary review on resilience in zebrafish, worms, and lampreys! Enjoyed the opportunity to write with fantastic people, and hope you enjoy reading it! :) physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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BlitzLab@DawnBlitz16 Jun 2021
Great interview about super cool work!
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Quirks & Quarks@CBCQuirks14 Jun 2021
Meet a songbird pair whose exquisite duets actually go straight to each other’s brains. cbc.ca/1.6061104
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NS&B@NSB_MBL14 Jun 2021
Happy E-fishers spotted in their natural habitat – at Woods Hole, MA
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Students working hard and having fun!! #Working #Soldering, #Extracellular, #Intracellular #Recordings, #EFish 👏🏽 🐟 ⚡️ 🐹 🪳 🦀 #STG #BarrelCortex #NeuralCode #LowCostApproaches #neuroscience #Neuroethology
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Molly A. Matty@ooomollypop8 Jun 2021
Recording from electric fish tonight using four electrodes, IR camera/lights at @NSB_MBL. @ChadMorton17 and I are hoping to see some sort of social/aggressive behaviors in brown ghost fish!
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