Squirrel Olympics! Published today in Science – Lucia began this project in 2014 when she was awarded a residency at the newly inaugurated art-science incubator Stochastic Labs , to create art inspired by squirrel behavior. Instead, she recruited 6 students to...
We endorse Pugs Funding goes to the Dogs - we hope! Wherein Lucia is interviewed by two local news outlets on the legislature proposed to fund research on COVID-sniffing search dogs. Excellent article by Nanette Asimov for the Chronicle and And on KGO (ABC7 San...
The Importance of Squirrels for Mental Health in a Pandemic (yes, we’re all going nuts) When Your Best Friend in Quarantine is a Squirrel…. great article by Ellen Gamerman. She and Lucia had a long discussion on what squirrels mean to people living in...
KQED films our dog research “How Your Dog’s Nose Knows So Much | Deep Look: Dogs have a famously great sense of smell, but what makes their noses so much more powerful than ours? They’re packing some sophisticated equipment inside that squishy...
Veronique Bohbot’s group published a fascinating study last fall in Nature Communications, demonstrating an assocation between spatial navigation and olfactory ability in humans; Louisa Dahmani was the first author on this study. Shawna Williams has done a great...
Squirrels, Memory and Plasticity So nice to see everyone so nuts about squirrels at Harvard! Colleen Walsh and I talked squirrels for over an hour and here is her excellent summary of some of the highlights. Radcliffe scholar tracks squirrels in search of memory gains...
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