Bevins' Behavioral Neuropharmacology Lab

Planning one for 2021!!!

Super excited -- new lab t-shirts are here just in time for the warmer weather. Credit to Maggie Ramsay for the artwork and Wendy Huynh for organizing us and getting the t-shirts ordered.

CONGRATS to Brady for having the second paper in the series on reversal learning with ni****ne and varenicline stimuli accepted at Pharm, Biochem & Behav!

Spoiler alert: initial learning history matters!

Shout out to the labbies that helped with the study.

New lab logo rolling out. Thanks to Maggie for the cool design.

labbies pushing forward in these challenging times. So proud of them and their accomplishments.

Our senior undergrad lab manager, Allissa, crushed her presentation today at SRNT! Way to go!

20th Anniversary of Practice Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham, yummy sides, delicious desserts. Great to celebrate all the successes. Did I mention the fun white elephant gift exchange.

I think we started a new tradition. We delayed the usual July BBQ to October. So called Spooky Q.

Reading the classic by Sidman "Tactics of Scientific Research" with labbies. Here's a quote for the so-called era of the replication crisis.

"The behavior of the subject is lawful with respect to controlling variables. Failure to replicate a finding, within or among species, is a result of incomplete understanding of the controlling variables." (p 62-63)

As a lab, we are reading the classic by Sidman "Tactics of Scientific Research". There are gems of thinking from the start.

"...good data are notoriously fickle. They change their allegiance from theory to theory, and even maintain their importance in the presence of no theory at all." (p.7)

Andi and Wendy had tons of traffic at poster session. Great interest and questions.