Post-doctoral fellow researching social neuroscience @ University of Lethbridge. Opinions and typos are my own. he/him
Joined December 2013
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Jackson R. Ham retweeted
OUT NOW in @EJNeuroscience 🧠🐀
When given a choice, who do juvenile rats choose to play with?
In this group-play paradigm, males preferentially directed rough-and-tumble play toward females, while females showed flexible, individual-specific partner preferences. Even more striking: sex differences in play frequency were context-dependent—females played less only in mixed-sex groups.
These findings reveal two distinct sex effects in social play: partner choice and play initiation—and show that social context powerfully shapes behavior.
Congrats to Ham, Pellis & McDonald! 🔬
@FENSorg @WileyBrainPsych
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Jackson R. Ham retweeted
New Research: Juvenile male rats form preferences based on strain when playing in groups but not in pairs frontiersin.org/articles/10.… in the Ethological neuroscience collection #FrontiersIn #Behavioralneuroscience
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Proud of this paper!
In collab with S. Pellis and C. Burke we show that rats display individual differences in play and homeostatically adjust play based on their own preference and their play-partner.
doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.202…
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Ever wonder just how much peers might influence early social development? It’s all here in our new paper! frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #science #rescue #rats #play #socialdevelopment #behavioralneuroscience #womeninscience #newpaperalert
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Happy to share our latest study on tickling and play responses in the brain that is out now in @NeuroCellPress! @nataliegloveli @misnaej
Researchers tickle rats to identify the part of the brain critical for laughter and playfulness.
@HumboldtUni Michael Brecht
Below see four ways that rats played with humans or each other in the study.
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Selected talk #1 is about social play in rats and social exclusion, many thanks to @jacksonhammy 🐭
#Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES
Thank you @ULFAssociation for your support. ✊
ULFA supports the University of Lethbridge Graduate Association (ULGA) in its proposal for academic freedom provisions for their collective agreement. #solidarity See our full statement here:
ulfa.ca/statement-of-support…
What a year! I got married, travelled to Europe for the first time, worked with @achte107, and published 9 papers in 2022 with 5 more accepted (some with revisions) for publication in 2023. Thank you to everyone who made this year possible!! Goodbye 2022, hello 2023!
I am excited to share our 🚨NEW🚨 article on object play in #belugas. In short: belugas self-handicap in #object #play, a phenomenon frequently seen in social play and locomotor play. (1/4)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Belugas also engaged in object-assisted self-handicapping in object play (very meta!) where they covered their eyes while playing with objects or put objects on their flukes while pushing an object forward (see below). (3/4)
Here we go again—@uLethbridge refuses to negotiate fair agreements for its employees (@_AUPE_). Ironic that the folks who run the university haven’t learned anything from the @ULFAssociation strike/negotiations. Looks like we are receiving biased emails again too. #Solidarity
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Want to know about the importance of play in brain development? Check out this episode with Dr. Sergio Pellis! The guy who inspired my own research career ☺️@TwoBradForYou #development #neuroscience #playbehavior #animalbehavior
open.spotify.com/episode/6Yt…
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social behavior is plastic not only throughout early development, but also well into adulthood.
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
As cold and flu and re-re-covid season descends upon us, let's remember to look out for each other this holiday season.
Jackson R. Ham retweeted
New Research: The rough-and-tumble play of rats as a natural behavior suitable for studying the social brain frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #neuroscience
Thanks @AnimBehSociety for sharing my presentation again! Since this talk, we have had an article on beluga social play published (see below) and our manuscript on self-handicapping in object play is accepted and in press! I am looking forward to folks seeing it. Stay tuned!
If you are interested in the study of #PlayBehaviors in #BelugaWhales, this talk led by Jackson
Ham in the #ABS2021 conference is for you!
Available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=YDbJA8Q-…