New article in Outside JEB!

My new article in the Outside JEB section of the Journal of Experimental Biology is out this week. In it, I describe the role of serotonin in octopus sociality, based on the Current Biology publication from Eric Edsinger and Gul Dolen. Their study, in addition to elucidating a previously unknown conserved mechanism for sociality across evolutionary history, has amazing hidden gems in their methodology, including the use of ecstasy (to boost the octopus´serotonin) and Star Wars figurines (to give their study subjects an alternative mate to their own species). Check out my article here and the publication here.