This week we’re back in action with Jennifer Schiavo, PhD, a current postdoc in the lab of Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, at Columbia University. In this episode, we discuss Jennifer’s 2020 Nature paper, “Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex,” which she published as part of her doctoral research in the laboratory of Robert Froemke, PhD, at NYU Langone Health. Note: the sampling of adult rat ultrasonic vocalizations comes from a separate eLife paper, “Vocalization–whisking coordination and multisensory integration of social signals in rat auditory cortex.”