📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@jamesstout.bsky.social sits down with Frances to hear firsthand what it is like for families of people in the asylum system right now and how even U.S. citizens can have their families torn apart by the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Check out our chapter (led by @beakr.bsky.social) on cognitive ontology here! : philpapers.org/archive/KRIC... We propose a developmental approach to 'cognitive homologies' –– (cognitive capacities that are "the same across species") –– as a means for carving up cognition. Our approach adopts...

A short excerpt for those who are interested.

trying to gather some random non-doom posts, since legacy institutions are in full bloodlust mode against my trans friends this week and that's been fucking scary:

I've only read the abstract and I already know this paper is so very correct 👀

Open access study where they "developed an approach to allow parrots to engage in video-calling other parrots.": Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design & Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment. 🧪🦜📺 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Excited to share our new review in Development, Growth and Differentiation(DGD) Journall! With the amazing @yuchiunwang.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social,we explore how rigidity transitions bridge cytoplasmic & tissue scales. Read the full review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In #Rochester, #NewYork, 100 marched to surround a house where roofers were being detained by ICE. While one person was taken, several others were left alone as the crowd "shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents...drove...away on four flat tires." www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

I long to lay down in a verdant field of grasses and roll around laughing secreting sticky glue sweat until I katamari up a fresh ghillie suit and tip over the edge of the hill to roll into town and frighten the villagers but the foreknowledge of ticks, woodlice, and histamines stops me from it

Posted in our Slack: Zim, Euler, & Scott, Constraints on Metabolic Network Analysis in Bacterial Physiology PRX Life (1 Apr 2025)

Discover a Detention Facility Near You: A Community Exercise in Civic Awareness Help build a learning community around detention data. Get hands-on with the newly updated facility numbers at DetentionReports.com and add your own findings and perspectives. austinkocher.substack.com/p/discover-a...

"Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior." True! Happy to see this idea is growing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Super excited for this workshop at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux on "From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back"

Really awesome study by ‪@kennysmithed.bsky.social‬‬, Josephine Bowerman & @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social out now in Cognition: Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am very interested to know what modern workers think of Jaynes. When I read him back in undergrad it blew my mind. Now, I'm not so sure.

what's that bowl full of? shelled almonds? dude put that shit away. it's berry boy sunday. the berry boys are obviously coming over, same as every week. and they're gonna be so fucking mad if they see that. you know how the berry boys feel about stone fruit. come the fuck on

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

repost of a classic discourse-speedrun twitter thread

Don't miss our latest installment of In Contempt, our monthly roundup of anti-repression news, action, and updates. itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-...

Sometimes I worry that if I died all my friends would be too stupid and weak to collect the dargonballs and bring me back

How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪#Neuroskyence

Cells can form patterns within themselves just like embryos do. How? Connie Yan's new preprint shows how the anterior-posterior cytoskeleton pattern in Stentor is dictated by regionalized scaffolding proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just accepted: 'The Toll of the Tolman Effect: On the Status of Classical Temperature in General Relativity' – Eugene Chua & Craig Callender Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Force Propagation in Active Cytoskeletal Networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.669984v1

This may sound sarcastic but unironically I think this rules and all disability tech should be as widely open to people or animals there should be so much tech that liberates that we run out of use cases rather than having to make up a new use and fight for central power to agree

76. Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, 'Sea Voyage of the Naiads,' 1961. friend sent me this, i appreciate it its cool

50. fuck it. more varo. 'embroidering the earth's mantle.' varo's specific kind of highly mythologized feminist surrealism feels like the actual most obvious antecedent of 'revolutionary girl utena.'

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz 💚 Thanks to the team ‪@biswashere.bsky.social‬, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay ‪@matthewkraushar.bsky.social‬ @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ 💚

If you’re wondering how you can help DC residents right now, donate to Remora House if you can afford to do so. They’ve been on the ground supporting and advocating for unhoused people in DC for several years, and your donation goes directly to supporting the people affected by these sweeps.

Latest on Waddington Landscapes: Computational methods to fit dynamical landscapes directly to single cell data Applied to neural tube patterning shows morphogen-signalling landscapes can be linearly interpolated Connects interpretable landscape models with data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

what circumstances would make checkpoints like these slower, less effective, more exhausting etc?

critical support for my soulful quirked up white boys in DC who are unafraid to be goated with the sauce

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

The preprint of my 1st project in grad school is up 🙌 We propose a simple, information-theoretic model of how humans remember narratives. We tested it with the help of open-source LLMs. Plz check out this thread for details ➡️ Many thanks to my wonderful advisors! It's been a fun adventure!!

Homeostasis! You probably know this one (my favorite) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is also a spreadsheet that I update monthly with charts showing data by state and sworn position: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Great to see this paper published today !! Phenomenal work by @benjaminoacid.bsky.social in collaboration with Erica Del Grosso and Francesco Ricci at Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Many thanks to @epenocchio.bsky.social for contributing. 1/n rdcu.be/eyPBc

Check out Monika's work published in @cp-chem.bsky.social! We’ve engineered synthetic cells that emerge, grow, and produce offspring autonomously, powered by chemical fuel. A significant stride towards synthetic life! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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