#evolution #language #birds #cross-species #brood #parasites 🧪

🧪 #pfas #water #eco-friendly #chemicals news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

Very sorry to hear of Jane Goodall’s passing. Her scientific contributions and her work as a conservationist are extraordinary. #goodall #chimpanzee #conservation #primatology 🧪 Gift article

#stroke #AI 🧪

🧪 #fertilizer #agriculture #environment #chemicals #CRISPR “In low-nitrogen tests, the edited plants stayed greener, captured more sunlight, and produced bigger harvests. Roots from those plants also released more apigenin, which lined up with the extra biofilm growth around them.”

🧪 From Wikipedia: The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡ noʊˈbɛl/) is a satirical prize awarded annually. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble". #comedy #Nobel

Great promise here. We’ll see how it plays out. 🧪 #genetic #enginering #co2 #wood #material #environment

#lithium #chemistry #water #environment 🧪

#history #neurogenesis #mars #plastic 🧪

Excellent thorough explication of the faulty experimental designs, faulty statistical analyses, faulty logic, and serious biases used to argue vaccinations cause autism. Great material for anyone teaching research methods or statistics. 🧪 #vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier

Low levels of lithium may play a role in memory decline. 🧪 #memory #Alzheimer #lithium “We found that when we administered lithium orotate to aging mice [that had] started losing their memory, the lithium orotate actually reverted their memory to the young adult, six-month level,” wapo.st/45FbUHx

Great potential for energy storage. Important for #solar and #wind energy. 🧪

“…potential contact with approaching infectious avatars, activate the salience network, as measured with psychophysics, electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.” 🧪 #immune #infection

Fascinating story of #Toxoplasma gondii and how it affects the brains of #rats (and humans). Rats become attracted to #cat urine increasing the chance they are eaten by a cat. An infected cat can spread the #parasite to other animals. 🧪 www.sciencefocus.com/news/cat-par...

Using sharks to monitor water temperatures in the Atlantic to predict hurricanes. #hurricanes #sharks #weather #ocean 🧪 wapo.st/4lNSDto

Cultural knowledge passed on by #crows is demonstrated again. #animal intelligence #birds #culture #learning 🧪 Crows are known to be very intelligent and that they spread their knowledge was discovered over 100 years ago. This most recent observation is fascinating. wapo.st/4lW4i9D

What happens when NIH is under threat? 📉 Fewer clinical trials. 💔 No new treatments for cancer, rare diseases. And long-term? We surrender our global leadership in biomedical research. NIHers risked everything to speak out, b/c the stakes are life and death. Stand with them here⬇️ zurl.co/OArEE

Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links. www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

🧪 Just found this quote from 1791. As true today as ever. “You count on the force of truth; but truth is all-powerful only over minds accustomed to recognize it and cherish its noble accents.” —Marquis de Condorcet

#crispr #spiders 🧪 futurism.com/scientists-g...

#crispr #biology #gene 🧪 www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 The NIH just withdrew from Safe to Sleep®—a campaign that helped cut SIDS deaths by 50%. This quiet decision will cost babies’ lives. We need noise. Fast. Here’s what to do ➡️🧵(1/3) www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

#bonobos #female #coalitions how females protect themselves by forming coalitions wapo.st/4cMxVpN “This study could provide insight how women build power to better protect ourselves from male violence by forming & maintaining coalitions,or alliances,with 1 another, just like our bonobo cousins.”

Fascinating finding: a #placebo is effective even if the recipient knows it has no active ingredients. This has been found before so it is very unlikely to be a fluke. 🧪 #pain #relief www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

#Genetically modified bacteria turn a houseplant into a #natural air #purifier #Indoor #pollution #VOC 🧪 www.fastcompany.com/91300603/neo...

#Animals #cuteness “Cuteness evokes + feelings happiness & warmth stimulating instinct to care for it” “care for our young helps species survive” “release dopamine, a neurotransmitter:feelings of pleasure,reinforces +emotional response towards cute things.” www.verywellmind.com/the-psycholo...

🧪 #Kanzi #bonobo #language www.livescience.com/animals/bono...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Today is the #vernal #equinox in the northern hemisphere. 🧪 www.cbsnews.com/news/first-d...

📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ... Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from. 💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

🧪 A story of someone who developed amazing artistic ability after developing progressive #aphasia. Previously she hadn’t shown any artistic ability. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... Reminiscent of the man who became a #mathematical marvel after #brain #damage. psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-...

Excellent discussion/explainer of #pi and irrational numbers. 🧪 Perfect for pi #day. www.wired.com/story/cant-w...

🧪 #Trauma #psilocybin #brain #injury #treatment www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-p...

Potentially important discovery about the #immune system. 🧪 "We discovered a novel mechanism of immunity that is allowing us to have a defence against #bacterial #infection.” Non-technical summary: www.bbc.com/news/article... Technical: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are #animals rational? Descartes said “no” whereas Hume said “yes.” This article summarizes the large body of research supporting Hume. Many of the examples involve #corvids. 🧪 #evolution #cognition thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/animals-are-...

#Artificial #intelligence programs can create optical illusions that other AIs are unable to recognise, creating a useful #CAPTCHA test to differentiate humans from bots (for now). #security 🧪 petapixel.com/2025/02/25/t...

#esp or detection of someone #staring at us www.optimistdaily.com/2025/02/why-... “This built-in “gaze-detection system” is part of an ancient survival mechanism that has helped humans—and many other animals—navigate threats and social interactions.” Were you aware of this system?

#addiction #alcohol #ocd “Many notice a striking side effect of these drugs: It reduces people's cravings for alcohol, nicotine &opioids.They may also reduce some types of compulsive behaviors,:gambling &online shopping” Unfortunately expensive but insurance may cover it www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Progress toward using live bacteria to power solar panels. 🧪 #solar #renewable #energy #conservation #climate “Unlike traditional solar panels made from silicon and other materials, these ‘living solar panels’ are self-sustaining and made from living materials.” bgr.com/science/livi...

Is there such a thing as #dopamine #detox? It’s a little complicated but, basically, no. #pleasure #addiction #rewards 🧪 www.sciencefocus.com/science/dopa...

Protein in oyster blood counters #antibiotic resistance. #infection🧪 “The protein killed Streptococcus pneumoniae … and Streptococcus pyogenes. When paired up with antibiotics, the protein also helped improve effectiveness against other bacteria.” www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...

Mystery of the #ghost solved. Strange noises and eerie lights appear to have been caused by #earthquakes. 🧪 #paranormal www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Important scientific advances in 2024. #memory, #autism, #cancer, #CRISPR, #Telemores, #cancer, #evolution, #Huntington’s, #hunger, #aging 🧪 www.rockefeller.edu/news/36948-i...

🧪 Science #writing should be concise, as should almost all writing. Here is what Mark #Twain had to say. “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” ― Mark Twain

The Misbehavior of Organisms: the history of psychology 🧪 In 1938, Skinner claimed behavior is learned by operant conditioning. In 1951, 2 of his students successfully conditioned animals for shows. Later animals showed instinctive but never-reinforced behavior. psych.hanover.edu/classes/lear...

The article has linked an excellent paper on this by Heather Eisthen’s lab journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...