Whoa - correlation / causation! It is just as possible that genetic longevity predisposition causes lifestyle pattern. Genetic load would do that.

I'm sort of off today b/c of travel but I fell down a rabbithole of trying to find past years' numbers on USDA-NIFA 🧪 funding and now I have made you this graph:

This.🔥 Writing forces you to think. No shortcuts, no vagueness, no hiding. That’s why it hurts — and why it’s the best training for the mind. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

Sadly, true. 🧪

So stupid 🧪⚛️#AcademicSky

This problem is at the core of the most widely used method for predicting adaptation to future climate. Reposting in case some GEA (genotype-environment association) people missed original post. 🧪

Sargassum abundance in the Atlantic on the rise. What is it, where's it headed and how to track it in this StormCenter Short. @geocollaborate.bsky.social 🧪 www.youtube.com/shorts/LWL7K...

New blog post! 🚨 Laura Byrne presents DImodelsMulti, an R package that complements and extends the previously published DImodels. It enables the fitting of multivariate or repeated measures DI models in a user-friendly way 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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🧪 #Landscape_genomics papers keep using turnover curves from #gradientforest to predict adaptation across landscape (as per Fitzpatrick and Keller 2015). Please don't! While this approach reconstructs *boundaries* between divergent states very well, it messes up the states themselves!

The Bureau of Vital Statistics is now calculating statistical confidence intervals for 100% population data. I guess they don't know that confidence intervals were created to let you know the chance of being wrong when generalizing from samples to populations. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Politics

In short, acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is not linked to the risk of developing autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability. The study has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪🧵⬇️

Hmm. I think I agree! Neat idea

🧪 scientists think as they write. Writing an abstract is a great way to force your brain connect the dots: what is the main take-home message, what is still missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNss...

Trees, like kids, mostly grow at night. But while growth cycles of children have more to do with biology, trees grow at night because of physics. 1/6 ⚛️🧪

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Not my horses… But I have to point out that these have not stayed unchanged for millions of years! doi.org/10.3389/fear...

“unicorns exist in the same way birds are dinosaurs” — my partner about rhinos. i’m devastated to learn this #fact 🧪

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. This paper describes a ribozyme, a catalytic RNA molecule, able to do just that.. Fascinating stuff… 🧪🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Awesome figure. So simple, so powerful

Everyone needs to review 2 papers (or proposals) for every lead-authored paper they submit, calculated on a 2yr rolling window. 3 months of public shaming ensues if you do not review your share, and then you are not allowed to submit anything more until you catch up & pay interest (1 more review) 🧪

New cognitive impenetrability example just dropped

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922. They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪

So it is trained on human and mouse data… which species can it really predict? Any mammal would be (somewhat) circular since it is similar to training data. Can it predict Drosophila?

Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo (Pan paniscus), demonstrates the ability to engage in pretend play by consistently choosing a cup containing imaginary food or drink over one containing neither! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A#WorldCancerDay#mathematics#breastcancer#WomenInSTEM

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Shrews don't hibernate, they shrink to survive winter! 🐾🐹 HFSP-supported researchers reveal that seasonal changes in body size in shrews are driven by FOXO, linking metabolism, size, and lifespan. It's nature's own model of reversible shrinkage! 🧪 📰zurl.co/d1FUk #sts #HFSPResearch

The internal shell of Spirula is really something else! I remember seeing this video for the first time and being gobsmacked by the little booger doing an underwater headstand, essentially balancing on the buoyant phragmocone hidden opposite the arms. 🦑🧪

🧪Big problem in profiling ancient microbiomes in #aDNA is making sure that the microbes you detect are truly ancient, not some modern contamination. Aranya Dhibar (@aranyad.bsky.social) developed a fast and highly memory-efficient pipeline, MAT-classifier, for this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

153 species of soft bodied fossils from south China, 1.5 million years after a Late Cambrian mass extinction. #PaleoSky #Paleontology 🧪⚒️🦖 www.science.org/content/arti...

Some fascinating science to read 🧪

Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs have launched many scientific careers. Including mine. I was more reluctant to leave at the end of the course than other students. I promise you will have fun and learn more than you can imagine. fhl.uw.edu/courses/cour... 🧪

US researchers speak with Nature Careers about the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after Donald Trump returned to the White House. #Academicsky 🧪

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

🧪🌎 All western Atlantic coral reefs are on the same decline trajectory, although Florida is one of the most further along: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... illustration by @rushstudio.bsky.social

Global water bankruptcy has arrived, with water systems in many regions of the world no longer sustainable. Aquifers, lakes, wetlands, and glaciers are depleted, and the situation is described as an "irrevocable state of failure". #WaterBankruptcy 🧪

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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202... It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

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Given the weather today, it’s time to repost my favorite phase diagram: Nakaya’s snow crystal morphology. We are towards the bottom right today. 🧪 ⚛️ #cryoEM

🧪Great example of a signaling pathway used as a “plug-in” sensu Eric Davidson (ie re-used in a completely different developmental context where the same type of signaling is required). More examples here www.sciencedirect.com/book/monogra...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️

Besides, as far as Caribbean reefs go, we really have nothing left to lose. Things just cannot get any worse. 🧪

🧪🌎Ever since we started doing preliminary research before translocations, things were working quite well. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

🧪 I disagree! Discussion is author’s *opinion* about what the results mean. It makes perfect sense to keep it separate from hard facts (results).