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Congratulations to Rachel Buckley @bucklr01.bsky.social on being a finalist for a National Association of Science Writers @sciencewriters.org award. Read Rachel's essay,
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Congratulations to Rachel Buckley @bucklr01.bsky.social on being a finalist for a National Association of Science Writers @sciencewriters.org award. Read Rachel's essay,
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#neuroskyence
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Thirty thousand years of germs: here’s my story about a chronicle of plagues and pestilence recorded in fossil DNA. Gift link: nyti.ms/4ln43UH
A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us
In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thirty thousand years of germs: here’s my story about a chronicle of plagues and pestilence recorded in fossil DNA. Gift link: nyti.ms/4ln43UH
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It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature
A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...
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May 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One of my favourites is this wonderful piece from Abraham Flexner in 1939: “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”.
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
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www.ias.edu
May 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
One of my favourites is this wonderful piece from Abraham Flexner in 1939: “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”.
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
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Apropos of debates, if anyone is interested in an inspired discussion of the value of basic research, Asimov’s “Of What Use?” is hard to beat.
speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/o...
speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/o...
Of what use?
By Isaac Asimov One may detest nature and despise science, but it becomes more and more difficult to ignore them. Science in the modern world is not an entertainment for some devotees. It is on i…
speakingofresearch.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Apropos of debates, if anyone is interested in an inspired discussion of the value of basic research, Asimov’s “Of What Use?” is hard to beat.
speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/o...
speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/o...
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If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?
For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…
medium.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
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Yup.
But even complete knowledge of every conceivable microscopic detail down to the quantum level wouldn't tell us "how the brain works".
This is one of the lessons of the research on artificial neural networks: we know all parameters already, but understanding still eludes us.
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But even complete knowledge of every conceivable microscopic detail down to the quantum level wouldn't tell us "how the brain works".
This is one of the lessons of the research on artificial neural networks: we know all parameters already, but understanding still eludes us.
🧵
If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?
For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…
medium.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yup.
But even complete knowledge of every conceivable microscopic detail down to the quantum level wouldn't tell us "how the brain works".
This is one of the lessons of the research on artificial neural networks: we know all parameters already, but understanding still eludes us.
🧵
But even complete knowledge of every conceivable microscopic detail down to the quantum level wouldn't tell us "how the brain works".
This is one of the lessons of the research on artificial neural networks: we know all parameters already, but understanding still eludes us.
🧵
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A thread on how I came to publish a paper on acoustic ghost whales... I was exhaustively reading papers on blue whales for a book I'm planning to write, and came across a book that mentioned that killer whales can't hear low-frequency sounds below 2000 Hz 1/n
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
February 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A thread on how I came to publish a paper on acoustic ghost whales... I was exhaustively reading papers on blue whales for a book I'm planning to write, and came across a book that mentioned that killer whales can't hear low-frequency sounds below 2000 Hz 1/n
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
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Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography
#DevBiol
#SciHist
#DevBiol
#SciHist
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography
#DevBiol
#SciHist
#DevBiol
#SciHist