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Reposting this. It is a recording of a talk I gave about Birding and Wildlife in Yolo Bypass (a park / preserve in the Sacramento Area). #birds
youtu.be/zOd9tEPfqR4?...
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Nature and You January 2024: Yolo Bypass Hiking and Wildlife with Dr. Jonathan Eisen
YouTube video by Tuleyome
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December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposting this. It is a recording of a talk I gave about Birding and Wildlife in Yolo Bypass (a park / preserve in the Sacramento Area). #birds
youtu.be/zOd9tEPfqR4?...
youtu.be/zOd9tEPfqR4?...
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Pretty sure we all have brain fog right now. I mean. I am menopausal so obviously I’ve got it, but between Covid, Long Lyme, internet fatigue, and the onslaught of OMG here in the US… add holiday stuff and… Damn.
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Pretty sure we all have brain fog right now. I mean. I am menopausal so obviously I’ve got it, but between Covid, Long Lyme, internet fatigue, and the onslaught of OMG here in the US… add holiday stuff and… Damn.
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Honestly I could win the Gold, Silver and Bronze at the World Sighing Championships today and there is still 90 minutes left at work before the headache of busses to deal with.
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Honestly I could win the Gold, Silver and Bronze at the World Sighing Championships today and there is still 90 minutes left at work before the headache of busses to deal with.
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This is really cool and important.
Some of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social
The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life
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December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is really cool and important.
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Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity - Nature
Using lipid nanoparticle delivery of mRNAs to the liver in aged mice, T cell function and declining immune cues can be restored.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
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I just feel so very sad at the end of this year.
My mum passing, the world burning, fascism on the rise, my own health tanking, sometimes all I want is to retreat to a cottage in the woods/on an island with my books and my dogs and never leave.
My mum passing, the world burning, fascism on the rise, my own health tanking, sometimes all I want is to retreat to a cottage in the woods/on an island with my books and my dogs and never leave.
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I just feel so very sad at the end of this year.
My mum passing, the world burning, fascism on the rise, my own health tanking, sometimes all I want is to retreat to a cottage in the woods/on an island with my books and my dogs and never leave.
My mum passing, the world burning, fascism on the rise, my own health tanking, sometimes all I want is to retreat to a cottage in the woods/on an island with my books and my dogs and never leave.
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Ah, the writing life: reading ten papers to confidently write a single sentence... 😐
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ah, the writing life: reading ten papers to confidently write a single sentence... 😐
1) not a Christian 2) not worthy of even a fake Peace Prize
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
1) not a Christian 2) not worthy of even a fake Peace Prize
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Get. Steph. Help. @warriorsofficial.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Get. Steph. Help. @warriorsofficial.bsky.social
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Rob Reiner’s voice was progressive, but most of all human. What a terrible tragedy. What a terrible loss.
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Rob Reiner’s voice was progressive, but most of all human. What a terrible tragedy. What a terrible loss.
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And intellectual property theft by a lawless regime.
State-sponsored dehumanization, wrapped in a Christmas bow.
December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And intellectual property theft by a lawless regime.
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"Hold the Hope" was sparked by one woman's experience as a caregiver to someone who survived suicidal struggles. It started as a poem that has become a film, a song and even a dance. n.pr/3MYkdaw
Voices of experience and hope soar in a song to prevent suicide
"Hold the Hope" was sparked by one woman's experience as a caregiver to someone who survived suicidal struggles. It started as a poem that has become a film, a song and even a dance.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Hold the Hope" was sparked by one woman's experience as a caregiver to someone who survived suicidal struggles. It started as a poem that has become a film, a song and even a dance. n.pr/3MYkdaw
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Bill Clinton is in the Epstein photos.
Woody Allen is in the Epstein photos.
Bill Gates is in the Epstein photos.
Notice people on the left aren’t trying to protect them?
We want rapists & pedophiles held accountable.
It’s time they be brought to justice.
That includes Donald Trump.
Woody Allen is in the Epstein photos.
Bill Gates is in the Epstein photos.
Notice people on the left aren’t trying to protect them?
We want rapists & pedophiles held accountable.
It’s time they be brought to justice.
That includes Donald Trump.
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Bill Clinton is in the Epstein photos.
Woody Allen is in the Epstein photos.
Bill Gates is in the Epstein photos.
Notice people on the left aren’t trying to protect them?
We want rapists & pedophiles held accountable.
It’s time they be brought to justice.
That includes Donald Trump.
Woody Allen is in the Epstein photos.
Bill Gates is in the Epstein photos.
Notice people on the left aren’t trying to protect them?
We want rapists & pedophiles held accountable.
It’s time they be brought to justice.
That includes Donald Trump.
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Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trump’s mob-boss politics.
There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game.
Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game.
Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trump’s mob-boss politics.
There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game.
Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game.
Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Final #neuroskyence preprint of the year! We updated our big neuroinflammation project, studying psoriasis-like inflammation in both humans and mice. Main take-home: we see impaired thalamostriatal signalling in humans and mice alongside depression / anhedonia.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Psoriasis-related neuroinflammation disrupts thalamostriatal signalling driving anhedonia in both humans and mice
Inflammation is implicated in 25% of depression cases, yet limited access to human brain for mechanistic studies and scarce translational models have hindered the identification of neural circuits lin...
www.biorxiv.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Final #neuroskyence preprint of the year! We updated our big neuroinflammation project, studying psoriasis-like inflammation in both humans and mice. Main take-home: we see impaired thalamostriatal signalling in humans and mice alongside depression / anhedonia.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Springer Nature plans to retract and remove dozens of papers that relied on a dataset containing images of children’s faces, The Transmitter has learned.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... via @statnews.com
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... via @statnews.com
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov