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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
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December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19.
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Interesting indeed.
www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
Five Genetic Clusters Explain Over Half of All Psychiatric Risk
A massive genomic study of over 1 million cases found that shared risk across 14 psychiatric disorders is reduced to 5 underlying genetic factors. Researchers linked each factor to specific brain cell...
www.technologynetworks.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Interesting indeed.
www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
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Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use mind-reading devices
go.nature.com/4a5J3yM
go.nature.com/4a5J3yM
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Nature - Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use mind-reading devices
go.nature.com/4a5J3yM
go.nature.com/4a5J3yM
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Compared with stone toolmaking itself, the traces of butchery of animal carcasses are rare across the early archaeological record. But even so, cutmarks and other butchery evidence are one of the highest signals, surprisingly constant from the earliest sites.
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong.
www.johnhawks.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Compared with stone toolmaking itself, the traces of butchery of animal carcasses are rare across the early archaeological record. But even so, cutmarks and other butchery evidence are one of the highest signals, surprisingly constant from the earliest sites.
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
What an interesting creature and a beautiful picture! Definitely worth a look up!
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What an interesting creature and a beautiful picture! Definitely worth a look up!
Check out this toolkit narratives for health www.countyhealthrankings.org/strategies-a...
Narratives for Health
Change what's possible
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October 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Check out this toolkit narratives for health www.countyhealthrankings.org/strategies-a...
Quantum entanglement?
The nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics — is one of the biggest mysteries in physics
go.nature.com/3L29JWU
go.nature.com/3L29JWU
Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists
A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers aren’t so sure.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Quantum entanglement?
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WNPRC research paved the way for this clinical trial for Parkinson's treatment. Exciting news! @uwmadison.bsky.social #parkinsons
news.wisc.edu/parkinsons-t...
news.wisc.edu/parkinsons-t...
Parkinson’s treatment tested at UW showing promise in first clinical trial
Parkinson’s patients are receiving a new investigational treatment after UW–Madison researchers successfully demonstrated its safety and helped refine the delivery method.
news.wisc.edu
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
WNPRC research paved the way for this clinical trial for Parkinson's treatment. Exciting news! @uwmadison.bsky.social #parkinsons
news.wisc.edu/parkinsons-t...
news.wisc.edu/parkinsons-t...
Art transforms! Listen to this talk about poetry in school
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open.spotify.com/episode/5WAg...
Langston Kerman, Rich Robbins, and their mentor Peter Kahn of Oak Park and River Forest High School
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October 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Art transforms! Listen to this talk about poetry in school
open.spotify.com/episode/5WAg...
open.spotify.com/episode/5WAg...
Finding Beauty in a Prison Yard www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Prison, Trees Are a Symbol of Freedom (Gift Article)
These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Finding Beauty in a Prison Yard www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Thanks to a cutting-edge clinical trial supported by federally funded research at UW–Madison, transplant patients like Shawn Wiederhoeft and Barb Okey are returning to healthy lives without the need for anti-rejection medications.
A new kidney — free of daily meds
news.wisc.edu
July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks to a cutting-edge clinical trial supported by federally funded research at UW–Madison, transplant patients like Shawn Wiederhoeft and Barb Okey are returning to healthy lives without the need for anti-rejection medications.
More joy for students while they learn? Yes please.
Objects are more memorable when people encounter them while feeling positive emotions than while feeling negative ones
https://go.nature.com/4nGMi4k
https://go.nature.com/4nGMi4k
Memory gets a boost from positive emotion
Study participants’ memory faltered when they learnt while experiencing negative or neutral emotions.
go.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
More joy for students while they learn? Yes please.
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X-ray by Dawson Turner, 1896. A primitive x-ray installation, the first in Edinburgh, was set up in Turner's house at George Square. As a result of his work he had several of his fingers amputated and lost an eye
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
X-ray by Dawson Turner, 1896. A primitive x-ray installation, the first in Edinburgh, was set up in Turner's house at George Square. As a result of his work he had several of his fingers amputated and lost an eye
What is perfection?
James Lee Byars, The Table of Perfect, 1989 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136483
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136483
July 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
What is perfection?
Who doesn't like a good sea spider story?
It’s not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out the evolution of almost everything with eight legs. But that’s the potential a new UW–Madison study finds in these spindly, strikingly strange bottom-dwellers.
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
UW–Madison researchers and their international colleagues have published the first high-quality genome of a sea spider species, providing a key reference point for the evolutionary traits of many rela
news.wisc.edu
July 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Who doesn't like a good sea spider story?
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Human Brain: ~86B neurons with ~100T connections
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )
VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )
VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
June 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Human Brain: ~86B neurons with ~100T connections
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )
VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )
VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
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