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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 9h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Chris Medland @chrismedlandf1.bsky.social · 3d

Alonso has a very slow stop, then soon after is told by his race engineer that there are 34 laps to go.

He replies: "If you speak to me every lap, I will disconnect the radio"

#F1 #SingaporeGP

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 4d

In 1884, Ferrier’s map guided a groundbreaking case. A young man named Henderson suffered seizures, convulsions, and paralysis.

Doctors used Ferrier’s work to pinpoint the tumour in his brain. /4

A colored illustration from the 19th century showing a brain and the location of a tumour within it.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 11d

Why does this matter? Sensational stories hailing a dramatic rewrite of human origins are regularly repurposed by some as a tool to undermine the legitimacy of evolution. Take this example of Mike Pence talking to US Congress way back in 2002. Full transcript: www.congress.gov/congressiona...
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Selection of the transcript from Mike Pence's speech about the "THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN" from the US Congressional Record, July 11th, 2002. Pence's speech went as follows:
"It is what we have been taught, that man proceeded and evolved along linear lines. But now comes a new find by paleontologists. In the newspapers all across America, a new study in "Nature" magazine, 6- to 7-million-year-old skull has been unearthed, the Toumai skull and it suggests that human evolution was actually, according to a new theory, human evolution was taking place, and I am quoting now, "all across Africa and the Earth," and the Earth was once truly, and I quote, "a planet of the apes on which nature was experimenting with many human-like creatures."
Paleontologists are excited about this, Mr. Speaker. But no one is pointing out that the textbooks will need to be changed because the old theory of evolution taught for 77 years in the classrooms of America as fact is suddenly replaced by a new theory, or I hasten to add, I am sure we will be told a new fact.
The truth is it always was a theory, Mr. Speaker. And now that we
have recognized evolution as a theory, I would simply and humbly ask, can we teach it as such and can we also consider teaching other theories of the origin of species? Like the theory that was believed in by every signer of the Declaration of Independence...."

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6d

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6d

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 7d

📚 How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique? A Cross-Sectional Study of Policy and Practice doi.org/10.1177/2515...

How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique? A Cross-Sectional Study of Policy and Practice - Annie Whamond, Simine Vazire, Beth Clarke, Nicholas Moodie, Sarah Schiavone, Robert T. Thib...

Postpublication critique, such as letters to the editor, can contribute to the validity and trustworthiness of scientific research. We conducted a cross-section...

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 7d

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010

Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

UK painter Melissa Scott-Miller, Back gardens in #autumn, Islington, 2016 #WomensArt

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Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social · 9d

The obituary of Eleanor Maguire by Georgina Ferry in The Lancet

“She kept emphasising that what the
hippocampus was involved in was the creation of something she called scenes”, says O’Keefe. “And we now see that she was right"

Eleanor Maguire
Innovative neuroscientist who advanced
knowledge of spatial awareness and memory.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, on March 27, 1970,
she died of pneumonia in London, UK, on
Jan 4, 2025, after contracting cancer of the
spine, aged 54 years.
In a rare idle moment, neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire saw a television play in 1995 about the training of London taxi drivers and their knowledge of the city’s streets that enabled them to pick the best routes. Maguire was intrigued to know if this feat of memory changed their brains. Using
magnetic resonance imaging, she scanned the brains of drivers and found that one region of the brain, the posterior hippocampus, grew substantially larger in the taxi drivers. Subsequent work confirmed that this increase in size was due to experience. To Maguire’s surprise, she was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine (given annually by the Annals of Improbable Research for work that “makes people laugh, and then makes them think”) for her 2000 paper: Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. It was novel for a study to show a change in the brain caused by the work people do.
Maguire was born in Dublin, Ireland, one of two children of Paddy Maguire, who worked in a factory, and his wife Anne who was a receptionist. She studied obsessively from
an early age, focusing on the sciences. As an undergraduate in psychology at University College Dublin (UCD) she was inspired by the classic book The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (1978) by John O’Keefe and Lynn Nadel to explore the role of the hippocampus in human spatial navigation. “There was considerable resistance to taking up some of the ideas put forward in the cognitive map theory”, says O’Keefe,
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL), London, UK, who shared the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 2014 for his discovery of cells in the hippocampus that respond to a particular location.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 21d

I'm diving into the history of computers in cognitive experiments for next week's introduction to PsychoPy. Sadly, chronic computeritis is not a problem we give much thought to any more :)

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 13d

Brunello Cucinelli shares suspended as short seller makes new Russia claims

Client Challenge

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 19d

Truly honoured to have been given the chance to present my work in my first keynote talk as the 2024 winner of Best Young Researcher from the Italian Association of Cognitive Science at #AISC2025 in the wonderful IMT of Lucca

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 19d

Ruth Gordon Schnapp was born 99 years ago today - she was California's first licensed woman structural engineer, and a specialist in the field of earthquake-proofing structures, working particularly on increasing the safety of schools and hospitals.

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#WomenInSTEM #Engineering

Engineering at the Epicenter: Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California's First Woman Structural Engineer.

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ever hit the state, but it left behind a shockin...

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Matt Euler @matteuler.bsky.social · 21d

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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apadivision40.bsky.social @apadivision40.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Resource Alert!🚨 Looking for resources to help you navigate the next stage in your training/career? Check out the ANST resource collection with recordings from past training events! scn40.org/anst/downloa...

Downloadable Materials – Society for Clinical Neuropsychology

Below are downloadable materials from past ANST training events at various neuropsychology conferences. Feel free to look through these materials and use them to guide your own neuropsychology…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25d

Our ability to comprehend daily events has been corrupted by a toxic info environment where political & attentional dynamics distort & manipulate our “collective sensemaking” processes. Our “official” sources are now products of that same environment. Reality fractures, along with the social fabric.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25d

If you're screenshotting a post on this site on something you agree and repost it without don't use alt-text, you're making your posts inaccessible for no reason. Just quote post.

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Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Amelia Mecherini (1890-?)
La banca dei poveri
fino a novembre alla mostra Ricchezza, Dilemma perenne
a Illegio (UD)

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Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Judith Leyster (1609-1660), Unequal love
fino a novembre alla mostra Ricchezza, Dilemma perenne
a Illegio, Udine

The painting shows a lute player watching the observer in front of him while an old woman is offering him a ring with the right hand and grasping a money purse with her left hand.

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · Aug 29

I just got to use the word “wank” on Radio 4. A proud moment. Also the bit where I suggested people could set self-driving cars on fire was definitely followed by me stating “but you shouldn’t do that”.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Too Long; Didn't Read, Series 2, Computer says no

What should we do about AI taking over?

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 30

Born #OnThisDay in 1797 was author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the Gothic novel 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The book is considered by some to be one of the first sci-fi novels, with protagonist Victor Frankenstein using both science and alchemy to create a living creature from dead bodies.

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Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social · Aug 29

team meeting al pediatrico
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four black cats on the grass in an outdoor area of the Meyer Children's Hospital in Firenze

another view of the four black cats on the grass in an outdoor area of the Meyer Children's Hospital in Firenze

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · Aug 28

With federal workers, equity, & government statistics under attack, my latest post @plos.org is a tribute to a transformative First Nations statistician at the US Census Bureau, Edna Paisano (1948-2014):

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e...

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#WomenInSTEM #Statistics #EpiSky

Equity in First Nations Census Data: A Tribute to Edna Paisano (1948-2014) - Absolutely Maybe

With the US federal workforce, equity and inclusiveness, and government statistics all under assault, it’s timely to consider the effort it took…

absolutelymaybe.plos.org

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