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There's still a debate whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood Some experts believe there's strong evidence that we can gain brain cells after childhood, others are still skeptical of this notion Can adults grow new brain cells? 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

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Does physics truly have anything to say about consciousness? Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone? 🏺🧪 bigthink.com/starts-with-...

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The discovery of the default mode network (DMN) has revolutionized our understanding of the workings of the human brain. 20 years of the default mode network: A review and synthesis 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The human gene regulatory code is much more complex than the genetic code, in particular because there are more than 1,600 TFs that commonly interact with each other.

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The red nucleus, coordinates limb movement for locomotion in quadrupedal animals. In humans, its pattern of anatomical connectivity differs. The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Evolution of the essential gene MN1 during the macroevolutionary transition toward patterning the vertebrate hindbrain 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... These findings demonstrate how novel genes incorporate into existing pathways and fuel macroevolutionary transitions.

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Tiny Genetic Code Disruption Alters Brain Wiring and Behavior Alternatively spliced mini-exon B in PTPδ regulates excitatory synapses through cell-type-specific trans-synaptic PTPδ-IL1RAP interaction🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate and function

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How Rhythm Rewires the Brain Moment by Moment FREQ-NESS Reveals the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Frequency-Resolved Brain Networks During Auditory Stimulation 🏺🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Effectively maps brain's spatiotemporal dynamics, providing a view of brain function

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How the brain turns an experience into an emotion Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... After stimulus-specific info is rapidly disseminated, a slower (emotional) activation of brainwide networks occurs

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Is there a way to tell how accurate a memory is? Your eyes can reveal the accuracy of your memories. Pupil dilation accompanying successful recognition is linearly related to memory precision. 🏺🧪 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... Suggests your pupils may reflect how clearly you remember something.

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🔆 Good morning! "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway New treatments to put insomnia to bed 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Drugs that eliminate wakefulness, molecules in cannabis and wearable devices could help those with insomnia.

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A wonderful review of the courageous life and pioneering work of the talented paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba, 👩‍🔬🏺🧪 by her fellow "Musketeer" Niles Eldredge

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Evolution is in the details: Regulatory differences in modern human and Neanderthal 🏺🧪 www.csbj.org/article/S200... These results support the value of gene regulation studies for the evolution of human cognitive abilities

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Different phases of evolution during ice age Palaeogenetic evidence has improved the precision of the timing of species origination as well as when and how species acquired their adaptations to the cold. The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Threshold Concepts and Concept Networks in Evolution Education: An Experimental Intervention Study 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Analyzes the effect of different instructions on threshold concepts within material covering natural selection on students' use of concepts about evolution.

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👇 Time to put ICE on ice... It is up to the people to stop fascism! Demand legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names as a minimum requirement.

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👇 This... is the way.

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“evidence of deception, cheating, lying and self-preservation,” Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, issued a warning saying the latest models are displaying dangerous characteristics such as lying. “Godfather” of AI calls out latest models for lying to users 🧪 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/g...

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🔆 Good morning! "Before we work on artificial intelligence... why don't we do something about natural stupidity?" - Steve Polyak

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‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turf 🧪 Researchers in Canada prepare for turbulence in the wake of US funding changes — but there’s a silver lining. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📢 More US scientists must speak out 🧪 There have always been risks to scientists for speaking out, but in the spring of 2025 in the USA, those risks have never been so high.

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🔆 Good morning! Inside A Cup Of Turkish Coffee: How A Mystic Drink Impacted Politics, Cultures, And Lifestyles In Europe And The Middle East – Book Review 🏺🧪 www.eurasiareview.com/01062025-ins...

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🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay 🧪 Now, thanks to troves of new fossil discoveries, paleontologists and dinosaur-obsessed kids don’t just think but know: “Dinosaurs had feathers!” They Had Feathers: Is the World Ready to See Dinosaurs as They Really Were? www.allaboutbirds.org/news/they-ha...

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🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay 🧪

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🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay! 🧪 Tyrannosaurus rex: This massive cretaceous-era theropod dinosaur has dominated the public consciousness’ image of “dinosaurs” for over a century since its discovery, and for good reason. The Ultimate Guide To Tyrannosaurs www.fossilera.com/pages/the-ul...

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The IBDmix methodology represents a quantum leap over earlier approaches 🏺🧪 This technological leap has resulted in a dazzling discovery: There was not one, but at least three separate waves of recent human–Neanderthal admixture in the last 250,000 years.

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What Is a Human? The New Science of the Genus Homo 🏺🧪 with Dr Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Tracing the origins of our genus and the emergence of Homo sapiens as the last surviving human species www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXC...

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#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.

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A Search for New Antibiotics in Ancient DNA 🏺🧪 www.wsj.com/science/biol... César de la Fuente @delafuentelab.bsky.social uses AI to search ancient DNA, probing woolly mammoth and Neanderthal genetic codes for new compounds as today’s drugs lose potency.

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John Gurche is a favorite. He is a very skilled and talented reconstruction artist. 🏺🧪

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Deep palaeoproteomic profiling of archaeological human brains 🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Soft tissues are underexplored in palaeoproteomics. This methodology will be useful for improving protein recovery from a range of ancient tissues and depositional environments.

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This study demonstrates how palaeoproteomics can help distinguish sexual dimorphism from other sources of variation in African Early Pleistocene hominins. Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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