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The relevance of the unique anatomy of the human prefrontal operculum to the emergence of speech | Communications Biology nature.com/articles/s42003-023

Facebook reportedly turned over chat messages between mother and daughter, leading to charges of abortion-related felonies. You all think you'll be able to just go to another state or Canada, but don't be so sure. Your phone knows everything, and tech will snitch.
theverge.com/2022/8/10/2329950

Happy to share a new pre-print of my postdoctoral work (thus far) aiming to understand the causal basis of circadian plasticity loss in our favorite equatorial island endemic, D. sechellia!

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

'Compared to Clarence Thomas’s gifts from the richest 1 percent of Nazi memorabilia enthusiasts, the sudden payment of Brett Kavanaugh’s extravagant credit card debts, or Samuel Alito’s propinquity to hedge fund billionaires, apparently the decision to take out loans to get an education is unforgivable.'

nybooks.com/online/2023/07/08/

I'm happy to report that the third edition of my textbook Evolution, coauthored with @LeeDugatkin, is now available.

The new edition features expanded coverage of anthropogenic evolution as well as a strengthened focus on data literacy and data reasoning.

If you're an instructor in this field or training to become one, drop me a DM or email, and I can get you an evaluation copy.

PNAS commentary on the first year of their Consultative Peer Review Pilot

'The pilot is designed to encourage the submission of research that is sufficiently multidisciplinary and presents a challenge in finding reviewers, is counter to a prevailing view, or is too far ahead of its time to receive a fair review. Authors whose work qualifies for this review option can submit through the pilot to have their work thoroughly and efficiently reviewed by experts in the fields most relevant to their research.'

pnas.org/post/update/one-year-

Discovering the hidden connections between neurons and immune cells in pain perception.

First preLight post from Patrick Penndorf #mpi_ie #FEBSnet covering a #preprint from Aakanksha Jain and team. Includes a response from the authors...👀

#preLight 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highl

#Neuroimmunology

Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro died #OTD in 1856.

In honor of Avogadro's contributions to molecular theory, the number of molecules per mole of substance is named the Avogadro constant, NA. It is exactly 6.02214076×10^23 mol−1. The Avogadro constant is used to compute the results of chemical reactions. It allows chemists to determine the amounts of substances produced in a given reaction to a great degree of accuracy. via @wikipedia

#science

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Saint Louis Encephalitis Virus (SLEV) is a common mosquito-transmitted #virus in the Americas that can cause life-long neurological disability.

Mostly unknown to doctors in the US, there are recent reports from California & Argentina:
mstdn.science/@hmpxvt@mastodon
outbreaknewstoday.com/argentin
(h/t @hmpxvt)

🤔 An open question is whether the life-long neurological disability is due to #ViralPersistence in the brain, as sometimes seen with other flaviviruses:
mstdn.science/@pyrrhus/1100434

#virology @virology

What looks like Night Sky is actually a constellation of Goniatite fossils on the surface of a seaworn shale pebble. Their spiral shells trapped in what was once the muddy floor of an ancient ocean (320 million years ago). County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #fossils #irishfossils #Goniatite #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #nightsky #Ireland

Where #ClarenceThomas Entered an #Elite ircle and Opened a Door to the #Court. The exclusive #HoratioAlgerAssociation brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported #VIP treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of #access.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clar The deep, wide long term impactful influence on control by rich white men waped #SCOTUS brought us to this point. How many articles must be written before we comprehend the stark reality of the words - #democracy and #justice #denied

'Loss of TIM-1 enhanced the type 1 interferon response in B cells, which augmented B cell activation and increased antigen presentation and co-stimulation, resulting in increased expansion of tumour-
specific effector T cells.'

nature.com/articles/s41586-023

Genocidal violence enthusiastically supported by the Reagan administration.

'Guatemala is a popular place to study the techniques of forensic anthropology because of the brutality of the war there, especially in the 1980s, when genocidal violence was carried out against Maya groups.'

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n14/ra

'When a sudden attack of gallstones lands that father in a Dutch hospital, it’s another of the doctor’s postcards, Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp,” that the child glimpses through swinging doors, as a different set of Dutch doctors gathers round the beloved patient.'

nytimes.com/2023/07/09/books/r

A functional link between lariat debranching enzyme and the intron-binding complex is defective in non-photosensitive trichothiodystrophy cell.com/molecular-cell/fullte

Artemisia Gentileschi was born #OTD in 1593.

Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. via @wikipedia

#art #painting

Interesting article discussing narrative CVs - especially considering the upcoming changes to the ERC's evaluation procedures. Check back here this coming week to see more details! science.org/content/article/ho

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/

'Here, we analyzed subcellular distribution in micropatterned patient-derived melanoma cells and found that lysosome spreading scales with their aggressiveness.'

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

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