Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

1. Crows are super smart.
2. Crows can remember faces.
3. Crows have regional dialects.
4. Crows hold funerals for the deceased.
5. Crows make & use tools.
6. Crows hide their food.
7. Crows have the largest brain to body ratio of any bird. Their brain to body ration is bigger than humans.
8. A group of crows is called 'a murder of crows'.

Picture taken at Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh.

#BirdPhotography #bird #Crow #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #ScottishWildlife #potd

#oncologyresearch Effect of perioperative COX-2 and beta-adrenergic inhibition on 5-year disease-free-survival in #colorectalcancer: A pilot randomized controlled Colorectal Metastasis PreventIon Trial (COMPIT)
📌https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0748798322007053
📌https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-journal-of-surgical-oncology

Some excellent graphics in this Reuters piece exploring the state of #InsectDecline & the extent of our knowledge.

"[Insects are] the fabric tethering together every freshwater & terrestrial ecosystem across the planet.”

"The world has lost 5%-10% of all insect species in the last 150 years... 250,000 and 500,000 species"

#SciComm #Insects #Entomology #biodiversity #InsectApocalypse #insectageddon

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

I am super excited about our latest @biorxivpreprint@twitter.com - a collaboration within @UM_Biopsych@twitter.com with Martin Sarter, headed up by twitterless grad stu Hanna Carmon -- Neuro-immune modulation of cholinergic signaling in an addiction vulnerability trait https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.05.519158v1

Betty Holberton US computer scientist. #WWII 1 of 6 original programmers of ENIAC 1st general-purpose electronic digital computer. Invented breakpoints in computer debugging. "Solved more problems in her sleep than other people did awake" d #OTD 8 Dec 2001 bit.ly/3XwZE69

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Yesterday's NYT piece on #biodiversity loss might make one think that forests are disappearing bc of the "needs" of "local people." The emphasis should be placed squarely on distant Western consumers who use 13 times more resources/capita than "local" people #COP15 #biodiversity

It looks like this platform might finally become more populated, so let me (re)introduce this page.

Neurofrontiers is a bilingual blog about interesting neuroscience topics that tries to be accessible to the broader public while still maintaining scientific accuracy. It's run by a team of three people: a computational neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a graphic designer. We think that being on social media allows us to stay up-to-date with the most recent discussions in science and hope to be able to connect with like-minded individuals.

Posting interests below so we show up in mutual searches:
#neuroscience #brain #mentalhealth #neuro #neurology #depression #medicine #health #covid #neuropsychology #psychiatry #psychology #genomics #genetics #virology #biology #chemistry #biochem #physics #history #geology #astronomy #research #MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter #academia #stem #science #scicomm

A must read.

https://www.newstatesman.com/personal-stories/2022/12/lea-ypi-mothering-the-motherland

#Introduction #Mastodon

My academic life is split in:

1) Vice-Rector for Research @unibern since 1.1.22. Working on making UniBe a place where everyone can spend time asking big and small questions about the world. #BetterScience

2) PI at the Inst. of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine. Our group is fascinated by #IonChannels & #Channelopathies.

3) Being a voice for the many scientists from less privileged parts of the world, particularly the ones from the African continent. #ScienceInAfrica

#introduction I’m Izumi Fukunaga, a neuroscientist at OIST, Japan studying the sense of smell to understand how circuits in the brain work. Our lab uses mouse behaviour + physiological measurements + circuit perturbations.

I’m here for open and respectful discussions and sharing exciting news. Looking forward to meeting you.

Elton John quits Twitter blaming change in misinformation policy - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63925416

Let me make this *abundantly* clear. If you are symptomatic or at risk of being infectious with something that could complicate your patient’s clinical course, a fit-tested respirator is a low cost measure that you as a healthcare worker ignore to the detriment of your patient’s safety.
This is not a controversial take & is reflected in the current COVID policy instituted in many hospitals, but is likely just as relevant for #influenza, #RSV, #Rhinovirus, & HMPV. #Masks #COVID19 #PatientSafety