Mostly flies, cats, and brains. Lecturer by day and fly tormenter by night. Occasional flailing code monkey.
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What if the path forward is to build different tools? AI that grounds every citation against PubMed before submission. AI that verifies every reference in a peer review before it reaches the program officer. AI that assists judgment rather than generates it.
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‼️MORE WILDNESS IN PSYCHIATRY
Ketamine has long been thought to impact depression through glutamate signaling.
But it doesn’t
A new paper in @Nature shows that ADENOSINE is the causal neurotransmitter
And adenosine also underlies the antidepressant effects of ECT
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ALT Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09755-9
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Nearly 100 NIH study sections were canceled in the past month. Here is a list of the canceled meetings, compiled by Annika Barber at Rutgers Univ.
As a result, the process of biomedical science funding has been halted in the United States.
tinyurl.com/5auw74s4
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Can animals generate neurons from #glia? Happy to see the final version of this work in collaboration with @TheDrosophilist. In @eLife: Adult neurogenesis through glial transdifferentiation in a CNS injury paradigm doi.org/10.7554/eLife.96890
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Sleep-wake-related changes in intracellular chloride regulate plasticity at glutamatergic cortical synapses: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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This photograph was taken two days ago at the FBI Academy in Quantico and submitted to the NYT under the condition of anonymity.
If a picture is usually worth a thousand words, this one is worth millions.
I assumed this was what was going through his head every time my nephew woke in his car seat and started screaming.
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a 2005 study found an autistic reindeer herder in siberia that didnt like being around people but memorized the entire genealogical and medical history of all his 2600 reindeer, which made him a respected elder in his community
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At some point in the last ten years (it’s hard to tease out exactly when) we crossed a boundary that no one celebrated:
Most people diagnosed with cancer in the United States of America this year will not be killed by that cancer.
Yes, outcomes have improved.
Have cancer outcomes improved since all this money was allocated to cancer research?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Yes.
Childhood leukemia survival rates have increased to 90%
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC28…
cancer.org/cancer/types/l…
"Overall cancer death rates during the most recent five years (2010 to 2014) decreased by 1.8% (95% CI = –1.8% to –1.8%) per year in men by 1.4% (95% CI = –1.4% to –1.3%) per year in women."
academic.oup.com/jnci/article/1…
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Cell
Configuration of electrical synapses filters sensory information to drive behavioral choices
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Hibernating brown bears rarely suffer from blood clots despite 6 months of immobilization.
A 2023 Science study revealed a factor that appears to protect the animals against this immobility-associated thrombosis. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4gXjCjB
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Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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This pretty much settles it: we're entering the era of low-cost, on-demand binders for everything
Excited to see what people build now that "inject a llama with some junk and bleed it a month later" is no longer the cutting-edge tech
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Anything but small: Microarousals stand at the crossroad between noradrenaline signaling and key sleep functions: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
