I've seen this piece and it's striking. Isn't there some question of its authenticity? Is there anything similar to connect it to?

You need a hug.

Distinct brain regions map olfactory and visual spaces The neural circuitry underlying multisensory integration for navigation and spatial memory is poorly understood. Here, Davoudi et al. discover modality-specific maps in different divisions of the ento...

Distinct brain regions map olfactory and visual spaces (and hippocampus integrates them) www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary

I hope all those people who said the US had done no planning for war in Iran will now apologise. www.ft.com/content/744e...

Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds Abstract. One puzzling feature of avian life histories is that individuals in many different lineages delay reproduction for several years after they finis

Now with pages @systbiol.bsky.social !

"Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds" with @pseudacris.bsky.social and Rick Prum

Some comparative support for the hypothesis that the evolution of complex social contexts restructure life histories

doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

ORIGINAL SIN reviewed in Science (@science.org)!

"... an ambitious, compact, and often moving contribution
to the literature at the intersection of genetics and ethics."

De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

I saved this to watch whenever I got a little overwhelmed today. I made it to 10am. I may need to watch it several times www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

Oh yeah. Great mood. Fun to look at.

Best television shows to abandon after 1 season? I'll start:

1. Westworld
2. Your Honor
3. Hightown

Dos paleontólogos de prestigio de EEUU ya trabajan en Catalunya: 'Con Trump, estudiar la evolución humana se ha vuelto tabú' Los investigadores, anteriormente afincados en Nueva York, son los primeros en incorporarse al ecosistema científico catalán gracias a las becas ICREA y al programa de captación Catalunya Talent Bridg...

El miedo de los científicos en USA ha llevado a 'maquillar' proyectos para sobrevivir a la censura y los conflictos ideológicos. Investigadores extranjeros temen perder el estatus legal, no poder regresar al país tras estancias de campo, y deportaciones
www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

Patterns of Behavior It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specim...

My source on this btw is the wonderful history of Tinbergen, Lorenz and ethology "Patterns of Behavior" by Richard Burkhardt.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I've found it very difficult to get the text of the papers he published in German, arguing for sympathy between evolutionary thinking and National Socialism. Do you by any chance know where I could find them as pdfs?

I think you can read his evasiveness as opportunistic too. I think he did eventually refute the Nazi positions but far too late. None of this meant to excuse or rehabilitate him. Taking an abhorrent political position motivated by self interest as well as racism doesn't excuse the racism.

He was clearly sympathetic with Nazi ideas. His worries about the dangers of "domestication" extended to cosmopolitan people (Jews, presumably). And he was gleeful at the annexation of Austria. But he was also deeply ambitious and frustrated by his inability to gain a permanent position.

The warmongering & global destabilization - NATO, Greenland, Panama, Ukraine - aims to precipitate the suspension of law. Vance, Musk, Thiel et al see the advantages of an authoritarian regime as exemplified by China & think they can do it better. They imagine we'll be better for it. Trump agrees.

The secret to happiness.

There's a dramatic contrast between him and his close colleague Niko Tinbergen, with whom he shared the Nobel, a Dutchman who was active in the resistance.

He was clearly sympathetic to Nazi eugenics, but of course he claims not to have known what was going on in the camps, and minimized his role in the psychological testing.

There was a NYT op-ed that protested 1973 Nobel. Also his Nazi-era papers were not listed in his Nobel CV. His joining of the Nazi party is widely viewed as opportunistic - he was desperate for a faculty position. Not exactly a redeeming reason.

Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why The skyrocketing cost of living has left millions of people struggling to afford a place to live despite working at full-time jobs or a number of part-time jobs. Journalist Brian Goldstone, author of ...

Tonight was the final broadcast of PBS News Weekend due to federal cuts.

Appearing on the show in November was a highlight of my year. The team was incredible to work with, and I was deeply grateful they covered this issue with the care it deserves.

Public media at its best. Very sad to see it go.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”

A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

"Have Your Best Baby" Four parallels between cosmetic surgery and polygenic embryo selection, two competing definitions of "eugenics," and one short excerpt from my forthcoming book

I wrote about Nucleus Genomics' "Have your best baby" ad campaign and Kris Jenner's "best version of myself" facelift, the parallels between embryo selection and cosmetic surgery, and competing definitions of "eugenics"

kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/have-your-...

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Unlocking Avian Secrets: How Tiny Biologgers Are Revealing the Hidden Communication of Carrion Crows - Earth Species Project Lightweight biologgers and ESP's machine learning tools reveal the hidden vocal world of wild carrion crows, capturing over 127,000 calls from quiet murmurs to long-distance signals.

🐦‍⬛ New paper in Animal Cognition covering our carrion crow project with partners at @Univeristy of Leon.

52 mini-biologgers were deployed on wild carrion crows in Spain — capturing 127K+ vocalizations.

🔗: www.earthspecies.org/blog/unlocki...

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I cannot tell you how angry I am right now. I can tell you that I tried to turn that anger into some constructive use. A Pox on Fools is intended to give the rest of us ammunition with which to counter the tsunami of bullshit that is MAHA.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...

The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.

Giving dead fish fMRI.

I sat on this draft for three months and sent it out to my coauthors yesterday who for some reason still haven't returned it.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.