Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration “With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

My institution relentlessly going whole hog on AI has the one benefit of inspiring colleagues to be completely hilarious-
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A large songbird is singing while perched on a fencepost. He has a streaked brown, black and white back, head and wings and a bright yellow neck and breast with a black "necklace". His beak is wide open and eye partially closed as he sings loudly.

Lots of western meadowlarks belting out their songs this morning.
#Alberta #wildlife #birding #birds 🪶

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

Large study of the effects of mRNA COVID vaccination impacts in France.

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The complete morphology of a single LC-NE neuron.

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

Child in a space suit costume cheers with arms outstretched amidst a crowd watching the return of the astronauts to Earth

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.”

Photo by Sandy Huffaker

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Giving huge jumping spider courtship vibes!

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Oh and it's in the Nelson/Kriegsfeld neuroendo textbook materials... in case you want a copy. I could be wrong, but Lehrman may have taken this one?

Hen brooding kittens, 1965.

Presented this iconic photo in class today, and convinced my students that the parental pituitary hormone prolactin (they'd never heard of it) is called "kittensulin"....

Sorry, it's called kittensulin now.

Hen brooding kittens, 1965.

Presented this iconic photo in class today, and convinced my students that the parental pituitary hormone prolactin (they'd never heard of it) is called "kittensulin"....

Wait… localized norepinephrine transients in the awake visual cortex?!
Who would have guessed this neuromodulatory signal is that spatially precise, right where visual processing is happening. Brain state control just got a lot more local. @ruedigersarah.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

My kids and I read the book together, and LOVED the opening night of the movie last night. What a great adaptation and all around fun time. Amaze!!!

Two bar plots from the paper: Yearly numbers of publications in PubMed from 1965 to 2025 on mathematical modelling in endocrinology and diabetes with (left) and without (right) machine learning. Search terms were “(“mathematical modelling” OR “computer simulation” OR “machine learning”) AND (endocrinology OR endocrine OR hormone OR hormonal OR diabetes)” for the left plot and “(“mathematical modelling” OR “computer simulation”) AND (endocrinology OR endocrine OR hormone OR hormonal OR diabetes)” for the right plot. The left chart shows a dramatic increase, peaking sharply in the year 2025 at nearly 3000 publications. The right chart shows moderate growth with peaks around four hundred around the year 2025.

Mathematical modelling, computer #simulation, and machine learning upgrade #endocrinology. Applying principles of #biocybernetics and #biophysics, they enjoy growing interest and deliver novel methods for research, diagnosis, and therapy.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41852474/
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This is why we love #CalciumSignaling

Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !!
By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;)

Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

Three by two grid of pictures, the row a bird on the left with a screenshot of a Google search for house wren on the right. Second row, another bird next to a search for house finch. Last row, a hand holding a giant metal tool next to a search for house wrench

want to share something I've been working on to help me get better at backyard #birding, hope this helps others

Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy
#EcoEvo #evolution

📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change

Apply before 31 Mar 👇
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#Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light. So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.

nobel prize. right fucking now. im serious.

I had the opportunity to write a research briefing for Nature, in which I summarized our recent work in African Striped Mice. It’s a short read for anyone who wants a quick overview! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Do neighboring #PlaceCells in #Hippocampus CA1 map neighboring locations in space? 🧠🗺️
Is there micro-scale spatial topography in the hippocampus?
See our latest paper from @kavlintnu now out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Bugs, any bird and bug in one capture. Here's a male #YellowHeadedBlackbird with a beakful of bugs to feed the kids. #PaternalCare #Birds🪶

Snapping shrimp use headgear to protect their brains from shock waves Unusual “hood” is the first known biological armor that protects against traumatic brain injury

Like professional football players, snapping shrimp shield their brains and eyes from concussive forces with protective headgear, according to a new study.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4quFGG6