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Shooti#ResistanceRoots Matthew Henson was born on this day in 1866 in Charles County, Md. He was an African American Arctic explorer who co-discovered the geographic North Pole alongside Robert Peary. During his life, Henson was given little credit for the critical role he played in their expeditions. /1
Incredibly cool new work. #neuroethology
Abraham Zelalem VollanNow in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A terrific accomplishment but no amphibians! 😢 (Yes, I know why, but still a bummer.)
Adam PhillippyFor the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
#scijobs and -- not for nothing -- outside the US of A
Charles MullonLooking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
How is it that 99% of the dudes T***p supports look like classic Bond villains?
The New York TimesRepublican voters selected Ty Masterson, the influential leader of the Kansas Senate, as their nominee for governor on Tuesday, The Associated Press said. Masterson was endorsed by President Trump.
As a voter who lives in Michigan, I continue to be shocked by the democratic party's vilification of those of us who cast a symbolic protest vote in the last primary. How tf is this supposed to motivate me to support the party establishment?? www.semafor.com/article/07/3...
"And then a voice spoke in my head And she said, Dark is not the opposite of light It's the absence of light And I thought to myself She knows what she's talking about" -- the Beastie Boys
Moby Dickthe great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself
Been more than an hour so I'm reskeeting this brilliant bit of straight talk.
mazel tov cocktaillol holy shit this author has no fucks left to give and is spot on www.science.org/content/blog...
Has it been an hour since I last reskeeted this? Fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway. Whole piece is well worth a read. And for those of you who don't regularly read Science magazine, um, no, this is NOT the way they normally express themselves. www.science.org/content/blog...
HL Eisthen, defective human productReskeeting with alt text
I might have to repost this hourly for the next xx years.
mazel tov cocktaillol holy shit this author has no fucks left to give and is spot on www.science.org/content/blog...
