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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2026
A new species of cat has been discovered for the first time in over a century. Found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, the tilcayo is a three-pound wildcat with leopardlike spots.
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
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Nature @nature.com · 30/08/2026
The brains of people with depression seem to be worse at producing new neurons than are those of people without the disorder, according to a study of human brain samples. go.nature.com/4wYvxVn
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The brain struggles to make new neurons in people with depression
Nature - High resolution, wide-coverage map of the hippocampus reveals possible pathways for therapy.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Battled half a dozen people to get a perfect symmetry. Or is it?
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
St Charles air line bridge
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m ready to return to good old chalkboard www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
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How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
great report from Yale. hope we see changes in university practices www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
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Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
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Nature @nature.com · 12/04/2026
A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three autoimmune diseases has had no symptoms since receiving a single dose of engineered immune cells go.nature.com/4c2dZRh
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One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio
Nature - Fourteen months after treatment with engineered immune cells, the recipient has no symptoms and doesn’t need to take medication.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Quite alarming "... statistical patterns show that early-career investigators—assistant professors, postdoctoral scholars, trainees, and graduate students—were disproportionately affected, as were women." doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups | PNAS
In early 2025, the NIH unexpectedly terminated 2,291 active research grants, withdrawing $2.45 billion and disrupting thousands of projects. While ...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I submitted a ticket to our comm. dept. that my office phone was not working. After getting my phone fixed I noticed a voice message left on my phone. It's the comm. dept., telling me to submit a ticket to a different website. How was I supposed to know this when my phone was not working???
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/01/2026
A new MRI protocol described in #ScienceAdvances can scan the human #brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. scim.ag/4qlc2nO
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Whole-brain meso-vein imaging in living humans using fast 7-T MRI
In vivo 7-T MRI maps the entire human brain’s veins at high resolution in minutes.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Didn’t realize the rainbow building can be picturesque
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds www.nature.com/articles/d41... the fact that article states "a hopeful lesson is that civility and facts still matter" shows how polarizing and visceral our current political discourse is. Are we not even better than an AI?
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AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
According to the latest article in Science (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) “our findings provide a potential pathway for platforms to address these challenges through algorithmic interventions”. The problem is whether these platforms willingly change algorithms at the expense of engagement.
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Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A sobering piece from NYTimes re STEM funding: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Absolutely loved this paper. Really addresses my personal gripes of not having isotropic voxel size in microscopy imaging rdcu.be/eRgYm
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Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue
Nature Biotechnology - A light-sheet microscope built from off-the-shelf components enables high-resolution clear tissue imaging.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 22/11/2025
In one moment, more than 39,000 feet of lights wrapping the 68-foot Norwegian evergreen came to life, as fireworks lit up downtown Chicago and thousands let out a cheer for the holiday season.
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City lights official Christmas tree at Millennium Park
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Nature @nature.com · 09/11/2025
Accumulating daily steps in longer bouts of walking is better for the heart than taking multiple short walks go.nature.com/47LvbXE
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Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health
Nature - People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Take away: "Overall, our findings highlight the complexity of the relationship between political control and federal science funding, challenging conventional narratives and providing a more nuanced understanding of the bipartisan dynamics at play."
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Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States
Republican lawmakers consistently provided robust federal funding, often exceeding Democrats
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
20 Years Ago, Alinea Electrified Chicago Dining. Does It Still Matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/d...
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20 Years Ago, Alinea Electrified Chicago Dining. Does It Still Matter?
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/08/2025
Pasta salads can be so much better with these expert tips. nyti.ms/4otOtsg
Headline: 7 Secrets for a Great Pasta Salad. A photo shows a bowl of salad containing gnocchi, onions, tomatoes, mint, basil.
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Nature @nature.com · 03/08/2025
Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
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Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution
Nature - Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Oakton community college pond
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/07/2025
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.” scim.ag/3Gz4VWW
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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Tree grown at the boulder’s crevice by the sea.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 20/05/2025
A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week.
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Rare Chicago dust storm reignites debates over the role of agriculture, experts say
A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly se…
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"An affront to the First Amendment." NPR, PBS, and local stations across the U.S. are balking at President Trump's order to eliminate funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
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NPR and PBS Vow to Fight Trump’s Order to Cut Funding
NPR called the order, which could upend public media, “an affront to the First Amendment.”
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
pretty cool study demonstrating the fate selection of mesenchyme into chondrogenic vs. fibrogenic by Pdgfra rdcu.be/eklPT
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PDGFRα signaling regulates cartilage and fibrous tissue differentiation during synovial joint development
Nature Communications - While the embryonic limb bud expresses PDGFRα, its role during limb development is unknown. Here, the authors show that elevated PDGFRα signaling causes joint...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Lake Michigan Dawn
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
couldn't agree more elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It says I’m over Amherst OH, which according to Wikipedia the sandstone center of the world.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
cool way to label extracellular protein in vivo via tyroID rdcu.be/edTEv
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Spatiotemporally resolved mapping of extracellular proteomes via in vivo-compatible TyroID
Nature Communications - TyroID is a proximity labeling method that maps extracellular proteins with high spatiotemporal resolution through plant- and bacteria-derived tyrosinases. TyroID...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Most people take photos to the east capturing Sears tower. The west side doesn’t seem to get enough attention.
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Dr. Steve Phelps @sphelps.net · 22/02/2025
substack.com/@beyondeucli... 🧪
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Ali Kaya on Substack
Life and math.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Nice mechanistic study that demonstrates cooperation between Tgfb and Wnt for neural crest cell specification to cranial or trunk. TGF-β signaling controls neural crest developmental plasticity via SMAD2/3: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...
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TGF-β signaling controls neural crest developmental plasticity via SMAD2/3
Rothstein et al. identify TGF-β as a key regulator of developmental plasticity in the cranial neural crest, showing that it activates gene circuits that support multipotency and skeletal differentiati...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Commentary of this article is worth a read re scRNAseq of rare cells: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Transcript-specific enrichment enables profiling of rare cell states via single-cell RNA sequencing - Nature Genetics
Programmable Enrichment via RNA FlowFISH by sequencing (PERFF-seq) isolates rare cells based on RNA marker transcripts for single-cell RNA sequencing profiling of complex tissues, with applicability t...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Intersting study, with implications to mechanical loading and bone: "Osteocyte connexin hemichannels and prostaglandin E2 release dictate bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell commitment" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Patsy the alligator snapping turtle at the Nature Museum.
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 14/02/2025
How Trump’s medical research cuts would hit colleges and hospitals in every state: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My colleagues and I crunched the numbers.
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How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 26/12/2024
Illinois is third in the country for electric school buses, behind California and New York, with the state’s school districts committing to about 700 school buses, more than 200 of which are already on the road, according to Electric School Bus Initiative Director Sue Gander.
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Electric school buses take off in Illinois, with over 200 on the road: A ‘phenomenal climb’
State is third in the country, behind California and New York, with school districts committing to about 700 school buses.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
NIH funded research made important breakthroughs in 2024. Another reminder of why sustained funding for science and research is so vital. Of note 3 NIH funded scientists were recognized with the nobel prize. 5 top health related research highlights here 👇🏾 www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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2024 NIH Research Highlights - Promising Medical Findings
NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include insights into the mechanisms of ME/CFS, a skin test to detect Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, and a promising target for catar...
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Frank @frankcko.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Garden of the Gods in southern IL
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