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CNN @cnn.com · 15/04/2025

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses. cnn.it/42MQVBe

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CNN @cnn.com · 02/04/2025

Val Kilmer, Hollywood film star known for "Top Gun" and "Batman Forever," dies at 65, New York Times reports cnn.it/4iK5Sto

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CNN @cnn.com · 06/03/2025

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 million years, according to new research. Read more: cnn.it/3QNNDH2

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Former FDA commissioner Dr Rob Califf on CNN now talking about firings of health workers. “This is serious stuff,” he says of concerns employees won’t be able to do inspections of manufacturing plants for medicines or other products

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So, I never made an introduction post, but it's time for one! Hello there, friends👋! I am a Brazilian neuroscientist living in the U.S. My background is mixed, I am a clinical pharmacist who went on to do an MS in Biophysics and a PhD in Biochemistry. I came to the U.S in 2017, it started like this:

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Sebastian Hoefer @taiapo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

BirdNET embeddings can identify new sound classes beyond its training set, aiding invasive species monitoring, biodiversity surveys, and detecting threatened species across vertebrate groups while requiring minimal call examples and manual validation. Find out more: doi.org/10.3389/fevo... 🔈🪶🦊🐸🦎🧪🌎

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Frontiers | The use of BirdNET embeddings as a fast solution to find novel sound classes in audio recordings

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Dr. Lonnie N Standifer earned a PhD in #entomology and went on to study #bees, Hymenoptera! In particular, Dr. Standifer advanced our knowledge about chemicals that are toxic to bees, honeybee #toxicology. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth academic.oup.com/ae/article/4...

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Lonnie Nathaniel Standifer

Eric H. Erickson; Lonnie Nathaniel Standifer, American Entomologist, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 July 1996, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/42.3.183a

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@tim_stasevich @tim-stasevich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 11/02/2025

The latent circuit model identifies low-dimensional mechanisms of task execution from heterogeneous neural responses. This approach revealed a latent inhibitory mechanism for context-dependent decisions in neural network models and prefrontal cortex 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Latent circuit inference from heterogeneous neural responses during cognitive tasks - Nature Neuroscience

The latent circuit model identifies low-dimensional mechanisms of task execution from heterogenous neural responses. This approach reveals a latent inhibitory mechanism for context-dependent decisions...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Context-dependent hierarchical categorization of human faces: Behavioral and EEG/MEG evidence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Some people using Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs have reported drinking less alcohol while using the medicines, prompting questions about whether the drugs could be used for alcohol-use disorder. The first clinical trial - although small and short - confirms the effect: www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...

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Ozempic shown to reduce drinking in first trial in alcohol-use disorder | CNN

For years, people taking Ozempic or other drugs in the same class for diabetes and weight loss have noticed the medicines don’t just curb their desire to eat; for some, they also lead them to drink le...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Linking neural population formatting to function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

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Patricia Diaz @patdiaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

AI for Science 🧪 Humans remain the only intelligent system capable of solving the hard problem, namely, the formulation of the problem (as opposed to its solution where AI can indeed help) www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.14508

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Artificial intelligence for science: The easy and hard problems

A suite of impressive scientific discoveries have been driven by recent advances in artificial intelligence. These almost all result from training flexible algorithms to solve difficult...

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Very cool research showing a common food dye can make flesh transiently translucent- in mice this enables you 2 see organs! Adaptations could be useful in humans for enhancing diagnosis, surgery even blood samples ! 🧪

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Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours

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