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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 13h

🔆 Have a good weekend! Have fun, express yourself, but play safe. Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? 🧪 bsky.app/profile/mu-p...

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Porky Pig Swearing (1939)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 14h

🔆 #OTD John Winston Lennon October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980 Learn about the life, music and legacy of John Lennon, the founder and leader of The Beatles and solo artist. ☮️ About John Lennon www.johnlennon.com/about/

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
- John Lennon

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 15h

Perspective... Use it or lose it. How Anthropological Knowledge Gets Made🏺🧪 www.anthropology-news.org/articles/how... What has changed is not so much how anthropological knowledge gets made as how that knowledge gets received.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 15h

'It’s always been some white dude’ How Ethiopia became the world leader in uncovering the story of humankind🏺🧪 www.theguardian.com/global-devel... This collection has nurtured a generation of world-leading Ethiopian scholars. Their research has been crucial to shining a light on humanity’s origins.

The fossilised remains of ‘Selam’, a 3.3m-year-old Australopithecus afarensis child, which were discovered by Zeresenay Alemseged, who began his career as a young geologist with the National Museum of Ethiopia’s laboratory. It is the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor yet found

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 16h

Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... The Abric Romaní assemblage highlights importance of wood in Neanderthal technological systems and provides insights into role of organic materials.

Trays crafted from bark that have been preserved in a carbonized state, recovered from levels H and O.
(A) AR89-H-O50-1; (B) AR89-H-M51-1; (C) AR90-H-O58-1; (D) AR10-Oinf-T57-18 in situ. In the bottom images, (E) AR89-H-O50-1, and (F) AR89-H-M51-1 are shown in sagittal view, along with all of their edges. Credit: M. D. Guillén/IPHES.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 16h

Chimp and gorilla brains resist weight loss with age — unlike human brains🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life.

Older apes’ brains are just as big as those of younger apes. Credit: Anup Shah/Nature Picture Library

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 16h

My pleasure... Well done, John. 👏

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17h

No offence taken... I think they'd see that as a compliment.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17h

"Reading the Bones"🏺🧪 by @evoexplorer.bsky.social ... is a great read! Check it out!

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17h

I have cousins in Australia... So yes, I can vouch for it.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17h

Development and social dynamics of stone tool use in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Even when tool use is largely solitary, directed social attention and social tolerance play an important role in the development of tool use proficiency.

Images of the experimental anvils showing (a) the placement of CEBUS-02 in January 2022 and (b) EXP-ANV-01 during excavation in July 2022. Photo credits: B.J.B. and M.K.W.C.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 17h

Incomplete remains millions of years old allows for misinterpretation How Fossils Can Fool Us Mistakes and Misinterpretations in Paleontology🧪 dino-world.com/how-fossils-... Explores misinterpretations in fossil research, how these mistakes occur, and what they teach us about the scientific method

Mounted cast of a fossil E. annectens skeleton, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18h

Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... People on social media swear more with acquaintances than with friends... but only in smaller networks. Note, this study is focused on one platform. I know who I swear with most...

Venn diagram
Set 1 - My friends
Set 2 - People who swear a lot
overlap - Besties

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18h

From a moving vehicle... Impressive!👏

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19h

Who Swears the Most? Study Says One Country Won by a F–king Landslide.🏺🧪 www.vice.com/en/article/w... It’s a fantastic word, really. It can be used for joy, fury, or disbelief. It’s a noun, a verb, and can be turned into an adjective. “F–k” is one versatile syllable, and Americans f–king love it.

Woman covering her mouth with her hand
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19h

🗣️Say something... Human brains are poised to seek out voices, and all the various kinds of information they can hold. What do we lose when we lose our voice? Your voice is more than sound. It’s part of who you are🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/deep...

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Your voice is more than sound. It’s part of who you are

The human brain is built to hear voices. Speaking connects us to other people — and ourselves. What do our voices reveal about ourselves?

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are no words for the unspeakable.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Already lost me at "Evolutionary Psychology". Hard pass on all that.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sorry. No bananas for snarky faces.

Smile like a monkey with a new banana.
Anon

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love banana bread. I've tried it... but I think I'm doing it wrong.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You're right but calling him despicable is mild... I have worse words for him. You just know Hegseth (et al) is going to have a picnic for it. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/202...

jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu

Lynching Picnic

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All of the promises... Could have been done by them long ago... Without AI.

Jeff Bezos smirking
That moment when you could end world hunger
BUT DON'T.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My music teacher would always stop us before the best part... He truly was a thief of joy. ;-)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It's like my father used to say, 'Ah, with triangle players it's always some ting. If it's not one ting, it's another.' " -Roseanne Rosannadana

I WAS WATCHING A CONCERT OF THE BERMUDA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, AND HALF-WAY THROUGH THE PERFORMANCE, THE GUY PLAYING THE TRIANGLE DISAPPEARED.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or... wealth buys stupid haircuts. These 2 are the prime exhibits but there are plenty of weird hair examples, Zuck, Karp, Amodei, etc.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, Revealing More About The 11,500-Year-Old Site First burials give insights into mortuary rites at Göbeklitepe, Early Neolithic Türkiye🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Individuals from the burial in trench DR1, showing taphonomic changes to the bones.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excavations at Koskarlı Cave in Türkiye’s eastern Black Sea region (Trabzon) have identified in situ Epipalaeolithic (c. 12 900–12 000 cal BC) occupation. Koskarlı Cave: excavations at an Epipalaeolithic site in the eastern Black Sea region of Türkiye🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Selection of artefacts: a & b) cores; c & d) end-scrapers; e) microgravette point; f) pointed backed blade; g) lunate; h) lunate with bipolar backing; i & j) lunates with Helwan-type retouch; k) grooved antler pendant; l) animal-tooth pendant (figure by authors).

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

9,000-year-old mining workshop unearthed at Çayönü Hill🏺🧪 www.heritagedaily.com/2026/09/9000... Archaeologists in Türkiye have uncovered an approximately 9,000-year-old mining workshop, providing striking new evidence of specialised copper and malachite production in prehistoric communities.

Image Credit : Ministry of Culture and Tourism

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Genomics and social practices at Mogou and other Gansu sites during prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange🏺🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Ancient DNA suggests western farming reached Gansu without mass migration. Study didn't detect any traces of genetic influence from western Eurasia or Central Asia.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TRACE recovers known Neanderthal and Denisovan introgression and uncovers ghost admixture from uncharacterized hominins in both Africans and non-Africans. Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super-archaic ancestry detected using TRACE within Oceanian (OCN) genomes.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AMPs constitute key components of innate immunity across the tree of life. Revived 160-million-year-old proteins show surprising power against superbugs. Retracing the origin and evolution of a cryptic antimicrobial peptide within mammalian lactoferrin🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Lactoferricin membrane permeabilizing activity emerged early after gene duplication.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's sweet... Lab-made sugar-coated particle blocks Covid-19 infection — Possible new treatment on the horizon Polysialosides Outperform Sulfated Analogs for Binding with SARS-CoV-2🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Polysialosides Outperform Sulfated Analogs for Binding with SARS-CoV-2

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sad (mad), I don't think Republicans will do it. Besides, does Congress approving change anything anymore anyway?

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"A little song, a little dance... A little seltzer down your pants." - Chuckles the Clown

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"This isn't an argument, this is just contradiction." -Michael Palin in Argument Sketch. And... there's neither intellect nor process in this.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Genomic structural variations distinguishing archaic and modern humans are associated with neurodevelopment🏺🧪 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... 951 structural variants differentiate archaic hominins from modern humans This expands our understanding of the adaptive evolution of the modern human brain

Overview of the AHSVs with potential impact on the loop anchors in NPCs

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for letting me know. bsky.app/profile/mu-p...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BC200 gene evolved millions of years ago from a transposon It appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Observation-related activity in the human motor cortex increases with effector anthropomorphicity🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Challenges the concept of specialized “mirror neuron” cells, revealing instead a distributed network modulated by both visual realism and top-down cognitive recognition.

The JD Task. (A) MRI-derived 3D brain reconstructions for participant T11 and T17 showing the implant locations of electrode arrays (yellow squares) in the left precentral gyrus. Colored shadings were created using cortical labeling from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) Atlas parcellation labels transformed into FreeSurfer space and then reconstructed into Blender (SI Appendix). (B) Still frames of example stimuli from the JD Task at the start (“Neutral”) and end of effector movements (“Pinch” or “Power”).

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Optical Illusion Exposes Blind Spot in AI Vision A fundamental computational divide between biological vision and artificial intelligence. The macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordinates🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordinates

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