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Brains, black holes & ‘bots, computers & chemistry, environment & engineering, & more - the best of science from Carnegie Mellon (we used to be @CMUScience)

[CMU STEM @CMUSTEM]

RT @carnegiemellon: Carnegie Mellon names James H. Garrett Provost. Congratulations, @James_H_Garrett! https://t.co/iTRcsFJt8n

[CMU Mellon College of Science @CmuScience]

Ryan Sullivan from @CMU_Chem and @CMU_Mech uses the same optical tweezer technology that won the 2018 #physicsnobel.

[CMU STEM @CMUSTEM]

RT @cmuscience: What does pneumococcus say to make you sick? @CMU_Bio's @LuHiller and @suryad26 discover new word in pneumo's molecular dictionary: https://t.co/WPXve4OYJo @PLOSPathogens

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RT @CmuScience: Been using the same password for years? Don't feel bad, @CMU_Bio found that bacteria has been using the same password to make spores for 2.7 billion years: https://t.co/vQPspunYRW @PLOSGenetics

[CMU STEM @CMUSTEM]

RT @cmuscience: "Rules of Life is an interesting way to think about evolution" @CMU_Bio 's Dannie Durand; @NSF funds study of design rules for multidomain proteins https://t.co/PUJs7K164f

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Experts say classroom temperature, noise stifle learning: @SCSatCMU’s Jessica Hammer says, "We need to treat our kids and our teachers with enough respect to say you don’t need to suffer to learn.” #CMUSimon @cmuhcii https://t.co/JKDRpBr3rZ

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Researchers look to brain images to predict who will attempt suicide. @aneripattani talks to @cmupsych's Marcel Just about diagnosing suicidal thinking using brain imaging and the $3.8M @NIMHgov grant that'll help him do that. https://t.co/2mGu4xbBh1

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Hey, Siri… What CMU linguistics major leads your language understanding team? Enrica Rosato (DC'13) joined Apple in February and is helping program the virtual assistant to understand and respond back to natural language. https://t.co/hsZHTnQ9uY

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.@CarnegieMellon and @PittTweet have received a $3.8M @NIMH grant to diagnose suicidal thinking using brain imaging. Findings could improve how clinicians detect and treat suicidal patients: https://t.co/aftziK97hr

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.@jasonzweigwsj
cites Prof George Loewenstein’s research on Coherent arbitrariness: stable demand curves without stable preferences.

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Educators Return to #CMUSimon's LearnLab Summer School https://t.co/nregHf0yiY #edtech

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Interested in Cybersecurity and International Conflict? Well, @CMUIPS has a new minor in it! https://t.co/LdQ5EfxCvY

[Software Engineering Institute @SEI_CMU]

#CNN article on #deepfakes makes reference to @sei_etc research on heart rate from video. See the article https://t.co/JGFGezmjzQ and our blog post https://t.co/ppjo6biUnC

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ICYMI this week, @cmupsych had a groundbreaking new study published in @cellreports. The short story? A boy’s lobectomy showed how the brain repairs itself. Here’s more great media coverage from @amandabux and @CBCNews https://t.co/527JuVEEYV

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Are we getting things wrong about Mindfulness? @cmupsych Prof David Creswell tells @Jessica_E_Brown, "Mindfulness is being introduced into workplaces in the absence of top-notch trials." https://t.co/FFhFChvFvr

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RT @cmuscience: .@CMU_Bio's Aryn Gittis named finalist for @sciencemagazine & PINS Prize for her discovery of new targets for #ParkinsonsDisease treatment: https://t.co/9JocXYxStL

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Surgery to remove a brain tumor took much of a boy's visual system. But the remaining part of his brain has adjusted, according to @cmupsych researchers. Now the boy wants to be a neurosurgeon. @maggiemfox reports for @NBCNews: https://t.co/aFO8IczFVg

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Case Study: Child’s Lobectomy Reveals Brain’s Ability To Reorganize Its Visual System: a groundbreaking new study from @cmupsych in @CellReports https://t.co/QTIvS5mDFh

[Software Engineering Institute @SEI_CMU]

Security Begins at the Home Router - Our Latest Post from #CERT's @vijaycert - https://t.co/R5KmYdfI8B

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Understanding the Evolution in Color Naming: @cmupsych’s Charles Kemp and researchers from @HebrewU and @UCBerkeley have developed a computational model that explains why languages categorize colors the way they do. https://t.co/r6eezFI42j