Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦

Evol biologist and behavioral ecologist. Sociality. Lifespan. Klarman Fellow at Cornell, working with Kern Reeve and Mike Sheehan. Director @AnimalBehavPod

[Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦 @MatthewZipple]

Out today in @CurrentBiology!

Living in a naturalistic environment blocks and resets the development of fear responses to a well known anxiety-inducing assay.

Exposure therapy for mice! a🧵below

w @IDsignals, Bryson Loflin, @dchangkuo, & Erin Tan

https://t.co/adu5uVdgca

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@ImNotOwned I was checking secretary of state drops every 10 minutes and I was not confident Biden would win until 3AM. Then I maxed out my remaining allowances on PredictIt in Wisconsin and Minnesota and went to bed.

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@zippkode @efropoker Also when Gallaraga had cheated out of his perfect game I called in to WXYT to tell them that instant replay in such a scenario would inevitably lead to robot umps calling balls and strikes.

They said I was crazy.

16 years was all it took for me to be right

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@zippkode @efropoker My proposal is to

1) accept that the strike zone is subjective
2) accept that mysterious human connection is one of the few things that makes baseball great despite other downsides
3) remove all video or tech reviews from the game

I endorse instant replay in all other sports.

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@btshapir A lot of housing reform is intuitive and appealing. This is a position begging to lose.

There is an intuitive unfairness of seniors being forced out of their homes for high property taxes.

Make schools more efficient and better. Lower everyone's property taxes.

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@SAOscience @maxplanckpress @hummuscience We lay out some ideas in this open access synthesis: https://t.co/W6bIpuJc0i

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@SAOscience @maxplanckpress @hummuscience I think the really important answer is that you start in the lab and then you move into a second more realistic environment.

Drugs that are safe and effective in both environments are most likely to translate.

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@evornithology Embracing Evolution by Matthew Nelson Hill. He's a Methodist pastor and provides a theological apology of the science of evolution as a form of creation. Essentially the argument is, keep your faith, keep your scriptures, and embrace evolution. Selected chapter(s) would work well

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@TheStalwart Had some trouble loading the mobile version, but topline is accurate.

For a written article of mine, it assigned 96% literate and for a spoken piece is assigned 94% oral.

So it seems to be working.

Though I remain, as I suspect many do, a bit puzzled about the purpose

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If you give a mouse some freedom: When researchers “rewilded” lab mice to large, enclosed fields, even well-established anxieties in the mice disappeared. @CurrentBiology @CornellNBB @MatthewZipple @NSF @NIH https://t.co/KoymkH6ATu

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3. Biological aging is different outside:
https://t.co/cV5LpBgC4P

4. Social status has causal impacts on behavior and survival: https://t.co/YBOAwiCKL0

5. Male lab mice outside look a lot like wild mice outside. Females look different:
https://t.co/0D4j4zjh2c

[Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦 @MatthewZipple]

Out today in @CurrentBiology!

Living in a naturalistic environment blocks and resets the development of fear responses to a well known anxiety-inducing assay.

Exposure therapy for mice! a🧵below

w @IDsignals, Bryson Loflin, @dchangkuo, & Erin Tan

https://t.co/adu5uVdgca

[Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦 @MatthewZipple]

In case this whole rewilding approach is new and you want more:

1. Overview of the system: https://t.co/ce9wvFRmU6

2. Social competition and luck accelerate the development of individuality and inequality: https://t.co/UsV3QZ4no7