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Ask what your countries can do for missing people. Half-whipped. Love woman and fatty fish. Man who gets his share of salmon. 53

[lukwtwz @lukwtwz]

@Tuliodna I must say I’m appalled that America has effectively hoarded vaccines by—to use Saad Omer’s words—“slow-walking technology transfer to non-US manufacturers that could meaningfully increase supply.” It wasn’t until recently that I learned how bad that was.

https://t.co/nM2wwXMthm

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Brain Waves Look Like Exhaust and Behave Like an Engine
https://t.co/gnBPO0Lb2L
#neuroscience

[ABC News @ABC]

At least 16 people have been killed and 130 others injured, including at least 23 children, following a Russian drone strike on a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, authorities said. https://t.co/oJ6RERp4Hb

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

How does the brain bind scattered information into a single, seamless thought? 🧠. Hidden pulses!!! A new @NatureNeuro study led by @UCSD reveals that fleeting, high-frequency electrical bursts called "ripples" (~90 Hz) synchronize distant brain regions up to 220 mm apart. During these pulses, cross-region neural co-firing surges by 30–49% to hold and retrieve working memories.
https://t.co/dAHdqRn9bS
#Neuroscience #BrainResearch #Memory #CognitiveScience #NatureNeuroscience

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

💚 It's #NationalWellnessMonth.

Dr. Maya Angelou reminded us to protect the sacred space within ourselves — a place where self-respect, gratitude, and peace can flourish.

Protecting your peace isn't selfish. It's essential. 💛

#MayaAngelou #MentalWellness

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

NASA has been building robotic lunar rover prototypes for decades. Why is the Moon not crawling with them? Because NASA insists on running a Survivor beauty pageant for everything and the lunar rovers were always the bridesmaid never the bride.

We haven't had a shortage of launchers for a decade, but all this capability remains stuck in development hell, and meanwhile China understands that you can just Do Things and there they are.

[Prof. Kevin J. Tracey, MD @KevinJTraceyMD]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Read these:

[Dr Filippa Lentzos @FilippaLentzos]

A thoughtful piece by @Ayjchan in @nytimes this week on thorny governance questions of risky biological research, with some very cool interactive graphics, including a reworked version of @gregkoblentz and my #GlobalBioLabs map. (1/4) https://t.co/AY0AVu9BJz

[Alina Chan @Ayjchan]

How to Stop a Lab Leak from Starting the Next Pandemic.

My new op-ed made possible by the @nytimes graphics and editorial team:
https://t.co/btZiDn5llf

[Matthew D. Sacchet @MatthewSacchet]

Announcing our new review paper on how far meditation can go toward improving well-being, interpersonal relationships, and emotion regulation.

I'm delighted to share our manuscript, "A Systematic Review of the Effects of Long-Term and Advanced Meditation on Well-Being, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Relationships," led by first author Terje Sparby @terjesparby, with co-authors Vanessa Naughton, Batool Abbasi, Jerron Chan, Oliver Hugemark @OliverHugemark.

Following PRISMA guidelines, we identified 52 articles from 1,229 screened and investigated how sustained and skill-developed meditation practices positively shape well-being, interpersonal relationships, and emotion regulation. Three major themes emerged:
— Long-term and advanced meditators report substantially higher quality of life, equanimity, self-compassion, acceptance, purpose in life, and mindfulness than novices or non-meditators. Some describe profound, enduring transformations in worldview and identity arising from advanced meditative states.
— Meditation meaningfully improved interpersonal relationships through cultivated compassion, empathy, and a restructured sense of self and other. Non-meditating partners independently corroborated these changes.
— Long-term meditators show enhanced emotion regulation through greater acceptance, reduced rumination, improved emotional clarity, and more adaptive cognitive strategies. Specific skills, not duration alone, appear to mediate these benefits.

The number of meditation hours someone may have does not tell the whole story. Non-attachment, mindfulness, self-compassion, and nonduality consistently mediate the relationship between practice and well-being. One example of this was a study that found the relationship between lifetime meditation hours and equanimity was non-significant until nonduality was accounted for as a mediating variable—suggesting that cultivated qualities, not cumulative hours, underlie the effect.

Yet the field continues to define meditative expertise primarily through temporal criteria (e.g., numbers of hours, years, retreats completed), rather than skills, stages, and attainments that some contemplative traditions posit as better capturing meditative development. Adopting skill- and attainment-based criteria, rather than temporal, is essential for the field to progress. Furthermore, existing psychometric tools were not designed for advanced meditators and fail to capture the depth of practitioners' transformations.

Our article represents the first comprehensive systematic review to synthesize evidence on the positive mental health and well-being outcomes associated with long-term and advanced meditation practice. We see this as a call for the field to pivot: toward advanced meditation, toward attainment-based criteria, and toward a fuller account of what practice can offer human life.

My deep gratitude to our team, and to the practitioners and traditions whose disciplined inquiry makes this possible.

Preprint below ⤵️

[Paul Thompson @PTenigma]

Very late sunset (summer solstice tomorrow, sunrise 4:31am!)

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

#naturephotography

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

If you want to know a lot about a person's brain health, it's embedded in a retina photo, deciphered by AI
https://t.co/3xN8k8R6CX @LancetDigitalH

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

The Moon’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle.
Last night’s full Moon was the smallest of the year, as it was at its furthest distance from Earth.
It was also the 2nd full Moon in May, a rare ‘Blue Moon’.
Gorgeous moonrise photo over Lake Ontario, taken at Col Sam Smith Park by friend Andrew Yee.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

From 1999, Sonny Rollins talks to Chris M. Slawecki of All About Jazz: "Music is a thing you never completely master... But this helped me to remain a student all of my life. I consider myself still a student." https://t.co/aK84wo1qal

[Dr Filippa Lentzos @FilippaLentzos]

Mirror life is still hypothetical. The governance questions are not. In @NoemaMag, I comment that a moratorium alone isn't enough; implementation matters. We esp need funders & publishers involved-- they are the real levers of scientific careers.
https://t.co/cwBR3J9unj

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[lukwtwz @lukwtwz]

Radiohead - Videotape (acoustic cover by Yes
The Raven/Alan Mearns)
https://t.co/NEdbdDyT2p

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Today, we pay tribute to all those who gave their lives in military service to our country. #MemorialDay

🎨: "On the Wire," Harvey Thomas Dunn, 1918

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” after the American Civil War—a time to honor fallen soldiers with flowers and remembrance.
Today, we continue that legacy.

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes.” — Maya Angelou 🇺🇸

#MemorialDay #HonorAndRemember