In this brilliant study led by @Inbal_b we finally get a peak under the hood while rats help each other. "In vivo calcium imaging showed accumbens activity when rats approached a trapped ingroup member..." This work is monumentally important.
https://t.co/twE2L1SA84
Dec 2020: we’ve invented Covid vaccines within a year, that’s amazing
Feb 2021: wow we’ve landed a craft on Mars, that’s incredible
March 2021: please, the big boat, it’s very stuck
This is my 1000th tweet on Twitter. If I get greater than 1000 likes on this tweet I will donate $1000 to @American_Heart. My dad just had radical open heart surgery for a cardiac defect and as a researcher myself it was amazing to see the incredible advances for #heart medicine!
Every year our technicians are heroes, but this year was harder than most. We owe all of our thanks to our amazing laboratory animal technicians and staff. Without them there is no scientific progress. Cheers to all of them across the globe!
Can we ‘see’ #autism in the brain? And is there a specific brain signature for the condition?
This is what we found by comparing brain connectivity maps across 16 mouse autism models
➡️https://t.co/E95ObT01ud
➡️Majestically led 👏👏👏by @Valerio_Zerbi@NCMLabETH
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Study found genes implicated in cattle temperament contribute to neural developmental functions and are differentially expressed in the human brain. Some ASD related genes are associated with cattle temperament.
#autism#genetics#neuroscience#science
https://t.co/4gP0YjQqXc
HVC projection neurons of canaries differently encode syllable timing within a song phrase and the past (and future) transitions of multiple phrases, allowing population coding of the song syntax https://t.co/yv0d8aGCOl Cohen et al. (Gardner lab)
@SuspendThePres@JayInslee Reported this and informed that this tweet "violated the Twitter Rules". I reported Trump's tweet as well, but no response from Twitter on that. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
In preparation for #ShutDownSTEM tomorrow, 10 June, Science has made the following articles available without subscription or registration to help facilitate discussion.
If you're white and on social media for #scicomm and think tweeting against racism/in support of POC is "out of your lane" or not your job, you're wrong, my friend.
Our careers are built on the foundation of racial privilege.
Our silence upholds violent systemic racism.