Our newest paper announcing the discovery that some #Neanderthal DNA appears to be playing important roles in autism - nature.com/articles/s41380-0… #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic 🧬🧬🧬

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Our newest article in #Bioessays exploring the relationship between #Neandertal DNA and #autism. Enjoy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #anthropology #paleoanthropology #paleogenomics #genetics #evolution

Ancient genomes give insight into 160,000 years of East Asian population dynamics and biological adaptation link.springer.com/article/10…

Interesting meta-scientific take on the development of theories, as exemplified by the case of paleontology in the Modern Synthesis and the specific Late Turkana mollusk study of the punctuated equilibria. link.springer.com/article/10…

While not a slam dunk, this study shows it’s mathematically possible: Neandertals may have simply been assimilated. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together, when we succeed in experiencing authentic, informal bonds with the people around us. If we close in on ourselves, we risk growing sick with loneliness, or even narcissism, which leads us to care for others only out of self-interest. #GeneralAudience

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution "Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data" dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.7003…

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A genomic continuum from feral to wild Red Junglefowl in Singapore avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2… #ornithology

maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture (preprint) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

New online! The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens bit.ly/48rAZHW

Do you want to have a direct impact on Mast Cell Action’s projects and priorities? By joining our MCAS Voices group, you can help steer our efforts, provide feedback on upcoming initiatives. mastcellaction.org/mcas-voic…

Again, the theme of toxicity of environments in shaping macroevolution, gains momentus. This time in the hominid evolution! "...hominids were consistently exposed to lead over 2 Ma, contradicting the idea that lead exposure is solely a modern phenomenon" science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126…

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources - ABC News via @ABC - abcnews.go.com/Politics/spec…

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

Inter-band connectivity and climate shaped Neanderthal extinction and Homo sapiens’ dispersal preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Hey, I’m okay with tax money going to help support costs of emergency visits regardless of immigration status. Ya know why? ‘Cause I’m not a selfish evil bastard, that’s why. #GovernmentShutdown

As we age, the delicate equilibrium of our billions of neurons can teeter — sometimes with serious cognitive consequences. But new research into neuronal regulators is helping us better understand how to re-level things once the scale has been tipped. quantamagazine.org/how-the-b…

In swamps and marshes, people occasionally see mysterious blue-tinged flashes of light above water, which have commonly been associated with ghosts or spirits. Now physicists may have finally worked out what causes them. newscientist.com/article/249…

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers. Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in. It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates. Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively. This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized. This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too. Huge congrats to @ChristinaHartW, @_samirism, and the team for building this.

forgive me the Tylenol was delicious So sweet and so cold