#PNAS

Computational Systems Neuroscience

nawrot_group

Would you be able to find a strawberry in a room full of oranges - blindfolded and relying only on your sense of smell? Drosophila fruit flies do it all

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: So the CDC just released data that said 94% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths had underlying medical conditions?A: FALSE.We’ve heard this interpretation is making the rounds, but it’s just

Jan-Willem Veening

JWVeening

New paper in which we built synthetic gene regulatory networks to control pneumococcal virulence in vivo. This project started in 2009 (!) so very happy to now see it out

Christopher Krupenye

ChrisKrupenye

phylogenetic & neural origins of human social cognitionv exciting to see an independent team successfully adapt our ape eye-tracking paradigms to provide the first evidence that monkeys can anticipate the

Zhigang Suo 锁志刚

zhigangsuo

Fatigue-resistant polymer networksToughness of natural rubber measured under monotonic load is ~10,000 J/m2.Fatigue threshold of natural rubber measured under cyclic load is ~50 J/m2.The large difference is due to dissipation

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

Things I should not have to explain in 2020 part 2: - SARS-CoV-2 exists- SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19This time, a (long) thread I think that when people make these claims- these

Wilson Lab CVR

WilsonLabCVR

New work from our @CVRinfo lab led by @virologist_atu revealing another innate immune 'defect' in horseshoe bats and linking this to why some people get more severe COVID-19:https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.05.2125668

Brennan Klein

jkbren

New preprint: When a new node (novelty) is added to a (protein) network, how (and why!) does that network's resilience change?Work from the @sfiscience CSSS, led by @aprilkleppe w/ @lholmerx

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

There are *so* many things wrong with this, starting with the implicit suggestion that an individual paper in @TheLancet carries particular merit greater than the body of scientific work as

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

CDC's updated webpage on how COVID-19 is spread & prevention tips is now (almost) in line with science!(WHO please do the same!)(Hooray! only 10 months into epidemic & when Trump

Elinor Karlsson

eenork

Remember March, the endless month? That was the month that the #covid19 #pandemic became real, at least where I work @UMassMedical @broadinstitute. Suddenly we were working from home, and a

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

BREAKING: Good news! Preliminary study of 10 patients with severe #COVID19 shows that after 1 dose of convalescent plasma:Virus disappeared in blood in 7 daysClinical symptoms rapidly improved within 3

Rewilding Science

RewildingS

1/ An exploration into the role of megafauna, ecosystem functioning and #rewilding is the topic of #rewildingscience today. Can we learn from the Pleistocene to influence today’s world for the

Colleen Ganley

colleenganley

I am currently doing a research study (funded by @IESResearch) about the relation between teachers' math anxiety and student math outcomes. Why? Because we actually don't really know if teachers'

Margaret Thornton, Ph.D.

MaggieEThornton

I've noticed a few folks concerned that the study demonstrating COVID spread and deaths as a result of schools reopening in Texas isn't peer reviewed, and I think that's a

Kris Sunderic, PhD 👨‍🔬

peer_revue

I'm undergoing a background investigation for a new job so I'm just going to highlight some empirical studies: African-Americans receive longer sentences on average than whites for the same crimes.