#Mechanisms

1. I want the #Twitch & #GearOfWar community to know that @DomezTV played (and still does) my daughters healing. My daughter chose to become a survivor, instead of a victim.
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How do we form memories? That's a tough one. How do we study them? About equally as difficult.This 2014 letter in @nature takes an optogenetic approach to beginning to understand
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This is the inconvenient truth. The UK government signed an internationally binding treaty but did not put in sanctioning mechanisms for when the agreement is breached. SNP leader Jim Sillars
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I'm starting a "Paper a Day" series, where I *plan* to summarize the key results in a handwritten scheme. I tell my students that organic chemistry is best retained through
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1/ Heard this quote attributed to Dolly Parton:Storms help trees grow bigger roots.It is really poetic, but very misleading and is not how evolution works.Instead, it is the trees that
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I wanna talk a bit more about the way history is taught and how this in turn affects our thinking on historical objects, and how we relate to our history
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The "not a democracy" crowd is engaged in a dishonest bait and switch where reasonable limits on majority on rule are used to justify more expansive assaults on democratic rights
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A couple thoughts on this:(1) I'm not sympathetic to the assertion that reporters aren't talking about the Hatch Act. The news I read and listen to has been replete with
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“A Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States” @hrw paper on policing, recommendations for structural reform: Divest from policing, invest in communities, strengthen accountabilityhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/12/roa
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Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of
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We are all just experiencing first-hand how societal disruption feels like. Not comparable, but devastating for those affected can disasters disrupt societies. In a new study we have assessed the
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Thoughts on the mental health crisis among college students:The last few weeks I've seen the worst mental health among students I've ever seen. From a sociological perspective, it seems clear
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The World Health Assembly has adopted a landmark resolution for the global #Covid19 Response. 137 co-sponsors joined the resolution, championed by Australia, EU & w China joining. Below, I've highlighted
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I wrote that big-ass paragraph on Mayoi and it still doesn't cover all my thoughts on him...I feel like a lot of people immediately got very turned off of him
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why finding ur tribe is so important a thread the human brain is plagued to focus on our problems, its selfish by nature. however when considering the winnings/ problems of
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Virgo Pluto gen (50-68, boomers) taught their scorpio pluto children (25-37, millennials) that the world doesn't care about them, just like millennials are raising Capricorn Pluto's to build walls and
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