#Vertebrate

Birgit Szabo

birgit_szabo

1. We face temptation daily. Controlling impulsive behaviour (inhibitory control, IC) is key to navigating life – for humans and animals alikeResearch has revealed a wide distribution of IC across

Katie O'Reilly

DrKatfish

Today’s fish wouldn’t feel out of place at the North Pole! We begin the Northeastern US & #GreatLakes leg of the #Fishmas road trip by heading to far northern Maine

JepsonLab_UCL

JepsonlabU

Observation. Since moving into the neurological disease field, I've found that many (reviewers!) feel that animal models need to precisely phenocopy human symptoms to be 'valid'. A brief thread on

foone

Foone

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right?

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Did you know that our cells produce antiviral molecules that are similar to small molecules in antiviral drugs? And that bacteria make these exact same molecules to fight off infection

Dr. Tony Gamble

tony_gamble1

I was looking through some books today & thought I'd share a favorite. Arthur Loveridge's "Reptiles of the Pacific World" published in 1945 near the end of WWII. One of

Alex Lees

Alexander_Lees

Denial of scientific evidence and rejection of scientific methods is increasingly pervasive - in a new paper, written with Simon Attwood, @JosBarlow & @benphalan and available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01285-z.pdf

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill

JacquelynGill

Halloween may be for the supernatural, but nature can be plenty scary, too! It's time for Natural History: Halloween Edition! We begin with the Death's Head Hawkmoth. With a spooky

Chelsea Crooks

chelsea_crooks4

Excited to share my work to characterize African-lineage #Zika during pregnancy in NHP! Thread below with our primary findings:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.405670v1.full.pdf+html First of all, these studies take a vil

Carlos E. Perez

IntuitMachine

Walter Pitts, the other half of the duo that formulated the first model of an artificial neuron, burned his PhD thesis and drunk himself to death. Why? Ludwig Wittgenstein, after

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓞𝓯 𝓡𝓱𝓮𝓪

TheTweetOfRhea

Homo is the genus that all humans belong to. It began 2.3 million years ago and evolved from the genus australopithecus. Australopithecus possessed two of three duplicated genes derived from SRGAP2 roughly 3.4

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

It kinda irks me when someone describes a vital sign or lab value as “incompatible with life.”Here’s a @tweetorial all about the extremes of physiology.Case #1:A 10 yo ____ presents

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

1. Usually the ECM is thought of as a structural element, a scaffold to hold cells in place or provide tracks for cells to move along. Our newest paper, now

Neil Gemmell

ProfGemmell

Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here

Jess Miller-Camp, Ph.D.

DeadGators

I don’t want to do this. I really don’t want to do this. But talking to the person has revealed a stubborn refusal to listen and @SVP_vertpaleo, the main society

Lior Pachter

lpachter

New preprint from our lab on whole animal multiplexed #scRNAseq (WHAM-seq) by Tara Chari, Brady Weissbourd & @JaseGehring et al. collaborating w/ David Anderson, Evelyn Houliston @Clytia_Vlfr, and @richcopley. A

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