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Handwriting leads to widespread brain connectivity - typing does not. 🧵1/10

What would have happened if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn high-grade masks during the COVID-19 pandemic? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just back from University of Florida giving a talk as the Dept of Biology student invited speaker. Thanks UF Department of Biology for a great visit!

WELL DONE, UWO Faculty Association! COVID is an #equity issue. We know better than to let this virus run rampant amongst our students, faculty, staff & communities. We can & must do better in post-secondary education.

Our paper was just published in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health. 🧵1/12

PMC COVID-19 Dashboard, Dec 16, 2024 🧵8 of 8 Please share the web dashboard, video, images, and summaries across all social media platforms. 🙏 With the wave coming on strong out of nowhere, we need to get the word out quickly. #SilentSurge pmc19.com/data

Type 2 diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance--there is too much glucose in the blood and the body metabolizes it poorly. Any approach that encourages the consumption of carbohydrates directly exacerbates the disease. I find a grim humor in the

“Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University said that they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections.” #LongCovid

Here's a website to help you find Canadian grocery products. Searchable. Made by a very clever 17 year old. Spread it far and wide. madeinca.ca

Wow, Canadians work quick. Some stores are already putting up signs to make sure their customers don't buy any American products.

AI provides a universal framework that leverages data and compute at scale to uncover higher-order patterns Today, Arc Institute in collaboration with NVIDIA releases Evo 2—a fully open source biological foundation model trained on genomes spanning the entire tree of life 🧵

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/41FhFDm

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. go.nature.com/43rWyFG

Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. Sir David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now:

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

Finally! It was about time these diets were taken seriously.

En este Día Nacional de los Páramos, voces de quienes lo habitan, lo cuidan y lo aman, nos recuerdan la importancia de protegerlo. El páramo es más que un paisaje: es cultura, identidad, sustento y futuro. Protegerlo es proteger lo que somos. 💧 #SinPáramosNoHayAgua

I want everyone on this website to think very carefully about this graph and then consider whether or not you need to reorder your priorities at all.