The ghost of Golgi arises to challenge Cajal
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The ghost of Golgi arises to challenge Cajal
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He died rather soon after this show. Then I knew I had seen something of importance
Looking back at the setlist, it was killer.
Help->Slipknot!->Franklin's
New Minglewood Blues
Easy to Love You
Peggy-O
Masterpiece
Brown Eyed Women
Cassidy
Deal
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Looks Like Rain
Terrapin Station
drums
The Other One
Morning Dew
The Weight
Dating myself, but I'm always excited to hear a streaming recording of a show where I was present. My voice from the past is coming back to me
They once told you to never read the comments, but one of the best parts of social media nowadays is reading the comments on official government posts
Importantly, Kidd et al. IMPROVED the field and led to real genetic causes of autism or psychiatric disorders. But there are certainly environmental causes of childhood psychiatric disorders too. So the goal (hopefully) is not to necessarily disprove, but instead to IMPROVE 4/4
Some disagree: one of my mentors warned against spending too much effort to disprove flawed assertions. Gotta light a candle, perhaps. Kidd not only cleaned up the literature but made seminal contributions (importance of considering diversity in genetic studies, ironically) 3/
It's common for a field to develop "trendy" topics (I'm old enough to remember nNOS) and also trendy to tear down trendy topics. Such criticism is still important (e.g. Ken Kidd helped a lot by removing spurious genetic association studies in psychiatric disease) 2/
I've been a fan of @wiringthebrain.bsky.social for many years and notice that he spent a lot of time criticizing epigenetics and now he's laying into gut-brain axis. 🧵 1/
Happy neuroscience?
Saw this and thought you might try it. It involves several things you love youtu.be/bHOE-5uR3Xg?...
This essential truth applies to vaccine debates, political issues, and public trust of scientists: facts only helps humans justify the choice they are already making. To persuade anyone you must appeal to personal safety and identity first.
youtu.be/dtxjpLCVTMQ?...
Which Renaissance painting is this
The first paper for this year's medicine Nobel was NOT published in Science, Nature, or Cell. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Seems like those suing are non-profits, and those not suing are corporations. What's worth exploring is whether tech STARTUPS will sue, because the $100K system favors tech giants that can easily absorb the excess cost
My wife keeps telling me about that place. We're in Connecticut now and it seems so close but also so far if you know what I mean
... the right has been quite adept at this, simply bathing in hypocrisy as required to achieve the ends of destroying progressive and centrist ideals. Should the left take the same road? Or will holding to their ideals actually be the better choice for attracting support based on authenticity?
It's interesting work that highlights a typical poltical problem: ideology versus pragmatism. Making an ethical stand is important, but some consider that such stands might be futile unless power is achieved through pragmatic actions that might require compromising one's ethics...
What's the point? It's deserted? That's capitalism at work I guess
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When not private equity, it's often just greed or topheaviness
The one critique that shocked me was: "The NIH Director has never been the PI on an NIH grant". Not sure if that's true but I'm not surprised
So glad I've spent the last couple of days in the woods immersed in science and teamwork with @virusesimmunity.bsky.social, @yalecii.bsky.social, and colleagues, unplugged from media for the most part
Lol it's just for the photo - intent was to get the Sound in the background. Definitely not keeping the glass on that railing
That was Dennis Kucinich's idea. At least it was novel. Trump just went back to his favorite era: 1938. I remember last week when Trump said he stopped 7 wars and should get the Peace Prize; now he's all in on war
I made a chartreuse swizzle to start
A farewell to the summer with a suggestion from @anderseriksson.bsky.social : it's not Mountain Dew; it's a chartreuse swizzle (Chartreuse, pineapple juice, lime juice and falernum), which is orders of magnitude more expensive (glass from Cognitive Surplus)
Thank you for reaching out.
Yes some people were concerned about what I had disclosed, and others began to harass me just for being a researcher in the field. I deactivated the account to remove the previous disclosures and take a break from some of the haters
This paper is suggestive but not conclusive - it shows that dumping spike protein on human retina cultures induces beta amyloid that colocalizes with spike, and that similar colocalization is detected in postmortem retina from COVID patients. Very thought-provoking nevertheless
intersection of SARS-CoV-2 and beta amyloid gets at concepts that have bugged me for years: 1) that amyloid deposition is an antecedent of infection or host defense, and 2) that spike protein itself may have amyloidogenic properties. science.org/doi/epdf/10....
I made a post earlier about Fluorescence Friday, but some people say it's Fascist Friday because of the ouster of UVA president... to which I say I'm still going to do science for the public interest for as long as I can
new pathway discovered by Tomomi Yoshida, Andrew Wang, and tons of other great @Yale folks, described in this recent report @ Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...