Our newest paper announcing the discovery that some #Neanderthal DNA appears to be playing important roles in autism - https://t.co/DZnuRSz2Hr #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic 🧬🧬🧬

While not a slam dunk, this study shows it’s mathematically possible: Neandertals may have simply been assimilated.

Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together, when we succeed in experiencing authentic, informal bonds with the people around us. If we close in on ourselves, we risk growing sick with loneliness, or even narcissism, which leads us to care for others only out

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution "Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data" https://t.co/2tybKkd8G7

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A genomic continuum from feral to wild Red Junglefowl in Singapore https://t.co/UIAHbP736E #ornithology

maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture (preprint)

New online! The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens https://t.co/lAprxEZ8SX

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Again, the theme of toxicity of environments in shaping macroevolution, gains momentus. This time in the hominid evolution! "...hominids were consistently exposed to lead over 2 Ma, contradicting the idea that lead exposure is solely a modern phenomenon" https://t.co/T1mEW4hAk2

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources - ABC News via @ABC -

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Inter-band connectivity and climate shaped Neanderthal extinction and Homo sapiens’ dispersal preprint

Hey, I’m okay with tax money going to help support costs of emergency visits regardless of immigration status. Ya know why? ‘Cause I’m not a selfish evil bastard, that’s why. #GovernmentShutdown

As we age, the delicate equilibrium of our billions of neurons can teeter — sometimes with serious cognitive consequences. But new research into neuronal regulators is helping us better understand how to re-level things once the scale has been tipped. https://t.co/whgQm5eFwx

In swamps and marshes, people occasionally see mysterious blue-tinged flashes of light above water, which have commonly been associated with ghosts or spirits. Now physicists may have finally worked out what causes them.

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers. Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a

@VeryBadLlama forgive me the Tylenol was delicious So sweet and so cold

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

@EmLyWill @justsharens @GavinNewsom An FCC commissioner issued a statement confirming it. It’s on the FCC website:

I, now as the “college professor,” am not an cliche in a distant blue city or state. I’m an actual person. And I hope they remember me in their mind’s eyes when they think of “liberal college professors.” We’re human & we’re not the enemy. Any more than they’re mine. 4/4

The woman at the cash register tells me she majored in History in college. I say I love history (which I do!) & if I hadn’t gone into science I’d’ve been tempted by History. We have a nice conversation; we make a connection, short as it was. 3/?