Our newest paper announcing the discovery that some #Neanderthal DNA appears to be playing important roles in autism - #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic 🧬🧬🧬

RT @Davey_F_Wright: I'll have more info when I get back from fieldwork but I'll be recruiting 2 graduate students to begin in 2026 (1 PhD,….

⁦@StreamOnMax⁩ WHYYYYYYYY?!? Where else am I going to obsessively rewatch DW over and over??? 😢😢😢

RT @manorlaboratory: My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to shar….

RT @Davey_F_Wright: what i mean when i'm talking about the "red, white, & blue" or the "stars and stripes"

George has christened and now claimed my soon-to-be office chair. Not sure how to break the bad news it’s not staying here. 😬 Wonder what SLU’s policies are on bringing your pet to work… 🤔😸

RT @karpathy: There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget tha….

A new study finds that photons (aka light) can actually pass through your head. Has some interesting implications for photosensitive neurons inside the #brain! #neuroscience #physics .

RT @Davey_F_Wright: The @SamNobleMuseum is hiring a Collections Manager in Invertebrate Zoology. Come work with us!.

Just in case you missed it earlier, my latest article exploring a molecular basis to #PunctuatedEquilibria. #Evolution #Biology #Macroevolution.

RT @PVMarcantonio: Une étude foisonnante @PourlaScience sur un possible héritage de l’#autisme provenant de l’#ADN 🧬de #Néandertal par @EmL….

RT @AndrejSpiridon4: This phylogeny of "living fossils" Coelocanths apparently suggests significant survival of many of their clades throug….

Anyone can use AI chatbots to 'vibe code.' Could that put programmers out of a job? ⁦@NPR⁩

RT @svalver: Douglas et al. show that up to 99% of evolutionary change occurs at branching points in genes, morphology, and language. A maj….

RT @svalver: Very excited to share our @Trends_Ecol_Evo review paper on #punctuated_evolution: a pattern of long-term stability interrupted….

RT @Dean_R_Lomax: Sometimes you just have to walk around with a giant ichthyosaur jaw bone in your backpack #FossilFriday .

Just out! My newest paper on "The Molecular Basis of Punctuated Equilibria." Thanks again so much, @niles_eldredge, for presubmission feedback! Such fun celebrating 50th anniversary of #PunctuatedEquilibria-- & thank you, @Trilolight for the invite! 😊.

Intensive lifestyle changes altered progression of early #Alzheimers. Very impressive!

I’ll be starting a new adventure next month as Assistant Professor/Basic Scientist at @SLU_Official St. Louis University. I’ll be joining the Neurology and Psychiatry departments and I look forward to doing even more work on #EhlersDanlosSyndrome and #neurodiversity! 🦓.

Hubby has a brother-in-law who’s a T supporter and declared my husband was “riding the woke train” in a response to a FB post. Normally, I ignore him but today I responded…

More severe #cannabis use linked with higher long term risk for #dementia