Matt Higgs
@mj_higgs
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Wellcome Trust PhD student exploring the relationship between Imprinted genes and Parenting Behaviour. Interested in all things evolution, behaviour and ecology
Cardiff
Joined November 2017
Was an honour and a great afternoon! Thank you @GenSocUK and Mouse News Letter ššš§¬
Dr Matthew Higgs is this yearās Bruce Cattanach prize winner! Thank you to the Mouse News Letter for sponsoring this prize. šCongratulations @mj_higgs! https://t.co/zy2U8ggKC6
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Dr Matthew Higgs is this yearās Bruce Cattanach prize winner! Thank you to the Mouse News Letter for sponsoring this prize. šCongratulations @mj_higgs! https://t.co/zy2U8ggKC6
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Such an honour to receive this award! Thanks to @GenSocUK for choosing me and Mouse News Letter Ltd for supporting the prize. Big thanks to @ProfAntIsles for nominating and supporting me throughout. Check out the published work from my thesis here -
journals.plos.org
Author summary Genomic imprinting is a fascinating phenomenon that affects a small sub-group of the approximately 22,000 found in mammals. Unlike most genes that are equally expressed from both...
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We're delighted to announce Dr Matthew Higgs as the winner of the 2023/24 Bruce Cattanach Prize. Funded by Mouse News Letter Ltd, this prize is awarded annually for an outstanding PhD thesis related to the use of non-human in vivo animal models https://t.co/AOriwrM25N
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A new study discovers how "imprinted genes" shape parenting behaviors in mice. Turns out, the gene Magel2 plays a big part. https://t.co/lim9iloPPq
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Government Accidentally Shuts Itself Down With Ban On Non-Essential Businesses
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One of my all-time favourites. Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds, then look at an empty wall while blinking quickly. I promise it's worth it... https://t.co/l3P9NTxS8z
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On most controversial issues, there are people just as smart as you who believe the opposite of what you believe. It's _your_ job to find out why they believe what they do. If you do find out why, there's about a 50% chance you'll end up agreeing with them. Deal with it.
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"In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today." (h/t @stevenstrogatz)
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Elephants have their trunks; giraffes have their long necks ā and human beings have their ability to do this... (MRI of a person talking. Amazing!)
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Incredible visualisation: Birds migrating across Europe, tracked by GPS.
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The Dance of a Thousand Hands. Absolutely incredible.
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paper out! "most animal behavior is not the result of clever learning algorithms but is encoded in the genome. Specifically, animals are born with highly structured brain connectivity, which must be compressed through a āgenomic bottleneckā.
nature.com
Nature Communications - Recent gains in artificial neural networks rely heavily on large amounts of training data. Here, the author suggests that for AI to learn from animal brains, it is important...
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Love this program! This Philly summer camp teaches girls how to do construction.
inquirer.com
āI liked the electricians,ā says Khy Pullins, 13, who wants to be an architect. āI liked messing with the wires and making something work.ā
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Nice example of emergent behaviour. Each ball is just going back and forth along a straight line; in the aggregate, however, they give rise to something new: a rolling circle. https://t.co/W4dMUkvlE9
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The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that could make their own custard: they both lay eggs and produce milk.
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So many sociopaths. People on the left who can hardly contain their glee that the El Paso shooter was a white nationalist. People on the right who can hardly contain their glee that the Dayton scumbag is a leftist. Sickening, all around. We are such a hollow, empty people.
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"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." āCharles Darwin
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