I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Thanks to our presenter @baptiste-piguet.bsky.social, PhD student in the @houseleylab.bsky.social, for delivering a session on neurodiversity today. Great primer offering the opportunity to learn and to consider preconceptions and the narrative around neurodiversity.

Babraham and blossom looking beautiful today. Snapped this on my way to listen to a presentation on neurodiversity as part of our EDI initiative. Informative session by
@houseleylab.bsky.social PhD student @baptiste-piguet.bsky.social. Thank you!👏

I was wondering why some systems are far more intelligent than their individual components (for example, a computer vs transistors, a brain vs neurons) while human groups seem, at best, as intelligent as their smartest member. What answers do we have today?

And this doesn't even include the researchers who already have left. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚀 Huge News! Cambridge Longevity Society is hosting Steve Horvath, creator of the 1st epigenetic ageing clock🧬⏳!

📅 April 2, 2025
⏰ 2 PM
📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Dept. of Chemistry

✨ Supported by @BGI_Genomics

Free & open to all! Register using our poster's QR code 📲

Saw this in a bistro window today and it made laugh 🧪

Hi to our most recent followers!

@baptiste-piguet.bsky.social
@babrahaminst.bsky.social
@elianods.bsky.social
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Starting a new social media channel is awesome, it's great to see some new and familiar names joining us here.

Another one on obesity & epigenetics. Chao et al. show maternal obesity disrupts offspring metabolism via oocyte DNA hypermethylation, regulated by melatonin through the cAMP/PKA/CREB pathway. Melatonin treatment restores balance! 🧪 Read more: https://buff.ly/49vl1Lp @elife.bsky.social

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4