A huge thank you to @erichjarvis.bsky.social, Lauren Shalmiyev, Giulio Formenti, Sadye Paez, our VGP co-chairs, and members of the Jarvis Labs for organizing the event, @amnh.org for hosting us at their planetarium, and our attendees for the lively and productive discussions!

Thanks for posting. I got so many good questions and insights from students and faculty, after giving the 2025 Jeanette Oshman Lecture at Baylor College of Medicine.

The authors suggest this may have allowed “speech-relevant neurons to accommodate elevated levels of FOXP2 without toxicity associated with protein aggregation”. This reminded me of the discussion of Parvalbumin in this paper on vocal learning by @erichjarvis.bsky.social

Thanks for the shout out Cedric Boeckx in noting parallels between this study and our study on convergent genes between songbirds and humans in speech brain circuits.

Thanks to the European Reference Genome Atlas for highlighting our review on #pangenome graphs.

Also big thanks to @erichjarvis.bsky.social and Christina Nowicki for their comments! 🙏

I will be attending the Stand Up for Science March tomorrow, March 7th 2025. I will be at the one in New York City, Washington Square Park, 12 Noon to 3pm. Please join me and show you support for Science in the country and the world.

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Amazing collaboration with @erichjarvis.bsky.social @neuro-cesar.bsky.social #YokoTajima asiepel.bsky.social
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