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... they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern: #schizophrenia, a serious mental illness affecting people across virtually every known society, appeared to be entirely absent in people who had been #blind from birth.
The observation sat largely ignored for decades, held back by limited understanding of the #disease and a lack of patient data
#MentalHealth #research #ScienceMatters #brain
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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...
#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research
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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...
#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research
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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...
#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research
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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...
#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research
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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition
In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...
#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research
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Community Announcement:
Upcoming event from our partners at Instruc-ERIC
Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Biomolecules
September 7-11, 2026 | CEITEC Brno, Czech Republic
Organized in collaboration with the Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility at The Central European Institute of TechnologyRegister here: https://instruct-eric.org/events/instruct-course-on-calorimetric-and-spectroscopic-characterization-of-biomolecules
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If you missed our March webinar with José Luis Vilas Prieto on Image processing made simple with ScipionTomo, you can catch up with the recorded version on YouTube.
More here: https://youtu.be/uE8ej9ZO-M8
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in March from Dhirendra Simanshu and Anna Maciag from the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in @Cancer Discovery: Discovery of BBO-11818, a Potent and Selective Noncovalent Inhibitor of (ON) and (OFF) KRAS with Activity against Multiple Oncogenic Mutants.
Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-1280
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in March from K. Christopher Garcia from Stanford University School of Medicine in Science: Overcoming T cell tolerance to tumor self-antigens through catch-bond engineering.
Read more here: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adx3162
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🏡 Here is the data analysis for Calgary, Summer 2025. This chart shows the relationship between vegetation density (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).
🔥 The data reveals a critical "tipping point": vegetation only starts effectively cooling the environment once it reaches a specific density threshold. Below this threshold (the left side of the curve), green spaces stay just as hot as the surrounding concrete.
Sparse or isolated trees don't act as air conditioners—they "burn" in the urban furnace right along with us.❗ What does this mean for Calgary? Simply planting a few scattered trees isn't enough. To actually move the needle on temperature, we need dense, healthy green belts. Otherwise, it’s just a waste of water and resources.
🔗 Link to the research: https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-summer-heat-a-2025-satellite-perspective/
#Calgary #UrbanHeatIsland #NDVI #ClimateChange #UrbanPlanning #DataScience #Environment #YYC #BigData #ScienceMatters #GreennessOfCalgary #ClimateOfCalgary #rstats #RemoteSensing #OpenScience
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Anthony Kossiakoff from The University of Chicago in @PNASNews: Conformational ensembles of the magnesium channel CorA reveal structural basis for channel gating.
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Alireza Ghanbarpour from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in Nature: Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers.
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Seriously wrong: Flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate change
Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance Boston, nestled at the northern end of the Fens, is on the frontline of the UK’s flooding crisis, which experts say could lead to some towns being abandoned as climate breakdown makes many areas uninsurable https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/boston-lincolnshire-flooding-reform-uk-richard-tice-climate -
SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Christopher Garcia from Stanford University School of Medicine in @SciMag : Structural ontogeny of protein-protein interactions.
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Oriana F. from Wesleyan University and Titus Boggon from Yale University in Nature Communications: Dual recruitment of two CCM2 molecules to KRIT1 suppresses KLF4 expression.
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In case you missed Joshua Mitchell webinar featuring Open Force Field Initiative, it is now available in our YouTube channel.
More here: https://youtu.be/4tyxCzrBreQ
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Ignoring science and hiding data is not policy, it is negligence. When health decisions follow ideology, people pay the price. This is corruption in plain sight. Public trust is being destroyed for politics. #PublicHealth #Accountability #ScienceMatters #StopCorruption
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Calling everyone in #Boston and #Massachusetts - today's the day! Come and join us at the National Day of Action Rally to #SaveScience, #ProtectHealth, and #DefendDemocracy. We need all of you there! #March7Boston #StandUpForScience #SUFS #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky 🔗 zurl.co/hoizg
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Vaccines save lives. Misinformation costs lives. Public health isn’t ideology. It’s responsibility. #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #ProtectChildren #ScienceMatters #Immunization #HealthPolicy
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This is beyond concerning. You won't see the damage right away, but the foundation of future US science has been badly weakened - and rebuilding could take decades, if it happens at all. #ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #STEM
U.S. government has lost more ... -
PERRY: It's clear that Aurora's lock-em-up crime policy is nothing but pokey hokie
‘The crux of all this is the Republican delusion that if you punish people mercilessly for committing any crime, people will no longer commit any crimes’
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PERRY: It's clear that Aurora's lock-em-up crime policy is nothing but pokey hokie
‘The crux of all this is the Republican delusion that if you punish people mercilessly for committing any crime, people will no longer commit any crimes’
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"When science is disbanded in the name of policy, public health becomes political theater—and the audience is the world’s children." L. Nault
#ScienceMatters #PublicHealth #PoliticalTheater #ProtectOurChildren #FollowTheScience
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Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare neurological disorder where the body’s immune system attacks the nerves, affecting about 1 to 4 people per 100,000 each year. It is rare! You need a lot of people to be able to do a study like this one.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25005882
#VaccineSafety #COVID19 #GBS #ScienceMatters #GVDN #Vaccines
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#AuthorLife #AmWriting #AmReading #IndieAuthor #BookLaunch #BookLovers #MustRead #NewBook #BookCoverReveal #ReadMoreBooks #ScienceBook #LabNotebook #STEMEducation #PhysicsLovers #LearnScience #ScienceIsCool #FutureScientists #ScienceMatters #ScienceEducation #ScienceForEveryone#Bookstagram #WritersOfInstagram #BookTok #ReadersOfTwitter #KindleReads #Bookish #BookRecommendations #BooksOfInstagram #BookMarketing #StoryTellersUnite #ManoBooks #GravityGateSeries #ScienceWithMano
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Brilliant work by #WhiteheadInstitute researchers and collaborators unpacking MECP2’s complex role in Rett syndrome - as both a gene activator and repressor. A powerful step toward more targeted therapies. #RettSyndrome #Neuroscience #Genetics #MECP2 #ScienceMatters #JaenischLab #YoungLab
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Hi Senators @heinrich.senate.gov and Mike Rounds - love the idea of accelerating science with your #ASAP initiative. Here’s a thought: how about STOP cutting funds to the #NSF for a start? That way, there might still be science left in the US by 2030! #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #USPol
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I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.
I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.
As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."
"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/
#art #sociology #psychology #neuroscience #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #neurodiversity #human #humans #people #person #personal #InTheLabDoingStuff #learning #philosophy #ontology #science #ScienceMastodon #ScienceOfScience #ScienceMatters #sci #SciPost #study #research #learn #explore #anthropology #system #systems #SystemsThinking #SystemsAnalysis #CriticalThinking #CriticalAnalysis #fun #interesting
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I have to disagree entirely about personifying the automated house in There Will Come Soft Rains (fantastic name), but otherwise yes. This is exactly my understanding.
https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/
It's also a good description of why I feel so confused by others.
People tend to feel more secure (than I do) in their identities as individuals, group members, and (neurotypical / neurodefault / neurorigid) humans.#art #sociology #psychology #neuroscience #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #neurodiversity #human #humans #people #person #personal #InTheLabDoingStuff #learning #philosophy #ontology #science #ScienceMastodon #ScienceOfScience #ScienceMatters #sci #SciPost #study #research #learn #explore #anthropology #system #systems #SystemsThinking #SystemsAnalysis #CriticalThinking #CriticalAnalysis #fun #interesting
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Aha! THIS is ideal science:
CURIOSITY, clear communication,
respect (actual) corrections from anywhere,
honest effort to test and learn, and
share what you know with anyone interested.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif0&t=4373
It's not easy, but these are each necessary. I'm using 'science' here like STEM or STEAM.
So I broadly refer to a scientific method but also engineering expertise, mathematical review, and humanities' impact on supporting any of this to happen at all.Ignoring currency hoarding by money addicts, the rest of us are here to enjoy contentment.
We can make real discoveries, inventions, and connect ideas to find useful applications.(Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.)
#Curiosity #Integrity #Testable #science #physics #grift #grifter #disinfo #sci #SciPost #ScienceMastodon #ontology #ScienceOfScience #ScienceMatters #ScienceResearch
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@rozeboosje (I just assumed it was German? aaaa I am terrible at placing accents tho.) Frustrating af part is she clearly has an axe to grind with physics / academia and so do I.
It's possible I might have *more* reason to feel spurned unjustly, since mine is "systemic ableism led to late diagnosis, but I didn't get even the minimal support I was offered and accepted".
But I still stick to my vision of a better life for everyone I can help because that's... the only thing worth doing?
beep.
Semi-related: I need to do a basic layperson's guide to science set of videos. A bit like Minute Physics or CGP Grey, but about 'null hypothesis' (which I still need to learn, tbh) and 'a control group'.
Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.
#Curiosity #Integrity #Testable #science #physics #grift #grifter #disinfo #sci #SciPost #ScienceMastodon #ontology #ScienceOfScience #ScienceMatters #ScienceResearch
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It sounds like Sabine Hossenfelder is inaccurately diagnosing (some) real problems (and some false ones) as being scientists' fault directly.
The problems are a capitalist (profit-focused) failure of resource allocation. This includes a structure of education that incentivises "work-ready" skills over critical analysis.
You don't need to be an expert! Literally just encouraged to try, fail, learn, and try again.
THAT is 'science' -- not the scientific method (precisely) nor the institution of scientific research on a given scale of human organisation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif0
#Curiosity #Integrity #Testable #science #physics #grift #grifter #disinfo #sci #SciPost #ScienceMastodon #ontology #ScienceOfScience #ScienceMatters #ScienceResearch
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I'm claiming Unification, not Perfection:
https://www.michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory_of_Energy.html
#physics #theoreticalphysics #unifiedtheory #energy #science #quantumphysics #relativity #futureofscience #einstein #newphysics #astrophysics #cosmology #particlephysics #fundamentalphysics #scienceexploration #scientificmethod #unification #gravitationaltheory #electromagnetism #thermodynamics #space #time #matter #sciencematters #scienceisawesome #nextgenphysics #physicslover #physicscommunity #energytheory #unified
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At least 237 wards were closed to new admissions prevent #Covid19 spreading to other patients
That compares to a total of 93 closures up to the end of July for all other infection incidents combined
The true figures will be higher, however, as NHS Dumfries and Galloway has not responded to a FOI request & NHS Lothian said it's unable to provide data
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23746393.hundreds-hospital-wards-closed-due-covid-outbreaks/
#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIdiots #Masks #MasksWork #ScienceMatters #hospitals #infection #pandemic #wards #Scotland
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