Follow up on the genetics of chills from art and poetry. This time, including chills from music too 🧵 ⬇️
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Follow up on the genetics of chills from art and poetry. This time, including chills from music too 🧵 ⬇️
🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other.
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis rdcu.be/ei6To - the neuroscience of loneliness... (in mice) 🐭😥
Excited to share our latest preprint -and the last chapter of my PhD thesis 🥳- on chimpanzee brain transcriptomics! We present the first-ever spatial transcriptomics data from a great ape brain. Thanks to everyone who made this possible! @profsimonfisher.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Could evolution have started before life?🧪
Sounds blasphemous, but lab studies suggest it's possible. Before survival of the fittest, "survival of the stable" could have driven the universe toward complexity — and maybe life.
Me for @newscientist.com:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑🤝🧑
Haha love it!
Really enjoyed and inspired by the Future of the Mind symposium on cognitive technological development and the translation into society 🙏🙏 many thanks to Donders institute and speakers 🥳 aaaand can we please invite a live cartoonist at every event???
What makes us so susceptible to the power of music?
Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But the story does not end here ...
This is figure 2, which shows thermophoretic enrichment of prebiotic organics in a single heat flow chamber.
A paper in Nature shows that heat flows through thin, crack-like geo-compartments purify previously mixed compounds and enhance their reactivity, providing a selective mechanism for separating molecules relevant to the chemical origins of life. go.nature.com/4amp648 🧪
