Chris Faulkes

Mole-rats are go! More super powers😃

How the cognitively resilient can swerve dementia Scientists are looking at how DNA differences could protect people from dementia – and how this can help others

www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20...
A few comments about our work on tau in naked mole rats with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social @moleratsarego.bsky.social and how we hope it will bring us closer to new dementia treatments. Part of #aruk christmas campaign #neuroskyence #alzsky #dementia

Always exciting to see our local (North London) urban Kingfisher today on a favourite perch, blending in with the graffiti!😃 Often possible see 10-15 bird species on a 20 minute walk with the dog along the New River.

How does one join?

go.bsky.app/QKajPgc
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added

Terrible Lizards: TLS10E11 Skiphosoura - the pterosaur of the gaps Skiphosoura – the pterosaur of the gaps So last week Dave had a new paper out and this time it’s a new pterosaur, named Skiphosoura bavarica (the sword tail of Bavaria) and it is both really interesti...

Rather late to the party with today's #TerribleLizards, but here's the new episode which is all about the new pterosaur Skiphosoura and what it tells us about pterosaur #evolution. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls10e11-ski...

I also got Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas (very good) for the science and Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton for some history!

I must agree with this post, I'm now listening to this podcast for the second time and perhaps surprisingly there is some very cool science discussed in it too. I have bought three books off the back of it! Currently reading the excellent "Losing Eden" by Lucy Jones (discussed in Episode 2).

Moving from "Twatter" over to here now, it will take time to build up followers again. I haven't posted for ages there as it just got so awful! In an attempt to kickstart things again, here is not a newly emerged alien, but a recently new born naked mole-rat (with another in the background)!😃

Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony

Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀

Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare