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Beating back the Aedes aegypti mosquito Scientists are taking a multipronged approach to tackle this dangerous carrier of dengue, yellow fever and other noxious viruses

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Journey to the egg: How sperm navigate the path to fertilization COMIC: Male cells must survive twisty passages, strong currents and immune attacks; millions enter, but only one can finish

A few months ago I worked with
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The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines

For her 2025 #PulitzerStaffPicks, Alexandra Waddell, Digital Content Coordinator & Research Assistant at the Pulitzer Center, selected "The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines," by @richardastone.bsky.social for @knowablemag.bsky.social.

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Getting along with grizzly bears In rural Alaskan and Canadian communities, reducing conflict between people and their wild neighbors means both species must change their behavior

The awards will be announced next week, on Monday, November 3rd. Congratulations to all the finalists!

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Getting along with grizzly bears In rural Alaskan and Canadian communities, reducing conflict between people and their wild neighbors means both species must change their behavior

A warm congratulations to @ljevanso.bsky.social, whose feature story, “Getting along with grizzly bears,” is a finalist at the Webster Awards 2025 in the category “Excellence in Feature Reporting – Print/Digital.”

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The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

“When an animal’s biological age runs higher than its chronological one, it can signal physiological strain — a kind of molecular distress flare that may go off before any other visible signs of problems.”

Highlighting research in Canada too.
🧪 #Canada #Stress
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The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us The more researchers look, the more multifaceted the risk factors appear — and the more we learn about how the brain works and develops

You can read this 2019 piece of mine examining research@ the time, which hasn't changed much since.

I'll add that "environment" doesn't just mean *waves hands* the air or uterus or food or medications. It also involves the influence of your own *gene products*

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How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.

Friday afternoon after a long week: cave-dwelling lifestyle sounding appealing? Dr. Misty Riddle interview may be of interest!

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The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

A new article in @knowablemag.bsky.social that highlights some of @levinewediuk.bsky.social's PD work with me and @colingarroway.bsky.social, along with many other efforts to bring epigenetic clocks into conservation efforts.

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Corruption: When norms upstage the law People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

✍️ Bob Holmes

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The other end of the weight spectrum: Very thin people Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

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Redoing this with tags because I forgot everybody is on Bsky now (Hooray!)

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Middle and low-income earners’ consumer confidence is plummeting, while high earners’ is going up.

Be warned: this spells doom for our consumer spending-driven economy.

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

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Unsafe at home: The misery of intimate partner violence Public health researchers explain the levers that can reduce — or worsen — this global blight. A bright spot: There are more data than ever on strategies that can help.

“It may be age-old, but not much has been done to address it. In many places of the world, it’s always been considered an issue to be dealt with behind closed doors. But the availability of data today shows just how serious the issue is.” knowmag.org/3JED7BK

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Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence? New research, innovative programs and emboldened advocates are challenging decades-old conventions about how to respond to domestic abuse

New research, innovative programs and emboldened advocates are challenging decades-old conventions about how to respond to domestic abuse.

✍️ Katherine Ellison

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It's not easy to read about, but intimate partner violence is truly a global problem. Public health researchers hope to find ways to reduce its many harms. Katherine Ellison interviewed Susan Sorenson and Heidi Stöckl for @knowablemag.bsky.social to learn more

What have researchers learned about the physiology and genetics of pregnancy at high elevation? This was discussed at a meeting convened last year in Cambridge, England.

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And check out the proceedings from the meeting (quoted below 👇) 🧪

How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.

Read in English:

How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again 👀

Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.

@timvernimmen.bsky.social's recent report is now available in Spanish👇

Estos peces de cueva perdieron sus ojos, una y otra vez Los tetras mexicanos que fueron arrastrados a cavernas completamente oscuras no tenían ningún uso para esos órganos que consumían tanta energía. Perdieron sus ojos de múltiples maneras —pero también…

Los tetras mexicanos que fueron arrastrados a cavernas completamente oscuras no tenían ningún uso para esos órganos que consumían tanta energía. Perdieron sus ojos de múltiples maneras —pero también ganaron algunas características interesantes—.

✍️ Tim Vernimmen

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When someone does something you don't like, what do you do? Call the cops? Complain on your local listserv? Keep silent? The impulse to tell is deeply human, but deciding to do it it is far from straightforward. A pleasure to edit this story by Emily Laber-Warren for @knowablemag.bsky.social

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How a mysterious particle could explain the universe’s missing antimatter The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated each other in a spectacular burst of pure energy. But it didn’t. New experiments focused on under...

If the Big Bang created an equal amount of matter and antimatter, why is antimatter vanishingly scarce in the universe today? SNOLAB is studying neutrino properties to answer this pivotal question. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...