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🧠🍄 Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms, temporarily resets entire networks of neurons responsible for controlling a person’s sense of time and self, finds a new study.
For @Nature w @realJoshSiegel @shansiddiqi @BrianMathur1
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I'm a reporter who covers neuroscience on @Nature's news team attending @SfNtweets's #sfn2023. What should I be on the lookout for? What isn't covered enough (or too much?) in the media?
DM me, and let's chat!
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WHO member states are working to draft a global agreement to prevent and prepare for future pandemics. But the latest version of the document lost some of its original strength. For @Nature, I spoke with a few public health researchers about this issue.
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SCOOP: Thousands of @NIH researchers file for union for first time
@nihfellowsunite is calling on the NIH — the world’s largest biomedical funder — to raise pay and improve benefits.
Read more @Nature:
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The debate over brain zapping continues @Nature
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Mexico is facing severe droughts. In response, the Ministry of Agriculture is implementing a rain-stimulation programme. Scientists don't think it works. Here is my investigation for @Nature. Thank you @laurenkwolf, you're an awesome editor and mentor!
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Independent scientists are working in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train derailment led to a major chemical spill last month. I spoke with some of them for this @Nature story (1/4)
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Dr. Lauren Wolf, PhD retweeted
"Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that there is volcanic activity on Venus." @robertrherrick and Scott Hensley are presenting their findings right now at the #LPSC2023
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The FDA will soon require companies and researchers to detail how they plan to enroll a diverse clinical-trial participant pool before they begin late-stage trials.
Read more in my latest for @Nature, with @millerbioethics, @Marianfknight, @thomasmd:
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The climate change emergency is taking scientists out of the labs and into the streets, sparking the debate of whether scientists should engage in activism.
Here's my first article for @Nature #ClimateChange #ClimateActionThe
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Dr. Lauren Wolf, PhD retweeted
We need to stop for a minute and rejoice at the fact that two of the most important science news outlets, @ScienceMagazine and @Nature, have two incredibly talented LATINAS interning with them! ¡¡Qué orgullo, @myriam_vidalv and @claulopezneuro!!
Dr. Lauren Wolf, PhD retweeted
With nearly 48k academic workers participating, the largest US higher-ed strike is now in its second week.
Research labs are shut down, many classes are cancelled.
What do the strikes mean for science? Here's my latest for @Nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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when @science_ari comes to town, you assemble the troops: 6 consecutive generations of @Nature interns, stretching back to 2019!
ALT Eight people are standing on a sidewalk with their arms around each other's shoulders. They are dressed in casual clothing and are all smiling at the camera.
Dr. Lauren Wolf, PhD retweeted
The monkeypox virus is mutating. Are scientists concerned?
In some samples, entire genes have disappeared.
My latest for @Nature looks at what these mutations might mean, and why researchers aren't too alarmed yet.
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Dr. Lauren Wolf, PhD retweeted
Tears of queer joy hearing about @CarolynBertozzi winning the chemistry #NobelPrize & Svante Pääbo in physiology, 1st openly LGBTQ+ STEM Nobel winners! Shouldn’t matter, but in a year with so much increased hate & violence it is so important to have these visible icons. #Pride
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"It was always my hope that, as a scientist, I could make some contributions that would benefit human health."
Listen to our conversation with 2022 chemistry laureate @CarolynBertozzi, where she shares why she wanted to become a scientist and the importance of chemistry:
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.@PNavals recently spoke with the newly minted #ChemNobel winner and LGBTQ+ Trailblazer @CarolynBertozzi about how inclusion in chemistry and her research in chemical biology have evolved: fal.cn/3stqR #LGBTinSTEM
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I managed to screen capture the last ~5 minutes of the DRACO camera live stream. Here's a sped up animation of what #DARTMission saw as it approached and impacted Dimorphos.