MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
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Disruptive Digital Darwinist 💀 #Neanderthal is in my DNA! 🧬 #Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com
The latest installment of “Problematica.” by Max Dresow All the better to catch you with, my dear🧪 www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026... This is about a lost image from the history of paleontology— an attempt to visualize Charles Walcott’s “Sidney crab” with its supposed feeding appendages.
🐍 Snakes We have studied them for a long time, and one of the oldest questions about them is: What turned snakes into snakes? 80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering 🧪 theconversation.com/80-million-y...
Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Cretaceous fossil snake, Tametara mirim gen. et sp. nov. Major ecological transitions occurred early in snake evolution, and known stem species do not represent the ancestral condition of crown snakes
Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico. Time to adapt to warm environments may have given North American mammals an advantage. A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange
The movement of taxa between North and South America across the Panamanian land bridge, known as the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), established modern-day mammal assemblages in the Americas...
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NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess🧪 www.wired.com/story/nasas-... We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.
RE: Geoengineering🧪 I think this is a bad idea. Even if it works... Bailing without fixing the hole in the boat won't prevent sinking. IOW... Maybe we should focus on stopping the emissions.
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 6d agoDeploying ocean iron fertilization — a strategy for carbon dioxide capture — in higher latitudes rather than near the equator could reduce environmental impacts while still achieving removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/4hJtalk 🌎🌊🧪
Wildlife doesn't recognize borders... As Trump rolls back endangered species protection, experts say Canadian wildlife is also at risk🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t... Animals that cross between the two countries could be affected by habitat loss or damage in the U.S
Trump weakened U.S. habitat protections. Canadian wildlife could pay the price | CBC News
The Trump administration is being sued by conservation groups over a change they say will weaken habitat protection for endangered species. In Canada, experts say the move could also harm animals that...
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Aquatic Deoxygenation Oxygen is Vanishing from Earth’s Oceans at an Alarming Rate Abundant interactions and feedbacks between aquatic deoxygenation and the other planetary boundaries suggest “unsafe” levels of oxygen loss with far-reaching impacts🧪 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’ Suggests combination of incentives to publish and use of LLMs will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined. The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science🧪 arxiv.org/html/2607.17...
#Caturday Neil deGrasse Tyson provides the ultimate proof that the Earth is not flat. 🧪
Cats just debunked the Flat Earth theory😼
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🔆 Have a good weekend! "The secret to life... is finding the right balance to everything you do." - Anon Have fun, play safe.
Hohle Fels Cave Over the past 3 decades, they have dug up one jaw-dropping find after another. 40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.
Phytoliths from Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai country (southeastern Australia) reveal the gathering of whole grasses for burning practices inside the cave🏺🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... Plant cells show grasses were burnt over many millennia. It appears the practice took place for ~25,000 years.
DNA uncovers a forgotten population at the top of the world Ancient genomes from Ladakh reveal 2800-year-old admixture between Tibetans and South Asians🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Reconstructing population history harder in South Asia than other world regions due to a paucity of ancient DNA
Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta🏺🧪 James Blinkhorn, @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, @huwgroucutt.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... The first quantitative assessment of long-term viability of Mesolithic populations on Malta.
This find gives researchers the most complete picture yet of a Homo antecessor group living about 850,000 years ago. During the 2026 excavation season at Gran Dolina in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, researchers uncovered 24 new human fossils from the Aurora layer🏺🧪 archaeologymag.com/2026/07/homo...
New Homo antecessor fossils show adults were also victims of cannibalism in ancient Spain | Archaeology News Online Magazine
New Homo antecessor fossils from Spain show adults, along with children, were victims of cannibalism 850,000 years ago.
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News from IPHES-CERCA @iphes-cerca.bsky.social & @palmirasaladie.bsky.social of 24 new human fossils recovered at TD6.2 level The Aurora Stratum reveals a much more complete population of Homo antecessor and confirms that cannibalism also affected adults🏺🧪 comunicacio.iphes.cat/cat/p/news/n...
L’estrat Aurora posa al descobert una població molt més completa d’Homo antecessor i confirma que el canibalisme també afectava els adults
Trenta anys després que el descobriment d’Homo antecessor revolucionés el coneixement sobre els primers pobladors d’Europa, l’estrat Aurora (TD6.2) de Gran Dolina ...
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Spatial organization of early H sapiens populations in North Africa during (MIS 5) remains a key question Reconstructing Prehistoric Waterscapes and Human Mobility during MIS 5 in North Africa🏺🧪 S. Boisard, @cdwren.bsky.social, @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, A. Burke www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Insights into hominin body size, locomotion, and behavior from Early Pleistocene trackways in northern Kenya🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... The large body sizes of track-makers support hypothesis that this hominin group included multiple adult males, offering rare direct evidence of social behavior
An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Suggests that crown Hominoidea might have originated during the Early Miocene in the underexplored northeastern part of Afro-Arabia, rather than in eastern Africa or Eurasia.
Humans May Have Spoken 75,000 Languages Just 2,000 Years Ago. Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction. The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔆 Good morning! ☕ A Cup of Qahwa... Did you know almost every language on Earth uses a variation of the exact same word for coffee? Every mispronunciation of coffee is simply the stamp of one passing the cup to the next! The Word for "Coffee" Crossed 5 Empires!🧪 www.youtube.com/shorts/4A4kd...
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social By the looks of the timeline you could probably use some baby raccoons right about now.
I've never been on FB... Never will. I always found Zuck the Schmuck to be creepy AF.
The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.Last week, Instagram's Adam Mosseri said that the social media platform will take down videos taken with Meta’s glasses that depict harassment. Attempts to curtail misuse are good, but the problem is Meta could have been doing this all along. Read more from @vicmsong.bsky.social: buff.ly/u2z4uwE
The Genetic Architecture Of Adaptations To High Altitude In Ethiopia: The Amhara People As A Case Study – Analysis 🏺🧪 www.eurasiareview.com/18072026-the... The Amhara are one of the world’s oldest high-altitude populations, with unique adaptive mechanisms that differ from Tibetan and Andean ones.
The Odyssey... of the Eye Tracing the origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops” Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eye🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Natural Selection... today Allele frequency trajectories across age groups reveal ongoing natural selection shaping disease susceptibility🧪 www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex... Large biobanks can function not only as tools for precision medicine but also platforms for examining modern human evolution
A Seizure Speeds Through A Brain In Fascinating, First-Of-Its-Kind Video Fast volumetric imaging of a zebrafish seizure model with adaptive optics light sheet microscopy🧪 opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext... Light sheet microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging live organisms.
