Translating as best I can

Non-scientist translation: Strokes are when blood & oxygen are blocked in parts of the brain. Recovery means we need to restore those blood pathways. We found special cells that help re-make those pathways. This is good! It helps us make treatments to encourage those cells to work faster & better.

Non-scientist translation: Crocs depend on the environment to control their body temperature. Since everything is getting hotter, they're having to change their habits to adapt, but eventually they're going to reach a limit they can't handle. This is bad because they are important to the ecosystem.

Non-scientist translation: we studied lots of fossils to see when spiders evolved their web-maker parts. This gives us an idea of what order spiders evolved in and what pressured them to make webs. It helps us understand history but also gives us ideas about how to use spiders in modern day.

Non-scientist translation: It's better to switch how we make energy than to try to capture pollution. Capturing the pollution costs more and takes more energy, which causes more pollution! Better to switch to energy that doesn't make pollution in the first place.

This study proves the model they made on the computer *works*- they used an egg cause it's easy to test their model in real life! But this computer model could predict more things - anything that needs layered and cured, like resin-based items. This model may be extremely useful in manufacturing!

I think most non-scientists can understand this summary, but will ask, "why does this matter?" This is not actually about the egg, but about using computers to model heating/cooking something with two phases- in this case, egg and yolk. Lots and lots of things have two phases, not just food.

whoops! reskeeting twice for non-scientist translation: We have a new cancer therapy that teaches your cells to fight cancer! This girl took the therapy and it has kept her cancer-free for a long time, meaning we can start to be confident your cells will remember and continue to fight cancer!

Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach.

CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach

https://go.nature.com/42XLYpK

Here is the pig butt study, where you can not only learn more about the worm, but also how to say pig butt in Latin:

core.ac.uk/reader/21626...

🧪🦑🐙🌊🪼

Birds of Paradise Glow on Their Mating Parade (Gift Article) The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals.

Birds-of-Paradise are nuts. We know this.

They dance. They build stages. They have bonkers plumage, some of which is "ultra-black". And now, scientists have just shown that they also GLOW, via biofluorescence.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

Gift link 🧪 #birds

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

film development! a lot of home labs use the sous vide method to keep temps consistent.

underwater crevasse and an eel bites your--

I don't know how to respect any research that uses AI like this. If you don't think it's important enough to put effort into writing/presenting it, why should anyone find it important enough to be read? It immediately downgrades my respect and trust in the researcher.

Non-scientist translation: if a cow gets bird flu, it can get passed into its milk. If the milk is treated with reeeaaallly high heat really fast (pasteurization) then it kills the virus and you won't get sick. But 'raw milk', which doesn't have that process, will still have the virus.

Done!

It won't let me message but I would love one!

Hi @richardmitchell210.bsky.social, I'd like to try to summarize your paper but I think I'm not grasping part of it and don't want to get it wrong. If you know how to start a DM (I am new and am figuring this out 😅) I'd love to chat!

Hey world! My lab is studying how humans perceive cat vocalizations. Are you willing to take about 10-20 minutes to help us out? All you need is a computer and headphones! Click this link to take our survey - FOR SCIENCE! tinyurl.com/yrmaa3dn

Please share! :)

Non-scientist translation: we studied hospitals that make money vs hospitals that are government funded. Patients say the hospitals that make money are way worse to be at, and it seems it only gets worse, not better, with time. Healthcare shouldn't be for profit.

Non-scientist translation: These guys turned microscopic special-soap bubbles into solar-powered chemical factories that can just hang out in water. Which is *wild*. And also really good, since water and light are pretty sustainable for projects like this!

Thank you for the shout-out! I'm just getting started but it's been really fun seeing the papers and research. The science here is both humbling and uplifting: so many people doing cool stuff! There's a lot of good news in science, too, which is great when the rest of the time-line is a mess 😅

Non-scientist translation: You know that whole "every action makes an equal and opposite reaction" rule? It works with molecules! But they were able to prove it with some cool moving molecules that go up and down but always balance. Knowing how molecules work helps us with medication and tech!

congrats to @c-swanson.bsky.social for the first paper that gave me trouble staying within the character count 😂😅

Non-scientist translation: We need chemicals for medication, but it's picky. Like shoes. You can't use the right one for the left, or the other way round. So they're hard to make. One spin and it's made wrong. These folks are using proteins to keep stuff from spinning, so they can make what we need!

Non-scientist translation: sometimes doctors are wrong. This is not new, but now we're finding new ways to diagnose the tough stuff!
It's also good to have studies like this, because it's important to acknowledge even experts get things wrong sometimes, and we can always try new things to improve!

Non-scientist translation: it is really important to figure out how animals socialize. But it's hard, cause they fly and move around and sometimes all look alike. These folks used math and cool computer chips, as well as some awesome birds, to test some new ways we can track animal friendships!

Non-scientist translation: The ocean used to be kind of acid-poison, so life couldn't grow. After a bunch of things like earthquakes and volcanoes, the ocean got mixed up with earth chemicals and now it's actually really good at not being poisonous. Which is awesome for beach days this summer.

Translation for scientists and non-scientists alike: a machine can't think like a person when it comes to figuring out which patterns matter and which patterns don't. Always remember your brain is the most important computer you have and use it!

Thanks for the shout-out! And to any researchers- I accept corrections/clarifications, please let me know if I get something wrong! Also if you see something I should translate, let me know. I am just getting my bearings on this site!

Non-scientist translation: Some trees grow less tall and make more babies when they notice climate change. This means trees change behavior based on the climate. Very cool, but it also means we can't expect plants to act like they did before we started messing with the weather.