Katherine Borges

#AlphaGalSyndrome #lonestartick

“Hydrogen-rich water alleviates asthma airway inflammation by modulating tryptophan metabolism and activating aryl hydrocarbon receptor via gut microbiota regulation” #ISOGG #asthma #epigenetics #hydrogen

I thought this was a Monarch but my neighbor knew it was a Painted Lady butterfly. #Autumn #Autumn2025 #Fall2025 #November #PaintedLadyButterfly #butterfly #California

“According to the report: The mortality risk associated with high temperatures appears to be increasing over time, emphasizing the need for adaptation, even in high-latitude regions." #heartfailure #heartdisease

#Ozzy and #Harriet all snuggled up #caturday #catsofblusky #cats #kittens

Snowy Mount Shasta almost obscured by clouds

#MountShasta #Siskiyou #California #2Nov2025 #lenticularclouds

New #AI vocabulary term “Vibe Coding”: “…coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February. "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding,' where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists," #vibecoding #CRAIGEN @craigenorg.bsky.social

“But the new study, published Friday (Oct. 24) in the journal Current Biology, indicates these soldiers may have been weakened by fevers caused by B. recurrentis & then killed by paratyphoid (a disease unrelated to typhus), which is caused by S. enterica and spreads via contaminated food & water.”

“Our findings show that symptoms are more often triggered by fermentable carbohydrates, commonly known as FODMAPs, by other wheat components or by people’s expectations and prior experiences with food.”

“Chiari Malformation Type 1 occurs when the back of a human’s skull is too small to hold the brain, causing part of the base of the brain to herniate out the skull & into spinal canal. This can pinch, leading to headaches, neck pain, dizziness & severely-death if too much of the brain herniates out”

Sunlight beams down through the clouds on a ship

A rip in the clouds send beams of sunlight upon this ship at Fells Point, Baltimore. #Baltimore #Maryland #FellsPoint #ships

Live oak planted at the Old Stone House (Poe Museum) in Richmond, Virginia by the Thomas Jefferson Garden Club for the Bicentennial. #liveoak #poemuseum #richmondva #oldstonehouse #virginia

Red-tailed hawk in top of pine tree

#hawk #pinetree #Redding #ShastaCounty #California #nature

“Lithium was the only metal that had markedly different levels across groups and changed at the earliest stages of memory loss. Its levels were high in the cognitively healthy donors but greatly diminished in those with mild impairment or full-blown Alzheimer’s.” #ISOGG #epigenetics #Alzheimers #DNA

This sounds really interesting!

Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette FREE talk on 9 Sept 2025 at 20:00 “Isotopes and Ancestry: Exploring how Archaeochemistry can answer Genealogical Questions,” given by Dr Ashley McCall, an independent researcher based in Dublin. Join via Zoom ID 844 6097 4398 and passcode 66 18 37
#DNA #ISOGG #Ireland

“Scientists have found that neurons don’t just store sugar for fuel—they reroute it to power antioxidant defenses, but only if an enzyme called GlyP is active. When this sugar-clearing system is blocked, toxic tau protein builds up and accelerates brain degeneration.” #Alzheimers #dementia #sugar

Glad Ancestry is working to preserve privacy. Review the other genealogy AI Principles at craigen.org

“...the J-T group displayed higher FI score of mtDNA variants than other Euro macrohaplogroups, suggesting higher pathogenicity in the J-T group, whereas the H-HV group exhibited lower FI score of the mtDNA variants than other European macrohaplogroups, suggesting lower pathogenicity in H-HV group.”

Goal is “best available”…

Interestingly including random words “to take inspiration from” in the system prompt made a big difference.

“The genetic data for this study also provides further evidence that the Hay noble lineage originated in Normandy as they share the Y-SNP R1a-YP4138 with several individuals who have a surname of Norman origin.” #Normandy #geneticgenealogy #isogg

“When your cells are low on energy, AMPK kicks in to help them cope,” explains Dr Charalampos (Babis) Rallis, Reader in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology at Queen Mary University of London, the study’s senior author. “And our results show that caffeine helps flip that switch.” #isogg

“…the findings from the University of Oxford suggest "that the AS01 adjuvant itself plays a direct role in lowering dementia risk.”

Huzzah!

@emollick.bsky.social points out a conundrum of #AI literacy. @craigenorg.bsky.social Education principle: “The use of AI creates new opportunities and risks. Therefore, members of the genealogical community educate themselves about AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks to their work.”

“Future studies may then reveal the further potential for these novel constructs to deliver drugs that halt or reverse Aβ42 aggregation to the hippocampal neurons; simply by nasal administration.” #DNA #epigenetics #isogg #Alzheimers
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“Egg yolks also contain omega-3 fatty acids, which have neuroprotective benefits, further supporting brain health.” #epigenetics #Alzheimers #dementia #choline

“Over an average follow-up of 6.7 years, 280 participants, or 27.3 percent, were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Researchers found that 39 percent of the “total effect of egg intake” was linked to choline, a nutrient in egg yolks known to support memory & brain function.”
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Check accuracy as there could be hidden code in your LLM summary:
“…social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper…” #AI
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