Gunnar De Winter

It really is!

This is excellent science communication and a great example of making research tangible and available.

"A platform that brings together the best available research on how different treatments proposed for ADHD work and how safe they are."

#science #scicomm #writing #ADHD #health

Researcher Kiana Aran Spent Five Days in a Dark Cave to Study the Science of “Sensory Deprivation” As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments affect the body and the brain.

"Aran entered a cave chamber at “Within: The Ultimate Darkness Retreat” in Poland. For the next five days, she stayed isolated in a pitch-dark environment devoid of external sounds."

Where do I sign up?

#science #psychology #overstimulated

Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians to ever live, known for showing up at the door of others in the field and declaring they should host and feed him while they do maths together. H...

YES. Take my money.

#science #movies #mathematics

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Making Sense of Monitor Lizard Cognition: Ecological Drivers of Divergent Cognitive Evolution - Biological Theory Biological Theory - Monitor lizards, some of the largest and most ecologically diverse lizards, have traditionally received little attention in comparative cognition research. Although emerging...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Amazing opportunity!

Ant Altruism and Paleolithic Psychopaths A story of altruism, status games, and Leviathan's different guises

Double alliteration title!

That should be enough to convince you to read it, honestly.

#science #biology #evolution #history

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Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.

This is the stuff from which great science fiction stories are made.

#science #biology #evolution

Revisiting hominin scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory Scavenging has been a key topic in human evolution for decades, mainly focused on the ‘hunting vs. scavenging’ debate and the role of meat in the diet…

Instead of supreme hunters, early humans might have been (even) better as scavengers, possibly facilitated by vultures.

#science #humanity #history

(Also, read my vulture story in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/dewinter_01_...)

Barnacle gloop could improve inflammatory bowel disease treatments A "living glue" used by barnacles to attach to underwater surfaces could also seal gut wounds caused by inflammatory bowel disease

Living barnacle goop could be a new treatment for inflammatory bowel disease

#science #health #biology

Baseodiscus the Eldest: First Report of a Decades‐Long Lifespan in a Nemertean Species Nemertea is a speciose phylum of marine invertebrate predators ubiquitous in the world's oceans, which includes Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770)—the world's longest documented extant animal, yet m...

Okay, just getting started today and already too much cool science dropped (1/?):

Baseodiscus the Eldest absolutely smashes the longevity record for ribbon worms at 26 years old

#science #biology

Smart cow!

The Case for a Varied Life Don’t put all your eggs-periences in one identity basket

New article out about the benefits of living a varied life. Plus it has a picture of me in spandex! open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv...

Minimum combined sleep, physical activity, and nutrition variations associated with lifeSPAN and healthSPAN improvements: a population cohort study Modest concurrent improvements in sleep, physical activity, and diet were associated with meaningful gains in lifespan and healthspan.

Simple tips to add several healthy years to your life:

- Sleep eight hours
- Move for an hour
- Add an extra half serving of vegetables

Shocker, I know.

#science #health #lifetips

Medium Hot Chili Peppers

Well, that's a coincidence. I 'found' the meteorite in my 'Desert Beetle Song' story...

www.tractorbeam.earth/story/desert...

Don't sleep on Tractor Beam. They're doing great things with short fiction and really cool artwork.

#writing #writingcommunity

Exclusive: Have scientists found Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA? Inside the decadeslong quest to reveal the genes of a genius—and revolutionize art authentication

Exclusive: In a remarkable milestone in a decadelong odyssey, members of the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project report in a new paper that they have recovered DNA from Holy Child and other objects—and some may be from Leonardo himself. https://scim.ag/4aO5Wr8

Cell Press in the news

From miso in space to infrared contact lenses, lots of #CoolScience published in Cell Press journals made the news this year.

Wrap up 2025 with us and check out some of the most talked-about Cell Press papers below!👇

I know!

Small study in mice, but this is wild!

Transplanting human/primate gut microbes into mice boosted energy production and synaptic plasticity in the brain!

“In other words, we were able to make the brains of mice look like the brains of the actual primates the microbes came from.”

#science #biology

Pupal Soup On the past, the future, and the power of goo. Plus recommendations.

Before you settle down at a New Year’s Eve feast, let me hand you some soup. And bugs. And philosophers.

#science #philosophy #newyear

Pupal Soup On the past, the future, and the power of goo. Plus recommendations.

Before you settle down at a New Year’s Eve feast, let me hand you some soup. And bugs. And philosophers.

#science #philosophy #newyear

Pharmacologic reversal of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice and identification of potential therapeutic nodes in human brain Chaubey et al. demonstrate that restoration of brain resilience reverses advanced disease in two different mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), challenging the century-long dogma of AD irreversib...

Yes, in mice, but still... 👀

"Restoring brain NAD+ homeostasis reverses advanced AD in mice."

#science #health #medicine

New year's resolution:

Look upon my words, ye mighty,
and pay me for them