Chris Faulkes

Mole-rats are go! More super powers😃

05.01.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How the cognitively resilient can swerve dementia Scientists are looking at how DNA differences could protect people from dementia – and how this can help others

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A few comments about our work on tau in naked mole rats with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social @moleratsarego.bsky.social and how we hope it will bring us closer to new dementia treatments. Part of #aruk christmas campaign #neuroskyence #alzsky #dementia

05.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Always exciting to see our local (North London) urban Kingfisher today on a favourite perch, blending in with the graffiti!😃 Often possible see 10-15 bird species on a 20 minute walk with the dog along the New River.

01.12.2024 17:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How does one join?

27.11.2024 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

go.bsky.app/QKajPgc
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added

27.11.2024 14:19 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 7    📌 0

Terrible Lizards: TLS10E11 Skiphosoura - the pterosaur of the gaps Skiphosoura – the pterosaur of the gaps So last week Dave had a new paper out and this time it’s a new pterosaur, named Skiphosoura bavarica (the sword tail of Bavaria) and it is both really interesti...

Rather late to the party with today's #TerribleLizards, but here's the new episode which is all about the new pterosaur Skiphosoura and what it tells us about pterosaur #evolution. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls10e11-ski...

27.11.2024 16:53 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 2

I also got Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas (very good) for the science and Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton for some history!

26.11.2024 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I must agree with this post, I'm now listening to this podcast for the second time and perhaps surprisingly there is some very cool science discussed in it too. I have bought three books off the back of it! Currently reading the excellent "Losing Eden" by Lucy Jones (discussed in Episode 2).

26.11.2024 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Moving from "Twatter" over to here now, it will take time to build up followers again. I haven't posted for ages there as it just got so awful! In an attempt to kickstart things again, here is not a newly emerged alien, but a recently new born naked mole-rat (with another in the background)!😃

26.11.2024 19:12 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony

Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀

Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare

21.11.2024 15:22 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2