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Samuel Diamond

@samueldiamond.bsky.social

Science, music, cats, film (in no particular order). One day I’d like to go to Antarctica.

58 Followers  |  51 Following  |  46 Posts  |  Joined: 27.11.2024
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Think a 280-character limit is small? CSHL's Ben Cowley (@benjocowley.bsky.social) in collab with @princetonneuro.bsky.social and @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social, has recreated the visual system of the macaque - amonkey whose brains are closer to humans-using an AI model that fits in an email.

25.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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If you've never heard Blaq Kush's music, here's a chance to catch up while getting a glimpse behind what's for my money one of the most particular and unchecked viewpoints across all of hip-hop's multi-versal space/time continuums www.longislandrap.com/2026/02/blaq...

22.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Terence Crawford, 5-division champion, retires undefeated 3 months after upsetting Canelo Alvarez for undisputed super middleweight title, 'Bud' walks away 42-0 with historic achievements

Terence Crawford, 5-division champion, retires undefeated, walks away 42-0 with historic achievements. Read my story (free to all) & sign up for my #boxing newsletter: danrafael.substack.com/p/terence-cr...

17.12.2025 08:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Day & night: Cancer disrupts the brain’s natural rhythm | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “The brain is an exquisite sensor of what’s going on in your body,” says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. “But it requires balance. Neurons need to be active or inact...

Cancer’s been known to knock the body’s stress response out of sync. In mice, the Borniger (@jborniger.bsky.social) lab has found that stimulating key neurons at the right time can restore healthy stress hormone rhythms, bolstering the body’s anti-tumor defenses. www.cshl.edu/day-night-ca...

15.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smash Bros.

06.12.2025 16:05 — 👍 37    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 3

Always a pleasure Arka!

05.12.2025 02:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A purple, red and white crab.

Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/3438552539

A purple, red and white crab. Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/3438552539

The toxic crab (Lophozozymus incisus), a rare and very beautiful species found in warm waters the world over, including off the coast of Australia.

Toxic crabs can be incredibly dangerous, containing toxins that are similar to those of the pufferfish, called tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin.

#crustmas

04.12.2025 05:28 — 👍 154    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 2
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This too is Penelope

04.12.2025 19:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎶🐁 #neuroskyence

04.12.2025 12:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Rage Against the Machine, Gang Starr and At the Drive In

Rakim, De La Soul and MF DOOM

Lauryn Hill, Outkast and the Roots

McCoy Tyner with Gary Bartz

Yule Prog 4-10

29.11.2025 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shapeshifting cancers’ masters, unmasked | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Some tumors are almost impossible to treat. That’s especially true for carcinomas, which don’t behave like other malignancies. Some of these tumors act as shapeshifters and start to resemble cells fro...

Two breakthroughs in one! Two new studies from CSHL molecular biologist Chris Vakoc, published in @natcomms.nature.com and @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, help explain the bizarre behaviors of pancreatic cancers and lung cancers that can change identities.

www.cshl.edu/shapeshiftin...

24.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” was meant to be ironic. The doubling up of ‘far’ is the giveaway. It’s the future given Lucas’ view of the world in 1977.

21.11.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A little brainteaser I wrote:

Writing 'not unlike' is not unlike writing 'like', unlike writing 'unlike', which, unlike writing 'not unlike', is not like writing 'like'.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #WordPlay

18.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 1055    🔁 82    💬 111    📌 9

As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out!

This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors.

Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social

19.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 56    🔁 23    💬 8    📌 1

Congratulations, all!

20.11.2025 00:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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By @warrenellis.ltd.web.brid.gy with art by AJ Brady.

16.11.2025 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who celebrate

14.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory At first glance, Uplands Farm—12 carefully tended acres about a mile east of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) campus—resembles farms you might have seen before. Orderly rows of corn dominate t...

At CSHL's Uplands Farm, researchers are are cultivating corn, sorghum, and more to test the roles of different genes. Read more to discover CSHL's long history and exciting future in plant biology. www.cshl.edu/uplands-farm...

12.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Breast cancer case study could inform clinical trials | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory When researchers look for potential cancer therapy targets, they typically go after protein-coding genes that participate in disease progression. Disrupt them and negate whatever role they play in can...

CSHL Professor David Spector and grad student Disha Aggarwal examined tissue samples from a 59-year-old woman diagnosed with stage 1 triple-negative breast cancer. Their findings could help inform clinical trials of a drug targeting the long non-coding RNA MALAT1. www.cshl.edu/breast-cance...

10.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“To understand how our DNA shapes our lives, we have to address the question of how our experience interacts with it.”

That’s about the size of it.

08.11.2025 12:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A doorstop for the brain’s electrical gates | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory As information zings from cell to cell inside the brain, bursts of electricity spur its transmission. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), scientists have turned their attention to the tiny pores ...

A new study from the Furukawa lab (@lab-furukawa.bsky.social) identifies the neurological ‘doorstops’ that keep the brain’s NMDA receptors fully or partially open. The findings could have implications for treating neurodegenerative conditions like #Alzheimers disease. www.cshl.edu/a-doorstop-f...

29.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I have some of those

28.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Extinction Policy Agenda

26.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The hitchhiker's guide to the smelliverse with CSHL's Alexei Koulakov, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The hitchhiker's guide to the smelliverse with CSHL's Alexei Koulakov, Ph.D.

Synesthesia, shipwrecks, and African elephant all await you in the smelliverse! Get a guided tour from CSHL Professor Alexei Koulakov in our Cocktails & Chromosomes video. @alexkoulakov.bsky.social #NeuroSkyence youtu.be/b5i0gUz3O1I?...

14.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
Devil's Pie
YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic Devil's Pie

youtu.be/pB8HbMlptJE?...

15.10.2025 02:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Related and more painful

09.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🛸

09.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

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