
Jamilla Akhund-Zade
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Senior Bioinformatics Scientist @kariusdx | Ph.D. @debivort lab | Former Editor-in-Chief at @JEInvestigators. (posts/opinions my own)
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10-07-2017 19:14:28
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๐จHere you go: What we know & donโt know about monkeypox, & how to think about the current outbreak. One thing: Itโs unique partly because itโs, er, happening amid a pandemic. Our reactions are deeply influenced by the last 3 yearsโin good & bad ways. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archiveโฆ

Congratulations to Federico Claudi, Dario Campagner, and Tiago Branco on their work exploring the innate heuristics and rapid learning that support escape route selection in mice, published today! Read the news: sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-nโฆ



After many months, I'm proud to share our work on untangling genome assembly graphs with GNNs. Or, GNNome Assembly (sorry not sorry)๐งฌ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2206.00668 Code/Data: github.com/lvrcek/GNNome-โฆ with Xavier Bresson, T. Laurent, Martin Schmitz, and Mile Sikic. Read more in ๐งต



Why does one feel sick when fighting an infection? It's not only because of pathogens, or immunity fighting pathogens, its because of the brain! Here we (i.e Jessica Osterhout PhD et al.) discovered hypothalamic neurons that orchestrate sickness symptoms urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=httpsโฆ


not my impatient ass taking the marshmallow now instead of waiting for more marshmallows later ๐๐ โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐



Where did the pandemic begin? Was it from nature or a lab? Since the start, this fundamental question has gone unanswered. Until now. Out in Science Magazine: SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live animal trade at the Huanan Seafood Market. science.org/doi/10.1126/scโฆ

MILK TIME ๐ฅ! Have you ever considered that itโs a bit weird that you drink the milk of another animal, and itโs totally normal? Milk is a billion-dollar industry. A *HUGE* new human evolution paper just dropped, upending one of the great modern evolutionary ideas. ๐งต 1/n





So Dr Adam Rutherford is receiving a lot of skepticism about his tweet saying that if Cheddar Man has any genealogical ancestors today, he is the common ancestor of all present-day humans. Adam is correct about this โ I think this is such a cool finding, so I'll explain it below.

This is rubbish. Shame on Steven Pinker for spreading this misogyny. A ๐งต...
