Okjökull ("Ok" for short) is one of 400 ancient glaciers crowning the mountains of Iceland; at least, it was, as it officially lost its glacier status in 2014 due to global warming. This is the plaque researchers put to mark the spot where Ok once towered ow.ly/3GQM50v8Jkx

You know you're married to a vision scientist when "I like your dress, it would make a good v1 stimulus" elicits no prediction error

Greta Thunberg at #UNGA: "This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words." Via ABC

Today the Supreme Court decides whether LGBTQ+ people are protected from being fired for how we identify/who we love. Many of us constantly live in fear that this could happen. Today's decision could solidify protections, or it could devastate lives. #RiseUpOctober8 🏳️‍🌈

Wanna lose your voice before lunchtime? Try #SfN19 😪

Very happy to have this out! Dopamine transients produce learning about antecedent cues, without making those cues valuable. nature.com/articles/s4146… Thread below summarizes our key points👇 Particularly proud as I spent experiment 3🤮 in a bin between squads while pregnant 😂

Check out my first first-author paper on the role of cue-evoked VTA dopamine in learning! Huge thanks to Dr. Melissa Sharpe Matt Gardner Mihaela Iordanova and the others, couldn’t have done it without you! 🐁

The Felidae family is subdivided between the "roaring cats" and the "purring cats". The ability to roar is made possible by a special two-piece hyoid bone in the throat. Cheetahs only have a one-piece hyoid bone, so they sound like this buff.ly/2VwrnGl

The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

Damn, Norway.

Thanks for that BBC

Look mom, I’m famous!

[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] One of the most pernicious racisms I see regularly is the myth that Africa has been an unimportant place in human history But the archaeology of Africa is incredible. Black Lives matter, and so does their history /1

My garlic has prefrontal cortex

Help us get this petition off the ground! We’re calling for standardization of 2SLGBTQIA+ medical education across Canadian medical schools