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two really good and different pieces about attention and boredom that have me thinking a lot rn from @chrislhayes.bsky.social and Kate Lindsay (not on here?)

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-...
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The link between physical inactivity and accelerated brain aging

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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New article by my PhD advisor Erica Cartmill that does a fantastic job summarizing our lab's research on playful teasing in great apes! I bet you'll be ape-solutley tickled to read it (ok sorry I had to): www.scientificamerican.com/article/grea...

#primates #animals #humor #science #anthropology
Great Apes Joke Around, Suggesting Humor Is Older Than Humans
Studies of great apes hint at why and when clowning behavior evolved
www.scientificamerican.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Published in JAMA with #CCRdownunder:

In critically ill adults with suspected sepsis, antibiotic regimens were safely reduced when guided by measurement of procalcitonin but not by C-reactive protein. @criticalcarereviews.com

ja.ma/3BovM5v
December 9, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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The @Nature journal asked 6 biomedical scientists for a brief description for what should be the US gov't priority now. This was my response
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Competition is good! It’s been a while since Meta has had a competitor it couldn’t buy or copy (Threads can feature-match around the edges, but the big apps can’t decentralize in any real way)
We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj

Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
November 26, 2024 at 5:28 AM