MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
@mu-peter.bsky.social
Disruptive Digital Darwinist
💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com
💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com
So Erin, how many replies saying "they're all the same" did you get? ;-)
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So Erin, how many replies saying "they're all the same" did you get? ;-)
Oh yeah... no worries.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Oh yeah... no worries.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
Radiation never kills you, it makes you a superhero.
That they think this will fix things at Target is just one more reason not to shop at Target.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That they think this will fix things at Target is just one more reason not to shop at Target.
🔆 Happy #NationalSTEMday
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔆 Happy #NationalSTEMday
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
Every November 8th...
National STEM Day is a reminder of how science, technology, engineering and math help us to ask questions, solve problems and imagine a better world.
National STEM Day:
What is it and Why is it Important? 🧪
stemhunter.com/national-ste...
There's a loophole in that law...
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
There's a loophole in that law...
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
We are allowed to complain after our Thanksgiving if it snows here before the American Thanksgiving.
I like snow... when it comes in a paper cone and is covered in strawberry syrup.
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I like snow... when it comes in a paper cone and is covered in strawberry syrup.
Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia 🏺🧪
Emily M. Pigott, @katerinad.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Crimea has key Paleolithic transitional sites, including Starosele, where there's a new Neanderthal; Star 1.
Similar tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Similar tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas.
The Coastal Hypothesis:
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Coastal Hypothesis:
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
One possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Late Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the Cape coast, at the southern tip of Africa, are examined.
Evolutionary explanations of hominin evolution depend on a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the hominin fossil record that can only be achieved by integrating primary fossil data.
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Evolutionary explanations of hominin evolution depend on a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the hominin fossil record that can only be achieved by integrating primary fossil data.
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya 🏺🧪
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya 🏺🧪
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
David Braun, Ashley Hammond, Susana Carvalho et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shows environmental shifts, technological innovations, and pivotal factors in the trajectory of human evolution.
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.
Humans can think rationally and weigh the evidence
Whether other animals can also do this has been unclear
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Results suggest this pattern of belief revision was guided by explicit representation and weighing of evidence
Whether other animals can also do this has been unclear
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Results suggest this pattern of belief revision was guided by explicit representation and weighing of evidence
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Humans can think rationally and weigh the evidence
Whether other animals can also do this has been unclear
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Results suggest this pattern of belief revision was guided by explicit representation and weighing of evidence
Whether other animals can also do this has been unclear
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Results suggest this pattern of belief revision was guided by explicit representation and weighing of evidence
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process 🧪
www.space.com/space-explor...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com/space-explor...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process 🧪
www.space.com/space-explor...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com/space-explor...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
The normalization of (almost) everything:
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The tendency to normalize is a phenomenon that undercuts our response to many large-scale problems, from health, to gun violence, to climate change.
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The tendency to normalize is a phenomenon that undercuts our response to many large-scale problems, from health, to gun violence, to climate change.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The normalization of (almost) everything:
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The tendency to normalize is a phenomenon that undercuts our response to many large-scale problems, from health, to gun violence, to climate change.
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The tendency to normalize is a phenomenon that undercuts our response to many large-scale problems, from health, to gun violence, to climate change.
🔆 Good morning!
"Alone, we can do so little;
Together we can do so much."
― Helen Keller
"Alone, we can do so little;
Together we can do so much."
― Helen Keller
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🔆 Good morning!
"Alone, we can do so little;
Together we can do so much."
― Helen Keller
"Alone, we can do so little;
Together we can do so much."
― Helen Keller
👀 It seems to require one getting into the right... umm... spirit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
👀 It seems to require one getting into the right... umm... spirit.
Sheer wonder and a clear beauty...
In the vast tapestry of life, evolution has shaped some of its most intriguing masterpieces in the form of transparent animals.
How Evolution Created Transparent Animals
and Why Some Creatures Are Practically Invisible 🧪
discoverwildscience.com/how-evolutio...
In the vast tapestry of life, evolution has shaped some of its most intriguing masterpieces in the form of transparent animals.
How Evolution Created Transparent Animals
and Why Some Creatures Are Practically Invisible 🧪
discoverwildscience.com/how-evolutio...
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sheer wonder and a clear beauty...
In the vast tapestry of life, evolution has shaped some of its most intriguing masterpieces in the form of transparent animals.
How Evolution Created Transparent Animals
and Why Some Creatures Are Practically Invisible 🧪
discoverwildscience.com/how-evolutio...
In the vast tapestry of life, evolution has shaped some of its most intriguing masterpieces in the form of transparent animals.
How Evolution Created Transparent Animals
and Why Some Creatures Are Practically Invisible 🧪
discoverwildscience.com/how-evolutio...
New tool offers single-cell study of specific genetic variants
SDR-seq provides a powerful platform to dissect regulatory mechanisms encoded by genetic variants.
Functional phenotyping of genomic variants using joint multiomic single-cell DNA–RNA sequencing 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SDR-seq provides a powerful platform to dissect regulatory mechanisms encoded by genetic variants.
Functional phenotyping of genomic variants using joint multiomic single-cell DNA–RNA sequencing 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New tool offers single-cell study of specific genetic variants
SDR-seq provides a powerful platform to dissect regulatory mechanisms encoded by genetic variants.
Functional phenotyping of genomic variants using joint multiomic single-cell DNA–RNA sequencing 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SDR-seq provides a powerful platform to dissect regulatory mechanisms encoded by genetic variants.
Functional phenotyping of genomic variants using joint multiomic single-cell DNA–RNA sequencing 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm sad to say, it is indeed tragic... but not entirely unbelievable.
Carl Sagan was worried and warned about it,
👇 and note, Isaac Asimov said this, in 1980.
Carl Sagan was worried and warned about it,
👇 and note, Isaac Asimov said this, in 1980.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm sad to say, it is indeed tragic... but not entirely unbelievable.
Carl Sagan was worried and warned about it,
👇 and note, Isaac Asimov said this, in 1980.
Carl Sagan was worried and warned about it,
👇 and note, Isaac Asimov said this, in 1980.
Elevated mutation near crossovers inhibits the evolution of recombination
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggest that higher recombination rate evolves by altering steps in the crossover pathway that are less likely to inflict mutational damage.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggest that higher recombination rate evolves by altering steps in the crossover pathway that are less likely to inflict mutational damage.
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Elevated mutation near crossovers inhibits the evolution of recombination
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggest that higher recombination rate evolves by altering steps in the crossover pathway that are less likely to inflict mutational damage.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suggest that higher recombination rate evolves by altering steps in the crossover pathway that are less likely to inflict mutational damage.
🤔 The math says life shouldn’t exist?
But somehow it does!
The unreasonable likelihood of being:
Origin of life, terraforming, and AI 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545
The origin of life on Earth via spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question.
But somehow it does!
The unreasonable likelihood of being:
Origin of life, terraforming, and AI 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545
The origin of life on Earth via spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question.
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🤔 The math says life shouldn’t exist?
But somehow it does!
The unreasonable likelihood of being:
Origin of life, terraforming, and AI 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545
The origin of life on Earth via spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question.
But somehow it does!
The unreasonable likelihood of being:
Origin of life, terraforming, and AI 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545
The origin of life on Earth via spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From NASA to the NIH, agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Scientists speak out about irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From NASA to the NIH, agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Scientists speak out about irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From NASA to the NIH, agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Scientists speak out about irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From NASA to the NIH, agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Scientists speak out about irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.