@floppyplopper ooh yes I remember we got quite good as kids at estimating the age of the ones we passed every day from the colour.

#politicallycorrect poopascooping has taken all the fun out of #crossspecies transmitted #disease!

DISCUSSION

What are your fave sci-fi tales dealing with cross-species friendships? Writers, what have you written?

#Discussion #Writers #Writer #WritersOfMastodon #Author #Authors #Writing #WritingTips #WritingTips#Bookstodon @Bookstodon #IAmWriting #SciFi #CrossSpecies #Aliens

New review on the “spatial cells” across different species! Looks very interesting:
Neural mechanisms for spatial cognition across vertebrates
Vinepinsky & Segev 2023

Small but important comment: it is perfectly normal for place cells to have multiple #PlaceFields ! Only in very small environments (<80cm diameter) will you mostly see single-field place cells. The single field is probably more the exception than the rule in the natural world.

#NeuroPaper #Review #Neuroscience #PlaceCells #HeadDirectionCells #GridCells #BVCs #CrossSpecies

RT @BockLab@twitter.com

Our “epigenetic zoo” is finally published! DNA methylation profiles for 580 animal species and 2443 tissue samples provide an evolutionary perspective on the epigenome.
Full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34828-y (open access) #epigenome #evolution #crossspecies #epigenetics [1/9]

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