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The formation of Antarctica's vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been driven not only by falling atmospheric carbon dioxide but also by the slow uplift of the continent itself, according to a new study in Science. The findings highlight how interactions among tectonics, topography, climate, and ice-sheet dynamics can fundamentally shape Earth’s long-term climate evolution. Learn more: scim.ag/3SP1FMW

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Now accepting applications for the Max Planck-Weizmann Joint Postdoctoral Program in the fields of Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Mathematics & Computer Science Our benefits: • Competitive annual fellowship of up to €67,946 • Comprehensive, four-year training at two world-leading institutions • Enhance career perspectives • Travel support • Full benefits package, including full family health insurance, childcare subsidies, vacation days, relocation expenses, and subsidized housing Fill out the form for more information and to apply >> Deadline: July 1, 2026

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High Stipend Postdoc Fellowship in Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵 - Monthly allowance of ¥220,000 Matsumae International Foundation ( MIF) Research Fellowships Program 2027 in Japan Visit: scholarshipforphd.com/mif-research-f… Degree: Postdoc Many Fields/Majors Deadline: 30 June 2026

Today, the International Pathogen Surveillance Network, hosted by the @WHO Hub in Berlin, launched US$ 1.8 million in catalytic grants to strengthen genomic, wastewater & environmental surveillance in low -and- middle-income countries More info to apply: bit.ly/WHOIPSNfunding

Why AMPs? Unlike traditional drugs AMPs have been refined by evolution for millions of years to kill pathogens without triggering rapid resistance. Our review synthesizes latest evidence on their dual-action power: killing bug+boosting host.Appreciating @NehaWalter @BikashProf

What if one of the most debated relics in history is hiding a story far more complex than we ever imagined? The Shroud of Turin, long believed by many to be linked to Jesus Christ, has puzzled historians, scientists, and believers for centuries. First recorded in France in 1354 and now preserved in Turin, Italy, it has been studied extensively-including detailed examinations in 1978. But recent DNA analysis has added a shocking new layer to the mystery: nearly 40% of the human DNA traces found on the cloth are linked to Indian lineages. This has sparked intense debate. Did the fabric itself originate from ancient India, possibly traded through early Roman routes connected to the Indus Valley? Or was the cloth handled by people of Indian origin over centuries, leaving behind genetic traces? The reality is, the Shroud carries DNA from multiple regions, cultures, and time periods-making it less of a single-origin artifact and more of a silent witness to history's movement. Faith meets science, but neither gives a complete answer. And maybe that's what keeps the mystery alive.

MRI of a 33 year old shows how injections of filler never fully dissolves

'Male masturbation may have an adaptive benefit: it flushes out damaged, stored sperm.' New Oxford research suggests that the longer sperm are stored before ejaculation, the lower their quality, with implications for men trying to conceive and IVF treatment. Find out more ⬇️

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Optical clearing & time-lapse fluorescent imaging of Live mouse Brain (up to 800 μm of depth)🤯 SeeDB-Live is finally in peer-reviewed print (1.5 yr from Preprint)🥸 An acute olfactory bulb slice(P11) loaded with GCaMP6f (Ca2+ sensor) was imaged with #2PM at a depth of 150 μm during clearing with SeeDB-Live👹 @Shigenori774 @TakeshiImaiLab @naturemethods 2026 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Warmer winters and shifting rains are moving parasites into new territories. At #ICOPA2026, we’re digging into the data on how climate change is physically changing where diseases appear and how they spread. 🔗 bit.ly/4hPEzyb #GlobalHealth #Parasitology @WorldFedPara

A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! 😱 Thrilled to share another crazy paper from the lab (can’t believe we posted 2 in 2 days!), summarizing >10 years of research: Work on transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs in the powerful model organism C. elegans changed how we think about what’s possible in inheritance and evolution, because it allows the most heretical thing: inheritance of parental responses to the environment! However, it’s still unclear whether RNAs are inherited across generations in other animals, largely because the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases that amplify heritable small RNAs and prevent their dilution in C. elegans are not conserved in mammals. In this new work, an amazing collaboration with the Rink and Wurtzel labs, we show that planarians establish long-lasting and heritable small RNA–based gene regulatory states despite lacking canonical RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and nuclear RNAi machinery (that are required in C. elegans). You might say “they are both worms…” BUT planarians are evolutionarily very distant from C. elegans (flatworms vs. roundworms, diverged more than 500 million years ago), making this particularly surprising. These are totally different animals. We find that ingestion of double-stranded RNA induces sequence-specific silencing that persists for months and survives repeated cycles of whole-body regeneration. Even more strikingly, RNAi can be transferred between animals, echoing James V. McConnell’s controversial “RNA memory” experiments from the 1970s (his lab was targeted by the Unabomber terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who sent McConnell a bomb. This and other controversies ended this line of experiments…) Mechanistically, we find that the response transitions from a transient systemic dsRNA-triggered phase to a stable, cell-autonomous post-transcriptional “memory phase” maintained by antisense small RNAs. Using a new luminescence reporter (transgenesis is currently impossible in planarians), we show that silencing spreads along the targeted gene and identify a weird type of planarian small RNAs with untemplated polyA tails. RNAi inheritance without canonical RdRPs establishes planarians as a powerful system for studying RNA-based regulatory inheritance beyond C. elegans and raises the possibility that RNA-mediated inheritance may be more broadly conserved in animals, potentially even in mammals. Here’s a video of a planarian that is treated by RNAi against β-catenin and develops multiple heads instead of just one. This is one of the phenotypes that is inherited. Another phenotype is “loss of eyes” (which we show is not only inherited across multiple regeneration cycles, but can also be transmitted between animals in transplantation experiments). Amazing work led by first authors Prakash Cherian and Idit Aviram (co-supervised by Omri and me). Please read the preprint, the link is in the next tweet, and share!

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Reminder about the upcoming debate with Vaidya Vasundhara. LIVE STREAMING on YouTube tomorrow. 14th March, 2026 (Saturday) at 3PM (India) on Neuronz Channel. Please come for some entertainmemt. I'll be carrying Ibuprofen. @esSENSEGlobal youtube.com/c/neuronz