ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 19-25 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Santa’s Biggest Health Issue Isn’t Cookies by Steve Graff at Penn Medicine News
• Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time by Leah Crane at New Scientist
• Cellular Rejuvenation, For Real by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• Dircks and Pepper: A Tale of Two Ghosts by Gregory J Gbur at Skulls in the Stars
• Why does the ‘Windchill factor’ make you feel so cold? by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• Politicians' Most Bogus Science-Related Claims of 2016 by Vanessa Schipani at Scientific American
• Support Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 12-18 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• A Chemical Chorus by Andrew Hall at Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
• How the Universe changed in 2016 by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire by Rebecca Boyle at New Scientist
• The weak shall inherit the quasiprobability by Nicole Yunger Halpern at Quantum Frontiers
• Saving a Coral Reef, One Transplant at a Time by Alex Riley at Hakai Magazine
• Aging Is Reversible--at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice by Karen Weintraub at Scientific American
• Muscular dystrophy research is getting directions from lost muscle stem cells by Meredith Hanel at The Expression
• Why monkeys don’t speak English… by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
• Watson and Pfizer by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• The Like of Science – A New Impact Factor in the New Publication Landscape by Anna Leida Mölder at Euroscientist

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 5-11 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why Exercise May Be the Best Fix for Depression by Ferris Jabr at Scientific American Mind
• A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations by Jessica Gross at Longreads
• T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber at New Scientist
• The Elements redux by Helen Arney at Sciencebase
• Linking Gaucher and Parkinson’s Diseases by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don't Need Them by Maryn McKenna at Germination
• Can living fig-tree bridges save lives in a changing climate? by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
• Trump's First 100 Days: Science Education and Schools by Devin Powell at Scientific American
• What to watch for when science becomes politicized and Ask Ethan: How do gravitational waves escape from a black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang
• Nobel Prize Data Viz: The Fast and The Spurious by Sophie Mathias by biomolbioandco 
• Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe
• West World and Consciousness by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Neuroscientists use neurofeedback to erase fear in the brain by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Using Magnets on the Brain to Bring Back Memories by Janice Wood at Brain Blogger
• Book Review: Spaceman by Mike Massimino by Steven Spence at GotScience.org
• Los parques urbanos pueden ser un buen lugar para buscar nuevos antibióticos y antitumorales by Ignacio López-Goñi at microBIO

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 28-December 4 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Cold fusion died 25 years ago, but the research lives on by Stephen K Ritter at Chemical and Engineering News
• Influenza is coming by Olivier Bernard at The Pharmafist
• The Underground Map of the Elements – now with Nh, Mc, Ts & Og by Mark Lorch at Chemistry Blog
• Fires and drought cook Tennessee - a state represented by climate deniers by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
• Justin Trudeau approves two big oil sands pipeline expansions by Andy Skuce at Skeptical Science
• Global sea ice in uncharted territory by James Renwick at Hot Topic
• Why Should an Urbanist Care About Biodiversity? by Olivier Scheffer at The Nature of Cities
• Cat-tongues inspire new technology? by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
• High school students cheaply reproduced a drug that sells for $750 a dose by Kelsey D Atherton at Popular Science
• GSK set for 2017 European rollout of med device asthma app by Dominic Tyer at PM Live 
• Civic Online Reasoning by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• What Should We Do About Comments?  by Christie Aschwanden at The Last Word On Nothing
• Third molar agenesis: a puzzling case of recent human evolution by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog
• Death and a Union of Nations: How the Mosquito Shaped Human History by Xin Liu at Signal to Noise Magazine
• The Human Footprint on Mars is Expanding...Sometimes Faster Than We'd Like by Corey S. Powell at Out There
• How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life? by David A Weintraub at Nautilus 
• Your Brain On God: Reward and Motivation by Bill Yates at Brainposts
• Tell me lies: the truth about the deceptive ACC (dACC) at Neurocopiae 
• Thirsty before bed. Connection between ‘body clock’ brain area and ‘thirst’ area creates thirst before sleep, to maintain water balance overnight by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• Stuff and Starve: A Means of Holiday Binging or Healthy Eating? by N Hoffner at Neuwrite San Diego
• Never say Never! by Thony Christie at The Renaissance Mathematicus 
• Science Is Not THAT Special by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• The Landscape for Science post Brexit Anna Leida Mölder at EuroScientist

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 21-27 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Yo-Yo Dieting: Blame Microbiome and Fewer Flavonoids by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• 8 ways to hack your Thanksgiving with science by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
• Make America Informed Again by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Scientists Should Share Their Stories: More Important Now Than Ever by Karen McKee at The Scientist Videographer 
• Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's Antibody Does Not Work by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• 4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun by Alun Salt at AoBBlog
• Bad news for passport control: face-matching is harder than we realised by Alex Fradera at The British Psychological Society Research Digest
• The largest survey of opinions on vaccine confidence by Alex de Figueiredo, Ian Johnston, and Nick Jones at Systems and Signals Group
• A New Spin on the Quantum Brain by Jennifer Ouellette at Quanta Magazine
• Spawning Stars by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Diving into chilly California waters, understanding genomic differentiation and the role of gene transfer in marine cyanophages by Kelle Freel at The Molecular Ecologist
• How an effective drought reshapes an urban bird community (a thesis seminar) by Madhusudan Katti at Reconciliation Ecology
• Un nuevo mapa más preciso de la vida humana en la Tierra at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 14-20 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Rock Core from Dinosaur-Killing Impact Reveals How Enormous Craters Form by Alexandra Witze at Nature
• Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study finds by Kristin Hugo at PBS NewsHour
• The Impossible Space Engine is Back by Steven Thomson at Broken Symmetry
• Girl with terminal cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen at New Scientist
• Imagine: Listening to Songs Which Make Us More Generous by Jalees Rehman at The Next Regeneration
• Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing by Simon Oxenham at Brain Scanner
• Pupil Size and Intelligence by Neuroskeptic
• Why it’s hard to talk and make eye contact at the same time by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Brain and Blood, Diseases and Drugs by Catie Profaci at NeuWrite San Diego 
• Post-Truth by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog 
• Trump, carbon and the Paris agreement by David Archer at RealClimate
• Something really crazy is happening in the Arctic by Tom Yulsman at ImaGeo
• Rates of Hothouse Gas Accumulation Continue to Spike as the Amazon Rainforest Bleeds Carbon by Garry Rogers at GarryRogers.com
• Vaccinations, Vaccine Science, and a New US President by Peter Hoetz at Speaking of Medicine
• Measles: A Forgotten, but Formidable Foe by James L. Goodson at CDC 'Our Global Voices' 
• Beyond the Gut: Unlocking the Secrets of the Microbiome by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
• Picocavity confines light to smallest volume ever by Belle Dumé at Nanotechweb
• Oppenheimer's folly: On black holes, fundamental laws and pure and applied science by Ashutosh Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• Por primera vez se introducen genes editados con CRISPR en humanos by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 7-13 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Monkeys Regain Control Of Paralyzed Legs With Help Of An Implant by Rae Ellen Bichell at NPR Shots
• Microbes in costumes trick the immune system by Jennifer Tsang at The Microbial Menagerie
• The Genetic History of Horses by Katie Pieper at GSA Genes to Genomes
• World history visualized — from the dawn of civilization to the present day by Ollie Bye at Bookofjoe
• Ask Ethan: Could the Universe be infinite? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• Lise Meitner's 48 Nobel Prize nominations by Ash Jogakelar at The Curious Wavefunction
• Is daylight savings time really saving us a headache? by Becky Nevin at Cosmic Chatter
• Healthier Lifestyle Linked to Better Brain Function, Delay of Dementia at Science News
• Intimate-Partner Violence in Australia has a Shockingly Big Public Health Impact by Heather Nancarrow at Scientific American
• Neuromodulation and Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Part I Introduction by Manuel Casanova at Cortical Chauvinism 
• When the margin of error is decisive: Trump’s victory as a lesson for neuroscience, part 1 at neurocopiae
• Clinton’s and Trump’s personality profiles, according to psychologists by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest. 
• Physics Doesn't Care Who Was Elected President by Brian Kahn at Scientific American
• Conservatives elected Trump; now they own climate change by John Abraham at Skeptical Science 
• Trumped: Why the election is a symptom of a bigger problem at Lunatic Labs
• Sen. Warren: 'We Stand Up And We Fight Back': Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
• The dilemma facing journalism by Craig Cormick at Cosmos

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 31-November 6 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Don’t make a choice that your children will regret by David Archer, Rasmus Benestad, Ray Bradley, Michael Mann, Ray Pierrehumbert, Stefan Rahmstorf and Eric Steig at RealClimate 
• Greens, progressives: No, Clinton and Trump are not the same by Victor Venema at Variability Blog 
• Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works by Sebastian Anthony at Ars Technica
• Online Sociality Linked to Lower Death Risk by Christopher Intagliata at Scientific American
• Stem cells from schizophrenics produce fewer neurons by Mo Costandi at Neurophilosophy
• The Primate Paradox and Circuit Psychiatry: similarity between primate and human brains makes primate research potentially necessary for psychiatric cures, but does it also make it unethical? by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer 
• Printable Organs Will Put an End to Transplant Lists by Tobi Ogunnaike at Singularity Hub
• Making the microbiome part of precision medicine by Matt Wood at Science Life
• Oil Production Could Have Caused Century-Old California Earthquakes by Annie Sneed at Scientific American
• RealTimeChem Week: Turning Carbon Dioxide into Useful Plastics by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest 
• Archaeologist discovers a new style of Viking combat by Johanne Uhrenholt Kusnitzoff at ScienceNordic
• Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells by Leah Crane at New Scientist
• What Do We Really Know About Our Universe? by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Why quantum mechanics might need an overhaul by Tom Siegfried at Context
• Reproducibility is Critical by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• A seminar room of our own by Izabella Laba at The Accidental Mathematician
• Crystals And Catalysts: Does the public trust clinical trials? by Mariam Zaki at Crystals and Catalysts 
• The story of scurvy is a poignant cautionary tale for modern medical science by Liz Csaszar at Signals Blog
• En primer tren alimentado por hidrógeno funcionará en Alemania by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 24-30 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• HIV’s “Patient Zero” was exonerated long ago by Tara C. Smith at Aetiology
• The Chemistry of Mummification by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Horrific flesh-eating bacteria that killed man in four days expected to rise by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Using genetics to predict disease by Nazneen Rahman at Transforming Genetic Medicine Initiative
• Why ending poverty is key to reducing deaths from disasters by Megan Rowling at World Economic Forum
• Terrorists Hamper Polio Eradication Efforts in Africa by Maryn McKenna at Germination
• Absolute Firsts by Ken Regan at Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
• Academia Love Me Back by Tiffany Martínez at Tiffany Martínez A Journal
• Men are more friendly after conflict than women by Deric Bownds at Deric's Mindblog
• Brain drain reversal requires counter-intuitive support measures by Gergely Buday at EuroScientist 
• Virtual Trip to Mars Offers Ultimate Preview to Crewed Mission by Nadia Drake at No Place Like Home 
• The Martian Curse by Becky Nevin at Cosmic Chatter 
• Radiation, Brains, and Exploring the Universe by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go by Shannon Hall at New Scientist
• This mental quirk could explain why you’re always running late by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Your BMI might affect your brain function at Lunatic Labs
• Can Our Immune System Drive Social Behavior? by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger
• Sleep Offers a Window Into Human Intelligence by Lisa Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Causal complexity in life by Kenneth Weiss at The Mermaid's Tale
• El hielo de la Antártida se hunde en agua caliente at Amazings/Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 17-23 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• How the Pangolin Got Its Scales – A Genetic Just-So Story by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• How Much Does it Cost to Blow Up a Planet? by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• Is Planet Nine Pulling Us Closer? by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• The Microbiome at Ms. Beautyphile
• How sustainable is organic food? by Nancy Bazilchuk and Thea Myklebust at ScienceNordic
• Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump on science, energy, and the climate by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Nurses Are Caretakers, Not Scientists, Right? Wrong by Nalo Hamilton at Scientific American 
• Skeptics Question The Value Of Hydration Therapy For The Healthy by Taunya English at Kaiser Health News
• How Hackers Take Down Web Sites by Larry Greenemeier at Scientific American 
• Unique Wearable Tech That'll Change Your Life by Megan Ray Nichols at Schooled by Science 
• Best Shortform Science Writing July-September 2016 by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist
• Blame bad incentives for bad science by Bethany Brookshire at Scicurious

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 10-16 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• What’s With All Those Flaming Cell Phones? A Primer on Battery Safety by Bob Hamers at Sustainable Nano
• The Universe May Contain 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
• New Dwarf Planet Found in Our Solar System by Calla Cofield at Scientific American
• Would you buy a designer bag made from lab-grown human skin? by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals Blog
• Researchers help paralyzed man regain sense of touch through a robotic arm by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
• STEMinism: Chasing diversity and equality in STEM by Camila Londono at Signals Blog
• Training men to judge women’s sexual interest more accurately by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• The Science of a Happy Family – Leisure Time by Rick Nauert at BrainBlogger 
• Are we living in a conscious universe? by Patrick Smith at The Psychedelic Scientist
• When hot and cold tell lies – Four situations where hot feels cold or cold feels hot by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• Untangling a cause of memory loss in neurodegenerative diseases at Lunatic Laboratories
• Book review: Adventures in Human Being by Emily Hughes at Mind the Brain
• Modeling Misinformation by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• How the FDA Manipulates the Media by Charles Seife at Scientific American
• Honeycomb-like nanostructure creates electricity from light by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
• From Urinals to Printers: Enough with the Splashing by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Descubren levaduras que "comen" gasolina, una alternativa para descontaminar ecosistemas — Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología at Amazings/NCYT

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 3-9 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Nobel Prize 2016 – how yeast and mouse studies uncovered autophagy by Tom Holder at Speaking of Research
• How studying bakers’ yeast unlocked the secrets of our body’s recycling plants by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genomes
• Nobel Prize 2016: What Ohsumi’s discovery of cellular ‘self-eating’ means for cancer by Aine McCarthy at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• "Flatland Physics" Wins 2016 Nobel by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• Molecular Machinery: the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• Are the Nobel Prizes Missing Female Scientists? by Jesse Emspak at Scientific American
• That time 20,000 jellyfish orbited Earth by Emily Makowski at Sextraordinary! 
• The Real Reason Clowns Creep Us Out by Erika Engelhaupt at Gory Details
• The Visual Story of the Human Heart by Amanda Montañez at Scientific American
• Do Emojis Reveal How Horny You Feel? by Dermot Barry at Brain Sponge Blog
• Does ‘brain training’ work? by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Brain scan study reveals dogs attend to word meaning, not just intonation by Sofia Delenev at BPS Research Digest
• New Target in Brain for Treating Depression by Traci Pedersen at BrainBlogger
• The Science of Monster Storms by Jeff Masters at Scientific American
• Extreme Denial by Tamino at Open Mind
• Let’s Talk About Responsible Science Communication… by Christy Haynes at Sustainable Nano
• How did I become a mathematician? by Dana C. Ernst
• Vida basada en rayos cósmicos at NeoFronteras

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 26-October 2 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Terrorist Inside Robin Williams' Brain by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• How does the brain process emotions? by Sarah McKay at Your Brain Health
• To See, but not to See by Megan Kirchgessner at NeuWrite San Diego 
• Perceptions of Others’ Pain Rests on Perspective by Lisa M P Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Dark Matter: Did we just hear the most exciting phrase in science? by Jon Butterworth at Life and Physics
• Watch ESA’s Rosetta Orbiter Crash Land into Comet Again by Enrico de Lazaro at Sci-News
• Michelle Simmons: a quantum queen by Elizabeth Finkel at Cosmos 
• This Is the Worst Insect Sting in the World by Erika Engelhaupt at Gory Details
• First ‘baby dragons’ hatched in captivity reach adolescence by Julianna Photopoulos at New Scientist
• The First Baby Using New ‘Three-Parent’ Procedure Has Been Born by Claire Maldarelli at Popular Science
• New MIT app: check if your car meets climate targets by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Juice is not natural by Travis Saunders at Obesity Panacea
• ‘Eat a bleeping Dorito’: An elite runner and Stanford medical student addresses disordered eating by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• Infectious Diseases and Cancer by Mark Crislip at Science-Based Medicine
• Fail to Scale: Why Great Ideas in Health Care Don't Work Everywhere by Jeff Goldsmith and Lawton Burns at Health Affairs
• The Nobel Prize Medals (and How to Make Them Disappear) by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Tapping evolution to improve biotech products by Quinn Eastman at Emory Health Sciences Research Blog
• Microplásticos y medio ambiente marino at NeoFronteras

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 19-25 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Nail Polish Made From Ping Pong Balls? by Ms. Beautyphile
• The Chemistry of Paper and Polymer Banknotes by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The Slow Poisoning of the UK’s Bees (and What to Do About It) by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist
• Brains + Sex = Controversy by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Left Brain, Right Brain, Red Brain, Blue Brain by Barbara Spencer at NeuWrite San Diego
• How Different Parts of the Brain Co-operate by Bruno Dubuc at The Brain from Top to Bottom Blog
• Eyeing up intake: an Insight on overconsumption and diet by Sian Williams at Global Food Security blog
• Do Dolphins Dream of Space Travel? by Lucianne Walkowicz at Scientific American
• Quantum teleportation over 7 kilometres of cables smashes record by Anil Ananthaswamy at New Scientist 
• The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa by Emily Benson at New Scientist
• Map Shows Every River That Flows to the Mighty Mississippi by Betsy Mason at National Geographic
• The Earth is Changing on Human Timescales by Becky Nevin at Cosmic Chatter
• Why correlations of CO2 and Temperature over ice age cycles don’t define climate sensitivity by Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate
• Humboldt biography wins Royal Society Prize by Barbara Kiser at A View From the Bridge
• The Problem With Science Writing by Trevor Quirk at Nautilus
• Bacteria Evolving Resistance by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• Student Stress and USMLE Step 1 by Sukhjot Sandher at The Doctor's Tablet blog
• The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• Zuckerberg se une a Gates en su propósito de erradicar las enfermedades del mundo by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 12-18 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• If This Timeline Doesn't Convince You Climate Change Is Real, Nothing Will by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science 
• Expresso or Americano? Your genome has the answer by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance 
• Ask a Physicist: How Much Energy is in Me? by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• The Dawn of Biodegradable Robots by Jonathan Winfield, Jonathan Rossiter and Ioannis Ieropoulos at ACS Green Chemistry Nexus
• What you eat when you’re sick may determine if you’ll get better by Debora Mackenzie at New Scientist
• The Cancer Moonshot: Hype versus reality by David Gorskon at Science-Based Medicine 
• Where does the flu come from every year? by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
• The story of the first bone marrow transplant by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals Blog
• Finding mushrooms with your mobile phone by Ingrid P Nuse at ScienceNordic
• Cosmic neutrinos detected, confirming the Big Bang’s last great prediction by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• ABC and FLT by Bryan Hayes at bit-player
• Evolución de la resistencia a antibióticos en video by David Castro at Expresión Genética

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 5-11 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Comet Lander Philae Finally Found Just a Month Before the End of Mission by Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy
• Fifth fundamental force: fact or fiction? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Scientists need your help to build a quantum computer by Henrik Bendix at ScienceNordic
• Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper Deserve to be On Top by AHazard42 at It's Elementary! 
• Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs at PhysOrg
• In First, UN Will Consider Antibiotic Resistance  by Maryn Mckenna at Germination 
• It’s official: The five-second rule is down for the count by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Antimicrobial chemicals found with antibiotic-resistance genes in indoor dust at Lunatic Labs 
• Doing exercise may counteract some of alcohol’s deadly effects at New Scientist
• Biomaterials and the “ouch” factor in Olympics and sports by Hamideh Emrani at Signals Blog 
• The ethics and value of responsible animal research at Speaking of Research 
• Snails Are Going Extinct: Here's Why That Matters by John R. Platt at Scientific American  
• Genetic Choreography of the Developing Human Embryo by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog 
• Awe-inspiring documentaries could turn people away from science by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Why Humanities Majors Should Take Science Courses by Yoo Jun Kim at Sci Ed In the Lab and Beyond 
• Mind Games: Tetris as a Tool for Neuroscience #2 by Lexie Thorpe at Cogitales
• Can You Improve Physical Skills While Dreaming? by Carla Clark at Brain Blogger
• Un atleta lo hace mejor si le mientes sobre su marca by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 29-September 4 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Are We Eating Our Way To Alzheimer's? by Dermot Barry at Brain Sponge Blog
• Can Pokemon Go solve the physical inactivity epidemic? by  Peter Janiszewski at Obesity Panacea
• The Chemistry of Blackberry Colour by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• In Defense of “Pseudoscience” by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Wisdom is more of a state than a trait and No reason to smile – Another modern psychology classic has failed to replicate by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest 
• Neuron See, Neuron Do: The Mirror Neuron System and Clinical Implications by Jenn Tribble at Knowing Neurons 
• SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket apparently blew up during a test firing Thursday by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Ask Ethan: How many stars in the night sky still exist? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Hunting For the Most Distant Galaxy Cluster by Tao Wang at NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Blog
• How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe? by Lawrence M Krauss at Nautilus
• Americans Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before, Analysis Finds by Graham Readfern at DeSmogBlog 
• Jeff: My IBL Story by Jeff Shriner at A Novice IBL Blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 22-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Closest Terrestrial Exoplanet Discovered by AstroJake at The Astrophysics Journal
• Cassini prepares for its final, suicidal mission by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• When Will Life Exist? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Your Coffee Addiction May Be In Your Genes by Sam Lee Cole at Popular Science
• Behold the octobot—a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Why cancer is (still) more than just ‘bad luck’ by Emma Smith at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong review – full of life’s little surprises by Stephen Curry at The Guardian
• To diet or not to diet: what does your brain think? by Elena Vicario at NeuWrite San Diego
• How a Neuroscientist Came Around to Improv Comedy by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• The relationship between low physical activity and psychotic symptoms at Lunatic Labs 
• Effects of Emoticons on the Brain by Neuroskeptic at Discover 
• The beer brewing process - Beer science at home at Food Crumbles
• Obama Goes Big: Expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Makes It The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• Medusas, la invasión silenciosa by José Manuel Nieves at El Blog Ciencia Y Technologica por José Manuel Nieves
• Aquamess: Portraits of Garbage from the Top of the World by Carol Devine at Signal to Noise Magazine
• Summers in the redwood forest by Matthew Brousil at Dispatches from the Field
• Invasive species in developing countries by Dirk Steinke at DNA Barcoding
• An unlikely choice between a gasoline or diesel car… by Dasaraden Mauree at EGU Atmospheric Sciences blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 15-21 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Do intersex women athletes have an edge over the field? by Richard A Lovett at Cosmos Magazine
• A gold medal for tissue engineering? Engineered brain organoids lend insight to Zika virus pathology by Holly Wobma at Signals
• The Composition of the Rio Olympics Medals by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity by Tom Siegfried at Context 
• Bertrand’s Ballot Problem by Jim Propp at Mathematical Enchantments 
• Magnetic Bacteria Carry Drugs into Tumors by Isobel Maciver at Promega Connections
• Whole plant cells producing viral capsid protein as a poliovirus vaccine candidate  by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog 
• Single vs. Double-Blind Review: Is it really bad to let reviewers know who you are? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science
• Lluvias de rayos gamma y de polvo cometario by Ricardo Montiel at El Sofista 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 8-14 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Puzzling pool problems? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance by Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
• Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies by Leah Crane at New Scientist 
• This is Your Brain on Physics by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Where does the mass of a proton come from? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Polio rears its head again in Nigeria, after two years of no cases by Helen Branswell at STAT
• How the Knowledge of Locals Is Helping Google Build Better Maps by Greg Miller at National Geographic
• Everything is fucked: The syllabus by Sanjay Srivastava at The Hardest Science

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 1-7 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Facts about Zika by Malika Kumar, Nisar Farhat, and Jeff Maloy at Signal to Noise Magazine
• Microcephaly discoveries in non-Zika cases explain abnormal brain growth at Lunatic Labs
• If the Olympics Were Held in Space by Chip Rowe at Nautilus 
• The Perseid Metor Shower May Have a Strong Outburst of Shooting Stars This Year. Here's How to Watch by Phil Plait at Slate
• Life and the Universe by Maggie Aderin-Pocock at IAI News
• A typical British high tea - on the bitterness of tea at Food Crumbles
• Speedy the Tortoise and Altering the Genetic Code by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Parabiosis – The Next Snakeoil by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine 
• Depression and Men: Why It’s Hard to Ask for Help by Therese J. Borchard at World of Psychology 
• Hallucinations vs Delusions – What’s the Difference? at Brain Blogger
• Gender differences at the movies – women better at remembering rom-coms, men at remembering action flicks by Alex Fradera at BPS Research Digest 
• The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro by Hilary Rose at IAI News
• How Quantum Sudoku Demonstrate Entanglement by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• How volcanos collapse by Catherine Jex at ScienceNordic
• New research shows penguins will suffer in a warming world by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• No Introductions Necessary? by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
• Mike Pence does not understand evolution by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• How to Develop a Science Social Media Plan by Paige Brown Jarreau at From the Lab Benches
• Primera medida real del aumento del tráfico marítimo en el Ártico by Francisco R. Villatoro at La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 25-31 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Should Politicians Be Drug Tested? by Lisa Thomas at Analyte Guru
• How to name a caribou by Michelle Nijhuis at The Last Word on Nothing
• Fishing-induced evolution by Sébastien Nusslé at Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
• Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity by Sally Adee at New Scientist
• To improve your memory, try to get some space by Jarrett Lovelett at NeuWrite San Diego
• Why do antidepressants take so long to work? at Lunatic Labs
• Blink and you won’t miss a thing by Jen Martin at Espresso Science
• Differentiating Shame from Guilt: It’s Not So Easy by John Amodeo at World of Psychology
• Complaining and the Brain – How “Bad Karma” Is Created by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger 
• Cannabinoids Hold Promise for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger 
• Modeling Vienna’s traffic: air pollution and health by Anneke Brand at IIASA Vienna Nexus
• Explainer: what dust from the Sahara does to you and the planet by Jacob Adetunji at The Conversation
• A Tougher Turing Test by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
• Ice Bucket Challenge Funds New ALS Gene Discovery by Kate Baggaley at Popular Science
• We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated by Ahmed Alkhateeb at Nautilus
• Should we just abandon p-values altogether?‬ by Sam Watson at The Academic Health Economists' Blog
• Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
• Habits of highly mathematical people by Jeremy Kun
• Dark matter may be completely invisible by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Cómo se guían los colibríes para evitar colisiones a gran velocidad at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 18-24 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The cocktail of poison and brandy that led to Olympic gold by Kathryn Harkup at Notes and Theories 
• That’s the Spirit by Rowena Fletcher-Wood at Chemistry World Blog 
• It's Time for Scientists to Stop Explaining So Much by Amanda Freise at Scientific American
• Tiny ants move a ton of soil by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• Making Decisions on a “Hangry” Impulse by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger
• How City Living Can be Bad for Kids by Traci Pedersen at Brain Blogger
• A new map of the brain - what does it mean? by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws by Simon Oxenham at New Scientist
• How Does The Brain Organize Memories Across Time? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at BrainBlogger
• Brain activity and response to food cues differ in severely obese women at Lunatic Laboratories
• Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain by Joel Frohlich at Knowing Neurons
• Decoding Reading in the Brain by Lisa M P Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• It's time to recognise the benefits of medical data use by Jon Fistein at MRC Insight
• The Multiverse for non-scientists by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Diamonds Lead to Ultra-High Pressure Situations by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Noise and signal in Antartica by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• La moral es más irracional que racional by Sergio Parra at Xataka Cienciaz

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 11-17 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics by Chris Baraniuk at New Scientist
• Does target shooting make teenagers aggressive? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Do you really need to worry about baby wipes? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• Sticking germy fingers in your mouth may give you the upper hand on health by Beth Marie Mole at Ars Technica 
• #microbiome: unraveling truth from hype by Ella Epstein at Incubator
• Arctic Heat by Tamino at Open Mind
• Meteorologists shouldn’t just ‘stick to the weather,’ they should openly discuss climate change by Jason Samenow at Capital Weather Gang
• Physics Buzz: Did Rembrandt "Cheat"? Optics Paper Weighs in on Art History Debate by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• An Equation for the Origins of Life by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Metaphors and shapes by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-Patch
• The Mystery of Urban Psychosis by Vaughan Bell at The Atlantic
• Specialized neurons in emotional memory play important role in fear at Lunatic Laboratories
• More bad news for malaria vaccine by Tom Murphy at Humanosphere
• How to Get and Keep Your Video Viewer’s Attention by Karen McKee at The Scientist Videographer
• Why the new Wellcome Trust open review journal may be the science publishing future by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 4-10 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Physics of Fireworks by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Success! NASA's Juno Spacecraft Made It To Jupiter  by Shannon Stirone at Popular Science
• Jupiter & Juno – What Do We Already Know About Jupiter’s Chemistry? by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• What Most People Get Wrong About Einstein's Famous Equation by Positron at Physics Buzz
• Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers by Colin Barras at New Scientist
• Bacteria gene may help crops soak up more sun by Belinda Smith at Cosmos
• Just Keep Remembering (and Forgetting) by Megan Kirchgessner at NeuWrite San Diego 
• What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right? by Simon Oxenham at New Scientist
• How deep is the brain?  by Chris Baldassano at Rooting for the Machines
• False-Positive fMRI Hits The Mainstream by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• One step closer to reading minds, the representation of words in the brain by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• The Human Robot Virtuous Circle of Creativity by Norman Rusin at GotScience.org 
• Imprinting in Birds, and Why We’re Freaked Out by Robots by Emily Makowski in Sextraordinary!
• New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Lionfish invasion comes to the Mediterranean by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• A barbecue summer – but what about the charcoal? by Philip Strange at Philip Strange Science and Nature Writing
• Immunotoxins: a surprisingly less toxic approach to stem cell transplants by Holly Wobma at Signals

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 27-July 3 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why it hurts when somebody breaks our heart by Pablo Barrecheguren at Mapping Ignorance
• Brain training games don’t boost IQ. Here’s what does. by Brian Resnick at Vox
• Are the benefits of brain training no more than a placebo effect? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Can a Neuroscientist Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain? by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• Scientists Are Planting False Experiences Into Peoples' Brains, Inception-Style by Samantha Cole at Popular Science
• When matters of the mind meet ailments of the body: exploring the power of big data by Sarah Fox at The Brain Bank North West
• Does Our Heartbeat Influence Our Sensory Awareness? and Can Antibiotics Stop The Growth of New Brain Cells? by Sara Adaes at BrainBlogger
• Touch me, please by José Ramón Alonso at Mapping Ignorance
• Empathy for animals is all about us by Bethany Brookshire at SciCurious
• How Do Animals Keep from Getting Lost? by M. R. O'Connor at The New Yorker
• Honeybees Have Personalities (Sort Of) by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish
• Why Can't We Just Go With The Flow - The High Cost of Heating by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions as Rules
• Australian rodent first mammalian victim of climate change by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
• Ocean Acidification and Chemical Signalling by Andy Brunning, Mark Lorch and Christina Roggatz at Compound Interest
• ‘Chemophobia’ is irrational, harmful – and hard to break by James Kennedy at Aeon
• On target at The Economist
• Mummies and Cancer by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• The tiny little workhorses of gene therapy by Joost Snijder at Uncoating 
• A Good Little Girl by xykademiqz
• Humanity may be alone in the Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Using the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe to Measure Its Size by Phil Plait at Slate
• Thoughts on the future of math education by Kevin H. Wilson at mathbabe

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 20-26 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why Science-Based Medicine Matters by James Thomas at Science-Based Medicine
• “I saw things children shouldn’t see” – surviving a troubled childhood by Lucy Maddox at Mosaic
• The Best Online Bird Watching Since #BirdieSanders by Kalliopi Monoyios at Symbiartic
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy by Sophie Yeo at Carbon Brief 
• What The Brexit Means For Science by Lindsey Kratochwill at Popular Science
• Why can’t I stop? Internet addiction, compulsive gambling and other addictive behaviors by Matt Wood at ScienceLife 
• Using a cocktail of magic and fMRI, psychologists implanted thoughts in people's minds by Vaughan Bell at BPS Research Digest
• Monday Was Both the June Solstice and the Full Moon. How Rare Is That? by Phil Plait at Slate
• Vapor Explosions: Magic and Metallurgy by 'Positron' at Physics Buzz
• Is dark matter required for life to exist? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• The Neurocritic: In Oxytocin We Trust at The Neurocritic
• Opiates no solution to back pain - by Steven J Atlas at Harvard Health Blog
• Enlisting artificial intelligence to assist radiologists by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• Cancer, Elephants and P53 by Kayla Windelspecht at Ricochet Science
• Zika virus poses a greater threat than we thought by Steven Salzberg at Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
• A Motion-Sensor Switch for Antibiotic Resistance: My New Paper in the Journal Structure by Shaun Caldwell at Superhelical
• The Case of the Sugars that 'Strike Back' against HIV by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 13-19 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Educate Your Immune System by Moises Velasquez-Manoff at The New York Times
• Don’t forget all that dad has done for you.. and your epigenome.. this father’s day! by Jianqiang Bao at EpiBeat
• LIGO sees gravitational wave from second black hole death spiral by Lisa Grossman at New Scientist
• First Test For Machine That Could Change The Future Of Particle Physics by Ryan F Mandelbaum at Popular Science
• Missed The SpaceX Launch? Watch This Gorgeous New Video by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
• How do black holes eat? Like Cookie Monster! by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Modern mussel shells much thinner than 50 years ago by Matt Wood at Science Life
• It's the Rheo Thing: Throwing the baby (fish) out with the (ocean) water by John Specavek at The Rheo Thing
• Use of Dental Appliances in the Management of Tourette Syndrome by Grant Ritchey and Clay Jones at Science Based Medicine
• Why the FDA Should Lift the Blood Donation Ban on Sexually Active Gay Men by Jason Silverstein at Public Health Perspectives
• Modernizing the Other Side of the Counter: FDA Oversight of Nonprescription Drugs by Janet Woodcock at Health Affairs Blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 6-12 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• TETRIS! Seventh Row of Periodic Table Completed by 'Positron' at Physics Buzz
• The Periodic Table of Elements: Element Name Origins by Andy Brunning and Mark Lorch at Compound Interest
• Ask Ethan: Is the Universe expanding faster than expected? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Ocean Heat Comes Back to Haunt Coral Reefs by Rob Painting at Skeptical Science 
• Blowing hot air: Are wind farms really bad for your health? by Simon Oxenham at Brain Scanner 
• fMRI study of Shamans tripping out to phat drumbeats by Micah Allen at Neuroconscience
• How the mind fluctuates during meditation by K Overeem at Yoga on the Brain
• The Psychology of Genre by Tom Vanderbilt at The New York Times
• The Four-Dimensional Brain? by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• The Phenomenon of Déjà Vu by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• 'Unbroken Brain' Offers New Insights On Addiction by Alva Noë at Cosmos & Culture
• What the Science of Touch Says About Us by Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker
• Itching for Some Sun by Katie Delach at Penn Medicine News Blog
• The Immortality Hype by Adam Piore at Nautilus 
• Soon we will see ‘chrono-’ attached to every form of medicine by Jessa Gamble at Aeon
• If cryonics suddenly worked, we’d need to face the fallout by Rachel Nuwer at BBC Future
• To Fight Superbugs, Fight Poverty by Jason Silverstein at Public Health Perspectives
• How Junk Food Can End Obesity by David H. Freedman at The Atlantic 
• Fungi In Space! by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba
• Seeing from the Bacterial Point of View by Mizu Ota and Susan S. Golden at Small Things Considered
• DNA Cages Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs In A Flash by Florian Rosado at ReliaWire
• Low gravity and high radiation: Would humans remain human on Mars? by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour by Shannon Hall at New Scientist
• Inbred Neanderthals left humans a genetic burden by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genomes
• Immune To Evolution by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
• Dolphins Cooperate by Talking It Out  by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish 
• Just how big is a big proof? by Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor at The Aperiodical 
• What Rebecca Black and Lin-Manuel Miranda can teach us about science education by Anna Zeidman at The Incubator 
• What do you wish you had known before submitting your first article? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 29-June 5 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• No, a rat study with marginal results does not prove that cell phones cause cancer, , no matter what Mother Jones and Consumer Reports say by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Study that found cell phones cause cancer in rats is riddled with red flags by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• What’s all the fuss about glyphosate? by Kat Day at Chronicle Flask
• Why Did King Tut Have A Knife Made Out Of Meteorite? by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science
• The Simple Explanation Of Why E=mc² by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• ‘Supercharged’ blood? at BioDetectives
• Using CRISPR To Learn How a Body Builds Itself by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• Right on the nose by José Ramón Alonso at Mapping Ignorance
• The resting brain that never rests by Alice Bollini at Forging Connections
• Postdictive Illusion of Choice by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog 
• Peru’s Sacred Valley- Andean Culture With Some Geologic Context by Debbie Hanneman at Geopostings 
• Can we use mathematics to prevent crime? by Ignacio Amigo at Mapping Ignorance

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On toilet paper and poverty; Insights into ageing; A 5th fundamental force? May 23-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The cost of being poor, as told by toilet paper by Atif Kukaswadia at Public Health Perspectives  
• Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature? by Ryan Mandelbaum at Popular Science
• Schrödinger’s cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half  by Joshua Sokol at New Scientist
• How to hold a dead star in your hands by Kim Kowal Arcand at Starts With A Bang!
• Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time by Conor Gearin at New Scientist
• 176,000-Year-Old Neandertal Structures and Life in the Universe by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology by Peter Hoffmann at Nautilus
• Are our gut bacteria the key to immortality? by Gunnar De Winter at Fictional Fieldwork
• Mapping the effects of age on brain iron, myelination, and macromolecules – with data! by Micah Allen at Neuroconscience
• No, being kind to yourself does not make you weak or immodest by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• How the brain makes — and breaks — a habit at Lunatic Labs
• Brainwaves – A New Type of Fingerprint? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger 
• Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer by Robert Epstein at Aeon 
• Writing mental illness: 3 common mistakes by Daniel LaPonsie at Psychology Punk
• Genes Are Overrated by Nathaniel Comfort at The Atlantic
• Whispers in the womb by Andrew Katsis at Lateral
• Pheromones are probably not why people find you attractive by Alex Riley at BBC Future
• We mightn’t like it, but there are ethical reasons to use animals in medical research by Trichur Vidyasagar at Speaking of Research
• Preventing cancer deaths – American lifestyle choices by The Skeptical Raptor
• Don’t Be So Sensitive! by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
• When science and storytelling collide by Phoebe A Cohen at The Plainspoken Scientist
• An Attempt to Outline What Constitutes ‘Valuable Journalism’ by Matt Shipman at Communication Breakdown
• Scientists getting organized to help readers sort fact from fiction in climate change media coverage by Emmanuel Vincent at Real Climate
• Tracking the 2 Degree Limit by Rob Honeycutt at Skeptical Science
• Science Hits the Bar – The Chemistry of Cocktail Gelification by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest

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Video gamers solve science stumper; Watch a supernova; Travel without jetlag? May 16-22 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Video gamers solve a biological puzzle that has stumped scientists for years by Lucy Walker at Aeon
• Jet lag – the disadvantage of having a clock in the modern world by Andrew Beale at ADBScience 
• Watch the Expansion of Debris Hurled Into Space by a Supernova by Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy
• Coloring the Universe: How Beautiful Astronomical Images are Made by Peter Edmonds
• Shooting stars show Earth had oxygen eons before we thought by Jeff Hecht at New Scientist
• Ask Ethan: How many atoms do you share with King Tut? and Could a new type of supernova eliminate dark energy? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• April's Temperatures Broke Records For The 12th Consecutive Month by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science
• Cusco, Peru – Markets, Ruins, and a Geologic Puzzle by Debbie Hannerman at Geopostings
• I Think, Therefore I Am...a Bird? On Animal Intelligence by Emily Anthes at Undark
• Citizen Science Reveals Large-scale Effects of Cities on Bird Diversity  by Adeline Murthy at CitizenSci 
• Vultures are vulnerable to extinction by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• A DNA Sequencer in Every Pocket by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• The Reality of DNA Phenotyping by Greg Emmerich at Promega Connections
• Gene Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Preclinical Promise by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• What happens when pregnant mice are infected with zika virus? by Joost Snijder at Uncoating 
• Modern cancer is a man-made disease? Myth debunking by The Skeptical Raptor
• Cancer and the origins of life: The Age of Metabolism by Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• Quick Aspirin Use Reduces Stroke Risk in TIA by Bill Yates at Brain Posts
• Does Memory Reconsolidation Exist? by Neuroskeptic at Discover Magazine
• Mind-reading: understanding how the brain learns by Syed Hussain Ather at Heuristic
• New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness by Emily Singer at Quanta Magazine

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 9-15 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Sir Harry Kroto & Buckminsterfullerene by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Spiralling global temperatures by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• Can the Republican Party solve its science denial problem? by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Why scientists are infuriated with a New Yorker article on epigenetics by Brian Resnick at Vox
• A Secret Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints by Vero Greenwood at Quanta Magazine 
• NASA videos highlight using omics to study what happens to a body in space by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• BioDesign Studio Lets You Tinker With Biology to Make Something New by Lisa M Potter at KQED Science
• Understanding immortality, one slice at a time by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals Blog
• Zika virus initiative reveals deeper malady in scientific publishing by Stephen Curry at Occam's Corner
• IBM Creates A Molecule That Could Destroy All Viruses by Claire Maldarelli at Popular Science
• The Princess IS the Frog (A Guest Post) by Hayley Trzinski at The Scorpion and the Frog 
• Top 10 facts about the Big Bang Theory by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• And we're off! CERN declares start of 2016 LHC physics season by Jon M Butterworth at Life and Physics
• Number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy: Tens of billions by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Emotional communication by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-patch 
• Neuroscientists discover new learning rule for pattern completion at Lunatic Labs
• Good tests make children fail – here’s why by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Abacus gaining new respect among educators by Daniel LaPonsie at Psychology Punk
• Into the Mind of a Psychopath by Danielle Egan at Discover 
• The Trippy State Between Wakefulness and Sleep by Vaughan Bell at The Atlantic

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