What do coffee, ayahuasca, and being ill do to our brains? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 9-15 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

From South American psychedelic substances to coffee to sickness, many things in our world influence how we think and who we are. These and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

This neutron star is glitching. Image credit:
NASA/CXC/University of Toronto/M. Durant, et al.

• Alien Signals We Discover Could Be The Echoes Of Dead Worlds by Brian Koberlein at Forbes
• Three years of staring lets scientists capture a neutron star “glitch” by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Podcast of the week: Astrobiology and the Anthropocene by Alejandro Soto, Maeve Conran, Joel Parker and Adam Frank at How on Earth
• A quantum internet could revolutionise communication, computing and basic science, and it may be only 10 years away. But what is it? by Michael Lucy at Cosmos Magazine
• Caffeine causes widespread brain entropy (it's good, trust us we're scientists) by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Can Ayahuasca Prompt Neurogenesis? by Patrick Smith at The Psychedelic Scientist
• Why being sick can create anxiety at It Ain't Magic
• Drinking may have given me cancer. The alcohol industry has worked hard to bury the link by Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones
• The weekly alcohol limit still carries a risk of early death at New Scientist
• Hypothesized benefit from integrative treatments for veterans’ chronic pain fails to materialize by Jann Bellamy at Science-Based Medicine
• Engaging With Bad Science Episode 2 – What A Study Is And Why We Care by Gaia Cantelli
• Global warming may poison monarch butterflies, study finds by Morgan Erickson-Davis at  Mongabay
• The Hidden Coral Crisis: Loss of Fish Diversity After Bleaching Strikes by Todd Woody at Oceans Deeply
• Animal trainers are teaching wildlife to conserve themselves by Linda Lombardi at Mongabay
• A final dash across the United States: Updates from the 2018 March for Science at Science 
• Africa's unsung scientists finally get their own journal to spread research by Emmanuel Akinwotu at The Guardian
• 125-250 words, 15 minutes: Setting small writing goals to build an academic writing practice by Raul Pacheco-Vega

Check back next week for more great picks!