What's the best way to study and learn? Why do people love Instagram? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of September 24-30 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science posts include some important health lessons on eating, drinking and sleep, findings that challenge our views on how planets form and black holes behave, and a 2018 Nobel prize. But there are many other topics touched on in 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:

What do beer bubbles, ice and nanoparticles have in common?
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• From Beer Bubbles to Nanoparticles: What is Nucleation? by Stephanie Mitchell at Sustainable Nano
• Is diet soda bad for you? by Mikael Angelo Francisco at Flip Science
• More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up by Anahad O'Connor in the New York Times 
• What Drives Our Quest for the Perfect Instagram Picture? by Krystal D'Costa at Anthropology in Practice
• Should You Pet Your Dog Before an Absence? by Zazie Todd at Psychology Today
• Podcast of the week: How To Study And Learn More Effectively by Christian Jarrett, with Nate Kornell, Paul Howard-Jones and Abby Knoll PsychCrunch at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• The Brain of Charles Hinkley by Romeo Vitelli at Providentia
• Nobel for helping the immune system fight cancer by Steve Mirsky at Scientific American
• Study: Irregular Sleep Increases Cardiovascular and Cardiometabolic Risks at Sci-News.com
• Spinal Implant and Physical Therapy Help Paralyzed Man Stand and Walk at Sci-News.com
• Cosmic conundrum: The disks of gas and dust that supposedly form planets don’t seem to have the goods by Adam Mann at Science
• Hawking temperature of black holes measured in fluid analogue by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction
• Why Aren’t Rays Of Sunshine Parallel? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why by Stephanie Pappas at Live Science
• Atiyah Riemann Hypothesis proof: final thoughts by Katie Steckles and Christian Lawson-Perfect at The Aperiodical 
• Scientists urge world leaders to scale up ambitions to protect global biodiversity by Mike Gaworecki at Mongabay
• Meet the Innu Forester Working to Save Canada’s Boreal Forest by Nicole Greenfield at NRDC
• Biologists irate at NSF's new one-proposal cap by Frankie Schembri at Science

Check back next week for more great picks!