What shape is the Milky Way? What Dark Energy discovery is shaking up the physics world? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 5 - February 11, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

You can get inside the brain of an introvert and find out how you can deal with eco-anxiety in this week's selection of the best and brightest posts from the science blogosphere. But there are many other important topics touched on in the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts of the week within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ selections:

• The brain of an introvert by Viatcheslav Wlassoff for Brain Blogger.

We all need time alone, but for introverts it's when they're
most creative.
Credit: Katia Romanova, used via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

• Helping mothers recover when the psychological trauma of giving birth lingers by‎ the Mass General Research Institute Blog.
• Attachment anxiety heightens aversion toward pattern deviancy, according to new psychology research by Eric Dolan for Psypost.
• Eco-anxiety isn’t new, and it’s time to deal with it by Glynis Ratcliffe for Asparagus Magazine.
• New 3D map of milky way reveals true shape of its stellar disc | Astronomy by Sci-News.com.
• Dark energy may not be a constant, which would lead to a revolution in physics by Ethan Siegel for Starts With A Bang.
• Is Sweat Up To Batt? Sweat as a Power Source for Screening by Elizabeth Joseph at Chembites  
• Heat-sensitive fabric cools you on hot days and warms you in the cold by Donna Lu for New Scientist.
• This is why global warming is responsible for freezing temperatures across the U.S. (and elsewhere) by Ethan Siegel for Starts With A Bang.
• 2018 ranks as fourth-warmest year for globe by Scott Johnson for Ars Technica.
• Cutting through the doom and gloom – how psychology can be used to promote climate action  by Pernilla Borg for Envirobites.
• Fancy some salt & vinegar with your shark?  by Harry Baker for Marine Madness.
• To grow or not to grow? Bacteria make seeds think! by Radhika Desikan for GotScience.
• [Commentary] Rewilding is an exciting, new narrative of recovery and hope by Prerna Singh Bindra for Mongabay-India.
• The Cancer Genome Atlas: A Roadmap for Cancer Research  by Rachel Cherney for OncoBites.

Check back next week for more great picks!