Which animals talk with their pee? Which new electronic device has been approved to beat depression? Which of our articles this week is an April Fools'? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 1 - April 7, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this weeks' picks, a break from the norm as one of our articles is entirely nonsense in honour of April Fools'. See if you can guess which it is - answer provided below! On top of that discover new research supporting the well-known fact that cats are a**holes and why trying to forget something is so hard. Find these and many other important topics covered in the ScienceSeeker editors' round up of their favourite posts of the week within their respective areas of interest and expertise:

• Like Dogs, Gulf Toadfish talk with their pee by Meredith Swett Walker for Hakai magazine.
• Killer whales are insufferable gossips by Amorina Kingdon for Hakai magazine.

  

  "Whale you'll never guess what I saw Susan doing..."
  Credit: Christopher Michel via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• Cats recognize their own names-even if they choose to ignore them by Jim Daley for Scientific American.
• Research expedition: what ever happened to the world’s first certified sustainable shark fishery? by David Shiffman for Southern Fried Science.
• Brain stimulator device cleared for depression, insomnia by Alan Kotok for Science & Enterprise.
• Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than remembering it by Ibezim Chukwuemerie for Ibezim's Post.
• Sooooo satisfying by Dr. Melissa J. Glenn via On Psychology and Neuroscience.
• The Pyrenoid – Not your average cookie-cutter organelle by Janie Kim for Small Things Considered.
• Some cancers become contagious by Katarina Zimmer for The Scientist.
• Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star by Daniel Clery for Science magazine.
• Physicists create ‘Featherweight’ oxygen by Sci-News.com.
• Dear Dr B: Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light? by Sabine Hossenfelder for Backreaction.
• With half-measures against climate change, millions of people could feel the bite by Sarah DeWeerdt for Anthropocene magazine.
• On not being a PhD student anymore by Heidi Gardner.
• Baking cake without eggs - Finding the best alternative by Food Crumbles.

Check back next week for more great picks!

The April Fools article is the Hakai Magazine article about Gossiping Whales!