Just got back from Venice after being invited to do two social media workshops for the ‘Research Communication Week’ at the Unive Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Nice people, good food, beautiful place! Thanks for the picture Giulia Ballarin !

Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 2000 BC! But why did they go extinct? Were they doomed once stuck on the island? We went to Siberia, collected bones & teeth, and sequenced 21 complete genomes. Here is what we found (🧵) Paper in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Two great summer science-reads 👇 Read Johann Hari’s book “Magic pill” if you want to learn more about overweight, GLP-1 drugs, and food culture (mainly UK and USA + Japan for comparison). The author shares his personal story on battling overweight. Read Naomi Orestes and Erik

If research managers don't focus more on promoting 'kind' research practices, they will find it harder to recruit talented researchers, says professor Thomas Bandholm. He and Julie Midtgaard Michael Rathleff are behind a new 'kindness in research' initiative: uniavisen.dk/en/new-initiat…

We have just extracted a NEW global network of researchers and a global 100 scientist top ‘influencers’ on Bluesky. Lasse Hjorth Madsen and I show that scientists are in a series of distinct communities: mikeyoungacademy.dk/communities-of… 😀 All 'likes' and retweets appreciated!