Michael Marshall
@m_c_marshall
Freelance science writer covering biology, health and environment. He/him. Get my first book "The Genesis Quest" at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/michaelmarshall
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If you need a present for the curious person / nerd in your life, my book The Genesis Quest is what you want It's about how life on Earth began - one of the biggest mysteries in science - and it's full of fascinating ideas and personalities THREAD🧵 on where to buy it: 1/9
Feedback in @NewScientist: How can you find out how old a boat is? Look at its berth certificate. Yes, it's the science of dad jokes. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
🚨 My first story for @doctors_net_uk 🚨 The incredible rise in diagnoses of autism and ADHD has fuelled claims of overdiagnosis. There might be some, but overall both conditions remain UNDERdiagnosed. (hard paywall, don't @ me) news.doctors.net.uk/analysis/IphM5…
Space geeks: Feedback in @NewScientist has figured out how to get invited to visit NASA. You just have to behave a bit more like Kim Kardashian. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
Our Human Story, in @NewScientist: After 60 years of exploration, the Omo-Turkana basin in east Africa is still yielding new secrets about human evolution and prehistory. newscientist.com/article/250389…
Feedback in @NewScientist: Some bright spark has built a robot that can pretend to serve you an ice cream, only to jerk it away at the last second. In other words, someone built an irritating robot. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
Glaucoma remains one of the most common causes of avoidable blindness. So glaucoma patients and specialists (including @glaucoma_uk) came together to map out a better approach to care. The result is "The future of glaucoma", which I helped write. futureofglaucoma.co.uk
For @NewScientist, I interviewed Christopher Bae (@paleobae): an anthropologist who has proposed two new species of ancient human, Homo juluensis and Homo bodoensis. newscientist.com/article/250083…
New for @NewScientist: We have a second high-quality genome of a Denisovan: a group of ancient humans who lived in east Asia. It tells us so, so much about them. newscientist.com/article/250240…
Feedback in @NewScientist: Have you ever played Minecraft and thought "you know, I could build a miniature version of ChatGPT out of all these blocks"? Well, someone did, and they followed through. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
New in @NewScientist: #Fibromyalgia causes #ChronicPain and we don't understand why. Now two big genetics studies have given us pointers to the real causes of the condition. newscientist.com/article/250079…
Feedback in @NewScientist: Many scientists emphasise their achievements. And then there's the researcher who wrote: "Sometimes you just kinda phone it in for a year, you know?" newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
New for @NewScientist: Banning phones in schools may make students a little more lonely, rather than rescuing their mental health as is often claimed newscientist.com/article/250022…
Bad news, everyone: the human species will go extinct by the year 2339. At least, so says one of the silliest scientific papers @NewScientist's Feedback has ever encountered. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
New "Our Human Story" in @NewScientist: Who were the first ancient humans to settle in the British Isles? And why did it take them so long to get there from Africa, given they made it to Indonesia much quicker? newscientist.com/article/249978…
New for @BBC_Future: In north-west England, the foundations are being laid for the world's first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage facility. If successful, it will enable the electricity grid to handle even more renewable energy. bbc.co.uk/future/article…
Hold your head so it doesn't explode: roses don't have thorns. Those sharp things are prickles. In @NewScientist, Feedback takes up the task of rewriting the vast corpus of poems and songs that are now wrong. newscientist.com/article/mg2683…
Here's a strange lacuna in our knowledge: we know a lot about ultrasonic vocalisations by mice, but hardly anything about their audible squeaks. They can't all mean "oh shit, a cat" - can they? @NewScientist newscientist.com/article/mg2673…
Neurodiversity just got more diverse: Some autistic kids get diagnosed much later than others, and that's partly because they're actually developing in different ways. They also carry different genetic variants. #neurodiversity #autism @NewScientist newscientist.com/article/249832…
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