Neurolinx Research Institute

10/15/2024

Blast from the past: The fauna which comes out in tropical waters at night is highly appreciated by underwater photographers, but, it seems to me, under-studied in academic marine biology.

0:03 Nietzsche & sea cucumber0:25 shrimpfish1:51 feelings during night diving2:27 spiny devilfish3:15 itching dur...

06/07/2024

New blog post: anglerfish evolution, Ambon scorpionfish evolution & the social system of the convict fish. Enjoy!
https://pacificklaus.com/ravings-on-fish-evolution/

05/30/2024

News from fish evolution, explained for the interested layperson: How did deep-sea anglerfishes colonize the deep open water? What was needed for sexual parasitism to evolve? New insights based on fish genomes, from a paper by Chase Brownstein and colleagues.

Science news, covering:Brownstein, Chase D., Katerina L. Zapfe, Spencer Lott, Richard Harrington, Ava Ghe...

11/09/2020

Please join us at Neurolinx this Friday 5pm Euro time for our online seminar "Big Questions in Neuroscience". We cover a novel approach to consciousness, the neurobiology of addiction, large scale brain simulations, the mathematics of predicting brain states, and brain evolution & symbiosis.
https://zoom.us/j/99207286971?pwd=REJUTmFEMy9CVVc0QklTVWFIbjdzQT09
It's free! Passcode: 751062
Full program: https://neurolinx.org/neurolinx-webinars/

NeuroLinx Webinars Posted on October 30, 2020November 2, 2020 Big Questions in Neuroscience, Part 1. November 13th, 5:00 PM (17:00) Central European Time (CET) Zoom: Nov 13, 2020 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99207286971?pwd=REJUTmFEMy9CVVc0QklTVWFIbjdzQT0...

10/30/2020

Neurolinx is excited to announce our first online seminar - "Big Questions in Neuroscience", on November 13th, 5pm central European time. Detailed program coming soon, stay tuned! Free to join, I hope to see many of you there!

07/26/2020

What an incredible adventure to send a robot from Earth to Mars! Good luck to the mission!

We’re going back to Mars! Our newest rover is named Perseverance, and will be launching soon for its seven-month journey to the Red Planet to search for sign...

07/26/2020

Welcome back after somewhat of an absence from Facebook! At Neurolinx we are excited about science, and think that the red tape surrounding it should be at a minimum. Stay tuned for more news from us in the weeks to come!

10/03/2018

Animal traditions, important for animal survival.

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.

09/26/2018

As a zoologists, I am guilty as charged: plant blind.

Plants fuel life on Earth by tapping the sun's energy. But if plants are the main mediators between the physical and biological worlds, why do most people tend

09/19/2018

" Over the twentieth century the discipline [cave art study] would develop into a proper science, yet an unusual one. To master it a student must know something of radiocarbon isotopes, of psychoanalytic theories of ge***al symbolism, and of everything in between."

It has become a truism in the study and in the public presentation of Paleolithic cave art that we will likely never know what it means. This seems an exaggeration of healthy caution.

09/15/2018

Paleolithic hunting grounds in Austria.
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/09/woolly-mammoth-kill-site-discovered-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+(The+Archaeology+News+Network) .97

08/20/2018

Interstellar nebulae doing funny things. It's hard to imagine structures at these scales.

The nebula of a dying star has a "inside-out" appearance, scientists announced in a new study. And this may be the outcome of our sun.