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Great new study out from Logan James, research affiliate at @UTAustin and postdoctoral fellow at @McGillU

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🐦🎶 Birds and humans share fundamental song and speech patterns, McGill study finds: mcgill.ca/x/59a

🐦🎶 Le chant et la parole présentent des caractéristiques communes chez les oiseaux et les humains : mcgill.ca/x/59R
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Bacteria find safety in numbers.

A new @UTAustin study led by Rasika Harshey & Vineet Kumar of @UT_MBS reveals a form of temporary, community-level antibiotic tolerance — dying bacteria release RNA that traps the antibiotic like a ‘molecular sponge’
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cns.utexas.edu Under Antibiotic Siege, Frontline Bacterial Cells Protect Their Colony from Beyond the Grave Rasika Harshey’s lab studies how dying bacteria can increase antibiotic resistance among their neighbors.
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We’ve all struggled with the impulse to do something we want to do when we know we should do something else.

New research led by UT neuroscientist Thomas Elston has uncovered clues on how the brain regains control when these urges threaten to take over.
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cns.utexas.edu The Brain's Tug-of-War Between Impulse and Self-Control Why people with addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder struggle to resist urges.