We were studying psychopaths in the lab, charting their responses to risk and reward. Most subjects smiled only when rules were broken—stealing snacks, lying on surveys, tricking assistants. I thought I was the observer, safe behind the clipboard. But one subject leaned in and whispered, “You enjoy this as much as I do, don’t you?” That was the moment that changed me: realizing the line between researcher and subject wasn’t a wall at all—it was a mirror. #research #change

🐭🧠 The common #shrew is a tiny #vertebrate with a bizarre survival strategy called Dehnel’s phenomenon. To save #energy during lean #winter months, these #animals physically shrink their skulls and #brains, only to regrow them when #spring arrives.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/common-shrew-shrink

#neuroscience #evolution #nature #science #mammals #research #discovery #education

Scientists found that this tiny mammal ‘regrows’ its brain in winter. And it could help cure Alzheimer’s | Discover Wildlife

Researchers discovered that the common shrew can shrink itself during the winter

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New #Paper published in Quantum: Projective characterization of higher-order quantum transformations

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-01-21-1978/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

Projective characterization of higher-order quantum transformations

Timothée Hoffreumon and Ognyan Oreshkov, Quantum 10, 1978 (2026). Transformations of transformations, also called higher-order transformations, is a natural concept in information processing, which has recently attracted significant interest in the study o…

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New #Paper published in Quantum: Useful entanglement can be extracted from noisy graph states

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-01-21-1977/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

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From tribal feasts to political instruments: How alcohol and intoxication shaped early power. Elites transformed dependency into a subtle weapon of mass control.
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/from-tribal-feasts-to-political-instruments-how-alcohol-and-intoxication-shaped-early-power-0aa49846832b
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