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Significance is in the eye of the beholder: the unconscious desire to present anything as statistically important. ow.ly/eC5QH

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 23, 2012

A study that “turns an entire branch of apoptosis on its head”: death receptor 5 and the destruction of cancer. ow.ly/eC5QG

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 22, 2012

The NAcc for eating: increasing activity in the nucleus accumbens is linked to both larger food intake and greater BMIs ow.ly/eC5sv

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 22, 2012

And elsewhere on Twitter…

Mitochondrial disease news: US spindle transfer team have successfully transferred mtDNA to human embryos. Nature j.mp/TXaaLB

— Wellcome Trust (@wellcometrust) October 25, 2012

The most dangerous scientists in history. Eeek! | Dean Burnett (@garwboy) gu.com/p/3bbv5/tw

— Margo Milne (@MargoJMilne) October 24, 2012

Btw that’s 2nd time I’ve written about scientists shaving insect penises w/ lasers. It’s a thing. blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscien… blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscien…

— Ed Yong(@edyong209) October 25, 2012