#Fungi disarm #BarkBeetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins phys.org/news/2025-12-fungus-b… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525…
"a bark beetle can co-opt a tree's defensive compounds to make defenses against its own enemies. However, since one of the enemies, the #fungus Beauveria bassiana, has developed the ability to detoxify these antimicrobial defenses, it can successfully infect the #BarkBeetles and thus actually help the tree in its battle against bark #beetles"
Fungus disarms bark beetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins
Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses function within the food web, particularly in spruc…Max Planck Society (Phys.org)
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Rivers are still people in South East Asia despite court showdown
Healthy rivers are essential for community wellbeing. India and Bangladesh legally recognise rivers as natural persons with rights and powers. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
No red blood cells? No problem. Icefish, meet the Asian noodlefish news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/…
"Antarctic Icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, warm-water fish also lacks #hemoglobin and red blood cells. Like #icefish, its veins are filled with translucent white blood... #noodlefish adults retain juvenile features... In many other #fish, juveniles don’t need to make red blood cells because they absorb oxygen through their skin"
No red blood cells? No problem. Icefish, meet the Asian noodlefish
Like Antarctic icefish, the warm-water fish called the Asian noodlefish’s veins are filled with translucent white blood cells.Cynthia McCormick Hibbert (Northeastern Global News)
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New psychology research: Privilege has a smaller influence on positive world beliefs than you think
A recent study published in the Journal of Personality challenges the widely-held notion that an individual's beliefs about the world are significantly influenced by their personal life experiences, such as their privileged backgrounds or traumas.Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)
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Dung Beetles Are Rainforests’ Diligent Regrowth Soldiers
The dung beetle may eat and nest in poop, but their role in nature is anything but humble. These hardshelled scarabs live on every continent except Antarctica, recycling feces and suppressing paras…Palm Oil Detectives
Powerful open source apps that run right in your browser!
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13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too)
You don't always need to install an open source software on your desktop or self host in your homelab. I use some of my favorites from the comfort of a web browser.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Javan Rhinos Not Safe from Poachers
Testimony of Illegal poachers in Indonesia finds 26 of the estimated remaining 72 living Javan #Rhinos were slaughtered over the past five years. Shame!Palm Oil Detectives
Our first newsletter of 2026 is here! 📝💪
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#2026 #opensource #linux #newsletter
FOSS Weekly #26.01: Distros of 2026, Terminal Customization, CachyOS Server Edition and More Linux Stuff
The first FOSS Weekly of the year 2026.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
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20 Million + Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare
Adrienne Martin and her family are starting the New Year off without healthcare.
The 47-year-old Texas mother had to make a difficult choice when she found out her monthly healthcare premium was increasing in 2026 from what she described as a manageable $630 (£467) to an unaffordable $2,400 (£1,781).
Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance. Knowing their benefits would expire, the family stockpiled the drug to survive the first few months of the year.
"It would be like paying two mortgage payments," she said of the new monthly price for healthcare. "We can't pay $30,000 for insurance a year."
The Hell That Republicans Have Wrought Upon Americans With the New Year
#OurModernTimes #RepublicansCreateHellInAmerica
Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare
More than 20 million Americans are preparing for steeper healthcare costs in the New Year because of expiring subsidies.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
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Right here we go at last. A task for 2026.
I originally planned to begin reading 'Ulysses' on the day I moved out of Dublin after living there for years, but when the cay finally came, moving happened so suddenly and hurtfully that I put this plan aside.
I was gifted a copy at Christmas and have decided now is the time, as for some strange reason I am also re-attached to the city this year through four different upcoming projects there.
(comment on Ulysses)
Mass extinction: what is it and are we in one now?
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinct…Palm Oil Detectives
#bioinformatics
AlignmentViewer
AlignmentViewer is multiple sequence alignment viewer for protein families with flexible visualization, analysis tools and links to protein family databases.alignmentviewer.org
Why microbial oils could mitigate deforestation from palm oil
Companies are increasingly exploring substitutes to palm oil to cut the risk they face from deforestation in their supply chains.GlobalData Strategic Intelligence (Just Food)
Deadly Harvest: How Demand for Palm Oil Fuels Corruption in Honduras
Latin America is the fastest-growing producer of palm oil, but at what price for the environment and its defenders? Park rangers in Honduras tell harrowing tales of daily threats to their lives and…Palm Oil Detectives
New Year's Eve music from New Zealand orchestra Synthony from one of their Melbourne, Australia performances.
Full on AWESOME!
@Lee Grupsmith-Pedersen @Cass @Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S Maybe you would like this @Samuel Smith @Noam נעם
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Welcome to 2026! 🎆
Fortune favors the bold. Let’s do even more this year to challenge #BigTech and regain control over our data and privacy. 💪
Have a wonderful year, you all!
And... don't forget to register for the Nextcloud Special Event, Feb 18! 👉 nextcloud.com/special-event-wi…
Nextcloud Special Event Winter 2026 edition
Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.Nextcloud
Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil’s Atlantic forest
#Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, is facing severe threats due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. This has led to a sharp decline in prim…Palm Oil Detectives
C'est #agroindustrie que vous combattez.
Hop between distros without losing a single Snap package.
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Move Between the Distros: Back Up and Restore Your Snap Packages
Make a backup of your Snap apps and application data and restore them to a new Linux system where Snap is supported. Works between Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu distros, too.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
I read by mistake losing a single snap back. Was it Freud ? Or just better truth ?
I'm running one last class on how to make memes for the US resistance!
I would love to have you join.
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MY US WISHLIST
Hello Resisters! Here we are in December, a month of celebrations and reflection. We have been through NO KINGS, Good Trouble Lives On, NO KINGS 2.0, and more during 2025.Mobilize
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The twins, I must post them!
Often they don't really look like twins but then sometimes, just sometimes. Even their paws are mirrored! 💕
#Cats
🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE
look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.
it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.
i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.
🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL
“You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams & such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, each other.”
- Carl Sagan, Contact
Updated my portfolio with some previously missing photos, and removed some that didn't seem as good as I originally thought.
Rainbow Cliffs: Why Parrots in the Amazon Eat Clay
Our world holds a whole host of glorious natural spectacles, from great starling murmurations to the ethereal display of coral reef spawning. But none is more thrilling than catching a glimpse of a…Palm Oil Detectives
Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years
Coral reefs have shaped Earth in much deeper ways than we usually appreciate.The Conversation
There’s no need to depend on Google as your default search engine. Qwant and Ecosia are already viable alternatives, and together they’re building the European Search Index (Staan). It’s currently implemented in France and will roll out to additional European countries in 2026.
#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU #Google
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