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The baffling intelligence of a single cell… This, long-read deep-dive into how a single e-coli cell uses chemotaxis to find its food is fascinating for those interested in #Biology and human #physiology. TL;DR even simple small cells have an internal bio computer that mimics basic intelligence and adaptability. #CellularBiology #Chemotaxis
Upper Cretaceous. Approximately 100.5 million to 66 million years ago. When alive, this creature lived in warm, shallow seas and had a very short tail, which was fitted with a venomous stinger. Discovered in Haqil, Byblos, Lebanon. It just happens to look like an ancient space alien. #science #fossil #archeology #evolution #photo #nature #biology #wildlife
#Environmental #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/02/en02262401.html
Vanishing Forests and Suffering Children: The Hidden Toll of Deforestation in Cambodia
Researcher reveals the health toll of deforestation in Cambodia as forests vanish and children suffer.www.sflorg.com
Wonderful! I love the runner-up, 'The Scholar's Dream', on browntail moths, to the music of Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwRMZKODbc
Overview & other category winners here: https://www.science.org/content/article/kangaroo-research-wins-dance-phd-contest
#DanceYourPhD #moth #kangaroo #epigenetics #circadian #dance #zoology #science #SciComm #SocialScience #biology #chemistry #physics
The Scholar's Dream- Dance Your PhD 2024 [𝓡𝓾𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓻-𝓤𝓹]
[2/27/2024: I had a sudden jump in views- turns out my video was a runner-up for Science's Dance your PhD and "might have won the whole thing if not up again...YouTube
Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered in Colombia and Ecuador
Scientists have discovered five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers in the jungles and cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.ScienceDaily
What's a species? How do we define biological diversity - BioAudio
What is a species? A simple question that just about anyone can answer, and yet has been the source of endless debate for decades. Biological diversity just doesn't fit in nice neat little boxes no matter how much we search for a universal s...Buzzsprout
#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #indonesia just pinched us:
Lepidothelphusa menneri
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879E-FFF9-FFBE-1FBF-FE0DFCFB7405
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.3
#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crabs
Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), first record of the genus from Kalimantan, Indonesia
The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L.doi.org
Tom Cavalier-Smith prize DEADLINE EXTENDED https://www.isep-protists.com/post/tcs-prize-deadline-extended
We are pleased to announce that we are extending the deadline for Tom Cavalier-Smith prize nominations to January 31st, and that in light of the complicating factor of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are extending eligibility to 4 years post-PhD.
The Tom Cavalier-Smith prize recognizes contributions to evolutionary #protistology, or related fields (e.g. #protists #biology, #biodiversity or #ecology), by #EarlyCareerResearchers.
Tom Cavalier-Smith prize DEADLINE EXTENDED
We are extending the deadline for Tom Cavalier-Smith prize nominations to January 31stISEP
I just finished putting together a Wikipedia article on plant biologist Mary Clutter, who was so instrumental in determining mechanisms for gene regulation and expression through her work with plant hormones.
She also was one of the foremost scientists involved in expanding opportunities for women scientists in the latter half of the 20th century, including getting them the recognition they deserved for their accomplishments.
Scientists and the general public have long dismissed the cognitive abilities of cows, pigs, and other livestock. But farm animals are capable of much more than we think.
#Science #Biology #AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour #Cognition #intelligence #Cattle #Cow #Pig #Livestock #Chicken
📄 Grimm D (2023) What are farm animals thinking? Science 382:1103–1107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adn3270
Marine #microorganisms are crucial for #ocean health.
#Bacteria, #archaea, #fungi, #algae and #viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs.
They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles.
Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.
#biology #ecology #oceans
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03425-4
‘Oceans are hugely complex’: modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts
Microorganisms are the engines that drive most marine processes. Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.Tagliabue, Alessandro
How did #eukaryotes evolve for extreme temps? https://www.futurity.org/high-temp-eukaryotes-2972442-2/ #protists
#ExtremeEnvironments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand #microbial #eukaryotic #ecology, #evolution, and #genome #biology: Hannah Rappaport & Angela Oliverio https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40657-4
“several lineages of #amoebae were often recovered from extremely high temperature environments. Studying those lineages may yield great insight into how eukaryotic cells can adapt to life in extremely hot environments.”
How did eukaryotes evolve for extreme temps? - Futurity
Researchers are investigating microbial eukaryotic life in extreme environments, like Lassen National Park's geothermal lake.Dan Bernardi-Syracuse (Futurity)
#art #sciart
The 'There Are Such Things As Cooties' book doesn't appear to be available in UK.
I have a serious need to know as osculation, for me, has always carried great risk, #autoimmunesystem highly compromised.
The first few months of a new romantic relationship is fraught with a horrid cascade of immune response symptoms. And yet, I still do it!!! It's a really difficult one to resist.
#science #biology #immunology #immunesystem
While we are still trying to find ways to clean up problems like oil spills in the ocean, microorganisms in the seas have their own insights to impart.
Oil rich soil from the Guaymas Basin has provided German scientists understanding of a mechanism by which archaea in the Alkanophaga break down alkane molecules and thus degrade petroleum through oxidation.
#Remediation #Bioremediation #Oil #Petroleum #Archaea #Alkanophaga #Science #Biology #Scicomm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01400-3
Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes - Nature Microbiology
Oil-rich deep-sea sediments are used to culture syntrophic communities of archaea and bacteria that pair petroleum alkane oxidation to sulfide generation.Nature
This is a 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist. The heart was so large that technicians had to douse it in 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde. Read more about it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/painstaking-process-preserving-blue-whales-heart-180964038/
#histodons #histodon #histmed #biology #animal #animals #bluewhale #museum #DYK
The Painstaking Process of Preserving a 400-Pound Blue Whale Heart
This massive specimen is now on display in Canada’s Royal Ontario MuseumJennifer Nalewicki (Smithsonian Magazine)
#sciart #science #evolution #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #illustration #viz #art #visualization #biology
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.Mike Keesey (PhyloPic)
If you are looking for a great resource to teach virus diversity, look at this.
"Virus Explorer" will not disappoint your students.
#Science
#education
#teaching
#Biology
⏯️https://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/virus-explorer/
I’m also somewhat known porting a C. elegans nervous system model (connectome) to the Arduino Uno, so it could be used in very low cost or resource constrained platforms.
Yes, this is a robot that thinks it’s a worm, lol
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/13/nematoduino-a-roundworm-neural-model-on-an-arduino/
#introductions #stem #eduction #robotics #arduino #maker #biology #science
Nematoduino: A Roundworm Neural Model On An Arduino
When it comes to building a neural network to simulate complex behavior, Arduino isn’t exactly the first platform that springs to mind. But when your goal is to model the behavior of an organ…Hackaday
Teaching Tools in Plant Biology
Teaching Tools in Plant Biology, published by the American Society of Plant Biologists, combines up-to-date peer-reviewed research-based content with flexible pOxford Academic
I’ve been #scicomm ing my #research on #twitch - I'm developing #3dprinting inks from seaweed and other #biomaterials !
I interview scientists weekly, so if you're interested, let me know! I’d love to have you
#phdchat #academic #academia #academicchatter #introduction
"there's endemic Mexican maize that has aerial roots that use bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere."
https://plantae.org/nitrogen-fixing-corn-slime-a-mexican-maize-landrace-supports-nitrogen-fixing-microbiota-in-aerial-root-mucilage/
#Botany #Biology
Via the Planthropology podcast on the Birdsite. @Planthropology_
Nitrogen-fixing corn slime? A Mexican maize landrace supports nitrogen-fixing microbiota in aerial root mucilage | Plantae
Plants engage in intimate interactions with symbiotic microbes for the mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients. In a keystone study published in PLoS Biology, Van Deyze et al. (2018) describe the…Plantae
📄 Mammola et (2022) The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32:R871–R873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026
