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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

Science magazine's cover showing a cow and a goat looking at the photograph


Chance Favors the Prepared Genomes: Horizontal Transfer Shapes the Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations in Core Genes https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad217 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper


Content warning: Crowdfunding rent for a community lab :boost_requested: 🩠 :scihub:


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


October's cover image accompanies the article Population Genomics of Two Closely Related Anhydrobiotic Midges Reveals Differences in Adaptation to Extreme Desiccation https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad169 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper


Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Solitary Parasitoid Wasp Microplitis manilae Ashmead, 1904 (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad144 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
The genomic characteristics of Microplitis manilae. (a) Hi-C contact map showing the interactions among 11 pseudochromosomes. (b) Circos graph of the genome characteristics of M. manilae. Element distribution in 100 kb sliding windows, from outer to inner circles: length of 11 chromosomes, GC content, density of protein-coding genes, DNA transposons, SINE/LINE/LTR retrotransposons, and simple repeats. (c) Chromosomal synteny blocks between M. manilae and Cotesia glomerata/Aphidius gifuensis. The Mman8 and Mman11 had better syntenic relationships with Cglo8 and Cglo9, respectively. The abbreviations “Mman,” “Cglo,” and “Agif” indicate chromosomes of M. manilae, C. glomerata, and Aph. gifuensis.


Long-Read Sequencing Reveals Rapid Evolution of Immunity- and Cancer-Related Genes in Bats https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad148 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
Photograph of Artibeus jamaicensis, the Jamaican fruit bat


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.”

volcanic landscape of the Lassen National Park


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

A young couple kissing. She's a classic blonde, he's got dark hair and dark beard and moustache.


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


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

A photo of a heart belonging to a blue whale.


Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad019 #science #evolution #biology #genome #SciComm #evolgen_paper
Map of Europe and Asia showing the wintering/breeding sites and migration routes of waterfowl


The Impact of Sample Size and Population History on Observed Mutational Spectra: A Case Study in Human and Chimpanzee Populations https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad019 #science #evolution #biology #genome #SciComm #evolgen_paper


PHYLOPIC 2.0 HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Check out the new, faster, more useful version here, with 6320 free silhouettes (and counting): https://www.phylopic.org
#sciart #science #evolution #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #illustration #viz #art #visualization #biology
PhyloPic: an open database of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms -- www.phylopic.org


Content warning: Published Science. Symbiosis in beetles


#introduction content continued! as a follow on to nematoduino, I made nematode.farm, which is a (very) simple browser based game where the “opponent” is many instances of the emulated C. elegans nematode. I think this may be the first game ever where enemy AI is based on an emulated organism.
written in C, SDL2, and compiled in webassembly 
can play here (need arrow keys)‹https://nematode.farm/
#stem #biology #gamedev #science #programming #robotics #introductions


More #introduction content!
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


Looking to increase your #plant #biology knowledge but do not know where to start ? Check out the great 45 Teaching Tools in Plant Biology here : https://academic.oup.com/plcell/pages/teaching-tools-plant-biology?login=false


Hi! #introduction ! I'm a #phd student in #chemistry ! I study #nanoparticle #liquidcrystal self-assembly, which has implications in our understandings of #biology nanostructures, #materials chemistry, and #nanotechnology

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


Fascinating!
"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_


The epidemic of fake news about #spider exemplifies the need for closer collaboration between journalists and scientists to communicate accurate science. #science #biology #popularscience #médias
📄 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
Close up of wolf-spider. Copyright Robert Kraft CC0 Public Domain.


One of the best lectures: Fred Hoyle’s IFS Lecture December 1982. He talks about the relationship of comets, viruses, cosmic dust, and more.

https://youtu.be/hsiFvCYSjHI

#Hoyle #astronomy #biology

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