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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
đ Grimm D (2023) What are farm animals thinking? Science 382:1103â1107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adn3270
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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
âOceans are hugely complexâ: 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
âseveral 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.â
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 Canadaâs 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
âŻïžhttps://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/virus-explorer/
Iâm 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 itâs 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 isnât exactly the first platform that springs to mind. But when your goal is to model the behavior of an organâŠHackaday
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
Iâve 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! Iâd 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 theâŠPlantae
đ Mammola et (2022) The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32:R871âR873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026
https://youtu.be/hsiFvCYSjHI
#Hoyle #astronomy #biology
Fred Hoyle's IFS Lecture December 1982
Lecture by Sir Fred Hoyle to the Sri Lanka Institute of Fundamental Studies, December 1982, "From Virus to Cosmology", on the theory of cometary panspermiaYouTube