Oxford biologist John Odling-Smee (1988) was the first person to coin the term niche construction, and the first to make the argument that niche construction should be recognized as an evolutionary process.
His new book will be published on Sept 3 @MITPress
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#evolution #biology
‘A unicorn’: Rare male tortoiseshell cat found in Oregon is a hermaphrodite
#weirdnews #weird #news #odd #cats #sex #biology www.koin.com/news/animals...
A rare male tortoiseshell cat brought to the Humane Society of Central Oregon in April was determined to be a hermaphrodite, the organization announced on June 6.
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Almost there with a paper about #climate #adaptation I am writing with @coreybunce.bsky.social Thank you to
Derek Skilling derekjskillings.com for organising this! #philosophy #science #biology
🎉Sequencing Saturday!🎉
Today we want to explain Illumina sequencing to you in more detail. It is one of the NGS!👏🔥
#illumina #sequencing #sequencingsaturday #tubraunschweig #dna #SynBio2024 #syntheticbiology #biology
could not be more thrilled for sunday night!! #batcount2024 #urbanbats #nhmla #citizenscience #biology #BATS
@bhjuarez.bsky.social
So glad your coauthored work is now in advanced!
Water availability and temperature as modifiers of evaporative water loss in #tropical #frogs
by Juarez, Quintanilla-Salinas, Lacey, Lauren A O'Connell
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#ecology #biology #science
Gene therapy trial gives deaf children hearing in both ears;
Study participants born unable to hear could locate sound sources, recognise speech and dance to music after treatment
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
#science #news #biology #deafness #GeneTherapies #genetics #breakthrough
Study participants born unable to hear could locate sound sources, recognise speech and dance to music after treatment
www.theguardian.com
Pregnancy is an engineering challenge − diagnosing and treating preterm birth requires understanding its mechanics
#science #biology #medicine
theconversation.com/pregnancy-is...
How and why preterm birth happens is still unclear, in part because research on pregnancy tends to focus on developmental biology.
theconversation.com
‘Enormous potential’: weight-loss drugs cut cancer risk by a fifth, research shows;
Experts believe injections such as Wegovy could play a big role in preventing and treating the disease
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
#science #biology #medicine #cancer #news #breakthrough
Experts believe injections such as Wegovy could play a big role in preventing and treating the disease
www.theguardian.com
I am the hivemind.
(Pretty confident @thomasha.bsky.social is going to like learning (ha!) about this if he hasn't already... 😉)
#science #biology
Ants learn faster on caffeine
www.newscientist.com/article/2432...
A dose of caffeine helped ants locate a sweet reward 30 per cent faster, suggesting the drug boosts learning in the insects
www.newscientist.com#science #biology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Octave equivalence describes the perception that two notes separated by a doubling
in frequency have a similar quality. In humans, octave equivalence is important to
both music and language learning a...
Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback
#science #biology #paleontology
www.popsci.com/environment/...
The 'thunder bird' Genyornis newtoni lived alongside humans and went extinct about 45,000 years ago.
www.popsci.com
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
‘Extremely impressive’: melanoma jab trial results excite doctors;
The new vaccine approach will help improve survival rates for ‘the next decades and more’, says Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician
#science #biology #medicine #cancer #news #breakthrough
The new vaccine approach will help improve survival rates for ‘the next decades and more’, says Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician
www.theguardian.com
Drug that ‘melts away’ tumours could replace surgery for bowel cancer, say doctors
All patients in pembrolizumab trial were found to be cancer-free after combination of drug and surgery
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
#science #biology #medicine #cancer #news #breakthrough
All patients in pembrolizumab trial were found to be cancer-free after combination of drug and surgery
www.theguardian.com
The 3rd Annual SalivaDirect #Conference is this week! Join us on June 5-7th in Washington, #DC, to hear from our incredible speakers for our #CancerDiagnostics Session:
Learn more and register at: salivadirectinc.org
#CaseWesternReserveUniversity #UCLA #Oncology #biology #LSUHealthShreveport
Get your mind bent!
Conference on #Curvatures in #biology from the #nanoscale to the #macroscale.
,Warsaw 28-30 Aug.
All info: curvobio.com/curvobio2024
Thanks again to our Expert Committee for a great first meeting with lots of constructive and inspiring feedback!
#DSMZDigitalDiversity #FAIRdata #biology #databases
Ancient DNA illuminates lives of New Zealand’s extinct giant flightless birds
#science #biology #paleontology
www.science.org/content/arti...
Hundreds of years after it was hunted to extinction, scientists have reconstructed the genome of the little bush moa
www.science.org
Orchids support seedlings through "parental nurture" along underground fungal networks - via the University of Sheffield
www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/orchids...
#science #biology #plants #evolution 🧪
Orchid plants nurture their seedlings via an underground fungal network, new research from scientists at the University of Sheffield has revealed.
www.sheffield.ac.ukJump to molecular #biology. Not all #evolution is #gradual. Life can leap forward in bursts in response to external stresses or internal #genomic changes, #epigenetics, #horizontal_gene_transfer, and massive re-arrangements.
The evolution of sheep and goat herding in the Levant arose through “the interplay of climatic-environmental fluctuations and human agency, the latter involving niche construction”
rb.gy/z6q45n
#evolution #biology #plasticity #nicheconstruction #domestication
An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans
#science #biology #paleontology
www.sciencenews.org/article/exti...
Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands of years ago.
www.sciencenews.org
🎉 EcolClips has reached 200 subscriptions in our first year! 🎉
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🫀🫁💙🩻 The Repturriam Heart & the Reoniban Reserve Organ // レプトゥリアムの心臓とレオニバンの予備器官
Art by @unialien.bsky.social ©Unialien/©P.F.L. Made on Procreate. All rights reserved.
#ProjectUAT #alien #anatomy #biology #scifi #ocart #OC #conceptart #design #characterart #procreate
Fossils from an Ice Age ‘Tree Spa’ Discovered
#science #biology #paleontology
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
Fossils from an ice age “spa” reveal a cluster of hot springs kept trees alive in the frozen Alps
www.scientificamerican.com
Back to my evolutionary roots for a second. This great paper synthesizes gradual evolution and punctuated equilibria into a framework with "...multilevel feedback, bridging endogenous and exogenous causality across evolutionary scales."
I like it!
#biology #evolution
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
For five decades, paleontologists, paleobiologists, and ecologists have investigated
patterns of punctuated equilibria in biology. Here, we step outside those fields and
summarize recent advances in t...
New study investigating whether spite can be socially transmitted in online games:
“spiteful social information may reduce the generosity of altruistic acts, but not … necessarily strongly increase the frequency of spiteful behaviour”.
encr.pw/rlFDL
#evolution #biology #culture
I am so impressed by the #dataviz📊 /-sonification on microorganism in fermentation by Maxene Graze! It is so thoroughly executed: the animation, the floating legend, the different sounds, let alone the graphical design 🤩
Have a look and listen here: microbial-symphony.vercel.app
#science #biology
🚀 Exciting opportunity! 🌱🧬🔬
We're hiring a temporary assistant engineer in #biology for the European research project @BreedingValue at @INRAE_NA_BDX!
📅Duration: 5 months
📍 Location: Bordeaux, France
Join our team! 👇
🔗 jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-22009
#ScienceJobs #Biology
The candidate will be located in INRAE, Bordeaux in the unit of Fruit Biology and Pathology, in FDFE team (https://www6.bordeaux-aquitaine.inrae.fr/bfp_eng/Research/Team-Flowering-Fruit-Development-an...
jobs.inrae.frAs much of the Democratic world goes to the polls, the populists are out in force selling their ‘easy’ solutions. But if we are to solve fundamental human problems, we need to understand our #biology. @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/chil...
A chartered psychologist’s perspective on why children’s distress is so difficult to address in our culture and society
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
#sciences computational #biology
phys.org/news/2024-05...
When trying to measure molecular structures with nanometer precision, every bit of noise shows up in the data: someone walking past the microscope, tiny vibrations in the building and even the traffic...
phys.org
Could Neanderthals Make Art?
#science #history #art #biology #archaeology
www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...
Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the abilities of Neanderthals and other archaic humans
www.scientificamerican.com
How the Brain Distinguishes Music from Speech
#science #neuroscience #psychology #biology
neurosciencenews.com/music-speech...
A new study reveals how our brain distinguishes between music and speech using simple acoustic parameters.
neurosciencenews.com
This 130,000-Year-Old Decorative Bear Bone May Be the Oldest Known Neanderthal Art
#science #history #archaeology #biology #art
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Researchers say the carved artifact was not a utilitarian item and instead served a symbolic purpose
www.smithsonianmag.com
Hyperobject: Mind, May 28 - Universal Basic Income & the Explore/Exploit Balance or Why Field Trials Will Never Lead to Change
#history #science #reality #biology #UBI #FieldTrial #physicalworld #self #mind #brain #thinking #explore #fyp
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Just one week until #DGHMVAAM2024 🦠👩🏫
Mark your conference plans and meet us! 👋
Poster P-MDE-003: #DSMZDigitalDiversity
Presentation OP-PMD-002: #PhageDive
Presentation IT-064: #StrainInfo
Presentation OP-MDE-002: #StrainRegistry
Poster P-MDE-002: Standardizing strain data
#biology #databases
'Merian’s Metamorphosis'
@kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art and #science of illustrator and pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
medium.com/signifier/me...
#illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology
How does the brain think?
#science #psychology #neuroscience #biology
theconversation.com/how-does-the...
Eating right, exercising, playing sports, reading and journaling are just a few of the ways you can keep your brain in top shape.
theconversation.com
Interesting! So the fountain of youth is...resilience? #science #biology #aging #change
www.sciencealert.com/scientist-pr...
Is instability essential for life?
www.sciencealert.com
Great paper on dung beetles that
"documents the complex interactions between plasticity, symbionts and niche construction, and highlights the usefulness of an integrative Eco–Evo–Devo framework"
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
#evolution #evodevo #nicheconstruction #philbio #philsci #biology #plasticity
Neanderthals and modern humans made babies 47,000 years ago
#science #biology #archaeology #history
www.science.org/content/arti...
Genome analysis genomes refines timing of critical and mysterious juncture in human history
www.science.org
Electricity creates consciousness | Nick Lane
youtu.be/ZFIkiVK8cjw?...
Unfortunately, it is only the beginning of the talk. The rest can be viewed with an IAI trial subscription.
#NickLane #mitochondria #consciousness #anesthesia #neuroscience #xenon #biology
Nick Lane discusses the emergence of consciousness as a result of mitochondrial action. Might consciousness arise from magnetic fields? Watch the full talk at https://iai.tv/video/electricity-creates-consciousness-nick-lane?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description How could calcium ions rushing through a membrane generate the taste of coffee, the smell of a rose or the feeling of love? Join celebrated biochemist, Nick Lane, as he argues that the deep logic of life is at root an electrical phenomenon. 'His theories are ingenious, breath-taking in scope, and challenging in every sense' - The Guardian #consciousness #magneticfield #mitochondria Nick Lane is an multi-award-winning biochemist and an outstanding science communicator in the origins of life field. He is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and a bestselling author of five critically-acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, selling over 150,000 copies worldwide. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022) explores the elusive chemical logic of life, from genetic information to consciousness. The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today! https://iai.tv/subscribe?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=electricity-creates-consciousness-nick-lane For debates and talks: https://iai.tv For articles: https://iai.tv/articles For courses: https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses
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Brain Molecular Changes In PTSD and Depression Revealed
#science #biology #neuroscience #psychology
neurosciencenews.com/ptsd-depress...
A new study reveals shared and distinct molecular changes in the brain and blood of individuals with PTSD and MDD.
neurosciencenews.comI do soil microbiome research at Great Salt Lake. One of our sampling sites is Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty. I have such a great job! #utah #gsl #spiraljetty #biology