"What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might religion play in our lives? Anarchists have long proclaimed “no gods, no masters.” But is there still room for religion in anarchy? Should we start our own “solarpunk religion?”"

It's Time to Rethink Religion
https://youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Animism #Andrewism #Commensalism #Cosmology #Mutualism #Religion #Spirituality

Finally, Felix‘ #ecoevo paper is back from #PeerReview:

"…this manuscript is an important contribution that almost uniquely explores the evolutionary transitions between #mutualism through #commensalism and on to #antagonism, and vice versa. […] Not only are the results strong, but some of them are surprising, and in interesting ways that will be worth exploring in future years"

Thank you! 🤩
The #preprint is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.27.615354

Newly identified #yeast could prevent #fungal #infections by outcompeting rivals, study suggests.

#competition #commensalism

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-newly-yeast-fungal-infections-outcompeting.html

@graceghughes

Link: https://www.marfapublicradio.org/show/nature-notes/2015-09-10/a-curious-commensalism-the-screech-owl-and-the-texas-blindsnake

Actual paper is behind a JSTOR paywall. 🙁

#Birds #Owls #Snakes #Commensalism

Live blind snakes (Leptotyphlops dulcis) in eastern screech owl (Otus asio) nests: a novel commensalism

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28312227/

"Eastern screech owls bring live blind snakes to their nestlings, whereas all other prey are delivered dead. Some of the snakes are eaten but most live in nest debris, where they eat soft-bodied insect larvae from the decomposer community in fecal matter, pellets, and uneaten prey. Consumption of larvae may reduce larval parasitism on owl nestlings or larval competition with nestlings for food stored in the nest, because nestlings with live-in blind snakes grow faster and experience lower mortality than same-season broods lacking snakes. We propose a commensalistic association in which the screech owl benefits reproductively and the live-in blind snake is not affected."

#birds #commensalism #ecology #snakes #owls

As a supplement to the _Wired_ interview with Douglas Rushkoff, this is a great podcast.

Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival – Team Human – Podcast – Podtail https://podtail.com/en/podcast/team-human/julia-watson-survival-of-the-most-symbiotic-live-f/

>Playing for Team Human today, designer, activist, academic, and author of Lo-Tek Radical Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson.Watson discusses how we can respond to climate change by utilizing m... – Listen to Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival by Team Human instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.

#capitalism #commensalism #symbiosis #economics #teamhuman #modernity #climatecrisis #ecology #systems #indigenoustechnologies

Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/

@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/

@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers