Looking forward to reading about Cooperation in Nature https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/15/togetherness-by-rowan-hooper-review-a-stunning-portrait-of-cooperation-in-nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiont
#booksOfMastodon #Coral #CharlesDarwin #Endosymbiosis #Evolution #Kropotkin #LynnMargulis
#MutualAid #RachelCarson
#Symbiosis #Togetherness
@projectseahorse Is the spectacular purple backdrop species identifiable? It's also shown in a second linked photo at
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339787087
Freedivers, leftover cables and bits of clay: Cuba gets inventive to save its pristine reefs amid US blockade | Marine life | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/13/freedivers-leftover-cables-and-bits-of-clay-cuba-gets-inventive-to-save-its-pristine-reefs-amid-us-blockade
🐡✨ A marine #glimmer: The white-spotted #pufferfish is nature’s greatest artist. Males work nonstop for a week, shaping large geometric circles in the sand to attract a mate.
By flapping their fins along the seafloor, they build intricate ridges, decorate them with #shells and #coral and sculpt a detailed maze-like pattern in the center. If a female is impressed by his craftsmanship, she may choose to lay her eggs there.
"‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — In April 2025, I zipped myself up into a thick wetsuit and inched down a steep, rocky ledge toward the gray-blue water encircling Beomseom, a small island off the southern coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. Then I leapt into the chilly sea and wriggled into my scuba gear […]
What a misleading, annoying, damaging press release from the University of Manchaster:
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-coral-infertility-ovarian-cancer-decoding.html
How did they go from a paper on coral cilia to ovarian cancer? The original paper does not mention cancer, disease etc. at all.
https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/fhfw-f1nv
This kind of empty press-release salvationism lacks any integrity and harms the trustworthiness of science. University press offices should do better.
A study by researchers at The University of Manchester, carried out alongside the Universities of Melbourne and Copenhagen, could hold the key to understanding the causes of long-term health problems, such as infertility and ovarian cancer.
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