Microscopic Melodies: The Hidden Symphony of Sound and Microbial Life
#MicrobialLife #Psychoacoustics #Bioacoustics #Holobionts #MicrobialManagement #Eukaryotes #Cymatics #QuantumAntennae #Rebiosis #SoundScience #NatureSymphony #Microbiology #GutHealth #ScienceIsFun #HiddenWonders
“Our very cells were created by the fusion of ancient free-living prokaryotes. The closer we look at our bodies, the flimsier the idea of an individual, bounded self becomes. We are walking communities, swarms in suits and ties, skin-silhouetted Towers of Babel.
Perhaps, then, it is time to expand our idea of archetypes.”
2/2
— Sophie Strand on holobionts & archetypes from the book “The Flowering Wand”
“A holobiont is an assemblage of beings that creates a larger whole. The word was first used in 1991 by Lynn Margulis in an attempt to explain her study of hosts and inherited symbionts. With each passing day new research confirms that macroorganisms like us human beings are intimately tuned and shaped by the populations of microbes and fungi (or, as microbiologist Siv Watkins calls them, ‘smalls’) that populate our bodies.”
1/2
“A holobiont is an assemblage of a host and the many other species living in or around it, which together form a discrete ecological unit through symbiosis, (though there is controversy over this ‘discreteness’). The components of a holobiont are individual species or bionts, while the combined genome of all bionts is the hologenome.” (Wikipedia)
The holobiont concept was (re-)introduced by Dr. Lynn Margulis in the 1991 book “Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation”
Polyps as pixels: Innovative technique maps #biochemistry of #coral reefs.
#metabolomics #conservation #holobionts #endosymbionts #algae
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-polyps-pixels-technique-biochemistry-coral.html
Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the distribution of compounds that are integral to the healthy functioning of reefs. Their study is published in Communications Biology.
“Our very cells were created by the fusion of ancient free-living prokaryotes. The closer we look at our bodies, the flimsier the idea of an individual, bounded self becomes. We are walking communities, swarms in suits and ties, skin-silhouetted Towers of Babel.
Perhaps, then, it is time to expand our idea of archetypes.”
2/2
— Sophie Strand on holobionts & archetypes from the book “The Flowering Wand”
“A holobiont is an assemblage of beings that creates a larger whole. The word was first used in 1991 by Lynn Margulis in an attempt to explain her study of hosts and inherited symbionts.With each passing day new research confirms that macroorganisms like us human beings are intimately tuned and shaped by the populations of microbes and fungi (or, as microbiologist Siv Watkins calls them, ‘smalls’) that populate our bodies.”
1/2
“A holobiont is an assemblage of a host and the many other species living in or around it, which together form a discrete ecological unit through symbiosis, (though there is controversy over this ‘discreteness’). The components of a holobiont are individual species or bionts, while the combined genome of all bionts is the hologenome.” (Wikipedia)
The holobiont concept was (re-)introduced by Dr. Lynn Margulis in the 1991 book “Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation”
“Lines of significance, drawn on a map I don't understand.”
We are all patchwork quilts—holobionts, as Lynn Margulis called complex symbioses like us. The parts always greater than the whole.
Patchwork A patchwork of fields and houses in Taiwan's west, photographed while approaching Taoyuan airport. Compared to the fractal structure of cities, the randomness of the countryside is weird and hard to make sense of for me. There are no centers, no hills, no sights, metro or train stations - in this part not even a highway. And yet, of course, for the thousands of people living here there are places of importance and meaning. Lines of significance, drawn on a map I don't understand. I remember how my thoughts also became darker for a split second while looking out of the window. Living in Taiwan I am by now used to scenarios throwing around words of "attack," "invasion," and "landing." Since spring 2022, our shared consciousness is then drawn to scenes from the vast empty fields of Ukraine. But Taiwan is not Ukraine. There are no vast empty fields for armies to conduct their war games. Taiwan, that is an Eastern half with hardly anything but mountains and jungles. And it is a Western part, with nothing but streets, fields, and homes. . 🌏 | #taiwan #taipei #formosa #臺灣 #台灣 #🇹🇼 📷 | #a7r #voigtlander #voigtlander40mm #manualfocus 🏙️ | #urban #urbanphotography #flight #sky
CITO Greenhouse
ira
CellBioNews
ira