Callum Thomas

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PhD Candidate in Zoology at the University of Cambridge. Passionate about #Entomology, #DataScience, #Genomics, #VectorControl, #Bioinformatics & more. Views expressed here are my own. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🦟
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Posted without comment from a recently published paleobiology paper.

https://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin28_02.pdf

Also spotted: a hermit crab, an anemone and some fossilised shark and ray teeth.
Crazy amount of stuff washed up at the beach this weekend, presumably after strong winds/waves last week? Crabs, anemones, some live whelks and even a half eaten catshark!
#Wolbachia causes embryonic lethality in #FruitFlies by modifying #chromatin integrity in sperm. @KaurTweets @Symbionticism &co show that this occurs in the wMel-transinfected #Aedesaegypti #mosquitoes used to control vector-borne diseases #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3xgOsBH
The mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility is conserved in Wolbachia-bearing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes deployed for arbovirus control

Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in fruit flies is known to cause embryonic lethality by modifying chromatin integrity in developing sperm. This study reveals an analogous mechanism in the wMel-transinfected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are used to control vector-borne diseases.

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

Welcome to Capitalism

»Sleeping across Europe. Night Train Map 2024« is a beautiful map of Europe's night train network. i love the colors and the vision behind it! it was created by @jurim of @backontrack who are "campaigning for more, better, affordable, long-distance and cross-border #nighttrains in Europe"

🗺️ https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

/via @curiousdata

#traintravel #mapping #darkmode

Night Train Map 2026 – Back-on-Track

Funniest paper I've read recently. If you accept the results at face value, it's funny. If you ponder about Cannabis residue on a researcher's person contaminating the PCR, a possibility left unacknowledged for fear of embarrassment or legal trouble, it's moreso. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810435115
just found out that kagi has a 'small web' page where you can endlessly go through random 2000 style blogs and web pages, check it out: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

will probably use this a lot, much better than reading news.
Kagi Small Web