Just given my last ever lecture on my final year course Chemical Communication in Animals. 20 years, 18 lectures/year, maybe 1200 students taught. Ever-changing updated research-based content. I retire in September, only two more @OfficialUoM lectures to go, both on CRISPR ethics.
Matthew Cobb
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Professor of Zoology (Manchester), studies smell, history of science & French Resistance. Author: 'The Idea of the Brain' and 'The Genetic Age' ('As Gods' in the US).
Corey S PowellJupiter's moon Europa has an enormous salty ocean, probably heated from below by hydrothermal vents. Now it seem that Europa has an internal source of carbon, too -- making an even more exciting argument that life could exist there.
New story by me for Nautilus Magazine.
https://nautil.us/a-crucial-ingredient-for-life-is-bubbling-up-on-europa-406356/?_sp=a8169950-1b69-4cac-b479-67dd5d11895e.1696434722927 #life #science #astronomy
@deevybee if around pots not bins, probably not fruitflies. My guess would be midges of some sort breeding in soil. Replace top layer. To trap fruit flies, put some fruit/alcohol/vinegar/yeast in a bottle, with open upside down cone in neck.
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Attached: 1 image The Zuck suck is in full swing. In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density." EDIT for clarity: The 200+ attempts *may* have been overcounted as DDG hadn't tooled their VPN for Threads yet. #DataPrivacy #Meta #ThreadsApp EDIT: To anyone who is using this post to bash anyone and everyone who is using Threads, please read this https://writing.exchange/@kreig/110673494921536371
House martins and swifts, too many Rubens and all sorts of tapas in Madrid.
Adam YatesSaw this little beauty on the footpath while walking to work. A flightless longhorn, Mictrotragus arachne
Thiago Carvalho' Researchers have tested the release of this type of mosquito — which carries a Wolbachia bacterium that stops the insect from transmitting viruses — in select cities in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Vietnam. But this will be the first time that the technology is dispersed nationwide.'
LBNL BioSciPaleontologists have found a 52 million year old bat fossil. This fossil appears to be a newly discovered species and it's now the earliest known bat to be found.
Happy #FossilFriday
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/paleontologists-uncover-the-earliest-fossilized-bat-180981972/
Robert ReichBy the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.
That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.
We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.
Adam S. SmithMost mounted dinosaur skeletons don't include the gastralia or 'belly ribs'. This is probably because they don't articulate with the rest of the skeleton, and they are delicate, so it can be tricky to position and mount them.
The cast of Stan at Wollaton Hall (into which the real bones of Titus were fitted) has them.
When present, these belly ribs show just how deep-bodied and rotund many dinosaurs were.
Anyway, today I noticed the gastralia in Stan/Titus are a bit skew-if.
