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It's true... Dragons can do no wrong.
"This is the point of being a teacher. A glimmer of hope where you thought it didn't exist." -Matt Haig
🎂 Happy Birthday Jonathan!
A large majority of his own staff don’t find Pierre Poilievre likeable.
Jeebus, confused ppl can make simple things complicated. By definition... "The meaning of HOODIE is a HOODED SWEATSHIRT." - Every f-ing dictionary in the world.
Doctors say Rudy Giuliani's white blood cells count was low... but he's demanding a recount. bsky.app/profile/maur...
Well... that'll certainly keep you busy. ;-)
It's interesting that no one has said the spreading of lies, misinformation, and quack pseudoscience is divisive. None of it is true, and all of it is extremely harmful. So, I find that divisive to begin with. By default... I'm already divisive, because I dissent to the BS.
We may never know for sure if it was part a physics thought experiment, a la... "Assume a spherical hedgehog in a vacuum".
📢 EVERYONE should get #GetVaccinated!
Glad they don't ask... But just in case, I prepared a list ppl can use: Dropsy. Grippe. Scofula. Vapors. Jungle rot. Dandy fever. Poor man's gout. Housemaid's knee. Climatic poopow. Staggers. Dum-dum fever. Protein deficiency. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosiiiiiis. H/t Abe Simpson
Daleks randomly wandering around the grocery with produce? Oh, hell no!
Well, I'll admit I am selfish with anything to do with my body. I'm only willing to pro bono share my brain... albeit that, also not physically.
Watch 13, eh? Well, it's always been a lucky number. I guess it won't be long before Sam Altman et al will keep humans in towers a la The Matrix and use mitochondria to power their AI.
Defrag? It's satisfying but... Ain't nobody got time for that. Especially after hard drives got to be a certain size.
Evidence of Dragon man being Denisovan Cranium assigned H. longi has 3 Denisovan derived amino acid variants and clusters with Denisova 3. Suggests Harbin individual belongs to a Denisovan population. The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Denisovan mtDNA is directly connected to the Harbin skull, a nearly complete hominin cranium Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium 🏺🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Iconic ‘Dragon Man’ Skull Offers First Glimpse of What a Denisovan’s Face Looked Like The ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, 2 papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins🏺🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...
A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Review of evidence suggests several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range, were adapted to distinct environments and introgressed into modern humans multiple times.
A Ghost in Our Genes: The Enduring Legacy of Denisovan DNA www.anthropology.net/p/a-ghost-in... Our family tree isn’t a neat line of descent, but a tangled web of ancient liaisons that profoundly shaped who we are.
Modern human genomes contain a small number of archaic variants, the legacy of past interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans. The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolved 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/archaeology/... Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.
🔆 Good morning! Time to begin the daily ritual... "The Internet is the world's biggest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor." - John Allen Paulos
Elisabeth S. Vrba, the “Three Musketeers,” and the Expansion of Macroevolutionary Theory🧪 J. Lucas da Silva & @andrejpaleo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... Elisabeth Vrba Important figure in paleobiology and evolutionary theory, leaving an indelible mark on macroevolutionary research.
With your support, @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social and @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social are finding new and better ways to detect, diagnose, treat, and prevent cancer. Together, we are improving the lives of cancer patients across Canada. Thank you. ❤️🇨🇦 Learn more about your impact: impact.terryfox.org
Geological time is punctuated by events. Scaling changes our understanding of life and the planet. From eons to epochs: Multifractal geological time and the compound multifractal - Poisson process 🧪 Shaun Lovejoy, @andrejpaleo.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 This. All of this thread. 🧵 ACT NOW! There's no time to lose, but there are plenty of lives to lose. 🚫 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HAS GOT TO GO!
Pro-tip: Fake them out to get in range... First look ICE straight in the eye. Take a bite... and then throw. ;-)
Prancing? Are you sure that's what he was doing? Anyway, one really shouldn't get in the way of true love.
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark... And it's American citizens.
Most known species evolved during 'explosions’ of diversity, shows analysis across ‘tree of life’ Concentrated among few disproportionately rich groups with high rates of diversification Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life 🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Tomatoes in the Galápagos show evolution is not directional Demonstrating a complex interplay between enzyme function, genetic variation, and evolutionary adaptation. Enzymatic twists evolved stereo-divergent alkaloids in the Solanaceae family 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chromatin unfolding via loops can drive clustered transposon insertion 🏺🧪 www.cell.com/biophysj/ful... This biophysical mechanism of clustered insertion site preference would act in combination with selective pressures shaping transposon distribution over evolutionary timescales.
Diverse sets of complete human genomes are required to construct a pangenome reference and to understand the extent of complex structural variation. Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Did increasing brain size place early humans at risk of extinction? 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Human brain size expanded rapidly, then plateaued over the past 300,000 years, with significant glacial–interglacial differences emerging in the last 100,000 years.
Why repetitive DNA matters for human brain evolution and disease LINE-1 retrotransposons mediate cis-acting transcriptional control in human pluripotent stem cells and regulate early brain development 🏺🧪 www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... More than half of the new genomic variation uncovered in the study was found in those tricky repetitive regions, including in transposons, also known as jumping genes.
Ancient viruses embedded in our DNA appear to help switch genes on and off A phylogenetic approach uncovers cryptic endogenous retrovirus subfamilies in the primate lineage 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonobos keep track of groupmates even when they can’t see them Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo 🏺🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Uncovers the rich representations of the social world shared by humans and other apes.
Lucy gets first European showing in Prague 🏺🧪 phys.org/news/2025-08... The 3.18-million-year-old fossilized bone fragments of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday.
🔆Good morning! In a world of 7 billion people... There are 1 billion migrants. This is the story of one man's journey. Fatoumata Diawara - Nterini www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gmG...
How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans Genetic analysis helps to reveal why flying foxes can measure almost 2 metres from wingtip to wingtip. Evolution and ecology of body size in the world’s largest bats 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age. What's up with that? Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals 🧪 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
An immature toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia and insights into mammalodontid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) morphology, systematics, and ontogeny 🧪 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... Describes a new species of mammalodontid, Janjucetus dullardi sp. nov., from the Jan Juc Marl.
An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Suggests genomic landscape of Clitellata resulted from a rare burst of genomic changes that ended a long period of stability that persists across large phylogenetic distances.
Frequency-dependent fitness effects are ubiquitous 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Finds subtle ecological interactions between closely related genotypes create frequency-dependent selection that can fundamentally alter evolutionary dynamics.
Multiscale view on arcade games as model system for studying cultural macroevolution The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse🧪 @svalver.bsky.social , @blaividiella.bsky.social , @andrejpaleo.bsky.social, R. Bentley www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees 🏺🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... This would be facilitated by foraging in trees with large crowns and abundant terminal-branch foods, characteristic of miombo woodlands.
The Oldest Known Book About Cheese In The English Language Has Been Digitized And Has Finally Been Made Available To The Public 🏺🧪 twistedsifter.com/2025/07/the-... 🧀 A pamflyt compiled of Cheese explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/multimedia/7...
How to improve on perfection? Get a little help from tiny friends... A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Provides basis for design of fermentation starters to robustly reproduce fine chocolate characteristics
🔆 Good morning! Why chocolate tastes so good: Microbes that fine-tune its flavour 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Manipulating the microbial communities involved in cocoa bean fermentation could make chocolate even more delicious. More delicious? Is that even possible?
Republicans have never been fond of empirical science... Facts and truth get in the way of their exploitation and profits. Only 6% of scientists in America are Republican. Pew Research Center www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...
Well... as long as you're not singing it to each other. 🥂 Happy Anniversary!
I've heard wrapping them in tin foil works, but it's from a very unreliable source.
You mean the guns aren't because they're gluten sensitive?
A note of thanks to you and other brave journalists for providing us with vital news and information.
Can I have a word with you, Henry? Or more precisely, two words... "Run Away!!!"
I heard about ppl doing this on purpose to mess with ICE... And I think it's brilliant!
Trump's wax figure actually looks better than he does.
Yes, of course. But as I've mentioned before, he doesn't need an excuse to do worse. In times like these, I sometimes wonder what Sun Tzu would do... "To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues." -Sun Tzu
Yes. The reality is when, not if.
Yes, unfortunately he does.
Nah, Republicans don't want the whole thing like Mao, too much work. They just want... umm... a piece of the action.
Wait... I thought he was BUILDING the Death Star.
Ooookay. First of all... If you remember the 80s, you weren't there.
I've heard there's lots of coral in Kalispell. I wonder if it could be that. Looks like it.
I'd say they are more than willing. In fact, there's a whole project designed and being implemented for it.
Given his obvious pathology... Not unexpected, but still no less disturbing.
Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, Archaeology and Geometric Morphometrics 🏺🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vMe... Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social, head of HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social introduces 2 interviews, with Marcel Weiss and @aurelienmounier.bsky.social, which were conducted by Victoria Oberreiter.
DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible. 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/archaeology/... Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA.
Hominin skull from Petralona Cave dated to be at least 286,000 years old New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution 🏺🧪 Christophe Falguères, Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The discovery of Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggests that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.
Homo erectus technological behaviors during the Middle Pleistocene Transition: Engaji Nanyori, Oldupai Gorge 🏺🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Arturo Cueva-Temprana, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social, @mdpetraglia.bsky.social, et al Recent excavations of Acheulean occupational sequence dated 1.1–0.9 Ma.
New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Suggests Australopithecus and early Homo co-existed as two non-robust lineages in the Afar Region before 2.5 mya, and that the hominin fossil record is more diverse than previously known.
Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe 🏺🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/wor... Lucy’s skeleton, (Australopithecus afarensis) which is 40% complete, left Ethiopia and will be displayed at the Czech National Museum in Prague for approximately two months.
Palaeoanthropology – the study of human origins – might seem far removed from the everyday struggles of contemporary life. But the questions it asks are profound. We need a feminist palaeoanthropology that finally listens to all of us 🏺🧪👩🔬 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
🔆 Good morning! "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
Or back into Elon's... from whence it came.
I wonder what would be the result of asking Grok, "If climate change is a hoax, what's the point of an electric car company?"
This is the way. When they go low... Step on them!
It should go without saying that proper boots are de rigueur. Being focused and taking sure steps... also a must. I hope you get the chance one day. ;-)
Carefully... Veeery carefully.
When I first heard about it, I was going to warn you to... idk, do what? Mute your name? Hide until the storm passes? I decided not to add to the ton of posts you'll get about it. You already know how to hang in there and weather the storm.
👇 The Burgess Shale! 🧪
🎉 Wallace and Darwin #OTD in 1858 🧪
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Even Putin must admire this masterclass in manipulation. #CrocodileFlattery
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody... except Shakespeare." -Marshall McLuhan
✊ Wu-hoo! This is the way, Boston! "Silence in the face of oppression is not an option."
Multilevel innovativeness and cross-species comparisons 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1... How innovativeness at one level (such as the species level) does not automatically translate to innovativeness at another (such as the organism level)
The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Contends while panmictic population concept has been, and continues to be useful, with terabytes of data in 21st century, its utility is likely to diminish.
Macroevolution: Marine biomass and biodiversity through deep time 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ecosystem function and its evolution depend on the number of taxa and the amount of biomass. Results of samples spanning the past 541 million years. h/t Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social
Not by Selection Alone: Expanding the Scope of Gene-Culture Coevolution 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Argues apparent gap between theoretical appeal and empirical evidence stems from conceptual ambiguities regarding the scope of relevant gene-culture interactions.
The tree of life, not the chain of life Why Scientists Hate The Term Missing Link When Studying Evolution 🏺🧪 www.sciencing.com/1899616/miss... Exciting as it sounds, "missing link" is simply a relic of early 20th-century thinking that's misleading at best and fundamentally wrong at worst.
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