Dr Michelle @Drosmel@social.cleverlibre.org

New paper with Leo Pio-Lopez, Johanna Bischof, and Jennifer LaPalme:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0072
A computational model of how cell-level metabolic goals can become tissue-level morphological goals, with some surprising predictions confirmed by data in planarian regeneration.
Part of a very cool theme issue ‘Making and breaking symmetries in mind and life’ organized by Adam Safron, Dalton Sakthidivel, Zahra Sheikhbahaee, Magnus Bein, Adeel Razi, and I: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/2023/13/3

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Is this the cutest fungus ever!? 😲🍄💙
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This mini mushroom was found in Taiwan and is believed to be Mycena subcyanocephala, often called the blue-headed bonnet. The species is characterized by its teeny tiny height of around 1-3 cm, and its blue to blue-gray cap (typically only 0.5–1.5 cm in diameter).

M. subcyanocephala thrives in temperate climates and usually colonizes decaying wood or leaf litter.
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​📷 Eric Cho/iNaturalist
#nature #mycena #mycology #fungus #science #ScienceAlert #STEM

My first gardenia bush to actually bloom.

"I am not the Lord of Darkness" Ron DeSantis calmly assured reporters while signing a new bill that bans Florida citizens from uttering the phrase "Lord of Darkness".

not everything everyone does needs to be Impressive. most things people do socially are not original or brilliant but who gives a shit

"This post is not shared." 😾

Fun fact: Water boils faster when you turn on the burner!

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Today NPR published a good educational article on the science of the early stages of human pregnancy:
"Thanks to the many scientists who offered guidance and advice for this story, including Ripla Arora of Michigan State University, David Miller of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Joanne Muter of the University of Warwick"
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/12/1159753316/pregnancy-start-conception
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#science #biology #pregnancy #conception #NPR

Insect growth regulator pesticides affect how quickly #bees lose fat and age. Some #pesticides cause bees to begin foraging earlier. Others cause foragers to loss fat and age faster, consequently they collect less #pollen but the pollen they return with is fattier to compensate
#science #comparativephysiology #pollen #insecticides
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/7/jeb245852/306967