Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Marine invertebrate larvae are incredibly diverse.

Sample of the diversity of animal larval forms. Larvae are not to scale. Photos from the Cifonauta database (Migotto and Vellutini, 2011).

They have all sorts of unique features—tentacles, lobes, bands of cilia, shells, bristle hairs, etc.—which they use to capture food, to swim, to protect themselves from predators.

Their morphology is functional. But also beautiful.

That’s why I was excited to discover these larval stickers made by Dexter Davis:

Larval stickers Sheet 1 (left) and Sheet 2 (right) from NoDexterity.

They represent the larval diversity very well and are cutely drawn. A great biology-inspired design.

Now my laptop lid is filled with my favorite larvae:

Larval stickers from left to right and top to bottom: bipinnaria (pink), tornaria (light green), trochophore (orange), doliolaria (blue), zoea (yellow), cydippid (green), echinopluteus (purple), actinotroch (cyan), pilidium (light green), ophiopluteus (yellow), cyphonautes (green), parenchymella (beige), brachiolaria (red), veliger (purple), mitraria (cyan), tegulolopha (green), actinula (yellow), and auricularia (light orange). The other stickers are Fiji‘s logo, xkcd‘s science and citation needed, Darwin’s tree, Kurzgesagt‘s illustrations, Aygan‘s logo, WoRMS‘ logo, MPI-CBG‘s logo, and fruit flies.

https://brunovellutini.com/posts/larval-stickers/

#invertebrates #larvae #marineBiology #sciart

"In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop."
Natural science and religion

American botanist Asa Gray was born #OTD in 1810. His most widely used book, Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive (1848), commonly called Gray’s Manual, has remained, in successive editions, a standard work in this subject.

Books by Asa Gray at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1757

#books #botany

Publico en mi blog #gen_ética en @naukas_com un artículo explicando cómo funciona la primera terapia #CRISPR que ha sido aprobada en el Reino Unido para tratar a pacientes de anemia falciforme y beta-talasemia. Un nuevo éxito de la investigación básica.⬇️
https://montoliu.naukas.com/2023/11/18/y-al-fin-se-aprobo-la-primera-terapia-basada-en-crispr-en-el-reino-unido/

This cartoon illustrates the real problem with our #NHS #mentalhealth services, the physical ones too.

We expect our health service to be the "support of last resort" for the devastating effects that modern society has on all of us. We can't save the NHS and make it all it can be without fundamental changes in our sick and broken society.

It can start by paying nurses and other workers what we're worth.

#EnoughisEnough
#TimeForChange
#NHSStrike

Stroke presents differently in women than men. Here are 7 symptoms to look for.

“some less noticeable signs of stroke seen in women include severe headache, generalized weakness, generalized fatigue, shortness of breath and chest pains, nausea and vomiting, brain fog and hiccups.”
#Stroke #Women #Medicine

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/stroke-presents-differently-in-women-than-men-here-are-7-symptoms-to-look-for-1.6605074

"Using this strategy, the origin of the calculating paradigm in Europe can be traced to the introduction of Arab mathematics during the late Middle Ages. The epicenter was northern Italy. This was where Leonardo of Pisa’s Liber Abaci was published in 1202, and from the thirteenth century onward the region saw widespread adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals and attendant methods for calculation and problem solving."

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-mathematics-built-the-modern-world

Paloma! Prato falante. Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#proverbs #proverbios #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"That brings us to the star of our show. The Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (NordICC) is a huge randomized trial aimed at rigorously measuring how much colonoscopies reduce cancer and death"

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/you-re-invited-to-a-colonoscopy?ref=thebrowser.com#did-the-trial-actually-show-that-colonoscopies-are-great

Dormant bacterial spores encrypt a long-lasting transcriptional program to be executed during revival https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00844-4?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

BTW a word about our old digital home, Twitter. Space Karen keeps fucking up that shithole Xcrement whatever he calls our X. After losing 15% of users & half of revenues in his first year, he just angered a series of major advertisers like IBM, Lionsgate, Apple etc. Elmo is the Eric Trump of tech

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal

Let's be clear.
What @SuellaBraverman proposes is that the UK Executive, of any political hue, is able to:
* Ignore all laws currently on the statute book;
* Ignore any obligations given in International agreements, treaties, and conventions; and
* Remove all judicial review.

This is what Germany did in 1933 when it passed the Enabling Act. It is what Putin and Xi do now.
It would make the UK a dictatorship.

Braverman and her caballers are pure fascists.

Die Urlaubsplanung

NTRO Research Coordinator II

Moffitt Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ntro-research-coordinator-ii-8/?feed_id=65671

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #ProjectManager #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician
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