this is likely #bioconvection - upswimming of the motile organisms due to combination of light and negative gravitaxis, followed by sinking when the layer becomes too dense https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43421291.pdf
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RT @Eudorina_ch
ゴニウムのこれはどんな反応によるものなんだろうか？
振動が原因？
大きさ的にある程度数が増えてこないと観察が難しい現象 https://t.co/8SSniydktV
https://twitter.com/Eudorina_ch/status/1604756971760291840
RT @stevejtrettel
The double cover of the Barth Decic surface (in the 3-sphere, as opposed to RP3) has 690 singularities. And looks like a Christmas ornament!
RT @tinyscientist
#Coral zoomies!!
Look at the difference coral baby food does! 🪸🍼
The unfed larvae (left) are much slower & travel shorter distances than the fed larvae (right) - like mini Michael Phelps’!
This could have significant promise for reseeding reefs ☺️
@PureOceanFund @uts_c3 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604054602805940230
Obviously, whatever happens to this imploding multiverse... I can always be found wherever the hottest #cilia chat is taking place...
Kirsty Wan
boosted
Exciting new possibility for young researcher. The LSI call for candidates for externally funded group leader fellowships is launched today with closing dates in January and March. https://twitter.com/LSI_Exeter/status/1602324124239552512?s=20&t=gKl35jQDNvNEs7IzyWOfbw
RT @Eudorina_ch
細胞数32個って白黒サッカーボール⚽️の32面体と共通？じゃん。
もう自律式サッカーボールではないでしょうか。
RT @palaeokatie
330 million year old perfection - a wee crinoid ossicle that beautifully highlights their five-fold (pentaradial) symmetry. There’s also a tiny fragment of bryozoan in the bottom right 🖤
Pretty cold out today on campus, why do you ask??
If the robin were a squirmer, wonder what kind of flow field it would produce... 🤔
RT @birchlse
This belongs in the "real articles that sound fake" hall of fame.
RT @TimESaunders
Not sure a Nobel Prize is the answer, but the lack of dedicated theory institutes is a problem. The UK could so easily become a leader in this (and theorists are cheap compared to running an experimental lab!): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-high-time-there-was-a-nobel-prize-for-mathematics-c0pgd5zss?shareToken=5f0f7944a441f12ed9597278af6cca0f
Lots of strange goings-on here on the third floor of @LSI_Exeter... Last week it was a pair of dancing elves, today it's strange synchronized singing... Something about... Could it be... Christmas is coming already?? 😉☃️🎄
RT @softmatter
Front cover article:
Just published and #openaccess, Microswimmers in vortices: dynamics and trapping led by Ivan Tanasijević and Eric Lauga https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00907B
But perhaps microorganisms do!
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RT @GoreHrushikesh
This stick is of a Plant in the Himalayas called Garud Kashtha meaning Eagle Wood in Sanskrit; it is helical and moves against the flow of water horizontally or vertically; I wonder if plants use it for the transport of pollen, seeds, or migration?
https://twitter.com/GoreHrushikesh/status/1600479946887294976
RT @burnsajohn
The difference between building a house out of stuff you find laying around and forming one from materials that you made yourself for the purpose. Convergence in function, big difference in approach! #Protists
Cool - now finally a computer game we could get on board with - does it account for hydrodynamic interactions tho😅
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RT @OSTSenior
A sneak peak at Aggi's Tiny Friends. An educational game about microscopic ecosystems, where you customize a cell of your own to see what can survive. The videos by @JourneyToMicro where a huge help in getting the movement of cells right! @ParameciumP @ProtistologyUK #indiedev
https://twitter.com/OSTSenior/status/1599820271656894464
RT @OttiCroze
How do swimming microalgae move in snow? And how does this couple to climate change? We have a fully-funded @ONEPlanetDTP PhD opportunity to study in my group in collaboration with @mjsandells, @scienceisnotfun and @xanthellaltd. Please RT. More info here https://tinyurl.com/snowalgaeswim
YES! as much as we love sampling - we must also keep supporting culture collections! they do such an important job and are indispensable for fundamental research
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RT @Cathy__Ribeiro
The importance of culture collections for taxonomy, ecology, and biotech.
Thank you very much @RCC_algae @CCAP_Oban @Nico_Trefa @A_LopesSantos @daniel_vaulot, Ian Probert, and Cecilia Rad Menéndez for your collaboration, and @bps_algae for the fundi…
https://twitter.com/Cathy__Ribeiro/status/1596528259004604421
another day, another win for the mighty single-celled organism
#multicellularisoverrated
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RT @jam_and_germs
Single-celled organism, Loxophyllum, eats a multicellular rotifer! This is almost a 5 years old clip but I thought I could share it today!
https://twitter.com/jam_and_germs/status/1597244008891265024
Not nearly enough #protists and #cilia in this universe yet... let's rectify this with an inaugural edition of #CiliaSaturday 😍
Look at all its beautiful 'feet'... !
