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Dark side of bright nights taking toll on forgotten invertebrates

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If all of us had a ukulele and played it regularly, the world would be a better place! As it is ,just playing it now is peaceful, and positive.

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It appears that “1984 “”is now 40 years later…. Just the non-facts keep on coming

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‘Gaba is the off switch of the brain’: Is it also the answer to better sleep, sobriety and less anxiety?

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Say what? Incredible…

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That’s a lotta people! Safe racing!

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Earth matters!

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Scientists have discovered how to attach bioluminescence to a key piece of cellular machinery. In today's episode, how “RNA lanterns” could help us understand how viruses and memories work. Listen here🎧: https://buff.ly/4aSeV8I

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📜 The genomic secrets of invasive plants 🧑‍🔬 Kathryn A. Hodgins, Paul Battlay, Dan G. Bock 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #InvasivePlants #PlantEcology

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USAid evaporates? And what happens to the two billion dollars worth of food bought from American producers? And who will fill that void on the world stage?

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Excellent story.

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Oh really Susan? Who knew? What a cluster!

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For the 1931 #ColonialExhibition in Paris, Renault published this map of the "main Renault rallies in Africa and Asia" (with the years of their establishment). Very much in the spirit of adventure, just like the #ColonialAdvert below! #ColonialTourism #Transport #HistoryOfTransport 🗃️🚗

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Completely amazed how this occurs. And eyes, how does the eye evolve.

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I am excited for this opportunity to chair the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/01...

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed 🧪 ☄️ Asteroid dust contains ingredients for life, including “letters” of DNA 🦴 Scientists create bone marrow on a chip to study how it responds to chemotherapy 🐻‍❄️ Polar bear fur doesn’t get icy because it is so greasy

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Today's #FluorescenceFriday shows #FusariumOxysporum (🟣) and the plant immune system (🟡) clashing on a "Battlefield" (⚫). Part of #PlantImmunity is the production of reactive oxygen species, which can lead to a #RootBrowning effect, seen here exactly where the plant fights the invader. #PlantScience

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It’s snowing, lots!

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Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest

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2 million Gazans to be sent to Egypt and Jordan. The last time they were moved in to Lebanon if I recall it did not end well.

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Life is amazing, at all levels.

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RIP Garth Hudson A brilliant multi-instrumentalist who was looked up to by the rest of The Band, which is saying something. Here’s my favourite song and performance with Mavis & Pop Staples. Hudson is on piano. youtu.be/Z2eTW8qZBtk?...

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📜 One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium 🧑‍🔬 Vasili A. Balios, Kirsten Krause, et al. 📔 @annbot.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantParasitism #ParasiticPlants #Cuscuta #Haustoria

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I want to go there.

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Remembrance day in Canada at 14 F Some wore special hats! Others did show up.

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Always wondered about this.

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💯 "The contradiction between the anguish felt by the artist & the healthy & fortifying effect of the countryside is apparent and is also one of the reasons why we're still attracted to landscape painting today, as we have been for centuries." 🗃️ #arthistory www.finestresullarte.info/en/works-and...

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The amazing world of early medieval Scandinavian trade and exchange networks. C6th Indian Buddha statuette and C8th Irish crozier, found at the Vendel and Viking Age trading centre at Helgö, on Lake Mälaren in central Sweden. Now in the Historiska museet, Stockholm.

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"Scientists have confirmed that as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere, staple crops like wheat and rice lose vitamins, proteins and micronutrients like zinc and iron that humans need to survive." (salon.com) #collapse

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Today it’s -10 F in Edmonton, time to go for a walk. just bundle up and maybe wear a toque(Cdn for wooly hat)!

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#Bird of the Day: Grey Blue Heron (GBHE) You might remember last week when I shared a Hooded Merganser swallowing an invasive type of fish called a loach. In the same ponds, this heron found a similar meal. As always, herons swallow their prey whole, & with fish they orient them head-first so that

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Piloting a firefighting aircraft is sweaty, tiring work. The conditions that increase fire risk — hot days, high wind, often mountainous areas — also increase turbulence. "You get pulled up out of your seat and your head bangs against the roof," one pilot said. Read more: nyti.ms/4jerXRw

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Bee care! The more we know about them, the better the future.

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"How should the Canadian government approach the US?" As an ally: 28% (-20) Cautiously: 27% (+8) As a potential threat to our interests: 24% (+18) On friendly terms: 14% (-11) As an enemy: 3% (+2) Angus Reid / Jan 13, 2025 / n=1652 / Online (% Change With Feb 2023)

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📜 Cellular damage triggers mechano-chemical control of cell wall dynamics and patterned cell divisions in plant healing 🧑‍🔬 Luciano Martín di Fino, @pmarhavy.bsky.social, et al. 📔 Developmental Cell 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunityv #PlantCellWalls

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Wolves singing in the snow. These animals are amazing, sometimes they'll just all sit around and belt one out. You can see in this photo there's nearly full participation in the song.

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On January 13, 1129, the Knights Templar gained formal recognition at the Council of Troyes. This endorsement from the Catholic Church allowed them to grow into a powerful medieval military order across Europe and the Holy Land. #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery

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Today's #histSTM lunchtime listen: My LHL colleagues @jasonwdean.com & @finchinthestacks.bsky.social discuss #MappingTheHeavens, a new exhibition they co-curated at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, on @kcur.org's Up To Date. www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t... #histsci #sciart #astronomy 🗃️📜🔭

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🎶 One of our favourites: Cycladic marble seated harp player, 2800-2700 BC (!) 🧰 The artist used the limited tools available w/ great technical skill. The harp’s extremely delicate arch was achieved by gently grinding down the stone w/ natural abrasives. 🏛️ Met 🗃️ #archaeology #history #skystorians

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New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show North American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age. We link this to social learning in novel migration route development. rdcu.be/d57Mw 1/10 #ornithology

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It’s always a great feeling to awake to marvelous sky’s. it’s always a great feeling to awake each morning!

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📜 A fully phased, chromosome-scale genome of sugar beet line FC309 enables the discovery of Fusarium yellows resistance QTL 🧑‍🔬 Olivia E. Todd, Kevin M. Dorn, et al. 📔 DNA Research 🔗 academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Fusarium #PlantGenomics #Sugarbeet

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📜 Precise deletion, replacement and inversion of large DNA fragments in plants using dual prime editing 🧑‍🔬 Yidi Zhao, Zhengwei Huang, Ximeng Zhou, Wan Teng, Yanpeng Wang, Yuan Zong, et al. 📔 @natureplants.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantNGTs

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