Occasionally competent scientist of sex and selfish genes
Liverpool, England
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A 10 year-old boy from Japan discovered that butterflies can remember their time as caterpillars.
Jo Nagai noticed his caterpillars still loved him after turning into butterflies, and the affection he had for them led to a genuine scientific discovery.
WTF are you on about? In 1960 the UK was one of the 5 richest countries in the world. Now, mostly due to the last 30 years of capitalism, most countries are richer than the UK was in 1960. This includes half of the Americas and Asia, most of Europe, and a quarter of Africa.
I can't wait for step two, in a couple of weeks, when Zelensky informs Trump the second "drones in shipping containers" strike is about to happen...
Trump tells Putin. Putin shuts down the whole Russian transport system again.
And Ukraine does something entirely different...
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Nature research paper: Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming
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Excited to share our new paper in @Ecology_Letters, first-authored by my PhD student @Sweat_Saltwater!
It's a big meta-analysis on the effects of temperature on fertility in aquatic animals with lots of interesting (and surprising) results 🐟🐠🦐🪼🦀🐢🪸
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A really exciting new study: evidence that males evolve better sight in order to detect female dishonesty in dance flies. One for the textbooks! A male resistance trait!
Great one from @rosalindmurray @luc_bussiere @dtgwynne & team
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@Abhi_Evo's new paper shows how just a brief heat pulse during a vulnerable developmental stage keeps #drosophila males nearly sterile for days after emergence. Females are not affected. With @anDeNardo @KomalMaggu et al.
Thanks to @snf_ch @UZH_Science
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Curious about the massive #extinction of #megafauna - eg #mammoth, #mastodon, #sabercats & #sloths - in recent #prehistory, as we show in a new synthesis, the pattern is strongly coupled to Homo sapiens & w/out any consistent link to #climatechange cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🦣🐘🦣
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This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies go.nature.com/3MFgETh
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Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas
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Squirrel powering up for lift off
📹 pipthebabysquirrel
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Our @AnnualReviews review about the evolution of transposon activity is finally officially published as open access!!
We would love to hear your thoughts! annualreviews.org/content/jo…
Why do transposons jump at highly variable rates, and what does that mean to host evolution? In this
@AnnualReviews, @texasrulz1, @kweiosis, Yuheng, and I integrated classic pop gen theories and new empirical data to explore this long-standing question. annualreviews.org/content/jo…
It's a lovely morning in The Village.
Number Six is trying to escape.
You are a horrible goose.
@house_house_ @ITV please team up and make this sequel!
ALT Number Six trying to escape from the village
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There is no Fox Marvel Universe or MCU without Blade first creating a market. He’s Marvel Daddy. Please retweet for a Logan-like send off. #DeadpoolAndWolverine
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📢Out now! How do the epigenome and genome interact to shape phenotypic variation? Our review in @EvolAppJournal explores how these interactions play out in natural populations and vary within and between diverse plant and animal taxa:
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ALT Figure 3 from the review, showing how established and emerging plant and animal model systems are helping to reveal the extent of natural variation in the epigenome and to demonstrate its functional consequences for phenotypic evolution.
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Introducing a new special section—Indigenous Science and Practice in Ecology and Evolution: buff.ly/3zSnQZ6 #IndigenousScience
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Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization?
A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have DNA evidence that answers these questions with a high degree of certainty.
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It's a very exciting day! Today marks the official launch of the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme 🦔
@PTES, @hedgehogsociety, @NottmTrentUni & the other project partners are aiming to count the UK's hedgehogs & work out the reasons behind population decline 📉
.@NottmTrentUni researchers are part of a study using trail cameras, AI and volunteers to enable robust hedgehog population estimates in different habitats across the country
@NTU_ARES @ntu_research @RichardYarnell1 @EL_Cartledge @PTES @hedgehogsociety
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