Barry Goldman

mating swarms... i need to get my microscope out again. need a sunny window...

They are crawling and spontaneously form these groups, consistent with descriptions of mating swarms. I do see occasional fused pairs of cells (consistent with mating) during and after the swarms. Happens reproducibly but don't know specific enviro cues. Likely involves pheromone sensing

Five crocheted cats of different shapes and colours

I uh. May have gotten a little bit too enthusiastic with the crochet cats

did you crowed them or are they actively seeking each other out? empty environment tho...

i can't tell if they are swimming or crawling!

NYT: Trump Delivers on Promise to Revive Mining

@alexwild.bsky.social ?

it's fun to walk by the huge snow piles in late spring and imagine a year, finally, when the last of them isn't gone before the next snow comes!

Roger Ebert no era el mejor crítico de la historia por nada. Los críticos muy serios que no pueden disfrutar de una peli de acción o de tiros no son críticos, solo son el Niño Sapientín.

i gave up after 8

looks like many photos are managed forests?

also depends on mood.

looking at a picture is diff than BEING IN the forest. weird questions.

How do you get access to papers behind paywalls? #LetsChangeThat (Also side note, not all journals charge authors!)

Single-dose treatment approved for sleeping sickness Regulatory backing for acoziborole could simplify care in central and west Africa, where gambiense infections persist.

Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Between Two Rivers

Will make you want to learn Cuneiform, to be a Brewer-Queen!

Fabulous read in paperback now.

Jazz recorder solo: Pete Rose, Shoe Store YouTube video by Geert Van Gele

some music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax2...

i dream of social euplotes!

I'll have to check them out one day if possible!

hey i live in Troy... u guys work on Euplotes?

Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens For over 140 years, lichens have been regarded as a symbiosis between a single fungus, usually an ascomycete, and a photosynthesizing partner. Other fungi have long been known to occur as occasional parasites or endophytes, but the one lichen–one ...

this builds on Spribille's findings?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
i can haz pdf?

th bomb never seems to go off tho. or .. it's just been a slow burn for decades and no one cares anymore

has nothing to do with the science and everything to do with the culture

look at the data. understand the data. learn about the instrument/telescope that got you the data

oh god!

carbonatite magmas... hmm... does CO3 get cooked to CO2 at some temperature?

hey.. p.s. after being disappointed that chemistry in magma is not as interesting as i was hoping (but i still need to learn more) it occurred to me that i know nothing about chemistry in the earth's liquid core.

this is for Origins of Life studies. I want to explore more environs than water

oh god i just tried finding a book on carpenter ants i remembered, on amazon, and specifically ask it to search for BOOKS and it still tries to sell me gallons of ant poison!

have u seen the video of the 'enshitificator'?

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

people are funny about how they imagine their gods

i remember reading many papers. stacked away in storage now i'm afraid. that was back in 2000...