Northern lights in Iowa right now!
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Northern lights in Iowa right now!
Diagram captioned "Rules of regeneration". Centre, a polar coordinate system; bottom left, a Drosophila wing imaginal disc; bottom right, a tetrapod limb; upper right, an insect limb.
#DBFeature 🌐
Origins, findings, challenges, and influence of the Polar Coordinate Model, which revolutionized understanding of limb regeneration by framing pattern formation as positional information encoded in coordinate ‘maps’ across tissues.
#SpecialIssue on #Oogenesis in animals and plants
Fantastic record! My kids know many of the songs like Abba Zaba and Yellow Brick Road by heart too!
Embryonic Journey!
Hi!
"Dinner at the Devonian" Table for Techers Iowa edition was a blast! Thanks all for attending! #CaltechAlumni @caltechalumni #DevonianFossilGorge #WilsonsOrchardCiderhouse
Zuma Beach reference!
After 15+ years, our wonderful Potamomics team has completed a lovely Potamo genome assembly. It was VERY challenging & also super exciting. Here’s why ❤️🐌🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social
Here ya go!
Prime # 53 😎
'No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe ... the questions investigated.'
-Richard Feynman
#Feynman #Science #Physics
Cool! As Europa Clipper sails to Jupiter’s icy moon to search for signs of a life-friendly environment, scientists find stronger evidence in archival Galileo data that lowly Callisto may also harbor a subsurface ocean. eos.org/research-spo... 🧪🔭
Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
John Reinitz, a true dev bio pioneer, dear friend and mentor, one of kind spirit, ever ready with a clever pun, rapid fire retort, and always the meandering multi-threaded conversationalist, RIP. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/john-re...
Weird! Just picked up Bat Out of Hell at Artifact about 30' ago!
Outer sleeve and spinning vinyl record. X “Los Angeles”
Spinning this fantastic record at Albert’s place @meristicmanifest.bsky.social #nowplaying
Outer sleeve and spinning vinyl record. Pharaoh Sanders “Wisdom through music”
Next up at casa de Albert. A little Pharoah Sanders. A good choice for his founding #vinyl collection. #nowplaying @meristicmanifest.bsky.social
Outer sleeve and spinning vinyl record. Sonic Youth “Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star”
Next up at Albert’s house @meristicmanifest.bsky.social is from one of our jointly fave bands: #SonicYouth #nowplaying
the same scene with species names overlaid on top. 1st quarter: Frond-shaped Bradgatia, Charnia, Primocandelabrum Cone-shaped Thectardis Thing lying on a seafloor Fractofusus 2nd quarter: Frond-shaped Charniodiscus Finger-shaped colony of Funisia Various disc-shaped things on the seafloor Dickinsonia, Yorgia, Kimberella, Parvancorina, Tribrachidium Worm traces Helminthoidichnites and the worms Ikaria Floating blob Attenborites 3rd quarter: Archaeocyathan sponge reef Inferred jelly-shaped floaters Small nematode worms and their wiggle traces Algae Seafloor crawler Halkieria Nondescript priapulid worm emerging from the seafloor 4th quarter: Swimming predators Anomalocaris, Isoxys, Sidneyia Tubes Oesia Small little arthropods Liangshanella Crawling mollusc-like creature Wiwaxia Worm Ottoia emerging from the seafloor
Bonus content for the nerds: The species key
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
No grubs, just wee pair of mushrooms (carefully put back!) from weekend walk
Stay wavy friends!
Miso soup made today with the Iowa gold aged miso paste:
Miso soup made with the young amber miso paste:
Discovered local Iowa miso paste! Woohoo!
