Toby Spribille

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

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“Grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility” is very on-brand NYT

Thanks @sarahkcox.bsky.social for highlighting this spectacular inland rainforest and its rare lichens

Today was my first spotting of Buttercups for the season. Passing along to hopefully brighten your day.

A wee bit early, no?

Thanks @sarahkcox.bsky.social for highlighting this spectacular inland rainforest and its rare lichens

A symbiotic origin of the ribosome? Abstract. The origin of life is one of the great mysteries of science. Of the multiple unsolved problems, the origin of the translation system (the means b

A symbiotic origin of the ribosome?

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Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

Sizable growth of tree lungwort lichen

Tree Lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria)
#Winter #lichens

The one on the left might actually be Tephromela atra

You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.

Congratulations!

Looks like Phlyctis argena

Also can’t resist the idea that Darwin, had he lived today, would be dropping f bombs. Fuck clovers

I feel like I have had a multiples set of Darwin hate sentiments just this morning

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Christmas in February! My friend Seabrooke Leckie has come out with another fabulous moth book—and this one covers 1900 species of the tremendously diverse moth fauna of the West. Congratulations Seabrooke!

The visualization of two bacterial genomes, of 50 and 52kb, representing independent instances of extreme genomic reduction in ancient heritable endosymbionts of planthoppers.

Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com is now online-early!

We describe independent evolution of bacterial genomes of only ~50–52 kb — the smallest known outside cellular organelles — revealing striking convergence toward minimal gene sets.

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Our new paper is out!

We document the diversity of foliicolous lichens, including a lichenicolous fungus, based on extensive field surveys on Okinawa Island, southern Japan.

taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/2157
Taiwania

#lichens #foliicolouslichens #biodiversity #EastAsia

#Lichens #InariFox #Shinto #Japan

Lina Hähnle - Wikipedia

#otd

175 years ago Lina Hähnle, pioneer in bird conservation, was born in Sulz am Neckar, Germany. She would lead the NGO later known as @nabu.de for almost 40 years

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FLECHTEN – Eine Reise in die verborgene Welt der Mischwesen. Von Robert Lücking und Toby Spribille Viel zu lange habe ich Flechten zu wenig beachtet. Erst als ich las, was für eigenartige Wesen es sind, stieg das Interesse und der Wunsch, mehr darüber zu erfahren. Als äußerst hilfreich, die Welt…

Die Rezensionen kommen allmählich

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FLECHTEN – Eine Reise in die verborgene Welt der Mischwesen. Von Robert Lücking und Toby Spribille Viel zu lange habe ich Flechten zu wenig beachtet. Erst als ich las, was für eigenartige Wesen es sind, stieg das Interesse und der Wunsch, mehr darüber zu erfahren. Als äußerst hilfreich, die Welt…

Die Rezensionen kommen allmählich

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Holes in the Hologenome: Why Host-Microbe Symbioses Are Not Holobionts | mBio ABSTRACT The advent of relatively inexpensive tools for characterizing microbial communities has led to an explosion of research exploring the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbe-host systems...

Rereading these two papers:

Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them

Good to see you too!

Two Billion Years of Fungal Evolution: How Symbiosis Shaped Earth's Most Diverse Kingdom Fungi emerged approximately 2.4 billion years ago in primeval seas, likely colonising land before plants around one billion years ago

Educational short read on 2 billion years of fungal evolution from ancestral marine flagellates to mushrooms.
www.mycostories.com/post/two-bil... #fungi #evolution #symbiosis #mycorrhiza 🍄

I am thrilled to congratulate David Díaz Escandón @ddiazescandon.bsky.social on successfully defending his Ph.D. on lichen fungal comparative genomics at @ualberta.bsky.social — the culmination of a journey!

Normandina pulchella (NO muslinglav) on a beech tree in Stavanger, SW Norway. In Danish it is called smuk konfettilav

Our #Bookofthemonth for January: Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide by Frances Stoakley and Dr Rebecca Yahr. Filling a desired niche, it's a really useable and accessible guide for beginners and a faithful field guide for all! www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/lich...

I am thrilled to congratulate David Díaz Escandón @ddiazescandon.bsky.social on successfully defending his Ph.D. on lichen fungal comparative genomics at @ualberta.bsky.social — the culmination of a journey!