Anthropocene Citizen

Oh I didn’t think of that!

Look up "Egyptian boomerang" you'll see how they used them. I've also seen a "rabbit stick" in a museum in the American southwest. They were used by the Ute people and looked like a boomerang. It's just a convenient way to hurl a spinning object at something small and tasty.

They are one of the oldest tools in the world. But the concept of "boomerang" is kind of general and not the kind that fly and come back like in Australia. The Australian 🪃 was just the most technologically advanced form of this ancient tool.

We feed the algae our run-off, then we could feed the algae to this chytrid...now to figure out how to get this fungus to produce something want 🤔, like a carbon sink or fish food or something.

Just published: A very unusual fish, described here as a new genus and species of loach, and the first groundwater-dwelling fish reported from Northeast India. Meet 𝑮𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒌 𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂! Open access article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I think Luca would be cute name for a puppy 🐶

Dubai Future Foundation showcases a pop-up preview of the Colossal BioVault at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. www.iflscience.com/step-inside-...

🤬SCTLD

Yeah man. India is in such a blind spot in regards to paleo archaeology. Like, look at the animals and environments there, look at the genetics of south east island peoples. All signs point to humans going to and through the subcontinent a LONG time ago. But not many fossils 😭!

A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. Scientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.

Neat-o! Starlings have changed since they got here (the US). 🧪

'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive in deep space without light.

Cyanobacteria photosynthesise deep inside caves - use chlorophyll d and f to harvest IR light (surely the photosystem must still have chlorophyll a at its heart?) 🪴🌾🌱 #PlantScience
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Nice! Have you seen any B. lynchi out?

I thought these were album covers at first 🤦

Or as we know it in the aquarium hobby "the invincible fish"

Sweet sweet future water! 💕

Stereo-diversity of steroidal glycoalkaloids in the genus Solanum.

Tomatoes in the Galápagos show evolution is not directional

Demonstrating a complex interplay between enzyme function, genetic variation, and evolutionary adaptation.

Enzymatic twists evolved stereo-divergent alkaloids in the Solanaceae family 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a warning from the future Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the nature of tomorrow.

Fascinating! I learned a new word: "Freakosystem"
#Biodiversity www.bbc.com/future/artic...

i procrastinated work to ask @echinoblog.bsky.social questions about that "smiling rock" fossil and ended up with this after everyone's verbal explanation.

lots of people seemed confused so maybe this helps. (see the entire thread for context)

The Colorado River Crisis is Here States fail to reach a deal; Lake Powell Deadpool appears imminent

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

Paclitaxel saved my life. New discoveries could boost supply After decades, scientists have finally pieced together the 23-step biosynthetic pathway to produce this cancer drug

Lovely C&EN @cenmag.bsky.social story on the history and personal impact of the cancer drug Taxol. After spending recent years deciphering how yew trees, our source for Taxol, synthesize this lifesaving drug, it’s so nice to see it in the larger context #secmet #medsky
Plants are amazing chemists.

Bees Are Turning the Sticky-Sweet Secretions of Spotted Lanternflies Into Honey—and Some People Love the Smoky-Smelling Stuff The invasive insects have been spreading across the United States for over a decade, leaving behind poop that bees are transforming into a less sweet, sometimes savory, honey

Bees are turning #SpottedLanternfly honeydew into a seasonal honey. It’s darker, sometimes smoky or savory and safe to eat, but experts still urge the public to control lanternfly populations.

Learn more about it here: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... #InvasiveSpecies #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁

Honey DoomBloom | Philadelphia Bee Co Spotted Lantern Fly Honey. A robust fall honey with a smokey flavor. Collected from around Pennsylvania. 8oz jar.As seen on Atlas Obscura

For my Philadelphia friends: philadelphiabee.square.site/product/hone...

Look at the size of that occipital bun!

And it's cute!

It's a color palette so that the viewer can know what color the coral is regardless of what screen or print the viewer is looking at. It also helps describe how much zooxanthele is in the coral. I think Australia has a standardized color book, but I don't know if it's global

I think the hardest thing to make believable in the film adaptation of #ProjectHailMary is going to be portraying functional governments and citizens who believe in science and work together to allocate resources to solve a problem.

Giant Seed Vault Freezes Beneath Atacama Desert, Preserving Chile's Floral Diversity For the Ages This genetic mothership is the central node in a nationwide network of institutions that are safeguarding the country's plant diversity.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/giant-seed-v...

The Changing Chemistry of Invasive Death Cap Mushrooms University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

UW–Madison scientists have published new research about the makeup of death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) after learning that its spread across continents has changed the chemistry of the species. 🍄‍🟫