Also strange statement. Why would they assume such alleles would be advantageous?
“More than half of the genes have known links to disease risk and other traits today, although it’s not yet clear what made each gene advantageous in prehistoric contexts”
I am always shocked when people insist that human evolution has stopped haha
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I LITERALLY GASPED!
The perfect animal 😭
Ahhh, mayhaps you are a para-sora-LOFUS chap? Is that your cup o’ tea?
The problem with this poll is not that most Americans DON’T have a favorite dinosaur, the problem is the lack of Parasaurolophus. If Parasaurolophus was on it, everyone would have a favorite dinosaur.
A child’s handwriting in pink chalk on the sidewalk: “FLOWERS ARE LOWKEY Kinda FIRE”
A new generation of poets rises, inspired by the same springtime that roused Dickinson and Shakespeare. A torch, passed.
Omg can you tell me when/where/how ??
WANT.
AI in the worst way. Report and block.
Their interviewing the doctor, and he talks about "stomach awareness," "body awareness," and how the Pacific waves can be very "provocative"
I'm stealing all these euphemisms for sea sickness
Will you feel it? See it? Hear it??
If you're in coastal CA! NASA Astronauts are re-entering the atmosphere in less than an hour!
Yet more impossible beauty standards for me specifically.
Look at those EYES! I read that their retinas are a diffuse sheet (rather than a small spot like ours).
Imagine the entire front of your head being eyeball
Side view of Cystisoma out of the water. From wikimedia commons by iNaturalist member kbkash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystisoma
Side view of Cystisoma out of the water. From wikimedia commons by iNaturalist member kbkash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystisoma
A Cystosoma about as wide as a hand holding it. Image by Alejandro Damian-Serrano.
This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head.
📽️ MBARI
Glorious little Bolinopsis microptera with its dazzling rainbow ctenes, black spots on its meridional canals and lovely lobes.
Ctenophore Day is tomorrow!
Here’s one I saw this morning 😊
#CtenophoreDay 🐙🦑
The ocean truly is a place of infinite wonder
I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae.
They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS.
Most walk on modified fins.
Others use jet propulsion.
Some are capable of air-breathing.
Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.
do not think we were ok. that we ate that day that our leader threatened to end a civilization. that we slept. that we were not sick.
i fear we will never be redeemed
just... please, for those who are not in the US, please do not believe this is us, that we are not enraged, that we are not fighting and screaming and marching in the street. our democracy is falling, it is hard to see us under its long shadow, but we are here, struggling to lift it back up
as an ocean account, i don't post much about politics
but everyday i see national guard roaming my street, blasé in their symbol of occupation
everyday i pass them & mourn the turn my country takes
everyday i pray we will find the strength to turn again, back toward hope. And justice. And peace.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Artemis II photo of a crescent blue and white Earth behind the limb of the closeup Moon, with craters across the gray surface of the Moon
Because we all need something amazing today.
#artemisII
Marg Leehane, part owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay.
TT: bookofcabins
Yay! No idea yet, just trying to get a sense of the realness of the peopleness on BlueSky. But I could imagine a couple fun ideas!
DC / Maryland / Virginia, but I do appreciate the confusion. When I first heard a DMV radio annoucer I thought the same thing
yay!!!! 🥳
Honestly, at the moment just testing the water. I've been thinking about putting together some sort of fun/casual get together, maybe involving nerd talks and/or trivia, but wasn't sure how many folks were even around here :D
haha enjoy:
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