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Illustrations of various fungi species by Julius Vincenz Krombholz, 1831-1846. 🐡

Only 60 years ago we still thought fungi to be weird types of plants 🍄🤔🌱

With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇

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Scientists in Latin America struggle to get key chemicals and other reagents for experiments. A group has begun to help Several leaders of a multinational effort expanding access to essential lab materials discuss its impact and a major funding boost

“Companies don’t see scientists in the Global South as big customers, he says, adding that even after paying an exorbitant price, unreliable shipping could mean the chemical arrives in unusable shape.”

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When Rudolf Carnap submitted his thesis, the Physics department said it was too philosophical and the Philosophy department said it was all physics. Both rejected it!

“I am aware of danger in naming, in misidentification, in imposing the distinctions of a taxonomic language onto the things themselves” – Arthur Sze

I've made a starter pack for wildlife art and scientific illustration. If you post this kind of work and want to be added, please let me know!

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How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW

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Tribute to Angela Restrepo, one of the key mycologists in #LatinAmerica #InFocus2024 @msgerc.bsky.social

Do Not Accept An Unscientific American | Defector Laura Helmuth was named editor-in-chief of Scientific American in March 2020, shortly before the magazine was set to celebrate its 175th year in print. Helmuth, who had previously directed health and ...

You must read @sabs.bsky.social's latest story on @laurahelmuth.bsky.social resigning from @sciam.bsky.social. On the necessity of moral clarity in science as anti-science agendas calcify politically

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Opinion | The U.S. Response to Bird Flu is Not Reassuring the World The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

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Hi new followers! I develop & maintain R/data visualization resources on GitHub. github.com/cxli233

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs: github.com/cxli233/Frie... Essay on (in)effective data vis.

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8/115 of farm workers in a convenience sample positive for H5N1 - original study here: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Michael Ruse (1940-2024) - Daily Nous Michael Ruse, professor emeritus of philosophy at Florida State University and the University of Guelph, has died. Professor Ruse was known for his work in philosophy of science, particularly philosop...

Philosopher Michael Ruse, known for his work in philosophy of science and on the relationship between evolutionary theory and religion, has died.

I have written all the interesting parts of the thing.
But I have not finished the thing and must write the rest of the thing.

Why! Why is this! Who decided this!

"The eminent physicist Enrico Fermi told his students
that an experiment that successfully proves a hypothesis is a measurement; one that doesn’t is a
discovery. A discovery, an uncovering, of new
ignorance" - Firestein (2012).

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