I love glow in the dark stuff but GloFish express the FPs all over, not like naturally fluorescent fish patterns. It looks blatantly artificial like dyed supermarket orchids or those poor Easter chicks.

Transgenic fluorescent fish in an aquarium

Transgenic fluorescent fish in an aquarium

I think transgenic pets and houseplants that just look cool are gonna become more common/socially acceptable. Remember the 2000s when GloFish were the world's first transgenic pet and now the poor little buggers are in every pet store on the planet

Transgenic bioluminescent petunias in plastic flowerpots

I'm chuffed about these bioluminescent petunias from Light.bio. They're branded "Firefly Petunias" although I suspect it's not FFluc, but one of the bacterial lux operons that encodes all necessary luciferase & substrate-synthesizing enzymes.

Own work, Pixel 7a "Astro" mode 4min in my living room

Tabby kitten biting a brown dog's tail

Not the best artistically, but probably the most comedic: Lockdown Kitten looking for trouble

#cats #dogs

@failbettergames.com Gua Makam Penyu (Cave of the Sea Turtle's Tomb) sounds like something from fantasy fiction. I'm thinking of the #FallenLondon #SunlessSeas desktop spinoff game where there's an entire island that's the shell of a dead titanic turtle.

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The blessing and curse of convincing people modern medicine works... Without education it's just substituting one kind of magic for another in their heads

www.science.org/content/arti...

#Ebola #HIV #DRC

Imagine if Roelf Meyer shows up at IAD in a T-shirt that says "I'M NOT DEAD YET"

#southafrica

I remember reading, when I was a kid (I was a weird kid), in "Where There Is No Doctor" that many people think injections are more potent than oral medicine, and that healthcare workers should learn to decline requests for unnecessary injections (paracetamol?!?)

These people do not care. 🤑💀👨🏽‍⚕️

Pakistan hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in BBC film Footage shows staff in Pakistan injecting without gloves and reusing syringes, but the hospital boss refuses to acknowledge it is genuine.

God, this is horrific. Hospital director in blank denial after BBC reporter shows him footage of staff and volunteers reusing syringes and contaminating multi-dose vials

#hiv #pediatrichiv #pakistan

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Earth seen from Artemis II, reminiscent of the "Blue Marble" image.

The lunar surface occupies the left of the frame, while Earth in the background is mostly shadowed

Earthset as the Artemis mission travels around the moon.

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. Credit: NASA

We’ll be tracking the aerial assets in place to welcome the Artemis II crew home on Friday, but for the moment, just enjoy some of the amazing images captured by the crew so far. See all of the images posted by NASA at www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND"

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Mycobacteriologists haven't gotten the memo about not naming pathogens after places where people live 🤣

Have you ever heard of breast ironing?
This week, while taking part in a 4-day free cancer screening initiative in Cameroon's South West region, I was reminded of the horrors it causes and why we need to talk about it.
🧵 A thread.

An emerging human eye disease is associated with aquatic virus zoonotic infection - Nature Microbiology Covert mortality nodavirus, a pathogen previously known to cause important losses in shrimp aquaculture, is identified as being a potential causative agent of an emerging and severe ocular disease in ...

A new study in Nature Microbiology reveals that an eye condition called POH-VAU (persistent ocular hypertensive viral anterior uveitis) is caused by covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV) - a virus that's been devastating shrimp farms for over a decade.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everybody please read this article.

Pope Leo XIV rejects claims that God justifies war in Palm Sunday Mass message Pope Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square. n.pr/4bVFD10

Expert urges mask‑wearing and self‑care during Aidilfitri to curb TB spread KANGAR, MARCH 21 — In the merriment of celebrating Hari Raya Aidilfitri, the community also needs to be aware of self-care aspects when visiting during the festive season and...

This is ludicrous and scaremongering. Malaysia has relatively low TB. You're far more likely to pick up Covid or any of the other 1001 common cold viruses than TB at a social gathering.

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I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place.

The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

The New Paradigm of Airborne Disease (SSIR) The COVID-19 pandemic shattered established views of airborne disease. Although it represents a paradigm shift in public health, the field has yet to catch up.

Please read this.

"Rarely do we live through an opportunity to build out an entirely new field so consequential for health and well-being. Let us be the generation that discovers how to make sure we all breathe safe air."
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Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends (Live) YouTube video by Pedro Pacheco Studio (PPS)

On the bright side it reminds us of this very good song: youtu.be/22dvKCjsIkY?...

Probably, Kai.

Lol this spider decided to abseil down from my ceiling at the same time as Alex Honnold

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...

SOS!! Share far and wide! The US Patent Office is working to make bad patents untouchable and that’s a problem for open source hardware! Read through EFF statement and get your comments in ASAP to help prevent this www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I think the road to the current era of AI slop began when people started referring to any and all online media as "content"

FirstFT: Chinese exports soar despite Trump’s trade war Also in today’s newsletter: McKinsey pilots AI in recruitment and Saks Global files for bankruptcy protection

China just reported a record annual trade surplus, of $1.2tn, despite President Donald Trump’s trade war.
www.ft.com/content/f686...

For a good cross reference, notice how raising tariffs on China didn't hurt China – it just reduced American influence and made the American people pay higher taxes for goods

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What's tangentially interesting to me about this is that amongst men, it's _not_ the seed-sowing pronatalists who act like they actually like children.

Maybe it's got something to do with regarding women and children as fellow people, not incubators and clones.

H3N2 flu is surging — and just had the ‘perfect environment’ for a spike - National | Globalnews.ca In the week ending Dec. 20, one in four (25.6 per cent) of every influenza test conducted in the U.S. came back positive, the U.S. CDC said.

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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.