“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
Caenorhabditis elegans, imaged with confocal laser scanning microscopy, and modeled by surface rendering software. Stock image.
All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e
Amazing work
Most of you all know I am a major AI advocate, and am working to implement it in existing workflows. But with the goal of assisting the experts. Without the curators and deep fact checkers, we are headed for a world of AI-generated slop, and we won't know until it's too late.
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Thank you to the new President of Cornell:
“Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Only a few weeks left to apply for this PhD position in my lab at SCELSE @scelse.bsky.social. Come and join us in lovely Singapore to work on #biofilms #microbiomes #foodchain 🧪🧫
Join us? Or spread the word!
Ping @cwhitch.bsky.social if you're keen!
Lucid takedown of a "zombie statistic" claiming that immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes rapidly, by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape.
👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective.
kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
The Gardener Vallier, 1906
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