Check out Shikhara’s new pre-print on ageing - excellently summarised in this thread:
Both @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social have a superb eye for design of data visualisation coupled with cutting-edge bioinformatic, ML & Bayesian statistical analysis - have a look at their new company website
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I see the warning more as a plea to actually use these excellent collective nouns. Especially “a wunch of bankers”.
this is what actually makes science hard
Ffs
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Brilliant, mad, and tragic.
Can recommend the book “The Price of Altruism”, but his Wikipedia entry gives a taste of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
This study provides mechanistic insight into how parasites alter community structure under natural conditions, via their direct and indirect impacts on host demographic rates 🐠 🌍
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Really excited to share that one part of my PhD research is now publicly accessible on preprint servers! Here is a thread explaining our (@kokkonut.bsky.social and I) work on ageing and stochastic damage/failure accumulation, available as a preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
obsessed with this extensive and bizarre list of collective nouns on wiktionary. love that it starts with a warning not to use them
Alternating between thinking I’m onto something interesting and thinking I’m a complete ignoramus, good times
DEET is a key insect repellent that stops mosquitoes from biting but now research by @crlazzari.bsky.social & co reveals that the insects can learn to associate DEET with dinner if they smell it when dining on blood, leading them to bite people using DEET
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
