twin fox kits, grunewald berlin

Not now, carnivorous death ball

OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab. Details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

low tide, Roscoff Brittany

night view from Roscoff, Brittany

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research. If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

As promised, here's a 3D volume rendering from an XRM scan of a single Arabidopsis flower, showing the anemone-like stigmatic structures on top of the carpel and array of ovules within. The carpel is ~300um in diameter. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Samstag, Berlin

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

dominance, epistasis, pleiotropy

A test blimp that was aloft five miles from one of the Plumbbob nuclear tests in August 1957, deflated from the shock wave.

Berlin snail, Berlin

kites over Berlin, tempelhofer feld

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

renaissance moth (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

Kreuzberg, Berlin

september

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#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

first eight days in #Berlin

sabbatical

out of sight of land

blue sky over Berlin

Cannot stop laughing at this

Seaweed imprints on lowtide rocks. County Clare, Ireland.

An egg yolk jelly in the Elliot Bay marina #MarineLife #Jellyfish #Seattle #FriedEgg #PhacellophoraCamtschatica #Nature #Invertebrates

august

Vija Celmins, Night Sky #10, 1994-1995. Oil on linen mounted on wood

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

Still looking for some fun science at #Botany2025 today? Check out the evolving reproductive transcriptomes in labbie Timothy’s talk @11:15am in Smoketree AB…

I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com. "The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

australian warning signs

bronte beach surfers, sydney

sky over bengello beach

flying, lounging

milky way, southern hemisphere

ellis beach, queensland

orb weavers (spiny, and giant), queensland

flying-foxes, far north queensland

polychaete sand art, FNQ