Feed: "Nature" By: Sedeer el-Showk

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Witnessing the rare and spectacular bloom of Amorphophallus titanum today at the Berlin Botanical Garden — a once-in-a-decade floral event. A true marvel of plant evolution, with the unforgettable scent of decay. #Botany #PlantBiology #CorpseFlower #Biology

Criatividade brasileira

‘New hope’: Ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to die-back, UK study reveals - The analysis is also a scientific breakthrough as the first convincing proof of a prediction made by Charles Darwin Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Calling young UK-based artists! To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨 🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’ - Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Very proud of this year’s MSc Big Data Biology Students! Today they showcased their Systems & Predictive Biology Projects during a poster session. From malaria modelling to circadian clocks, spiral-waves on hearts to Lac-operon repressors. #complexsystems #systemsbiology

Starting week 2 of the UCSF Cellular Electronics Minicourse - building logic gates with transistors, in order to better understand how logic can be implemented with proteins and DNA.

Fast Food-for-thought 📚

At the Living Systems Institute - Exeter - @lsiexeter.bsky.social , enjoying amazing talks of PhD students on their interdisciplinary research. As D’Arcy Thompson predicted, a fertile ground.

I moved to the UK during "Britain's failed experiment in open borders". The company I co-founded has created >100 jobs, and my wife and I are raising two British kids. If the UK is becoming an "island of strangers", it's because the country is demonising and isolating immigrants like me

Weekend friends, hanging out by the pond. #libelulas

The new pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. Let’s hope he knows his cos from his sin.

Wrapping Hubby’s birthday present 🎁 … #gameoflife (I do recommend the book! It’s amazing)

Spaces (free!) are still available for online registration for the livestream of the Thinking with Plants & Fungi Conference to be held May 15-17, 2025 at Harvard Divinity School @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Many speakers, a great opportunity! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro...

capyzen prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are now available in one convenient place! Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools 🧠📈

Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop, Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, and Impact, @GlobalPlantGPC and @SPS_Plant_Sci, https://saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/evenements/workshop-institut-pascal

Did the dog laugh to see such a site?

Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop – Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, & Impact From the very 1st talk to the final wrap-up, the event was a deep dive into the challenges #plantscience faces in a changing world. buff.ly/tKLsxQI w @spsplantsciences.bsky.social

#Monday after work. Nothing like being in the forest to reenergise.

Found two of my favourite scientists side by sidein the Walhalla (the o e next to the Danube): Mendel and Einstein!

Astronomers have found that Earth is the only liveable planet any of us can live on. There might be another planet very, very far away. The planet is unfortunately too far away, so will not be an alternative for humans to live on. We only have this planet - so we better make the most of it.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

This is Merlin. He is a Dire Wolf. In his dreams. (As is the wolf with 20 mutations. A Dire Wolf only in someone’s corporate dreams 🐺. )

#PlantWorkshop at @spsplantsciences.bsky.social, to end with an optimistic vision, see the workshop poster and its transformation (by G. Krouk) for the possible evolution of the Anthropocene, and the place of plants, agriculture and scientists in this evolution ! Thanks to all participants !

Indeed, my son took the below picture at sunset while hiking through the forest. This ain't California (but South Wales!) The next day, another fire close to the Taff. So much smoke in Radyr. And... This is just spring. This is Wales.

Join us for Talking Plant Science with Professor Peter Reich from the University of Michigan🌱 🗓️ Thursday 17 April, 2025 🕙 11am-12pm (AEST) 📍 Zoom, uqz.zoom.us/j/84296813859 ℹ️More information: www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-peter-reich/ #event #webinar #plantscience

I wish I could still be at the meeting! One great talk after the other…

How to make something stupid look 'clever' by putting in some Greek symbols. No matter what the language, it's still stupid.

An upper bound on the number of computations that can have been performed by all superradiant carbon-based life in the entire history of Earth. 🤯 🧪🧬🦠🌍 No spoilers. Enjoy: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This makes me MAAADD 😡… luckily, these strong and rationale male leaders will maintain stability 😮‍💨 . #weiblichewut #hysteria #furiafeminina

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🚨Attention students! Applications are open for the 'Physics of Life' #MSc at the @cmcb-tud.bsky.social! Learn from leading researchers in the field of #biophysics 👩‍🔬 This is an international, interdisciplinary programme that is tuition-free and taught entirely in English. Learn more: tud.link/ayajef

Yeah! Super important initiative

Monday. Even the school run is breathtaking this time of the year.

Two of my favourites things, coming together: music and dynamical systems/patterns …

Soil: our last frontier. We really need to dig into it and understand it better. And fast. #soilscience

Que maravilhoso! Um excellente escritor e divulgador de ciência (da física até a biologia), @philipcball.bsky.social , publicou um livro infantil na nossa língua,”a última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela”. Com ilustrações super cativantes. Ótimo presente para crianças que adoram fazer perguntas!! 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇦🇴🇨🇻

Crap. They found me. www.livescience.com/animals/gian...

Veronica Grieneisen @vgrieneisen.bsky.social with "The multi-scale nature of transport in plants: from auxin to nutrients." shared insights into the origin & impact of cell & tissue polarity in development 🔗 profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/griene... #PlantWorkshop at @spsplantsciences.bsky.social

@jeancolcombet.bsky.social @spsplantsciences.bsky.social

“Will research really be able to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene” Not sure, but we won’t stop! next question: How to stop creating the problem at a higher rate than we can fix? Ultimately, humans need to feel connected to this planet. Politics will follow. #scienceeducation

This what we plant scientists should try to do! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM3o...

Equations … atmosphere-ocean-land… how fitting to stand before this quote at Paris Gare du Nord subway, on way to @spsplantsciences.bsky.social the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” @oneearth @onehealth

1/22 Delighted that the article of the talented Tanaka and Sotta from our collaboration between #CardiffUniversity (w/ Stan Marée) and Japan (w/Toru Fujiwara and others) has come out! We uncover a genetic dance involving gene transcription, translation and silencing. academic.oup.com/nar/article-...