Beware of anti-myths!
Spinach *does* have a higher concentration of iron than a steak.
The problem is that it's not absorbed nearly as much when digested.
Nice read.
What next? Edge (23,34) is not really ambiguous in the Karate Club?
Crosspost from @DanLarremore@twitter.com:
New one on my list of favorite papers.
"Academic Urban Legends"
It explores the ironic follies of how we cite literature by tracing a myth: that we think spinach has a lot of iron only because of a decimal point error in the early 1900s. h/t @jugander@twitter.com
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312714535679
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DanLarremore/status/1631481816057257985
It was so cool to see this story come together. @KatrinaVelle has done a masterful job synthesizing old literature and new comparative physiology to push forward our understanding of the contractile vacuole!
QT: https://mstdn.science/@KatrinaVelle/109956716126225949
Tell me all the reasons why it would be a bad idea to use a #kickstarter model for #research #funding (especially to top-up existing projects)
(7/13) We then took this project to Woods Hole during the 2022 MBL Science Physiology Course, where Manny Richter, Nick Martin, and Chunzi Liu took amazing videos! Chunzi also started modeling CV filling, which made a great addition to our manuscript!
(1/13) We (Rikki Garner, Tati Beckford, Makaela Weeda, Chunzi Liu, @askennard, Marc Edwards, Lil Fritz-Laylin, and I) have a new preprint about osmoregulation!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.01.529730v1
Here’s the tootorial & backstory:
I'm happy to share our new preprint on osmoregulation!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.01.529730v1
tootorial coming soon
I hope you all enjoy it more than the amoebae did!
RT @FritzLaylin
New preprint from the lab. Love this project. Went in thinking we were studying an actin phenotype, but it turned it WASN’T ACTIN! https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/1631301191572307968
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
Here’s a collage I made a while back highlighting Naegleria’s actin (cyan) and microtubule (orange) cytoskeletons. Naegleria only use microtubules to build a mitotic spindle, and when they transiently transform into a flagellated cell type.
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#ComposerOfTheDay February 20
Buffy Sainte-Marie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie - "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" (Remas... https://youtu.be/KwOyconXiGM via @YouTube
How to be an academic in a world on fire?
As scientists concerned about the climate crisis, @clarekelly and I set out to rethink the role and goals of the university in tackling the 21st century's challenges. Inspired by Raworth's Doughnut Economics, we propose seven new ways to thinking - not only to help us think, but also to act.
Read the paper: Urai AE, Kelly C (2023) Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. eLife 12:e84991. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84991
Join us for a discussion at Growing Up in Science Global on 11 April: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoc-GsqT8uGNXniBIHPo9u4ibfDwxysLkI
... and let us know your thoughts!
Ted Chiang's piece on ChatGPT is extremely good, and full of interesting parallels and metaphors. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
A look at Earth’s biomass distributed between taxa.
Plants dominate accounting for >82% of biomass, followed by bacteria at 13%. The entire animal kingdom only makes up 0.4% & humans alone are just 0.01%. https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth #science #nature
Credit: Our World in Data using research by Bar-On et al. (2018). Biomass is measured in tonnes of carbon.
@futurebird Twitter is closing their API fully unless you pay for access, with a one week deadline. This means all the Twitter-to-Mastodon migration tools will stop working.
A little late for #MicroscopyMonday, but I still wanted to share this movie of Naegleria's contractile vacuoles that I just finished color coding!
Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
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