Amanda Whatley @mandaroza@qoto.org

#lichen windfall - it must be a lichen photographer's paradise up there! #lichensubscribe

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

Glistening inkcaps #fungi in a bed of Peltigera #lichen on an old fallen beech tree

Early autumn sea surface temperature rankings from ERA5 courtesy of World Climate Service shows nearly all of the north Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to North America was unusually warm, with record warm #sst (compared to the past 60 years) south of the Aleutians and off the British Columbia coast.Bering and Chukchi Seas mostly near to above average sea surface temps but not dramatically so. #akwx

Because I'm on a German server my trending topics are #keinVergessen and #niemalsVergessen. This is because 9 November is the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

These brass plates in the pavements memorialise Jewish people at what were their addresses. I saw this one in Berlin in the spring. #NeverForget

This is Ava. I'm on sabbatical this semester, working on my book, and she has made it her job to supervise me. Every morning when I tell her it's time to go work, she delighted runs upstairs and lies down on the bed next to my little writing desk, where she alternates between napping and listening attentively to what I've written. So far she's only given me a few judgmental head tilts, so I think we're making good progress. 😅

#dog #germanshepherd #writing #photography

Here is my #introduction. I am a biologist interested in #neuroscience and the #evolution of cells and nervous systems. My research group studies #ciliated marine larvae from a whole-organism perspective, combining behaviour, #connectomics, #imaging, #CRISPR, #modelling and other approaches. We love marine #larvae, their #neurons, #cilia, and #neuropeptides.

Hello there Mastodon! (and yes, I know this is Smilodon. But they were contemporaries)

Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

First ever clinical trial underway of laboratory grown red blood cells being transfused into another person

If proved safe and effective, manufactured #blood #cells could in time revolutionize treatments for people with blood disorders such as sickle cell and rare blood types.
#Biology #SickleCell #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/11/bio11072201.html

Morning folks, time for my first Mastodon thread (!)

Ahead of the #midterms tomorrow, I want to talk about the tragic politicisation of science in the US.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the Republicans became the anti-science party, but the process probably began in the 1980s, when the Christian right first emerged as a major force in conservative American politics.

Since then, the journey has been smooth and swift, and there is now a stunning partisan divide on confidence in science 😥

Putin ally Prigozhin (St Petersburg troll farm/Wagner)

“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere,” Prigozhin, who has been accused of running a “troll factory” to influence the outcome of votes in several western countries. ..Carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can,” Prigozhin quipped.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/07/putin-ally-yevgeny-prigozhin-admits-interfering-in-us-elections

#Sea Sunday Serenity