RT @nicoschramma
Yay! First paper of my PhD is out in @PNASNews!
We studied the motion of chloroplasts and found intriguing dynamics which resemble super-cooled systems!
A thread 🧵
did not know tardigrades eat volvox 🤯
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RT @microscopicture
tardigrade enjoying some volvox algae
https://twitter.com/microscopicture/status/1614732616347037697
*evil laugh* this was the plan all along obviously, to convince you over time that even diatoms have cilia you just haven't found them yet...
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RT @seeseamic
I asked #ChatGPT about #diatom motility just for fun. I am apparently working with ciliated organisms????
https://twitter.com/seeseamic/status/1615135093668089856
RT @PlLife2
#FossilFriday - Just received this pic of the Burgess Shale stem-group annelid Canadia spinosa from @Cambriannelids . Look how beautiful the preservation of this 505 million-year-old fossil is !🤯This specimen even preserves nerves in the head => 10.1126/sciadv.aax5858
Wonder what's synchronizing them - is it coupling through the sofa...?
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RT @buitengebieden
In sync.. 😅
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1614334515052158976
RT @daikinish
Our paper is published!
How do bacteria swim and interact with obstacles in a narrow space sandwiched between two no-slip boundaries?
We found enhanced hydrodynamic interactions in such a quasi-2D setup.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.014602
RT @takanobu_ka
“Immotile cilia mechanically sense the direction of fluid flow for left-right determination” published in #Science #AAAS. We answered the question that "How the embryo senses nodal flow and why only the L-side cilia can respond." Let me guide you! 1/n https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8148
RT @AlgaeBase
A diatom mural suddenly appeared on the gable end of a house in Galway Cit y. Wonderful.
RT @Jameshearsawho
Came back into work this morning to find this intriguing Dorito-shaped contamination on one of my soft agar plates (.25% LB agar). Amazing how the cells have formed such an angular structure, although I’ve no idea what it is! @ContamClub
Beautiful ciliary carpet...
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RT @CalamityJanie
Mesmerising wave grass on the hills of Bologna • Italy 🎞 by @DorianPellumbi
https://twitter.com/CalamityJanie/status/1532344450617573376
Well who knew cats can do #phototaxis (well really photokinesis) too 😅
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RT @gunsnrosesgirl3
In this time-lapse video by Mitsuru Yasui
You can see many cats following a sun beam to nap
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1610722970326175745
RT @PhysRevResearch
Motility and self-organization of gliding Chlamydomonas populations, Sebastian Till, Florian Ebmeier, Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Marco G. Mazza, and Oliver Bäumchen @afragkopoulos @unibt @MarcoGMazza @mazza_lab @mpids @LboroScience #SoftMatter #Biophysics https://go.aps.org/3ji63lK
this is likely #bioconvection - upswimming of the motile organisms due to combination of light and negative gravitaxis, followed by sinking when the layer becomes too dense https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43421291.pdf
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RT @Eudorina_ch
ゴニウムのこれはどんな反応によるものなんだろうか？
振動が原因？
大きさ的にある程度数が増えてこないと観察が難しい現象 https://t.co/8SSniydktV
https://twitter.com/Eudorina_ch/status/1604756971760291840
RT @stevejtrettel
The double cover of the Barth Decic surface (in the 3-sphere, as opposed to RP3) has 690 singularities. And looks like a Christmas ornament!
RT @tinyscientist
#Coral zoomies!!
Look at the difference coral baby food does! 🪸🍼
The unfed larvae (left) are much slower & travel shorter distances than the fed larvae (right) - like mini Michael Phelps’!
This could have significant promise for reseeding reefs ☺️
@PureOceanFund @uts_c3 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604054602805940230
