*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
'twas the best of times, twas the worst of times'...
just kidding, definitely only the best! 😉What a pleasure and privilege it has been to work with you Gaspar! we will definitely miss having you around, but of course the important activities of our #ciliamafia will continue!
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RT @JekelyLab
We are moving!
More info here:
https://bit.ly/3IOyEKb
(please follow there for future updates and for conversation)
https://twitter.com/JekelyLab/status/1615015480946728961
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
RT @Alex_Aquatilis
I wrote a nice little article about plankton. With pictures! https://alexandersemenov.substack.com/p/a-look-into-the-open-water
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 @gelfring
This is a fun one. Using a simple model, we derive a Snell-type law for the scattering of microswimmers (active particles) in fluids with sharp changes in viscosity.
The puzzle that keeps on giving😜 reminds me of https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0566 when the authors ended with: 'a saying attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, ‘el sabio’: ‘If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on creation thus, I should have recommended something simpler’.
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RT @Barr_lab
WOW! Polycystins on #extracellularvesicles for L-R determination!!!! 🤯🤯🤯
Leftward transfer of a chemosensory polycystin initiates l…
https://twitter.com/Barr_lab/status/1613897703041163264
Kirsty Wan
boosted
The little #worms in this movie that you see #crawling about are actually tracks outlining the motion of microscopic #algae. Some move fast and have wormy red (fast!) lines, some move slow and have stumpy blue (slow) lines. I've got nothing on @micromotility, but I absolutely enjoy making movies of algae swimming around and thinking about what is causing them to move a particular way!
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
very interesting question... #activematter
I reckon that to qualify as a micro/nanorobot the agent should have something beyond just motility - for example a minimal cognition (loosely defined, e.g. phototaxis), though in the literature the term has been used for much less?!
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RT @LauraAlvarez_F
I would like to throw out a (controversial?) question over here targeting active matter peers, other field scientists, and also the gener…
https://twitter.com/LauraAlvarez_F/status/1613129343357657088
RT @PhysicsNews
As Katharine Birbalsingh steps down as the government social mobility tsar, a thread on girls, physics & the devastating effect of stereotypes.
Girls are not put off physics because of "hard maths" (girls got more top grades than boys in A level maths in 2021 & 2022). Instead,
RT @gallina_ciega
The brain is over rated https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1611694141687177217
which is why, sometimes I tell my students to just do the experiment without forming a hypothesis😅 (srsly)
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RT @CSULBMammalLab
Unfortunately, one of the first things you learn when doing animal behavior research is that the animals don't care what your hypothesis is. #mentorship
https://twitter.com/CSULBMammalLab/status/1611377901152374784
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 @cell_club
Cilia function as calcium-mediated mechanosensors that instruct left-right asymmetry https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7317#.Y7c3ZD2oiSQ.twitter
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
