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Interrupting my vacation animal & nature posting to congratulate my #ESA colleagues on the amazing #Juice lunar-Earth flyby, the first of it's kind 💪 And it was so nicely precise, that they could save some fuel for extra scientific shenanigans in the Jupiter system!

▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby

Btw., if you want to know more here on #fedi, you should read the recent threads my (former) colleague @markmccaughrean who majorly contributed to making those lovely images of Earth & Moon!

#astrodon

the thing that is mind blowing to me about parasitism is, like all biological signaling, the need for specificity in extremely adverse conditions. like this parasite is "just" a muscle tube - no circulatory system, like a couple neurons maybe, and yet they can so something so specific as make horizontally polarized light reflected of the surface of deep water more attractive to get into. What is the signal, and what is the target? Presumably there isn't a "go to polarized light" neuron or molecule in the mantis, so presumably has to synthesize multiple proteins/signaling molecules or infect multiple neurons to cause the needed behavior.

this paper describes a huge amount of horizontal gene transfer in the parasite, so through its evolution the parasite has stolen a bunch of genes from the host and uses them to control it once inside. like metasploit or whatever, it has a bunch of plugins that lets it hijack different mantids. what it lacks in anatomical novelty it makes up for in capacity for chemical warfare.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.052

i felt this way when studying steroid hormones too - like how does a molecule that gets spread around your entire bloodstream induce hyperspecific affects at multiple timescales from acute/behavioral through chronic/body patterning... it's like you only have a dozen or two words and you need to get a few million people to understand completely different things by shouting them into a room. biology is wild as hell.

This is an important data point for the #EU

"Based on six months of data, EU27 fossil CO2 emissions have declined nearly 7% (Jan-Jun). Coal has had a substantial drop (23%)."— Glen Peters

Source: bsky.app/profi…

#ClimateCrisis #Mitigation

"America, where hate has no safe harbor," has not joined the International Criminal Court, so hate does have a little safe harbor here tbh

Also, criticizing the organization as “justice warriors from Madison Avenue” is so funny to me. That Russian officials can make these niche references to American culture while ostensibly rejecting U.S. influence is a many-layered irony cake.

This is a wholly terrifying read in at least two separate fronts:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4881086

front 1) Every $1 spent in sports betting is $2 not put towards personal finance

front 2) We know this because there exists a dataset where 60 million people's financial lives are tracked down to individual transactions with specific sports sites (and so everything else)

Messin' around with the famous MeerKAT galactic center data. The provided spectral index is certainly is a different way to go about colorizing an image. Tried to fix some of the dark halos around the bright nebulosity. Not sure whether they were introduced during mosaicing, or if it's just a product of creating imagery from radio data.

'She said that Irish passports, with membership of the EU, would probably be among the most covet­ed. For decades, unmarried Irish mothers were coerced into giving up their children for adoption in Britain.

A spokesperson for Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed would-be Irish citizens have already started using DNA evidence to help prove they are entitled to Irish citizenship through a parent, and that this evidence is submissible in passport applications.'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/18/rise-in-dna-tests-used-to-claim-citizenship-of-other-countries-brexit-eu

JOURNALISME & TWITTER

J'aimerais attirer votre attention et vous inviter à une petite réflexion, au moyen de cet article.
Il a le fond...
...Mais il y aussi un détail très intéressant.

Lisez donc.

https://www.watson.ch/fr/suisse/rts/922362416-alexis-favre-quitte-le-reseau-social-x

1/5

Study (N=23K) finds 88% of top performing women receive feedback on perf evals on their personalities compared to just 12% of male counterparts. https://fortune.com/2024/08/08/most-high-performing-women-recieve-negative-feedback-quit-jobs/

FYI

Fall semester just around the corner; new prep; various other demands; so obviously it’s time to upgrade Emacs and rewrite the template logic for my website.

On a different note it's disheartening to see how many more starlink satellites are in my recent photos compared to even two years ago

People love to generalize about the sociology, especially about the prevalence of activist research, political perspectives, and overwrought claims. I wish my new paper with Micah Altman, "The State of Sociology: Evidence from Dissertation Abstracts" answered these questions. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/a8uyp

If I had to give one piece of advice to anyone who is similarly too-online and writing about Russia, it would be this: block any NAFO-affiliated account as soon as it engages you. (Purging them from your followers is too time-consuming unless you notice a bunch joining at once.)

🧬 Well-equipped labs are key for biologists to continue their work. With a growing concern for climate change, there is also a call for more green practices within labs. What do you think will have the biggest impact in making our labs more sustainable?

Most people think the Baby Boom in the United States was “officially” from 1946 to 1964, and yet neither of our two principal candidates for president in 2024 are Baby Boomers. How is this possible?
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/the-definitive-explanation-for-why-neither-donald-trump-nor-kamala-harris-are-baby-boomers/