#organisms

“…cells and organisms don’t just passively follow genetic algorithms—they act with creative agency and purpose, even intelligence.”
—Matthew Segall, Is There A Metaphysical Revolution Afoot in Natural Science?
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/is-there-a-metaphysical-revolution
#cells #organisms #creativity #purpose #intelligence

Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems

My digital #artwork from 2020, newly edited in 2025: I used image editing software to stereographically project the image plane onto a #spherical surface. This created a #littleplanet projection with the impression that this #tree is the only one on its #tinyworld. With my artwork, I honor the tree itself, not only because it can bind CO2, but because it represents a #community of diverse #organisms, on which I have conducted numerous #mite #related research.
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Very nice study @Palaeo3 by Petrizzo et al. reviewing and synthesizing #extinction of several shallow #marine #organisms during Ocean Anoxic Event 2, a period ~94 million years ago with widespread #oxygen depletion in Earth's #oceans with lessons for the future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225001762

"A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that a common marine organism could provide new ways to monitor ocean health and understand climate change".
#climatechange #marine #organisms #ocean

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html

Ohio native takes care of animals at Cook Museum of Natural Science | Decatur https://www.byteseu.com/746561/ #animals #biology #Opp24D1 #organisms #Science #Zoology

As for your #agricultural #products :

* we do not want #Genetically #Modified #Organisms #GMO
* we do not want #chlorine #chickens or #growth #hormones #meet

#Thanks , but #NO #thanks

Declining #biodiversity in tiny #ecological systems unseen to the naked eye can carry significant consequences for the health of #organisms and #ecosystems.
#Microbiology #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/mcb02032501.html

The symbolising of "queer" human behaviour in other than human #organisms can be powerful as a reminder that we didn't invent these interactions, and that they have existed long before us as manifestations of love, lust, language or learning and so much more...But don't forget to have it be questioned from the outskirts, because you run the risk if not, of allowing it to become the name of our liberation, and having it be the reason we are allowed to exist, which inherently confines us to itself

Mastodon. You ready for a long #queerecology thread? I saw someone justifying #queerness as a "natural" thing because we see it in other #organisms. I often challenge the rhetoric of there being "queer", "trans", or "gay" animals. But that's because "queerness" needs challenging. It needs it bc it is inherently #anthropocentric, and also #eurocentric as a #system of identification, even if the #interactions themselves are sourced in every #human system on the planet from years before #whiteness.

As for your agricultural production, we do not want to eat #Genetically #Modified #Organisms #GMO, so thanks but no thanks. No orange haired #mutants please. Neither #pesticides, thanks.

We are also keen on " #Europe #First", or our #nations first, i.e. being #independant
Because we are already great !

A concept very difficult for you to understand , apparently

This is just another pretext to harass your (best) friends

Hominoid #aliens? Who knows? But multicellular, complex #organisms (likely with some parasites) with something like DNA in their cells... those might be inevitabilities of the organization of complex systems.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2024.0010

Organism (Organisms )

An organism is any living thing that functions as an individual. Such a definition raises more problems than it solves, not least because the concept of an individual is also difficult. Many criteria, few of them widely accepted, have been proposed to define what an organism is. Among the most common is that an organism has autonomous reproduction, growth, and metabolism. This would exclude viruses, despite ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism

#Organism #Organisms

Fauna (Organisms )

Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding terms for plants and fungi are flora and funga, respectively. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna

#Fauna #Organisms #AnimalEcology #EcologyTerminology

38 prominent #biologists issue a strong #warning about the #future #development of #artificial #life : if a #single so-called #mirror #cell escaped #containment -- either accidentally released from a #lab ,or set free as a #biological #weapon -- it could probably evade most of the #barriers that keep ordinary #organisms in check, thus potentially destroy #life on #earth ,including #humans .

#biology #chemistry #research #biosafety #ecology #humanity #animals #plants

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/mirror-life-microbes-research.html

#News from #AI #research : “How #ChatGPT can benefit from human #brains - or how we teach #machines to #think ”

My colleague #Axel #Stöcker and I have already been able to conduct some very exciting interviews on this very topic in our #Zoomposium series “#Artificial #intelligence and its consequences” and “#Cognitive #neuroscience and #epistemology”.

One “highlight”, for example, was the very exciting interview “Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauss: ‘Bauanleitung Künstliches Bewusstsein’“, in which we asked him about the possibilities of ‘how the #theories of #consciousness - especially those of #Antonio #Damasio - could be used to develop artificial systems based on ’#felt” #information. This foundation could be used to #machine #learning and #deep #learning so that #AI #systems learn to respond to #emotions and #changes in their #environment in a similar way to #biological #organisms.

In this context #Patrick #Krauss was also currently at the „#Embodied and #Situated #Language #Processing (#ESLP2024) conference from 03 to 05 October 2024, which was organized by members of the „#Brain #Language #Lab“ of the #FreienUniversitätBerlin. There he had the opportunity to present the latest research results together with his team from #FAU.

One of #Patrick #Krauss talks was about a study „Analyzing Narrative Processing in Large Language Models”, which he had conducted in collaboration with his colleague #Achim #Schilling. The results of this study are partly based on an article “Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron-Like Long-Short-Term-Memory Units as Model System in Computational Biology”, for which he and his team were awarded the #BestPaperAward at the „International Jount Conference on Neural Networks #IJCNN2023”, the world's largest interdisciplinary conference on #artificial and #biological #neural #networks.

These current results from AI research of #Patrick #Krauss are therefore a real „jointventure” between #AI and #neuroscience, as the data and methods can contribute directly to the improvement of #large #language #models (#LLM), such as #ChatGPT, and in return the #cognitive #neurosciences can also learn something about the use and formation of #language in the #brain from this #implementation and #simulation of #cognitive #processes on #machines.

If you would like to learn more about #Patrick #Krauss ' very interesting #research #results, you can find out more here:

https://www.ai.fau.digital/speakers/dr-patrick-kraus/

or at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/

"This research team had a particular interest in capturing larval life forms, which are relatively understudied. It’s astonishing how alien the larval forms of common sea creatures can seem—with their massive, stalked eyes, spiny snouts, and translucent bodies so unlike the adults they’ll become."

https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/peeking-into-the-oceans-microscopic-baby-boom/

#Images #Marine #Organisms #Nature

'alien' is an #opensource sandbox for simulating #ArtificialLife, using #physics for mechanics, heat dissipation, adhesion, and fluids, with embodied neural networks controlling functions (#sensors, muscles, etc)

Multi-cellular #organisms are simulated particle #networks with open-ended evolution

https://github.com/chrxh/alien