#sunset was spectacular on the #Chesapeakebay tonight!
#photography #waves
Matthew Cobb
Professor of Zoology (Manchester), studies smell, history of science & French Resistance. Author: 'The Idea of the Brain' and 'The Genetic Age' ('As Gods' in the US).
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Just given my last ever lecture on my final year course Chemical Communication in Animals. 20 years, 18 lectures/year, maybe 1200 students taught. Ever-changing updated research-based content. I retire in September, only two more @OfficialUoM lectures to go, both on CRISPR ethics.
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Jupiter's moon Europa has an enormous salty ocean, probably heated from below by hydrothermal vents. Now it seem that Europa has an internal source of carbon, too -- making an even more exciting argument that life could exist there.
New story by me for Nautilus Magazine.
https://nautil.us/a-crucial-ingredient-for-life-is-bubbling-up-on-europa-406356/?_sp=a8169950-1b69-4cac-b479-67dd5d11895e.1696434722927 #life #science #astronomy
@deevybee if around pots not bins, probably not fruitflies. My guess would be midges of some sort breeding in soil. Replace top layer. To trap fruit flies, put some fruit/alcohol/vinegar/yeast in a bottle, with open upside down cone in neck.
House martins and swifts, too many Rubens and all sorts of tapas in Madrid.
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Saw this little beauty on the footpath while walking to work. A flightless longhorn, Mictrotragus arachne
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' Researchers have tested the release of this type of mosquito — which carries a Wolbachia bacterium that stops the insect from transmitting viruses — in select cities in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Vietnam. But this will be the first time that the technology is dispersed nationwide.'
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Paleontologists have found a 52 million year old bat fossil. This fossil appears to be a newly discovered species and it's now the earliest known bat to be found.
Happy #FossilFriday
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/paleontologists-uncover-the-earliest-fossilized-bat-180981972/
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By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.
That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.
We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.
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Couldn't say it better myself
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Most mounted dinosaur skeletons don't include the gastralia or 'belly ribs'. This is probably because they don't articulate with the rest of the skeleton, and they are delicate, so it can be tricky to position and mount them.
The cast of Stan at Wollaton Hall (into which the real bones of Titus were fitted) has them.
When present, these belly ribs show just how deep-bodied and rotund many dinosaurs were.
Anyway, today I noticed the gastralia in Stan/Titus are a bit skew-if.
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Panoramic view of eastern Jezero Crater, captured by #Perseverance on Sol 762.
Context map follows.
Processed, rotated, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 762, RMC: 37.4972, LMST: 16:29:09
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00762/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0762_0734601338_303EBY_N0374972ZCAM08775_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
@tompearce49 Lonely. They are very solitary beasts, which probably helps explain why, despite their intelligence, they remain a kind of very smart slug.
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Sigh. Let's see if y'all can play along at home:
The FCC and the FBI's Denver field office are both warning people to beware of Juice Jacking attacks at airports and other public places. Both cite "cybersecurity experts."
https://www.fcc.gov/juice-jacking-dangers-public-usb-charging-stations
An FBI spox told me the Denver field office warning was reporting information from the FCC. An FCC spox said its information came from a 2019 NYT article, but that the agency has received consumer complaints of juice jacking.The NYT article cited a warning from the LA DA's office. The DA's post was taken down in December 2021, a couple weeks after @zackwhittaker reported DA officials had no cases and could point to no cases of it happening.
Even though the the LA DA's warning was depublished ~18 months ago and the FCC spox can't name a single cybersecurity expert issuing such warnings, there are no plans to correct the post and no mechanism for the public to challenge the warning.
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Why do they spell it "Colour", "Honour" and "Favour" in the United Kingdom?
Because Rick Astley is British.
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The size of Earth compared to the rings of Saturn.
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The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission is scheduled to launch tonight at 21:15 JST! This photograph was snapped by Project Manager for JUICE-Japan Saito Yoshifumi at Europe's spaceport in Kourou.
The launch window is apparently 1 second (!) due to the precise alignment of the planets needed for all the gravity kicks JUICE needs to reach Jupiter. This requires a perfect count down! But if missed, there are similar windows all month.
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