Alex Akselrod
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🧬 Is Life a Form of Computation?
｢ Biological computing is “massively parallel,” decentralized, and noisy. Your cells have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 quintillion ribosomes, all working at the same time. Each of these exquisitely complex floating protein factories is, in effect, a tiny computer — albeit a stochastic one, meaning not entirely predictable ｣
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/
🧬 Is Life a Form of Computation?
｢ Biological computing is “massively parallel,” decentralized, and noisy. Your cells have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 quintillion ribosomes, all working at the same time. Each of these exquisitely complex floating protein factories is, in effect, a tiny computer — albeit a stochastic one, meaning not entirely predictable ｣
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/
#biology #evolution
Sagt man für die Evolution, die entsprechend der Theorie Darwins stattfindet "darwinistische Evolution" oder "darwinsche Evolution"?
Federico Mena Quintero
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Surely this qualifies as the weirdest #news of the day?
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2025/09/13/68c58182ca4741664d8b459c.html
Next was "Politics at Work" by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, who looks at how companies to use their employees to bring about political action from multiple angles, bringing together controlled experiments, surveys, macro statistics, and media reports to provide a holistic view of how this activity has evolved over recent decades. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/8426832/s/an-incredibly-rigorous-examination-of-corporate-political-mobilization-in-the-us#anchor-8426832 (5/6) #politics #work #sociology
Last was "Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction" by Jamie Davies. As the title says, this is an extremely rapid run-through of human physiology, touching briefly on most of the major systems from the micro to the macro. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/8426847/s/a-whirlwind-ride-through-physiology#anchor-8426847 (6/6) #biology
Really love it when there's a new paper that makes you go 🤯🤯🤯
'One queen ant, two species: the discovery that reshapes what ‘family’ means in nature' 🐜
https://theconversation.com/one-queen-ant-two-species-the-discovery-that-reshapes-what-family-means-in-nature-264384 @nature
"When we measure the world with a ruler made for humans, other species inevitably come up short"
Christine Webb on the myth of Human exceptionalism—the belief that humans are fundamentally separate from and superior to the rest of nature.
#Nature#Humans #Animals#Biology #Science
Putting Humans First Is Not Natural - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/putting-humans-first-is-not-natural-1235544/
Federico Mena Quintero
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Living organisms are assumed to produce same- #species #offspring.
But this is not the case for Messor ibericus, an #ant that lays individuals from two distinct #species.
In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste.
As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago.
The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova.
#biology #evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
Living organisms are assumed to produce same- #species #offspring.
But this is not the case for Messor ibericus, an #ant that lays individuals from two distinct #species.
In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste.
As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago.
The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova.
#biology #evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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If you scratch a Galapagos tortoise on the chin it will extend its neck and legs and often close its eyes, a set of responses called "finching" because it allows finches to land and pick off ticks that might be hidden inside skin folds. #galapagos #tortoise #finches #finching #philadelphia #zoo #birds #parasites #ticks #biology #reptiles
If you scratch a Galapagos tortoise on the chin it will extend its neck and legs and often close its eyes, a set of responses called "finching" because it allows finches to land and pick off ticks that might be hidden inside skin folds. #galapagos #tortoise #finches #finching #philadelphia #zoo #birds #parasites #ticks #biology #reptiles
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It's midnight, here in San Francisco. So it's technically Day 1 of #SciArtSeptember
And today's #SciArt prompt is "Fluid".
I'm taking this to mean the Fluid-Mosaic model of cell membranes, and am sharing a drawing from a few days ago.
It's midnight, here in San Francisco. So it's technically Day 1 of #SciArtSeptember
And today's #SciArt prompt is "Fluid".
I'm taking this to mean the Fluid-Mosaic model of cell membranes, and am sharing a drawing from a few days ago.
ajuvo ✔
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