This very Buddhist idea of no boundaries between you and the "surroundings." This very Buddhist idea that "life" requires, is co-equal and identical to, this planetary system. Including the sun and the moon!

Two of the ideas that are "subtle" and "non-intuitive" to the modern Western mind, but in themselves self-evident and trivial. My favorite catchphrase, maybe the best of the two or three possibly original thoughts I have ever had, is:

"Ecology is economics without externalities."

(Or surpluses, but alliteration. Also tautology. Anyway.)

#biology #evolution #gaia

Students ask me iF vIrUsEs NeEd ceLLs tO LiVe aRe ThEy ReAlLy aLiVe?

And I answer "If I sent you to the rings of Saturn, you're not alive. If you need the biosphere to live are you really alive?"

#biology #evolution #gaia

This very Buddhist idea of no boundaries between you and the "surroundings." This very Buddhist idea that "life" requires, is co-equal and identical to, this planetary system. Including the sun and the moon!

Two of the ideas that are "subtle" and "non-intuitive" to the modern Western mind, but in themselves self-evident and trivial. My favorite catchphrase, maybe the best of the two or three possibly original thoughts I have ever had, is:

"Ecology is economics without externalities."

(Or surpluses, but alliteration. Also tautology. Anyway.)

#biology #evolution #gaia

Students ask me iF vIrUsEs NeEd ceLLs tO LiVe aRe ThEy ReAlLy aLiVe?

And I answer "If I sent you to the rings of Saturn, you're not alive. If you need the biosphere to live are you really alive?"

#biology #evolution #gaia

Now here's a gutsy headline. https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-buttholes-may-be-the-reason-we-now-have-fingers-study-finds
#science #evolution

#biology #evolution
Sagt man für die Evolution, die entsprechend der Theorie Darwins stattfindet "darwinistische Evolution" oder "darwinsche Evolution"?

Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-bird-spotted-in-a-texas-backyard-is-the-first-known-hybrid-between-a-blue-jay-and-a-green-jay-180987383/

#ClimateChange #Evolution #Science

Now here's a gutsy headline. https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-buttholes-may-be-the-reason-we-now-have-fingers-study-finds
#science #evolution

Since many people are canceling their streaming services, I can recommend a new documentary series from NOVA PBS about the origin story of Homo sapiens. It includes several recent discoveries on the different human species, as well as the impact that climate change had on our evolution.

The first episode was aired yesterday and you can watch it for free thanks to public television 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjH71hmrGGQ

#Anthropology #ClimateChange #Culture #Documentary #Evolution #Science

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

#evolution #biology
#science #biodiversity

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." You'd think this would be obvious and yet...the natural world. [2/]

#Eusociality#SocialInsects#Entomology#Formicidae#Evolution#ThrowYourBiologicalSpeciesConceptOutOfTheWindowNow#NatureRejectsTheRulebook

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

Users of #GNOME#Evolution mail client: in #Debian13#Trixie, the Message-ID search (via command line) is broken. 😔

It got fixed already (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/3079) but the fix version 3.57.1+ is too new in comparison to the Debian version 3.56.1-1.

There is a workaround to do a manual search within the UI:

Search → Advanced Search: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/evolution/help/mail-searching.html

"Add Condition" → switch from "Sender" to "Free Form Expression"

mid:""

It will get fixed in Debian in four years. 🙄

HTH

#email#Debian

Users of #GNOME#Evolution mail client: in #Debian13#Trixie, the Message-ID search (via command line) is broken. 😔

It got fixed already (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/3079) but the fix version 3.57.1+ is too new in comparison to the Debian version 3.56.1-1.

There is a workaround to do a manual search within the UI:

Search → Advanced Search: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/evolution/help/mail-searching.html

"Add Condition" → switch from "Sender" to "Free Form Expression"

mid:""

It will get fixed in Debian in four years. 🙄

HTH

#email#Debian

J'en ai marre de switcher trimestriellement entre #Thunderbird et #Evolution

Le premier est bien plus stable, mais le second est plus pratique, plus joli, et mieux intégré.

J'fais quoi, moi, dans ces conditions ? 🤔

🎯 Mission. Support communication and cocreation of all participants in the #ActivityPub ecosystem to help foster healthy growth and #evolution of the fediverse.

☀️ Vision. An inclusive #fediverse, collectively evolved, where people can find friends and peers in safe environments, to communicate and engage in rich social activities of all kinds.

🫂 Audience. Any fedizen from across the globe who interacts with others on the basis of #Humanity and respect of each other’s #Freedom and #HumanRights.