Federico Mena Quintero
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Mikko Tuomi
@mustapipa@scicomm.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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
Mikko Tuomi
@mustapipa@scicomm.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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

marc0s
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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
@publicvoit@graz.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
@publicvoit@graz.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Welcome social coder. Let's focus on social experience design in order to cocreate socio-cultural solutions that scale from individual needs to our inter-personal relationships in order to leave 'societal imprint'.

#SX is a natural extension to #DX and #UX that goes beyond technical systems and socio-technical platforms. SX unites sociosphere and technosphere to add missing social layers of the open social stack to our fediverse.

We are a commons. We are people. We are in control. We evolve. ✊
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

🎯 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.
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around 9 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Cell. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/world/science-health/potato-tomato-heritage-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #potatoes #tomatoes #genetics #evolution
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke

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

talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"

#biology #evolution #learning #cognition
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Up now, Simon Laughlin

https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/

starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.

So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.

Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆

#neuroscience #evolution #biology
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A bit further on, the author explains how to start your own "network state";

"Found a startup society. This is simply an online community with aspirations of something greater. Anyone can found one, just like anyone can found a company or cryptocurrency. And the founder’s legitimacy comes from whether people opt to follow them."

#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022

https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-thousand-words

That's not a state of any kind, it's a cult.

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MidgePhoto
@midgephoto@photog.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@strypey
Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF
UselessFactsBadlyDrawn
@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #442: Archerfish.

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#archerfish #tropicalfish #fish #aquariumfish #aquaria #animaltooluse #snipers #evolution #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Archerfish are small tropical fish that spit jets of water to knock insects as high as 10 feet above the surface so they can eat them. Their mouths are described by biologists as being like tiny guns, and their aim is highly accurate, their brains taking refraction through the water surface into account when targeting prey, and is considered an example of animals using tools. Juveniles hunt in groups to learn how to aim better, but adults almost never miss the first shot. They're also a popular, though challenging, aquarium pet.
Archerfish are small tropical fish that spit jets of water to knock insects as high as 10 feet above the surface so they can eat them. Their mouths are described by biologists as being like tiny guns, and their aim is highly accurate, their brains taking refraction through the water surface into account when targeting prey, and is considered an example of animals using tools. Juveniles hunt in groups to learn how to aim better, but adults almost never miss the first shot. They're also a popular, though challenging, aquarium pet.
Archerfish are small tropical fish that spit jets of water to knock insects as high as 10 feet above the surface so they can eat them. Their mouths are described by biologists as being like tiny guns, and their aim is highly accurate, their brains taking refraction through the water surface into account when targeting prey, and is considered an example of animals using tools. Juveniles hunt in groups to learn how to aim better, but adults almost never miss the first shot. They're also a popular, though challenging, aquarium pet.