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A Cooper's Hawk getting escorted out of the air space by a Barn Swallow.

In our latest #SETILive #podcast, artist Jennifer Willet talks about the experience of creating an artwork that represented the seemingly opposing viewpoints of biogenesis from our two 2025 Drake Award winners. Listen to the full podcast: www.seti.org/seti-live/ 🧪 👩‍🔬 🐡

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Superstable lipid vacuoles endow cartilage with its shape and biomechanics Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled c...

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N-cadherin and β1 integrin coordinately regulate growth plate cartilage architecture - PubMed Spatial and temporal regulation of chondrocyte maturation in the growth plate drives growth of many bones. One essential event to generate the ordered cell array characterizing growth plate cartilage ...

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Nkx2.7 is a conserved regulator of craniofacial development - Nature Communications Craniofacial malformations have been linked to congenital heart defects, as in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, but the mechanisms linking these lineages remain unknown. Here they show that zebrafish nxk2.7...

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Solid phase transitions as a solution to the genome folding paradox - Nature In vitro reconstitution and in vivo live-cell imaging of LHX2–EBF1–LDB1 enhancer hubs in olfactory sensory neurons reveals that these transcription factors form condensates with solid, rathe...

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Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity - Nature The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions.

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

Are you interested in a postdoc studying the genetics of skeletal shaping in my lab at Stockholm University? Let's apply for this Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellowship (deadline: September 2025). Reach out!
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If the question is whether anybody still thinks that, I would wager a guess the answer is yes, at least somebody probably thinks that

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“In an honest search for knowledge you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. … The steadfastness in standing up to [this], nay in appreciating it as a stimulus and a signpost to further quest, is a natural and indispensable disposition in the mind of a scientist.”

YouTube video by Drumtrip Law - All Source Direct Mix Part 2

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i would like people to stop saying "you can't be serious" when I'm telling them something amazing. YES I CAN!

A tot is a tot is a totology

this post is dedicated to the NWW list

This month there was an important Chinese traditional festival, Qingming, during which we usually cherish the precious memory of the most significant people in our lives together.

I may be grotesquely thin, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying a good meal from time to time!

o4-mini-high just one-shotted my favorite word puzzle.
All previous models had been unable to solve it.

The statute of limitations on insider trading is 5 years the more you know april 9 2030

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@ppagella86.bsky.social thanks for the follow ! I was just recently thinking about your and Claudio’s expertise in DNA binding measurements. Would love to meet and discuss science this week or month if you’re free.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Siphonophores – A collective of specialized clones that function as one. The lesson? A movement isn’t just one leader—it’s a coalition of people working together toward a shared goal. 🌊🪼 #DeepSea #SciOutreach

Anyone else noticed some older papers are so compressed that images are barely readable? I can't imagine this figure was always so badly pixellated... (Lohnes et al 1994 Development 120 (10): 2723–2748 Figure 1 a-c)

zebrafish people @zebrafishrock.bsky.social the website for tol2kit seems to be down. is there a list online for IDs of plasmid #? for instance, I suspect #396 is template for transposase, but not sure! where can I find this list online in lieu of the kwan lab site?

The central limit theorem for the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a large population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.23.634620v1