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Into the Deep Blue by Christoph — Just let the deep ultramarine blue of the frontispiece sink in at your leisure. Take your time. Surely, You will soon realize that it is not a photograph of the night sky with the milky way and myriads of stars, but a de­tail from an oil painting...

Into the Deep Blue

by Christoph — Just let the deep ultramarine blue of the frontispiece sink in at your leisure. Take your time. Surely, You will soon realize that it is not a photograph of the night sky with the milky way and myriads of stars, but a de­tail from an oil painting...

...rather at one of their predecessor institutes, the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes"

indeed, 𝘙𝘶𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘻𝘢𝘦 looke like fusilli, which are notably better at holding on salsa di pomodoro than spaghetti... and as pasta addicts, we fell instantly in love with the shape of this newly described alphaproteo from the Rhizobiales 🤭
#MicroSky

@taz.de was frau küpper hier sagt, darf gern weitest verbreitet werden. hannah arendt würde es sicher freuen.

wie zaubert ihr das LF logo als "" in den text? mit copy/paste geht es nicht, sich das auszuleihen... (ich möchte fürderhin remigration nicht ohne schreiben)

yes, I guessed this was your intention, but 'noneukaryotic' still sounds weird in a way. maybe a hyphen helps? non-eukaryotic (at least no one will ask how to pronouce 'noneu' 😎)

noneukaryotic LOL

and the soundtrack:

...and concerning schopenhauer: I was told by my parents that he was a real "eigenbrötler" 𝗮𝗻𝗱 philosopher. my parentsput the emphasis on 'and' (eigenbrötler translates to maverick or loner, but in german it means someone who bakes his own bread to be supremely independent)

this comes to mind:
Q how do hedhehogs - or porcupines for that matter - make love?
A very, very carefully

... back to the bus.
did this change in the meantime? except that now they have smartphones and make selfies together with the buddha?

... that diffused from this statue and reached the western tourist me instantly.
also I remember that japanese visitors behaved as I knew they did when visiting turist hospots in germany: the whole group leaving their bus almost in sync, taking a picture with their (analog) camera, and heading...

ah! kamakura - on every tourist's checklist 😜 but well worth visiting, great you had the chance to see it!
I saw the great buddha on a trip to japan in the early 80s and was really impressed. not so much by its size but by sensing the majestic calmness...

just two more...

I never met him, but have heard that he was a very open and friendly person. looks like 👇

I don't know if he knew about it, but the german artist günther uecker (1930–2025) would have been thrilled. He spent his entire long life hammering away (perhaps as much as 6 tons, who knows). and he was really good at hammering freehand...

...only epstein missing, sadly

true, no question
einstein was an excellent violinist, btw 😉

👍

petersilie prezzemolo perejil ...

vitamin C 👇

congrats, elisabeth 👏

seems that protists were way ahead of us with the invention of the circular economy 😊 great to hear of 'holobionts' again 👍
#SymnioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

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ah! I like it and use it often. e.g. when I trim sentences that are too long (once again). or in the lab, when I unwind the two DNA strands with a helicase. 'aufdröseln' sounds so much more hands-on than 'untangle'...

Serendip­ity in Sci­ence by Roberto — Serendipity. I feel it is one of the most beautiful words in English; it's so melodic and loaded with meaning. Perhaps I'm fascinated by it because it is difficult to translate into m…

microbiologists sometimes stumble upon serendipity, too
some love it

mein 'unsichtbarer faden' dröselte in den 70ern immermalwieder auf... ;-)

@philipcball.bsky.social have you seen this 😳 tiny Asgards dancing like crazy!
(live microscopy recording of anaerobes, fenomenal)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YouTube video by fickwalker Green Onions - Steve Cropper & Donald 'Duck' Dunn

there's so much more than some 'green onions' ! I love steve cropper's colab with carlos in the 'havanna moon' album. gets me dreaming...