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This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

In a working democratic system the idea that not voting for party members based on a policy would not influence party policy would sound insane.

Jean-Claude Van Damme chopping up carrots and celery: CRU-DI-TÉS

Hell yea this rules

I think maybe the entire concept of "alignment" is perhaps inadequate to plant genomes.

This isn't shortread data, but alignments of genome assemblies with N50 > 100Mb. The plot is the # of bp per 100Kb window that are dropped because of missing data -- because those bp physically are not there in one of the other 25 genomes. This is what normal plant genomes look like, folks.

Depends on the city (so not sure about NYC) but yes the police chief in many cities is appointed and regulated by the mayor

Jeffrey Epstein, shirtless and spinning in an office chair somewhere in Bethesda: "make them pay for Horse Armor."

'What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Propagander': A Pittsboro Musician's Song Meets the Moment Mipso guitarist Joseph Terrell's new protest folk song is a biting indictment of ICE and the killing of Renée Good. It has quickly gone viral.

This one by a local folk musician here is pretty good

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”

A profile in absolute courage.

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I had the honor to introduce my replacement on 9NEWS

Since this account is run by interns, I would like to calmly suggest you try and find another internship soon so you don't have to explain to future employers why you worked for this joke of a company.

Strangest iteration of this was after days of troubleshooting we noticed searching the accession name in the text became unhighlighted when we got to 'a'. Turns out the samples were uploaded from China & some Chinese alphanumeric keyboards encode a as the greek alpha when typing english characters

Pint jar filled with blue dry beans.

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety.

This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

Genuinely enragjng to see this moron whose never once thought about what it's like to be in community judge people who are trying to build a better less selfish and individualistic world because its not good politics or whatever. Fix your heart.

Yeah man when our town was flooded & elderly or disabled people were stuck in their home an instantantly activated mutual aid group getting them out into hotels and shelters so they didn't get sick from mold and their lifelong belongings into storage was definitely not effective. Shut the fuck up.

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Wow, not sure how I didn't put together Colin with the Pruitt scandal up until now. What a worthless little skeez

To be fair they're generally not better than a coin flip at determining long-term success so this is just moving us into a lottery system

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

The hardcore screaming guy I posted about a few weeks ago, the one who was posted outside the Heritage Foundation, is back!

Tonight he's making a LOT of noise outside of Butterworth's, a MAGA hot spot on Capitol Hill.

Closed event in there tonight.

Neural posterior estimation for population genetics Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...

Popgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Watercolour illustration of a pair of armadillos in a vertically-oriented composition, with the armadillos towards the top, and the grassy environment leading the eye downward in gestural, impressionistic brushstrokes. The palette is predominantly in warm ochres and oranges.

'Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one…’

Illustration for The Beginning of the Armadillos, from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society, 2012.

Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hp, 140 x 240mm.

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Thank you I feel like a Jewel Caterpillar Slug Moth

Now in Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

This paper started when @3rdreviewer.bsky.social, Mike, and I had a lunch at which there was a lot of, "What do you mean when you say X?" Fun to spend time thinking about when terms get too muddy, and great work by Drew to pull it all together!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!