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@alexbiotech.bsky.social
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I'm a biologist interested in biomimicry, biodiversity, and web-dev.
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Britain’s ponds are disappearing – here’s why restoring them is vital for wildlife and climate resilience https://theconversation.com/britains-ponds-are-disappearing-heres-why-restoring-them-is-vital-for-wildlife-and-climate-resilience-267649
Britain’s ponds are disappearing – here’s why restoring them is vital for wildlife and climate resilience
Across Britain, ponds are quietly vanishing. Reviving them is one of the simplest ways to boost biodiversity and climate resilience.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Use of digital twins in ecology for simulating and predicting wildlife behavior and changes in ecosystems
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Digital flocks, predators allow ecologists to simulate real-world animal behaviour
‘Digital twins’ of real-world objects are moving from manufacturing to wildlife management.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
alexbiotech.bsky.social
Nature and space industry (like Spacecoin project) could benefit each other.
#space industry could help conserve biodiversity/Nature's wisdom, and bio-inspired innovations could help it with its challenges.
more info in my article:
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hackernoon.com/how-spacecoi...
#conservation #SciComm #biomimicry
How Spacecoin Could Help Conserve Biodiversity and Nature’s Wisdom | HackerNoon
Spacecoin might help to conserve biodiversity and Nature's wisdom due to its decentralized nature. Also, it could benefit from bio-inspired solutions.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.​ The Irish language is a joy.

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Illustration of a new Irish Tree Alphabet. Twenty-six trees represent each letter of the English alphabet. At the bottom of the image are lines representing the Ogham alphabet, horizontal and vertical lines, looking like simple trees. The Irish Tree Alphabet draws trees from existing native as well as non-natives that are now calling Ireland home due to the changing climate. The trees are drawn in ink with colored water pencil filling in the leaves and fruit. The work is rooted in the medieval Ogham alphabet which was used to write the early Irish language. The characters or letters were called feda "trees", or nin "forking branches" due to their shape. Each letter of the Latin alphabet is given a corresponding tree: A = Ailm (Scots Pine), B = Beith (Birch), B = Coll (Hazel), etc. The tree drawings were turned into a font called Irish Trees. Irish Tree Alphabet by Katie Holten was made for Visual Carlow in 2020. The font is available to download, so everyone can write with Irish Trees.
October 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🔬Plant Proteases - Guardians of Proteome Integrity & Function
🌱 Exploring the fascinating diversity, function & regulation of proteases in plants

📘 Edited by Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaller

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
Vol 76 Issue 15 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Plant Proteases: Guardians of Proteome Integrity and Function Cover illustration: Proteases play key roles in guarding proteome integrity and regulating protein function. The reviews and research articles in this special issue put a timely spotlight on the fascinating diversity, function and regulation of proteases in plants. Selected topics rise as bubbles above University of Hohenheim, where they were first presented at the 6th International Conference on Plant Proteases (photo courtesy of Universität Hohenheim/Maximilian Pircher; logo by Renier van der Hoorn). See Jeran et al., pp. 4294–4312; Peiyi Wang et al., pp. 4359–4373; Mantz et al., pp. 4279–4293; Calvanese et al., pp. 4326–4339; Fei Wang et al., pp. 4220–4231.
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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🥦 Plant-based diets and inflammation

A new systematic review found that plant-based diets lower key inflammation markers (CRP, IL-6, TNF-α) in adults, suggesting reduced risk of chronic disease.

🔗 doi.org/10.71000/kyt...

#SciComm #Nutrition 🧪
Insights – Journal of Life and Social Sciences (IJLSS)
A peer-reviewed journal publishing original research and reviews in social sciences, life sciences, education, psychology, and sociology.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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🧫 AI discovers new narrow-spectrum antibiotic

Researchers used deep learning to identify enterololin, a compound that targets harmful Enterobacteriaceae while sparing healthy gut microbes. A step toward safer antibiotics.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AI #Antibiotics 🧪
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic - Nature Microbiology
Enterololin is a narrow-spectrum antibiotic that selectively kills Enterobacteriaceae in vitro and in a mouse model of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli gut infection. AI-guided mechanism-of-action studies identified LolCDE as its molecular target.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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🚨Our April issue is now live and includes a model to unravel plant behavior for functional devices, a method to efficiently screen compound libraries, a call for papers on generative molecular design and discovery, and much more! www.nature.com/natcomputsci...
Active twisting of plant leaves.
April 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM