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Dr Geertje van Keulen @drgvank.bsky.social · 17h

Wow😲🤩
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope - Nature Communications

Loretan and colleagues present a low-cost smartphone-based microscope capable of detecting single-molecule fluorescence. This approach opens doors to personalised and widely distributed applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and science education.

www.nature.com

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. That said, I have heard of cases like this going to an external competitive candidate so who knows. But I did feel that it's worth putting out the warning.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 1d

a slight edit to Far Side brilliance

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 1d

Well one of the horses helped write the grant, one of the horses didn't do any work on the project but has a PhD thesis on a similar topic, and one of the horses talked with the last author about the general area at a regional meeting back in 1993.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 1d

This one is literally written for someone who is currently there on a postdoc-to-faculty transitional contract

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 1d

One week application period sure sounds like they're limiting apps so they can hire internally.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 4d

Happy to, DM me your email!

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 4d

I had three goals in this design: (1) teaching that evolution is actually common knowledge, (2) emphasizing that social Darwinism is not an inherent part of the theory, and (3) emphasizing that this wasn't strictly an innovation of the European elite of the time.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 4d

..the knowledge of heritability, variation, and selection that entailed. Then came back to Darwin and Russell and why at that moment people of that social class in England were talking about scarcity in natural environments (Malthus) and deep time (Lyell).

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 4d

I just did this in my bio for non-majors course. I inverted it...focused on the broader social and cultural worldview that was led these workers to believe in a designed hierarchy with themselves at the centre, then switched quickly to the deep history of domestication and...

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 5d

This is the second biology course now where some of the most engaged and excited students in my course are English majors. Perhaps this is a coincidence. But this is the beginning of a pattern I'm observing.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 6d

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 7d

yup

J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 7d

Reviewer 3: This is not novel, I made this observation in an unpublished review of a paper that was subsequently rejected back in the 1990s and joked about it over beers with an eminent now-dead colleague in the poster session of a semi-annual regional symposium in 1993.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 8d

It did not, but my pet P. annectens did.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 8d

My summer students loved my constant lungfish examples in class.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 9d

I was just extolling the virtues of lungfishes to my first-year class

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 12d

Apholidotus

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 16d

Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Photograph of a fossil insect wing. Xenoptera latigra from Guandacol 1 locality, Quebrada de las Libelulas, Cerro Guandacol, province of La Rioja, central-western Argentina. Scale bar in lower right corner is 2 mm.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 16d

Scarier to me is the implied conversation between Left and Right, where white nationalists are willing to back modest socialist reforms if socialists support an aggressive de-Judaization of various institutions. Parts of the Left are eating this up.

J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 16d

Antisemitism is a common and easy path foreard for any failed social movement, and it's always going to be led by narcissistic hucksters like King. Not unique to Christianity but there's a lot of red meat in there to rally the troops.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17d

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish

In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth

www.thetimes.com

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 17d

Same vibe

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 18d

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 23d

When the moon hits your eye

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