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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 1d

How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 1d

dominance, epistasis, pleiotropy

three american football commentators sit at a table. their fashion sense is wildly diverse.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4d

A test blimp that was aloft five miles from one of the Plumbbob nuclear tests in August 1957, deflated from the shock wave.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 4d

Berlin snail, Berlin

A snail, with glowing rose-rust shell, makes it’s way across a green stone

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 11d

Berlin sky

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 11d

kites over Berlin,
tempelhofer feld

dozens of kites soar in a blue sky, over thousands of people

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 13d

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866.

If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it."

🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Photograph of Morgan's Fly Room at Columbia University, around 1920. American Philosophical Society.

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 14d

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 14d

That RI generally accumulates faster in plants? Definitely. That's why we should all be studying plant speciation 😉

(And, yes -- Berlin continues to generate good memories)

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 29d

renaissance moth
(Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

an imaginary underwing moth perches on the painted leg of Venus

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · Sep 7

Kreuzberg, Berlin

a woman’s face emerges from a graffiti’ed door

A distant bridge arches over a canal of green water, lined with trees.

two figures appear below a square with tall buildings. The tallest has graffiti tags on its green balconies.

Pigeons perch above a brick arch, and the blue sky through it.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · Sep 1

september

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でんか @k-hermit.com · Sep 1

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 20

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u