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Stuart Thompson
@drdsthompson.bsky.social
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Into plants, science fiction and comics, naturism (inasmuch as defining yourself by what you wear or don't is meaningful), mythology and archaeology.
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nudernix.bsky.social
I’ve always thought the early history of nudism would make a great thread for @dieworkwear.bsky.social, mostly because it runs straight through the same forces that reshaped modern clothing in the industrial era. Since it’s a piece of history I work with often, here’s the short version. 1/
Black-and-white 1920s photo of five nude women standing in shallow water, holding hands in a loose circle while wading near tall reeds, engaged in a playful group exercise.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
#TansleyReview: Physiological roles of #lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and #biomechanics

Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
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Fig. 1 Lignin accumulation in cell walls differentially covers the surface of polysaccharides and fills in the cell wall void spaces to dynamically adjust cell wall hygroscopic and mechanical properties.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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survivalinternational.org

The Guarani Kaiowá have been attacked for trying to recover their ancestral lands from the hands of ranchers, who will stop at nothing to keep them out. Vicente’s relatives and fellow warriors are standing strong, fighting to reclaim their ancestral lands.

Take action: svlint.org/GuaraniB
For the Pyelito Kue community, it’s not just a personal loss. It’s part of a decades-long history of violence and eviction that the Guarani Kaiowá have endured since their land was stolen and occupied by ranchers and agribusiness. The background image shows two young Guarani Kaiowá people sitting on a chair and a tress stump, surrounded by eucalyptus trees from a plantation. © Survival Meanwhile, the world's watching Brazil as it hosts the COP 30 climate conference. But any promises made there are useless to the Guarani Kaiowá and other Indigenous peoples if they don’t guarantee the recognition of their land rights. President Lula of Brazil raises his right hand and half smiles, with a COP 30 banner behind him. © Palácio do Planalto/Wikimedia Commons svlint.org/GKact Send a message to the Brazilian government now, to demand protection for the Guarani Kaiowá. Image of Vicente's coffin, just before burial. His community is gathered around it.
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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pnas.org
Opinion piece: Here’s how to reduce the chances of gene drives causing collateral damage. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/2oEl50XuOGg

#GeneDrive #TargetSpeciesComplex #RiskAssessment #PublicHealth #agriculture #malaria #mosquitoes #vector #AnophelesGambiae
A close up of an Anopheles gambiae mosquito on a person’s finger. Image credit: Science Source/CDC/James Gathany
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🧪 EXPERT VIEW 🧪

🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment.
💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
Fig. 2.Global overview of the mode of action of miPEPs and cPEPs. In red, remaining questions (see corresponding numbers in ‘Conclusion: future prospects’). Adapted from Lauressergues et al. (2022) and Ormancey et al. (2023b). Created with BioRender.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
#TansleyInsight: Could photoperiodic responses have evolved before the emergence of #CircadianClocks?

@jabbur.bsky.social & Carl Hirschie Johnson
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(a) Model for how photoperiodic time measurement works across different species. (b) Examples of the photoperiodic pathways in plants (upper) and mammals (lower).
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
#TansleyReview: Opportunities for improving intrinsic water use efficiency in #C4Plants under #ClimateChange

Ghannoum, Al-Salman & Cano
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Fig. 3 Impact of leaf width in a grass leaf on leaf anatomy and boundary layer (Schuepp, 1993; Pan et al., 2022).
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱

Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.The functional diversity of plant cysteine-rich peptide families, RALF, and EPF/EPFL in Arabidopsis. The representation of various growth and developmental roles of well-characterised functionally RALF and EPF members based on their expression in different Arabidopsis organs. EPF, Epidermal Patterning Factor; EPFL, EPF-Like; RALF, Rapid Alkalinization Factor.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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us.theconversation.com
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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elisecutts.bsky.social
New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.

This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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us.theconversation.com
Centuries before the American Revolution, Native nations created sophisticated systems to prevent tyranny: consensus councils, balanced leadership and protections for future generations.

Their political blueprint rivals anything the founders designed.

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#KenBurns
Before the American Revolution, Native nations guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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survivalinternational.org
Indigenous peoples aren’t primitive relics of a remote past. They are our contemporaries and the best guardians of the natural world. Buy “Season’s greetings” cards from Survival International – all profits fund our vital work alongside Indigenous peoples.

📸 svlint.org/siblings by Alessio Pannini
Two children standing side by side looking into the distance, wrapped up in furs, thick mittens, boots and hoods. The background shows off an icy tundra. A yurt stands in the background to the right.
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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sfiscience.bsky.social
For undergraduates curious about complex systems research, applications are now open for the 2026 Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program — a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience at the Santa Fe Institute.

Apply by Jan. 14, 2026: santafe.edu/ucr
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Future heatwave conditions inhibit CO2‐induced stomatal closure in wheat

Caine et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Water saving traits commonly associated with rising atmospheric CO2 concentration are diminished when wheat is exposed to high vapour pressure deficit heatwaves.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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pnas.org
Opinion piece: How to greatly reduce the risk of gene drives causing collateral damage. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/yszs50XsR5p

#GeneDrive #TargetSpeciesComplex #RiskAssessment #PublicHealth #agriculture #malaria #mosquitoes #vector #AnophelesGambiae
A close up of an Anopheles gambiae mosquito on a person’s finger. Image credit: Science Source/CDC/James Gathany
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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thenerve.news
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would

This week’s column by Stewart Lee

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee on the bbc in crisis
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
Nanofibrils constructed from oat protein and carrying iron nanoparticles can increase absorption compared with ferrous sulfate, offering a promising fortification strategy for treating iron deficiency and improving human nutrition, according to a paper in Nature Food. go.nature.com/4oFkqxz 🍎📃 🧪
This is figure 4, which shows clinical study to evaluate iron absorption from OatNF-SA-57Fe, OatNF-NaOH-58Fe and 54FeSO4 in iron-deficient Thai women.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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erickaelectric.bsky.social
Eunice Newton Foote discovered the Greenhouse Effect.Her first paper was in the "Annual Scientific Discovery", with the paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's rays".She was the first person to show that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas in 1856.
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Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research - Rincón educativo
Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research.
rinconeducativo.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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dompsfr.bsky.social
How do plants elongate in shade? This morning @scourbier.bsky.social (from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social) revealed how shade boosts TOR activity and how TOR and auxin signalling tightly interact to drive hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. A talk that filled the room!

📅 Nov 14 | 🕥 10:15
#PlantScience
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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survivalinternational.org

The best way to protect the rights and lives of Indigenous peoples and their forests is to stop using their lands to greenwash consumption, and to recognize and enforce their rights in the territories that they have managed and protected for millennia.

#COP30
The best way to protect the rights and lives of Indigenous peoples and their forests is to stop using their lands to greenwash consumption, and to recognize and enforce their rights in the territories that they have managed and protected for millennia. The solution is simple: governments must uphold the land rights of Indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples who live in and protect some of the most biodiverse places on Earth and who will not survive without their lands intact. Share and follow for more
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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survivalinternational.org
#COP30 plans to monetize forests and push false climate solutions will trample the rights of Indigenous peoples — including uncontacted peoples — who live on and protect their lands.
COP30: Trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples. Survival’s declaration on COP 30 in Belém, Brazil COP 30 in Belem is marketed as ‘the forest COP’. But plans to monetize forests and push false climate solutions will trample the rights of Indigenous peoples — including uncontacted peoples — who live on and protect their lands. Conservation organizations, governments and big businesses will use the COP to push nature-based offset schemes, allowing corporations to continue emitting pollution while claiming carbon “neutrality”. The Samburu are one of the Indigenous peoples affected by NRT's "Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project." A picture of a Samburu family is shown above.
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants

@chistinesd.bsky.social, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience

Summary also available in French and Spanish.
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Norton, John D. (2024) The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27217/
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Redistribution of excitation energy between two photosystems during light-shade adaptation in marine diatoms: State conversion of light-harvesting complexes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688172v1
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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pnas.org
Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl
The study used the secreting salt gland of the flowering plant Nolana mollis as a model system.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM