NLCS Jeju Biology

The Official Twitter of NLCS Jeju's Biology Department

[NLCS International @NLCSIntlLtd]

Join us in celebrating the outstanding contributions of Lai Lai Luo, our featured teacher for this week’s #teachertuesday instalment. With their exceptional expertise in teaching Mandarin, Lai Lai empowers the junior school students at @nlcsjeju1 to reach new heights academically

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits

https://t.co/dnXnVMgqbb

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In Science, researchers present MIDAS, a powerful new tool to help improve the discovery and characterization of elusive interactions between proteins and metabolites.

Learn more: https://t.co/o1GAeHlrpQ

[David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 @dsgoodsell]

Beautiful Blender work from @bradyajohnston !

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

Mrs Prichard’s Year 11 class conducting a gel electrophoresis on DNA fragments.

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Did you know that the average human adult inhales and ingests about 163,000 microplastic particles per year?

Research indicates that human exposure to microplastics has reached our internal organs, including our lungs and liver. 🫁

Learn more via @unep➡️https://t.co/6Blg4RsWpq

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

Neural recording and closed-loop manipulation during chronic stress in mice reveal causal links between dopamine, behavior and resilience, according to a paper published in @Nature. https://t.co/x6ApnT6jLf

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

Always necessary to look back so as to move forward (hopefully and where possible) in a sound, measured manner. Thank you @PeterGleick for sharing.

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Cancer cells hide inside other cancer cells when the immune system attacks, letting the cell inside survive. https://t.co/lfMHSYAiRm

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

An aspect for Year 11s to consider in Topic 20, Human Influences on the Environment? #welovebiology

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

#DYK that mangroves are wetlands that provide many benefits to #nature and people?
These vital #ecosystems support:

🌊 Coastal protection
☀️ Climate regulation
🎣 Livelihoods
🛶 Tourism
🌴 And much more!

Learn more #ForNature via @IUCN_forests ➡️ https://t.co/rOKXrBJMX6

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Meet nature's greatest artist — a puffer fish. 🐟

These fish create masterpieces on the ocean floor.

"Nowhere else in nature does an animal construct something as complex and perfect as this."

Via @BBCEarth #LifeStory

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

This requires the attention of everyone, especially our future scientists and policy makers. Ways to be innovative and to change views on emissions impact are much needed. Thank you @LSHTM for sharing!

[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM]

Dengue outbreak in France is 'most severe yet'

This viral infection carried by mosquitos causing 50-100m cases a year globally is hard to control🦟🌍

@OliverBrady1 warns climate change is increasing risk of dengue across Europe

[Scottish Microscopy Society @scotmicro]

Looks like it will be a fantastic meeting, what a list of speakers!

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

@BeaulieuBio Students found a variety of mollusks and crustaceans among the rock pools in this coastal area

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

Pictures of last week’s Ecology field trip!

Y12’s working hard using quadrants on a various rock pools along a belt transect, collecting and counting species data!

#welovebiology #nlcsjeju #rockpools #ecology

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

@BeaulieuBio It was to test the association based on two species they can find through systematic sampling or random sampling!

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

Another week, another Biology trip!

This time at the beach by Dongil for the yr 12’s Ecology report!

#welovebiology #nlcsjeju #ecology

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

On top of the world!

Some of the yr 11 girls at the top of the observation tower in the Yeomiji botanical gardens!

#welovebiology #nlcsjeju #botanicalgardens

[NLCS Jeju Biology @NLCSJeju_Bio]

Now pictures from the girls trip!

The pictures show the girls measuring the CO2 and O2 levels as well as surface temperature of their chosen plant species!

#welovebiology #nlcsjeju #botanicalgardens