Rome is built atop of the ruins of the Theater of Pompey where #Caesar was killed. What remains are some small temples and a cat colony🐈. This temple is to Juturna, goddess of fountains. #Caturday
Why wasn't paternal age adjusted for when comparing the mutational burden in sperm of different fathers? Also was a causal variant found in the offspring and phased to the paternal haplotype?
bioRxiv viewer https://t.co/VLeqiPVB0V
N=6 and didn't adjust for age of the father when comparing DNMs. Genomic sequencing of sperm hold more promise for screening for developmental disorders than RNAseq, which is at best a read out of deleterious variants. Also the figures look like throw up.
Spartacus was a heavyweight #gladiator named "murmillo". This flavor of gladiator was originally named after the warriors of Gaul, "Gallus", but was renamed when more Gauls assimilated into the Empire.
Striking similarity with some American sports teams. 🤔 #SaturdayThoughts
Julius Caesar wrote one the first detailed account of #Druids in his commentaries on the Gallic War.
"Throughout all Gaul there are two orders of those men who are of any rank and dignity: one is that of the Druids (druidum), the other that of the knights." #Celtic#Druid
Julius Caesar wrote one the first detailed account of #Druids in his commentaries on the Gallic War.
"Throughout all Gaul there are two orders of those men who are of any rank and dignity: one is that of the Druids (druidum), the other that of the knights." #Celtic#Druid
Just like modern politicians, Julius Caesar had to deal with skeletons in his 'closet'.
"Most of all they jested about his love for Cleopatra and his time at the court of Nicomedes, ruler of Bithynia, when he was a lad...
"Indeed, they even declared that Caesar had enslaved the Gauls, but Nicomedes Caesar." - Cassius Dio, Roman History
It seems Caesar 'submitted' to Nicomedes, which to my interpretation for Romans was 'unmanly' for the bottom 🍑 but not really for the top 🍆
Just like modern politicians, Julius Caesar had to deal with skeletons in his 'closet'.
"Most of all they jested about his love for Cleopatra and his time at the court of Nicomedes, ruler of Bithynia, when he was a lad...
Meet the Roman tank, the testudo🐢. Meaning shell or turtle -
"Infantrymen who use the oblong shields make a rectangular figure; and enclose the rest who have flat shields. Those in the center and raise their shields above themselves, so that nothing but shields can be seen..
Meet the Roman tank, the testudo🐢. Meaning shell or turtle -
"Infantrymen who use the oblong shields make a rectangular figure; and enclose the rest who have flat shields. Those in the center and raise their shields above themselves, so that nothing but shields can be seen..