Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Wow, just wow. The planet is breaking.

Antarctic sea ice extent is the headline for me this morning. There was actually a net *decrease* in ice extent day over day, and it's mid-winter there, peak freeze season.

Extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.

[MICROBIOLOGÍA - Hospital Clínico de Valencia @MicroClinicoVLC]

👀OJO:
El ECDC advierte del incremento del riesgo de enfermedades (virus🦠 Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya, Fiebre amarilla, West-Nile) transmitidas por mosquitos🦟 en la Unión Europea🌍 como consecuencia de la elevada propagación de Aedes albopictus:
https://t.co/wNOj2ul1Cj

[IGEO (CSIC-UCM) @IGeociencias]

Hoy 20 de julio se celebra el #DíaInternacionalDeLaLuna
en el siguiente hilo vamos a contaros algunas de sus características y curiosidades, además de un proyecto astrobiológico en el que participa el IGEO

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (https://t.co/Rk8oZJ0bUj).

Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome.

The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.

Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell.

When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part.

The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival.

The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie:

“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (https://t.co/UlxRlb86CT)

https://t.co/zA9OAqSoAu

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Happy #WorldOceansDay!

Our ocean connects, sustains & supports all life on Earth.

Yet, the triple planetary crisis puts it under serious threat.

It’s time to restore our relationship with the ocean to one with respect and of balance.

https://t.co/HCORCHZPZB

[mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan]

Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🐷🐦🐞🐌🦌🦩🦜🐁🐠🦀🦔🪸

#biomass #science #poster #art #life #earth #infographic #design #illustration #illustratorsontwitter #scientificillustration #dataviz #data #dataart #dataillustration #infodesign #information #vizscicomm #scicomm #biology

[Ecography @EcographyJourna]

Editor's choice:
A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses
https://t.co/KB9E6yDiLS #openscience #reproducibility #standradprotocol #RStats #shinyApp

[Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez @micronuria]

Ciencia frente al sinsentido sistemático

[Alejandro Sánchez @pmisson]

Un astrofísico desmonta a Ayuso, que se niega a acatar el apagón del Gobierno: “Madrid ya lo hace y no aumenta la criminalidad” https://t.co/NFjDsFlkml vía @cuatroaldia

[wilmeslab @wilmeslab]

🦠+🧠=⚠️ New #preprint that we are super excited about: #archaea in #human gut #microbiome linked to #Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis. @uni_lu @lcsb_uni_lu @ResearchLux Funded by @ERC_Research @FnrLux @MichaelJFoxOrg @ParkinsonDotOrg @Rotary #Luxembourg
https://t.co/iswg7DVMMy

[Mujeres Con Ciencia @mujerconciencia]

Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, la microbióloga que tumbó la tuberculosis
https://t.co/rAz6PuGXsy

[Malamente® @MalaMalamente]

¿En cuántas televisiones habéis visto la manifestación de Getafe por la sanidad pública a la que acudieron más de 5000 personas?

[Apuntes de ciencia @ApuntesCiencia]

¡#HolaCiencia! Como muchas otras, las crías de #miná crestado (Acridotheres cristatellus) han de ser alimentadas por los padres y más tarde aprender que la comida no salta por si sola hacia sus picos • vía @Rainmaker1973 #VideoCiencia Rebecca Gelernter

[Real Observatorio @IGN_RObsMadrid]

Mira al cielo antes de que salga el Sol y podrás ver todos los planetas visibles sin telescopio. Si empiezas por el este, los verás además ordenados por su distancia al Sol: Mercurio, Venus, Marte, Júpiter y Saturno. A finales de semana, la Luna asomará por el oeste.

[Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez @micronuria]

@UOCrespon estoy intentando enviar una consulta urgente sobre los trámites de matrícula del TFM al servicio de atención y el formulario vía web no la envía por más que lo intento.

[Journal Plankton Res @JPlanktonRes]

Plankton Pioneers: Marie Lebour - find out about her and her work - free access!
https://t.co/v9jDtnjY8e

[Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez @micronuria]

@lebetimonas Happy you liked it, I joined the group that developed that tool recently, so I am ...

[Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez @micronuria]

@lebetimonas I am just starting with SqueezeMeta, it has an option to merge assemblies https://t.co/th1M0iXDC8

[Kris Karnauskas @OceansClimateCU]

To help contextualize the newly released #IPCC Report, here's 800,000 years of Earth's CO2 history in 30 seconds.

[Sara Cuadros @sara_cuadros]

We’re hiring! We have postdoctoral positions open to join our lab in Chile. If you are enthusiastic about microbial genomics and extremophile ecology, this job is for you! Please DM or e-mail me (srcuadros at https://t.co/nCnXBteiFk) before August 6th 2021, if interested.

[Joint Genome Institute @jgi]

Spring 2021 applications are due by 5pm ET on October 7, 2020 for the @doescience Community College #Internship (CCI) Program! You could intern at one of 16 @ENERGY national laboratories! Deadline and details at https://t.co/0mVgOKqNl7