How do you see above and below the water when you are floating? These Whirligig beetles evolved split pairs of eyes, both different to see in the 2 mediums! A pair on the dorsal side for air and one on the ventral side for water! Nature be cray! #whirligigbeetles#vision#eyes
Do you have suspected or diagnosed hearing loss? You could help researchers develop new diagnostic tools for use in audiology clinics!
Visit https://t.co/EvzWDk3idB for more details about the Remote Audiology Project.
Excited to start the new year with our Urban Nature Walks in Bangalore city! This time around when we go walking, there will still be a wintery chill in the air, a lot more birds- we hope to find winter migrants. As always, insects and spiders!
Contact- https://t.co/pO0JJRmhUe
Jumping spiders can move each eye independently. The lens itself is fixed on the exoskeleton, but the eye tubes can swivel around internally 👀 The black retina is only visible from the front when the eye is focused ahead!
Lyssomanes viridis, magnolia green jumper
Our latest Issue is now complete! Check out the full Table of contents here: https://t.co/UxcXDKsODr
On the cover: transverse sections showing the pharynx of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea (image by the @Palakodeti_Lab)
I have created a HUGE list aggregating all the #AcademicTwitter and #NewPI resources I have saved over time!
It includes grants, organization, supervision, teaching, mental health, budgeting, presentations, job applications...
Suggestions & input welcome!
https://t.co/ntPtrs9PV0
Paper out!!! #Drosophila has muscles that attach to their retinas, which it uses to move its photoreceptor sheet in ways that resemble vertebrate eye movements @Nature https://t.co/kQYT71OBy3
Nuclear size and shape are diagnostic and prognostic traits for many human diseases including cancers. New #ReviewedPreprint from the @NCITomMisteli lab presents an #RNAi screen to identify epigenetic modulators that regulate nuclear morphology.
https://t.co/tIX0CiWSGH
Glowing solutions and a magical color change? It's not a trick, it's an excited state electron transfer! Sound on for the explanation.
#FluorescenceFriday#sciencetwitter#Chemistry
The Stadio Meazza, commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan. Its walkways are spiral shaped and the motion of the walking people gives you the illusion of an automatic rotation https://t.co/jgAJbhrAHz [gif: https://t.co/6PPgp4fY70]
Feedback reports on important new egg-related research, as well as delving into exhaustive egg and tadpole-tasting studies from years gone by https://t.co/wBzvZmHb79
To mimic the amazing feats birds can pull off, researchers have created tweezers based on a crow’s beak, and they work better than the ones humans have used for thousands of years https://t.co/vpNxo6cv8Z
This photo is black and white, but that grid tricks your brain into seeing a colour image.
It's called the 'colour assimilation grid illusion'.
[source, read more: https://t.co/3JN4ujjKRO]