Lynn Chiu
Philbio-er。Researcher of things that stay with the trouble。Communicator of risky interdisciplinary science。An honest account。
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The transformation. A short history of masks / by Jan Henning
In 2020, masks are everywhere. Images of healthcare workers wearing surgical respirators are all over the media. Shoppers encounter masked cashiers in superm...
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We're launching our Individual Giving Program through which you can support and donate to the Lebanese Red Cross. You can choose to be come a regular donor from as low as 2$/month. You can also choose to donate once. Simply download our app,...
Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness Trainee Recruitment Conference
Hi everyone, In a previous post I discussed the tricky business of finding a suitable lab for grad school in this field. After some discuss...
experimental investigation of how intraspecific competition and phenotypic plasticity can promote the evolution of novel, complex phenotypes
Abstract. Intraspecific competition has long been considered a key driver of evolutionary diversification, but whether it can also promote evolutionary innovat
Why Study Biology by the Sea?
For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at...
Formation and function of bacterial organelles
Advances in imaging techniques have revealed an unexpected abundance and diversity of organelles in bacteria. In this Review, Greening and Lithgow outline the different types of bacterial organelles and discuss common themes in their formation and...
Jane Goodall reflects on 60 years at Gombe | Editor's Blog
On 14 July 1960, Jane Goodall arrived in what is now Tanzania's Gombe National Park to study chimpanzee behavior. What she learned there would change our ideas about science and alter forever the way we think about and study nonhuman primates. I...
Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation in Prokaryotes
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most important processes in prokaryote evolution. The sharing of DNA can spread neutral or beneficial genes, as well as genetic parasites across populations and communities, creating a large proportion of...
Developmental niche construction in dung beetles - Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Understanding the extraordinary fit between organisms and their environments, or the nature of adaptation, is a long-standing focus of evolutionary biology. Traditionally, evolutionary biologists have focused on two routes to adaptation: organisms...
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Scott Gilbert: How developmental symbiosis can open new evolutionary trajectories?
A biologist and a historian are looking for art to trace fruit and vegetable evolution
Plant geneticists seeking to understand the history of plant-based foods can decode the genomes of ancient crops from well-preserved samples. However, this approach leaves significant gaps in the evolutionary timelines of many fruits, vegetables,...
COVID‐19 and the Gender Gap in Work Hours
School and daycare closures due to the COVID‐19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands....
Inventor of N95 comes out of retirement amid pandemic, unfazed by anti-Asian racism
"I just thought I had this responsibility to help. So I came out of retirement," Peter Tsai told NBC Asian America.
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Taiwanese immigrant who invented N95 mask on working amid COVID-19 racism
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ClimArtLab gets off the ground! - artEC/Oindustry
Exciting news! artEC/Oindustry will join forces with the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg, Austria! The ClimArtLab is ready to go! Dominika Glogowski and Guido Caniglia, scientific director at the...
From The Anthropocene To The Microbiocene - NOEMA
“The scandal is not, as the term Anthropocene implies, that the boundaries between the human and nature get blurred. Rather, the scandal is that we humans still have not learned to think about ourselves in terms of the microbial — the viral — world...