As both Brood XIII and Brood XIX are emerging in late April/early May of this year, you'll want to pick this up and get it down you before then so you'll know how to ward them off/welcome them appropriately, whichever applies.
72 storylets in 90-100 days. You can do it. Best get it taken care of before you run out of time.
James W. Truman featured in the New Yorker. A warm, lovely piece on his career studying insect metamorphosis, from moths to flies and mosquitoes, and the role and impact of hormones on insect development and behaviour—motivated by his latest work mapping the fate of neurons from larva to adult through pupal stages, and addressing an old question: do associative memories persist through metamorphosis?
The paper:
“Metamorphosis of memory circuits in Drosophila reveals a strategy for evolving a larval brain” Truman et al. 2023 https://elifesciences.org/articles/80594
Mubarak Syed kicking off the #pbsscb grounding us in the land and the history and the rich diversity of the Pueblo of Sandia. https://www.pueblobrainscience.org absolutely tremendous outreach efforts bringing in and supporting tomorrow’s scientists.
Jim Truman leads with #metamorphosis of the #Drosophila mushroom body (a locus of memory). He's walking us through a most beautiful piece of work. Special shout-out to the foresight it took to begin this work before there was a #connectome available so as to inform ongoing work.
tl;dr the molecular events that shape larval development can fade, allowing trans-differentiation of neurons (a shift from one brain area to another).
Things can change overnight.
Yesterday the Monarch caterpillar was hanging in its J-shape, today it is a chrysalis.
Another 1-2 weeks and the 🦋 will emerge. #butterflies#Monarch#metamorphosis#nature
The genesis of these piano pieces came from witnessing the mental and physical decline associated with Alzheimer's and reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and seeing a connection with Echo's story.
"Imagine Dostoevsky, nagged to update his Facebook page. Or Emily Dickinson at a poetry slam, posted on Instagram. Or Kafka addressing his fans on TikTok: “Hey, guys! Brutal wakeup today: I open my eyes, and I’m, like, an insect—what is up with that?! Check out my new story, #Metamorphosis. Hit ‘like,’ and subscribe below!”"
On the Pitfalls of Book Promotion in the Internet Age by Tom Rachman
Yesterday, I saw another ladybug larva on our car as I was about to get in. I scooped her up and put her on my seedGrown grapefruit tree in the kitchen.
I just found her under one of the leaves, metamorphosing! 🤗😍💓🐞✨
The life cycle of an ant (Camponotus festinatus) laid out in a single photograph: eggs, larvae of various ages, a silk-covered pupa, and an adult worker. At #UTAustin's Brackenridge Field Laboratory, in Texas.