Work in progress. Been drawing Jumping Spiders last few days and I now have enough to make bookmarks! Salticids are my favourite spiders, they were the 'gateway' species that helped me overcome childhood 'fear' of spiders. #arachnids #spiders #invertebrates #Arachtober

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This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

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Have you ever had a control become the experiment because of unexpected biology? It’s happened to me or my trainees a few times. I would love to hear other examples.

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Watching Flagella (or Cilia) in Motion by Christoph — Still images do not tell whether cells rotate their flagella like a propeller or flap them like a whip. To find out, one has to film living cells...

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