One of the interesting things that happened once animals evolved was that they started to make holes in the sediment. This not only opened a new niche once they figured out how to dig but also changed how some elements (e.g., sulfur) exchanged with the water above. www.nature.com/articles/nge... 🧪⚒️

Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era - Nature Geoscience

Mobile organisms first appeared in the fossil record prior to the Precambrian–Cambrian transition. Sediment textures indicate that the degree of sediment mixing by animal activity remained low for 120...

For #WorldCyanotypeDay#histsci She made photograms with algae specimen placed directly on paper treated with photochemicals in 🧵1/n

There's a hilarious Ginkgo story developing here, actually - you'd get a laugh out of it: they planted Gingko trees along a fancy new high-end street, and wanted only male trees. Little did they know about leaky dioecy 😂😂

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A Song of Ice and Fire: 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature

In the last 540 million years, five mass extinction events shaped the history of the Earth. Those events were related to extreme climate change. On a global scale the main forces behind this…

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Thanks for the tip! - just managed to get two of the last tickets... 🤗

The word 'cashew' comes from the Tupi word "akaîu" (in Eduardo Navarro's spelling system), pronounced /aka'ju/. I *think* the pirate William Dampier was the first person to use the spelling ⟨cashew⟩ in English, in his 1703 "Voyage to New-Holland" (p.68). (But I could be wrong.)

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In case you didn’t know this is a cashew, that little thing on top is a cashew nut. It is native to the Brazilian northeast. We eat the fruit, you can make juice, soda, caipirinha, compote, you name it. I personally like to cut it in circles and eat it with lime and salt.

You were very lovely indeed ☺️🙃 - see you next year, or give me a shout if you're ever near Zurich!