Javier Ábalos

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Javier Ábalos

Javier Ábalos

@abalosaurus

I cannot be reborn as a velociraptor, but I can study lizard behaviour and coloration. Close enough.

Lund, Sverige Katılım Şubat 2012
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Javier Ábalos
Javier Ábalos@abalosaurus·
Excited to share our latest paper on lizard contests and agonistic signals! Read on for a daydream on how being a lizard could be like, disguised as a discussion on the relative impact of static colour patches and behavioral displays in animal contests 🧵 academic.oup.com/beheco/article…
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Daractenus
Daractenus@Daractenus·
In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵
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Christopher Stoll - Off to a Rough Art
Why does this inspire such disgust and conflict in us? It's hard to argue that this solution isn't better. Better a brainless sack of protein than a living creature capable of pain, longing to see the sky but forced to live in hideous lifelong bondage. So why does the Harvest Hen or the Domesticated Meat Pig feel worse? I think it's because it makes the instrumentalization visible. We already treat living creatures as production units, but this takes it "too far"... it stops pretending otherwise. An organism that has been openly, unapologetically designed as a object. And for some people, in some ways, something about that honesty is harder to look at than the cruelty we've already normalized. Original brainless meat pig "bodyoid" art by @Coolio_Art made me want to make my own.
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Kai Micah Mills@kaimicahmills

the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering

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GO GREEN
GO GREEN@ECOWARRIORSS·
Watching wildlife documentaries you would think the world was teeming with wild life But in reality there is hardly any wildlife left and what remains is rapidly being destroyed What took billions of years of Earth fine tuning is being destroyed in a few decades
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David Wallace-Wells@dwallacewells

Humans and their livestock now account for more than 96 percent of all mammal biomass on the planet. Actual wild animals are only a tiny, tiny sliver by comparison.

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Revista Mètode
Revista Mètode@Revista_Metode·
La vida dels rapinyaires no és senzilla. Tirar endavant suposa un fràgil equilibri entre costos i beneficis, que es trenca quan uns quants perdigons entren en joc 🦅 ✍️ i 📸 @RGarcia_Roa via secció «Focus verd» núm.127 metode.cat/revistes-metod…
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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
The African wild ass (𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴) is the most endangered wild equid in the world. 🐎 Found mostly in Eritrea and Ethiopia, the species’ numbers (approximately 200 mature individuals) are declining due to climate change and human and livestock impacts. In Eritrea, however, the population is stable and slowly increasing due to strong commitment from the government and local communities. 🌍 At our upcoming #CMSCOP15, more #MigratorySpecies will be considered for international conservation measures under our Convention. Learn more: cms.int/news/42-amendm… #MigratoryMonday
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JMV
JMV@YedaiJamao·
Me llamo Jesús Martínez del Vas y soy ilustrador tradicional. ¿Me ayudas a difundir mi trabajo con un retuit? Cada vez que compartas, curas a un gatito, haces feliz a un unicornio, y ademas apoyas arte humano frente a la IA. ¡Mil gracias!
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Joan Anton Català Amigó
Joan Anton Català Amigó@estelsiplanetes·
Si tota la vida a la Terra pesés 100 kg: 80 kg serien de plantes 14 kg de bacteris 2 kg de fongs 4 kg d’animals, que es distribuirien així… 2,4 kg d’humans 1,2 kg de bestiar 0,2 kg d’insectes 0,13 kg de peixos 0,06 kg d’animals salvatges Bon dia!
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PN Montserrat
PN Montserrat@PNMontserrat·
En el marc del projecte d’elaboració del catàleg d’aràcnids del @PNMontserrat, en @MDomenech6 ha dissenyat un pòster amb algunes de les principals espècies presents al #ParcNatural. 🕷️🦂 Les reconeixeu? N’heu vist cap durant les vostres sortides?
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Science Magazine
Science Magazine@ScienceMagazine·
Two new Science studies on lizard coloration reveal how a delicate interplay of genetics, environment, and social dynamics can either preserve or erase polymorphic diversity in species. 📄: scim.ag/49so9rS 📄: scim.ag/4aGsABy
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Alimañas
Alimañas@CastellaNatura·
El 86% de los lobos muertos en Europa, mueren por causas humanas. La caza es la principal causa: el 60% de todos los lobos muertos, han sido cazados (legal o ilegalmente). No es un problema de coexistencia, el objetivo es exterminar al lobo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma…
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Rob Sica
Rob Sica@robsica·
🦚🔪"The Handicap Principle [HP] is the only theory in modern biology to our knowledge that is anti-Darwinian... The time is long overdue to reject HP/costly signalling paradigm... the longest non-Darwinian detour in the history of modern biology" academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…
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El Escarabajo Verde
El Escarabajo Verde@escarabajoTVE·
Cada día se sacrifican más de 200 millones de animales terrestres para alimentarnos. 🐄 La normativa y la industria están en proceso de cambio; sellos de bienestar, avances tecnológicos… ¿Es suficiente? 🥩“En carne viva”, domingo a las 13:30h en @la2_tve y @rtveplay.
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tuōmo
tuōmo@7uomoki·
As James Watson, co - discoverer of the DNA double helix structure, has passed today (RIP), I want to address an important issue: most modern visualizations of the DNA double helix are actually WRONG. The original Watson-Crick "bands wrapped around a rod" picture depiction is the geometrically correct way to represent canonical B-DNA, whereas modern depictions usually look like the whole object is just a twisted ribbon. 🧬 (including this emoji). I only realized this myself a couple of years ago myself , when I read their original paper for the first time.
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