CellBioNews · @cellbionews
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Howard Smith MD, AM · @Drhowardsmith
1 followers · 307 posts · Server masto.nyc

Brain-eating Amoebae Could Kill You:
A Florida resident who quirted tap water into the nose has died after being infected by the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
youtu.be/h_kUcfbDXyQ

#amoeba #meningitis #naegleria #netipot #braineating

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M_C_B52 · @M_C_B52
246 followers · 491 posts · Server masto.ai

Saw a news item that there was another death to brain-eating amoeba in Florida. Instead of getting it from swimming in fresh water this person apparently used tap water in a nasal rinse (neti pot or similar). Apparently they didn’t read the instructions about boiling water before you do that. Important safety tip - Tap water ain’t sterile.

#florida #amoeba

Last updated 2 years ago

ismailghedamsi · @hiphopheaven
16 followers · 126 posts · Server rap.social
ScienceAlert · @ScienceAlert
115 followers · 53 posts · Server universeodon.com

Nature can sure be... unusual! 😲😃🙆

People often mistake this hilarious oddity for a type of fungus. It's actually the fruiting body of a slime mold amoeba, Lycogala epidendrum, also known as "wolf's milk".

When they're not fruiting the amoeba ooze around as single-celled individuals engulfing other microbes. But when it's time to reproduce they aggregate into one giant cell with many nuclei to form this oddly rude-looking shape, which can leak out a pink slime. Here they form the spores for the next generation of amoeba.

📷 Björn S/CC BY-SA 2.0/Flickr

#lycogalaepidendrum #wolfsmilk #unusualnature #sciencephotography #pinkblob #amoeba #sciencemastodon #sciencealert #Science #stem

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yeti · @yeti
73 followers · 232 posts · Server emacs.ch
TURBO.TORBO · @TurboTorbo
263 followers · 65 posts · Server mastodon.art
TURBO.TORBO · @TurboTorbo
263 followers · 65 posts · Server mastodon.art

More Space Amoebas ❌ Still trying out different apps for digital drawing. This time I tried , and more . Its easy enought to emulate the same style, so its more about the feel at this point 🤔

#turbotorbo #illustrator #freelancer #robodesign #robot #DigitalArt #amoeba #scifiart #sketchbook #drawing #illustration #affinityphoto #clipstudiopaint #krita

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Kim · @kimbot
203 followers · 67 posts · Server ni.hil.ist

And I think I found an eating some of the iron crystals left in the jar

#amoeba

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PNAS · @PNASNews
1553 followers · 162 posts · Server fediscience.org

A theoretical model characterizes the foraging strategies of soil and predicts how disturbances to amoeba growth rate and movement disrupt their predation efficiency. In PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210

#amoeba

Last updated 2 years ago

RT @KDumack@twitter.com

Do you know ? This was found to be the closest relative of the clade comprising the scale-bearing , , , and . Leptogromia lacks scales and, in general, has an interesting morphology. Read: tinyurl.com/sdh9szw2

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KDumack/status/159

#leptogromia #marine #amoeba #euglypha #Paulinella #trinema #assulina

Last updated 2 years ago

Hans · @Hagukh
1117 followers · 359 posts · Server ruhr.social

Wolf's Milk (Lycogala epidendrum) on rotten wood.

#amoeba #slimemould #nature #naturephotography

Last updated 2 years ago

JABurns · @Burnsajohn
109 followers · 136 posts · Server mastodon.social

RT @KDumack@twitter.com

Here you see an , , ingesting a whole with a forming a tube around it (right image). Impressive images by @Penardia@twitter.com in our joint publication! Read more (and see more impressive images): doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12474

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KDumack/status/159

#amoeba #diaphoropodon #diatom #algae #pseudopodium

Last updated 2 years ago

· @101101000
34 followers · 172 posts · Server qoto.org

@freemo

And I'm an . I explicitly support amoebism, too. 🙄

#amoeba

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JABurns · @Burnsajohn
109 followers · 136 posts · Server mastodon.social

RT @KDumack@twitter.com

-free areas in are predicted to increase. This newly forming soil can be occupied by . Did you ever wonder who consumes those algae? Wait no longer, see this ! As you can see, this shell-bearing is rather hungry!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KDumack/status/159

#ice #antarctica #algae #euglypha #amoeba

Last updated 2 years ago

Backpack comics · @bacpackcomis
11 followers · 97 posts · Server home.social
Elizabeth Ostrowski · @elizostrow
202 followers · 31 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Migrating here from a different server, so here’s an repost:

My research focuses on and conflict. I work with — a soil where cells and sacrifice to build multicellular fruiting bodies. A system where there can be a benefit to selfish behaviors. I try to understand how these amoebae make their society work. (1/2)

#introduction #cooperation #Dictyostelium #amoeba #cooperate #twittermigration #ScienceMastodon #SSEfolks #esebfolks #smbefolks #asnfolks #PopGen

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Andrew Kennard · @askennard
182 followers · 148 posts · Server qoto.org
Christian B. Raunz · @raunz
8 followers · 41 posts · Server dresden.network