Do you know that your favorite dried sausage harbors a lot of interesting #genomic stuff?

The footprints of #domestication in dry-cured meat fungi (including the aptly named Penicillium salami)

In final form at #Evolutionary #Applications

https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13591

Very much related with #CheesyFungi, here a quick and visual reminder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGcIguvqCs

Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryArt #makeArtNotWar #mentalCinema #handCarvedStamp #noNFT #saveBiodiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #fckPtn #myHeart #heartBeat #emblematy #tobiasMagass #baroque #dragonTamer #domestication #dragons #tameTheBeast #wilderness #screamingHeads

I am happy to announce that the current issue of Digital Culture & Society on “Taming Digital Practices” has been published, edited by @timmoritz, @Enriya, Tanja Aal and me. This issue deals with the #domestication of digital devices and everyday #data #practices. Please find an extract with a TOC and the issue’s introduction here: https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6357-0/digital-culture-society-dcs/?number=978-3-8394-6357-4

A new strain of Penicillium roqueforti discovered in Termignon cheese, a cheese I can't wait to taste, and lots of interesting results from this new paper by Tatiana Giraud's team, published in #EvolutionaryApplications
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.13578
going together with a short video summary explaining domestication of cheese fungi
https://youtu.be/iN0A6dudWqI
#PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Biodiversity #Domestication

Today is #InternationalCatDay 🐱
Curious about the historical relationship between #cats and humans?
Claudio Ottoni @cla_ottoni analyses archaeological samples of cats dating back 10,000 years, to provide a new perspective on animal #domestication 👉 http://bit.ly/3qWoYGS

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1688852642620182528

There's the normal 'hit and run' by motorists
but there is also the 'shit and run' by dog owners
both leave their externalities to others and flee the scene.

“But sometimes they bag it up, and then throw it in a hedge, or over a wall, or hang it off the branch of a tree …Poo trees!”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/26/dirty-dog-owners-why-28-let-their-pet-poo-then-flee-the-scene
#dogs #pets #Dog #feces #DogPoop #plastic #PickItUp #PetOwners #domestication #ShitnRun #Bellingen #neighbourhood #wildlife

Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryArt #makeArtNotWar #mentalCinema #handCarvedStamp #noNFT #saveBiodiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #fckPtn #emblematy #dragonTamer #wilderness #wildlife #wisdom #civilisation #watchingYou #observation #surveillance #cow #domestication #livestock #industrialLivestockFarming #methan #vegetarianism #veganism

Wrote the #Hypnofic I wanted, featuring #braindrain, #domestication, rock and roll, and ideas from @flesh and @HypnoDrooling
WEEK 1
"This is stupid." Kev said, fingering his new collar. The black wolf hated this dumb thing, but his girlfriend, the freak she is...

"It looks great on you." the rat remarked, affixing the clasp on the back of his collar, making it affix to him with a satisfying snap. Now that it was in place, she could let his long messy hair drop, and then gave him a kiss, "It make you cute."

The wolf snarled, "Zia..." he said, baring his teeth at her. She smiled at him and just lifted up her black tank top, showing him her chest, her pierced nipples, "I mean cuter. It makes you look cuter." she said, winking at him as the sight of her bare chest made him relax a bit. This was why she liked him honestly, he was big, dumb, mean, and messy. A perfect guitarist for the band. She worked the drums, and liked to think she had him wrapped around her finger...

But she didn't. He gave her a shove and walked away, "I'm not cute." He kept getting into fights with fans, venue owners... which sounds nice for a punk band like theirs, but an awful thing if you want to actually build a successful career. Still, this should fix it.

WEEK 6

"This stupid thing...!" Kev snarled, tugging at the collar, stomping around backstage, furious. It hadn't come off in weeks! Zia was setting up her drumset when he decided to bark at her, "HEY! Zia! This dumb thing won't come off!"

The rat didn't even look up at him, "Yep, it wouldn't work if it did."

"What do you mean 'wouldn't work'? It's an accessory, it doesn't do anything, skank. Other than piss me off...!" he said, still fighting with it.

Zia shook her head, "Stop fighting with the collar, go tune your guitar, and I'll give you a treat."

Immediately, Kev's eyes lit up, "Treat?" and he smiled, an eager smile he'd never given in his life. His tail was wagging, and he stepped over to his amps, to set everything up. Oh boy! A treat!

WEEK 21
Their koala bass player lit her cigarette, standing back and watching... this. She couldn't believe it, honestly. "He's not doing it as a bit?" she asked, as Zia turned on the electric clippers.

"Nope." the rat said, buzzing away a thick plume of hair from Kev's mane. He whined a little, "Collar's domesticating him, making him way nicer, way happier, and way, WAY more obedient." she said, as the fur fell to the floor in chunks.

The wolfdog pouted, "Collars don't do nothin'..." mumbled out the new perpetually confused Kev, he wasn't even as big as he used to be, his big tough body had become so lithe and... twinky in the past few months.

Zia began scratching behind Kev's ear, and he shut his eyes, whining still, trying to hold onto his thoughts, as the rat happily explained, "See Koma, there is one side-effect, and that's that it's shrinking his brain a bit."

The koala scoffed, "Pssh, how could you even tell the difference?"

The two girls laughed a bit, as Zia kept buzzing away, the poor dog trying and failing to hold onto his wild, angry thoughts... and failing.

1/2

Cows Learn Better with Friends (2014)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/cows-learn-better-with-friends/
#Mind_Brain #More_Science #cattle #cow #domestication #enrichment #farming #hoofstock #human_animal_relationship #livestock #welfare

Cows Learn Better with Friends
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/cows-learn-better-with-friends/
#Mind_Brain #More_Science #cattle #cow #domestication #enrichment #farming #hoofstock #human_animal_relationship #livestock #welfare

Study reveals #genetic signatures of #chickpea's cultural crossroads.

#genomics #agriculture #anthropology #domestication

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-reveals-genetic-signatures-chickpea-cultural.html

breaking news, #chickens are Asian. (I don't know anything about chickens and never thought about where they came from, nor had the thought of wild ancestral chickens occurred)

"The earliest chicken remains came from Ban Non Wat, in Central Thailand, a dry rice farming site known to be inhabited since the Neolithic Age. The earliest chicken remains came from between 1650 B.C.E. and 1250 B.C.E., during the Bronze Age. Instead of being flooded like paddies, the fields were soaked by seasonal rains and attracted hungry wildfowl. The researchers note that this led to chicken #domestication around 3,500 years ago, Science News reports. Experts also found a correlation between the spread of dry rice farming, millet and other grains with the spread of chicken bone trails across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Science reports."

#chickenDomestication

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-pinpoint-date-when-chickens-were-first-domesticated-180980212/

Ambiguous spaces for your own stories. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryart #mentalcinema #handcarvedstamp #noNFT #savebiodiversity #climateactionnow #systemchange #endfossilfuels #makeartnotwar #fckfdp #afd #fckptn #standforukraine #emblematy #baroque #renaissance #dragontamer #dragon #tamethebeast #beast #monster #domestication #spider #wilderness #spiderweb #arachnophobia

As expected, wine #grapes found to have high deleterious #genetic burden.

#genomics #domestication #introgression #agriculture

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-wine-grapes-high-deleterious-genetic.html

RT @erleellis: Did maize domesticate people?
People domesticated maize?

No.

On the Coevolution of Crops:
Hotspots, Pathways, Ecosystems @CurrentBiology
@dqfuller https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223005171 #plants #domestication #agriculture #agroecosystems #Archaeology https://t.co/JxoSZxVP0d

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1666729016374460417

Thoughts on #donkey #domestication.
Samwise trusts me enough to show me the really itchy spots now. I was working on two itchy spots right above his loins and he just leaned his entire weight back into me. His head was drooping and he was gently chewing the air. Absolute donkey bliss.
I was thinking about how *this* is what brought our earliest domesticated mammals to our fire. Ancient wild canids and desert cats can eat our trash and vermin without ever letting a human touch them! The ones that domesticated themselves were the ones that realized our hands give the best grooming on the planet. Horses, donkeys, and goats definitely made that bargain too.

New #CheesyFungi direct installment @PeerCommunityIn #journal
The gradient of #domestication in a #cheese making #fungi, by Bastien Bennetot et al., lead by @jeanne.ropars@twitter.com
https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.266/
Recommendation by @cfraisserios #PCI #EvolutionaryBiology
https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=592

Current crops are the result of years of deliberate selection for a few mutations and desirable recombinants. #Geneediting facilitates the #domestication of wild and semi-domesticated species to sustainably meet our current and future needs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13562-023-00837-1 #breeding

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-domestication-early-crop-easily.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-domestication-early-crop-easily.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1645411076165476353#m

Plant #domestication: Early crop plants were more easily 'tamed' @wustl @PLOSONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article https://phys.org/news/2023-04-domestication-early-crop-easily.html

🐎 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/history-of-horses-teded-video

“People have been captivated by #horses for a long time. They appear more than any other animal in cave paintings dating back 30,000 years. But how did horses make the journey from wild #animals to ones humans could hitch themselves to and even ride, determining the fate of civilizations and dramatically altering #history?”

#horse #domestication #asia #africa #northamerica #teded #video