ziltoid101

joined 2 years ago
[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Genuinely I think the world would have much better scientific outcomes if a decent portion of grants were just straight-up randomly allocated (from a pool that meets a minimum standard I guess). Everyone wants to fund 'almost complete' research but there's such little money for the early-stage 'high risk high reward' basic research, which is what basically all applied research is built upon.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

10 minutes of sun per day is typically less likely to give you cancer than 0 minutes. Vitamin D (and other compounds involved in the synthesis from cholesterol that you won't get in supplements) upregulate DNA repair polymerases that protect against carcinogens. Of course after a few minutes the costs of UV exposure outweight this benefit though.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

We needed a negative control, dammit!

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Went on to play a few months ago with mates, all 4 of us had accounts deleted. Wtf, why wasn't it an automatic process...

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I want to put Skype's corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that's currently undergoing enshittification.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I can almost hear it!

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Astor Theatre, Perth, 2019. Was a crazy mosh, and Crumbling Castle was incredible. They ended the show on "The Bitter Boogie" which was a really flat, confusing way to end. Overall a great gig but I still find myself scratching my head at the ending song. The other times I saw them they finished with the Mind Fuzz suite and KGLW, so can't complain!

 

Grumpy, dumpy, and gorgeous! I'm so lucky to have these nearby. They spend most of their lives underground but when it rains in October-November you can hear them call as they start to emerge.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Crystallise it and show us the structure lol

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Acrylamide is a nasty neurotoxin. Look at old protein biochemists and their hands all shake from years of making SDS-PAGE gels without gloves.

 

They get their name because their call sounds like a banjo! A commonly heard, but not often seen frog native to Southwest Australia. They spend a lot of their lives burrowed underground or under leaf litter.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It wouldn't be science without some jargon :P

Basically, a new mechanism has been found - low nitrogen influences the signalling of a plant hormone to reduce the number of branches. Particularly pertinent to cereal crops and could help lower the need for nitrogen fertilisers!

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Hope it stays open source going forward, especially given how it's built on the back of decades of hard work in x-ray crystallography.

 

Looking perpetually angry 😠

 

Aka Bleating Froglets

 
 
 

Now that we've had some time to digest Flight b741, curious to see how it ranks for everyone!

Of course it varies a bit day to day, but I'll have a go... honestly I really like them all, bar the bottom two!

  • I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
  • Polygondwanaland
  • Nonagon Infinity
  • Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava
  • Butterfly 3000
  • Omnium Gatherum
  • Petrodragonic Apocalypse
  • Changes
  • Fishing For Fishies
  • Murder of the Universe
  • Flying Microtonal Banana
  • Quarters!
  • Float Along ~ Fill Your Lungs
  • Infest The Rats' Nest
  • K.G.
  • Flight b741
  • L.W.
  • Gumboot Soup
  • Sketches of Brunswick East
  • Laminated Denim
  • The Silver Cord
  • Paper Mache Dream Balloon
  • Oddments
  • Made In Timeland
  • 12 Bar Bruise
  • Eyes Like The Sky
[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.

 
 

About 2cm long! Cute as hell.

 

These guys are so pretty, they love hanging out around toilets in the outback.

 
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