Gowanus eDNA

…surprisingly diverse DNA evidence–19 fish species–in the Canal, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon. The project is featured on Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Instagram page The summary slide is also here….

Sewage archives

…practicalities, of implementing this type of biological archiving in a 2021 article in BMC Infectious Diseases, Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built environments.  While interest in 2021, centers…

Microbial diversity

Images from “Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the Same?” David S. Thaler, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 19 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.565649 With alarms sounding about the declining…

Biology in Art

…in 2019 — Evidence for extraordinary visual acuity in Leonardo’s comment on a dragonfly,” and “Sfumato in Leonardo’s portraits: Optical and psychophysical mechanisms — explore the visual acuity of the great artist and…

Oceans

Humans in the 19th century knew little about the oceans, but other forms of life knew a lot. Our job over the last two centuries has been to catch up…

The Scientific Enterprise

The Scientific Enterprise Science functions globally as a single club, a single cognitive formation, with a mix of experimental evidence, mathematics, and computation as its lingua franca. The excellent networks…