#autotomy — Public Fediverse posts
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A single #peptide helps #starfish get rid of a #limb when attacked.
#predation #autotomy #ArSK_CCK1 #Asterias_rubens
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/how-starfish-ditch-limbs-when-attacked/
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An inspiring interview of the Belgian musician #CélineGillain, about her new album Mind is Mud. "[...] I talk about using doubt and struggle as raw material to compose music, the problem with the commodification of music and ideas, and about how a particular passage of Mike Oldfield’s album QE2 unlocked something in my brain when I was 8." #MikeOldfield #newbeat #Technotronic #stagefright #painting #diy #rawmaterial #MargePiercy #scifi #ursulakleguin #feminism #daw #breaches #essays #news #Instagram #TVseries #selfhelpbooks #EmilyStJohnMandel #StationEleven #cosmeticsstore #wikipedia #autotomy #MKAH #Kaaitheater #Belgium #Wallonia #Brussels #Antwerp #music
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2023/08/08/in-the-mud-with-celine-gillain/ -
Extreme self-decapitation in sea-slug: the head part is able to regenerate full body including functional heart and kidney in 20 days. It is a possible adaptive response to endoparasite infesting the body part. #science #biology #autotomy #gastropod #mollusc #seaslug #beheading #parasite
📄 Mitoh & Yusa (2021) Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs. Current Biology 31:R233–R234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.014