#bioluminescence — Public Fediverse posts
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silly stuff with glow dicks
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#handjob #bioluminescence #threesome #incest #glowdick #glowingcock #pankallisti
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦈💡 A team of marine biologists measured the glow of eight kitefin #sharks caught off #NewZealand, recording brightness, #color, and shine direction.
Most of the #light matches classic #camouflage, but the glow spreads sideways toward the nose and fins. The researchers read this as a biological searchlight, illuminating prey in the dark seafloor, while the bright dorsal fin defies any camouflage role entirely.
#bioluminescence #ocean #sea #kitefin #marinebiology #science #hunting #evolution #underwater #biology #nature #wildlife #fish #research
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Dr. Steven Haddock discusses how bioluminescent and fluorescent molecules, genes borrowed from jellyfish and others, have become powerful tools in biotech and biomedical research.
From lighting up nervous systems to advancing medical imaging, this conversation shows how nature’s brilliance fuels human innovation.
🎧 Listen here: embedded.fm/episodes/530Here's an excerpt:
#OceanScience #DeepSea #Bioluminescence #EmbeddedSystems
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From bioluminescent "living highlighters" in cancer research to deep-sea creatures exuding glowing green plumes, the ocean floor is full of wonder. 🌊✨
Marine biologist Dr. Steven Haddock joins us to discuss these and more.👉 Read the show transcript here: https://embedded.fm/transcripts/530.
#Podcast #OceanScience #Biotechnology #DeepSea #Bioluminescence #EmbeddedSystems
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Mar de ardora
Pontevedra, Spain
Bioluminescence known in Galicia as mar de ardora illuminates the beach of A Lanzada. The phenomenon is caused by marine microorganisms that emit light when the water is agitated, amid the accumulation of microalgae and rising sea temperatures.Photograph: Elena Fernandez/EPA
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Omphalotus nidiformis (ghost fungi) in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia
More about me & prints
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪲✨ #Fireflies are actually bioluminescent #beetles, not #flies.
Entomologist Clyde Sorenson from #NorthCarolina State University explains that #larvae glow to warn #predators of their #toxic taste, while #adults use species-specific flash patterns as a #mating ritual, with some predatory “femme fatale” fireflies mimicking other species’ signals to lure and eat males.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-fireflies-glow/
#bioluminescence #insects #lightningbugs #nature #science #entomology #wildlife #animals #biology #luciferin #summer
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The Living Light Shows of the Deep Ocean 🌊✨
Meet the lobate comb jelly (Lobata). While they look remarkably like classic jellyfish, these translucent wanderers belong to the phylum Ctenophora—one of the absolute oldest lineages of animal life on Earth.
They don't sting; instead, they use those massive, wing-like oral lobes to scoop up microscopic plankton as they drift.
#photography
#MarineBiology
#Ctenophora
#LobateCombJelly
#bioluminescence
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The light above and the light below
The light of billions of stars above is surpassed by the light of living organisms in the sea below.
#photography
#astrophotography
#yakamoz
#bioluminescence
#MilkyWay
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The word natively refers to marine bioluminescence—the glowing trails left in the dark sea by millions of tiny disturbed organisms. Turkish fishermen adapted it from the Greek diakamós (διακαμός), used to describe the bright phosphorus tracks left by fish swimming at night.A beautiful intersection of language, history, and biology.
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YAKAMOZ (Turkish):
The reflection of the moon on the surface of the water.While pop-linguistics books often frame this purely as a romantic, untranslatable word for moonlight, its scientific and historical roots are even more fascinating.#Linguistics
#Etymology
#Bioluminescence
#Nature
#Language
#Words
#photography
#StarTrails
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Found a female firefly, in a typical larval looking form.
The pictures don't capture the glow we saw , originating from the bottom. Dull flourescent greenOn reading, it seems the females are the more influential half of the night twinkling that happens, controlling reproduction, mistresses of chemistry, & even being femmes fatales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly
#firefly #glowworm #beetles #beetlemania #IndiasNature #entomology #nature #bioluminescence
*As seen on an a4 sheet with a printed table
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Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures
Bioluminescence from a large bloom of Noctiluca scintillans. These lazy microscopic organisms multiply in the millions and when agitated they glow blue to create a vast shimmering coastline.
Photograph: Deni Cupit
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Ocean's Depths Yield Bioluminescent Puzzle: Sea Squirt's Unseen Architecture
Scientists found sea squirts have glowing spines and a complex nervous system. This changes how we see these simple sea animals. Affects marine biology studies.
#SeaSquirt, #Bioluminescence, #MarineBiology, #OceanDiscovery, #ScienceNews
https://newsletter.tf/sea-squirt-glowing-spines-nervous-system-discovery/
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New research reveals sea squirts have glowing spines and a complex nervous system, unlike what scientists previously thought. This finding adds a new layer to our understanding of marine invertebrates.
#SeaSquirt, #Bioluminescence, #MarineBiology, #OceanDiscovery, #ScienceNews
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Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
#HackerNews #glowingalgae #sustainablelighting #bioluminescence #innovation #greenenergy #futuretech
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🧪🌌 UC #Boulder researchers encapsulated single-celled #algae within #3D-printed hydrogel shapes.
The team used an acidic solution to trigger a sustained blue glow from the organisms. These living structures could eventually serve as battery-free light sources or sensors that detect environmental toxins.
#science #bioluminescence #3Dprinting #biology #marinebiology #technology #tech #innovation #nature #research #sustainability #lighting #colorado
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El Mycena Roseoflava es un hongo agárico rosado de tamaño minúsculo, llegando como mucho a los 5-10 mm. La luciferina le otorga bioluminiscencia, pero con un brillo muy pálido que apenas puede apreciarse. #hongos #fungi #bioluminiscencia #bioluminescence
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El pez ha aprendido a lanzar un hadouken...o, más bien, el crustáceo ostrácodo que se ha comido se defiende usando la bioluminiscencia...Al menos que le interese ser una presa visible en la oscuridad, el pez no tiene más remedio que escupirlo. #bioluminiscencia #Bioluminescence #crustaceo #crustacea
