#museumspecimens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #museumspecimens, aggregated by home.social.
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University of Michigan: World’s natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness. “In 2024, the scientists gathered to analyze how to tap natural history collections and bring together research from across disciplines to help the world prepare for a potential future pandemic—something researchers say is likely because of climate change and human encroachment on wildlife […]
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The Harvard Crimson: It Could Take Lifetimes To Catalog the Harvard Zoology Museum’s Collections Online. AI Tools Might Help.. “The Museum of Comparative Zoology holds more than 21 million specimens from its more than 150-year history, which could take lifetimes to manually add to digital catalogs, but some museum researchers hope artificial intelligence tools could speed up the process.”
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#Genomes from 25 #Drosophila melanogaster #MuseumSpecimens (some >200 years old) reveal that small populations occupying N Europe gave way to well-connected fly populations across the continent; also targets of recent selection , including genes that may have helped this species adapt to novel climates, #viruses, & #insecticides. @Pool_Lab @MarcusStensmyr &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3tByu3b