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  1. New research on rotifers finds that the maternal age effect, wherein a mother's age affects the characteristics of her offspring (usually adversely as age increases, and persisting across generations) is the result of epigenetic changes rather than DNA damage, and some effects can be reversed within a single generation.

    Summary: mbl.edu/news/molecular-memory-

    Original paper: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #Science #Genetics #Reproduction

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi

    #theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

  3. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi

    #theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

  4. Heard about the ‘luteal uglies’? Women know more about our hormones than ever – and that’s beautiful | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    When I was younger, female biology was seen as something to be overcome. Now we can talk about the reality of living in our bodies

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Womenshealth #Menstruation #Reproduction #Health #Society #Biology #Science #TheGuardian #RhiannonLucyCosslett

  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi

    #theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi

    #theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

  7. A study of reproduction in mammals, birds, reptiles, and dinosaurs confirmed that egg/neonate size varies with relative brain size in birds and mammals. Theropod and non-theropod dinosaurs had relatively small brains, but the former had higher metabolic rates and reproductive characteristics more similar to birds. Egg size seems to increase with relative brain size along the bird lineage.

    Summary: scitechdaily.com/scientists-so

    Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rso

    #Science #Birds #Dinosaurs #Reproduction

  8. #reproduction : the action of producing offspring

    - French: reproduction

    - German: die Vervielfältigung

    - Italian: riproduzione

    - Portuguese: reprodução

    - Spanish: reproducción

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    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  9. ‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases - and Maha is weaponizing it
    By Alaina Demopoulos

    People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on it

    theguardian.com/society/2026/j

    #Womenshealth #Women #Women #Lifeandstyle #Society #TikTok #Health #Reproduction #Biology #Science #USpolitics #USnews #TheGuardian #AlainaDemopoulos

  10. Romesh Ranganathan on seeing a duck's penis for the first time:

    "Oh, I'm never going to eat fusilli again"

    youtu.be/24Dka5iAaDk?si=lNRjv- #Comedy #Birds #Reproduction

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐭🧪 Naked mole-rat queens secrete a chemical called isopropyl myristate that suppresses fertility in rivals.

    Researchers in #Berlin found the compound, which remains stable on tunnel surfaces for roughly 24 hours, works as a non violent alternative to bullying. The scent alone prevented breeding and colony takeovers even when the #queen was removed.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #nakedmolerats #pheromones #biology #animals #behavior #science #reproduction #maxdelbrückcenter #neurobiology #olfaction #rodents #nature #chemistry

  12. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦔🍼 A short beaked #echidna at the #SanDiegoZoo Safari Park gave birth to two #puggles in one season, a rarity for #monotremes.

    One puggle is raised naturally while the other, which struggled to gain weight, is hand reared by veterinarians with #ultrasound monitoring. Echidna #puggles start life weighing about 350 mg – that's less than half a mini-marshmallow!

    👉 popsci.com/environment/baby-ec

    #sandiego #zoo #animals #mammals #australia #wildlife #science #veterinary #reproduction #nature #eggs

  13. I've done a lot of computational reproductions so I thought I'd seen it all, but this one is new: the OSF repository features a single Excel file which, to my surprise, does actually contain both the data and the code. The file has multiple tabs and some of them contain R code, either pasted in a large textbox, or tabular format with one line per row (one tab has > 900 rows!).

    #reproduction #OpenScience

  14. A cool bit of #SciFiScience, on the biological side, is generating gametes, which is something we can't quite do yet. But we can get very close and conceive stem cells to a precursor form.

    Link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #gametes #biology #reproduction