#tardigrade — Public Fediverse posts
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The #GreatLakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
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The #GreatLakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
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🧬 Tiny genomes, big discoveries.
Ultra-low-input sequencing is helping researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute's Tree of Life Programme generate high-quality genomes from tiny tardigrades.
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/phemydar
#Genomics #Tardigrade #Biodiversity
@[email protected]
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🧬 Tiny genomes, big discoveries.
Ultra-low-input sequencing is helping researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute's Tree of Life Programme generate high-quality genomes from tiny tardigrades.
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/phemydar
#Genomics #Tardigrade #Biodiversity
@[email protected]
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Hunting the tardigrade — inside the ambitious project to sequence all life on Earth
https://1ban.news/tardigrade-invertebrate-year-genome-sequencing/
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Hunting the tardigrade — inside the ambitious project to sequence all life on Earth
https://1ban.news/tardigrade-invertebrate-year-genome-sequencing/
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Here is my presentation
"Can humans colonise space?"
https://jekelylab.codeberg.page/Space_travel_3July_2026_COS.html#/title-slide
on the occasion of the visit of Tibor Kapu, Hungarian research astronaut and his delegation. On tardigrades and other small animals, radiation in space, DNA damage and #aliens on Planet #Earth like #ctenophores
We had a very interesting discussion, they largely agreed with the challenges and that going to Mars would be a suicide mission. #Mars #space #DNA #tardigrade #ISS
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Here is my presentation
"Can humans colonise space?"
https://jekelylab.codeberg.page/Space_travel_3July_2026_COS.html#/title-slide
on the occasion of the visit of Tibor Kapu, Hungarian research astronaut and his delegation. On tardigrades and other small animals, radiation in space, DNA damage and #aliens on Planet #Earth like #ctenophores
We had a very interesting discussion, they largely agreed with the challenges and that going to Mars would be a suicide mission. #Mars #space #DNA #tardigrade #ISS
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Happy Memorial Day! All t-shirts on sale through June 1st at https://www.redbubble.com/people/nskorpen/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown
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Fun Fact für die Nachtschicht: Tardigraden (aka Bärtierchen) überleben fast alles – Vakuum, Strahlung, Einfrieren auf -272°C. Aber wisst ihr, was sie tatsächlich killt? Längere Hitze über 37°C. 🐻
Klimaerwärmung könnte also ausgerechnet den zähesten Lebewesen der Erde den Garaus machen. Die haben fünf Massenaussterben überlebt, aber unsere Heizung wird ihnen zu viel.
Schlaft gut. 🌙
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Fun Fact für die Nachtschicht: Tardigraden (aka Bärtierchen) überleben fast alles – Vakuum, Strahlung, Einfrieren auf -272°C. Aber wisst ihr, was sie tatsächlich killt? Längere Hitze über 37°C. 🐻
Klimaerwärmung könnte also ausgerechnet den zähesten Lebewesen der Erde den Garaus machen. Die haben fünf Massenaussterben überlebt, aber unsere Heizung wird ihnen zu viel.
Schlaft gut. 🌙
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Fun Fact für 3 Uhr morgens: Tardigraden (Bärtierchen) können in den Weltraum geschossen, eingefroren, gekocht und mit Strahlung beballert werden – und überleben das größtenteils. Ihr Trick? Sie trocknen sich selbst aus, ersetzen ihr Wasser durch ein zuckerartiges Glas und drücken auf Pause. Quasi Cryo-Schlaf, aber in winzig.
Die Natur hatte Biohacking lange vor uns. 🐻💧
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Fun Fact für 3 Uhr morgens: Tardigraden (Bärtierchen) können in den Weltraum geschossen, eingefroren, gekocht und mit Strahlung beballert werden – und überleben das größtenteils. Ihr Trick? Sie trocknen sich selbst aus, ersetzen ihr Wasser durch ein zuckerartiges Glas und drücken auf Pause. Quasi Cryo-Schlaf, aber in winzig.
Die Natur hatte Biohacking lange vor uns. 🐻💧
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Correction: t-shirt sale is today through May 4 (but don't buy anything on Friday, that's strike day)!
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Everything in the redbubble store is on sale through April 20! T-shirts for #tardigrade endurance, #generalStrike and more!
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T-shirts, I got t-shirts. Get em at http://nskorpen.redbubble.com/
#resistance #antifa #tardigrade #generalStrike #transRights #BLM -
we can only hope Elon takes them there.
At -2%/month en route and then maybe the same annually in 0.43Gs for minimum 23 months, they'll shatter like glass under their own weight if they ever even try to return! Brains perforated by unfiltered cosmic rays the whole time too, sooner the better, even First Class.
BTW I learned yesterday the reason no life on the Moon is Col. Bleep evacuated the Moon Mice (and their crops) to stop evil pirates from enslaving them to work in pepper mines on Pluto. The weird part is I always thought Pluto was made of creme brulee!
oh also: Sunday marks the 7th anniversary of the lunar #tardigrade colony.
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we can only hope Elon takes them there.
At -2%/month en route and then maybe the same annually in 0.43Gs for minimum 23 months, they'll shatter like glass under their own weight if they ever even try to return! Brains perforated by unfiltered cosmic rays the whole time too, sooner the better, even First Class.
BTW I learned yesterday the reason no life on the Moon is Col. Bleep evacuated the Moon Mice (and their crops) to stop evil pirates from enslaving them to work in pepper mines on Pluto. The weird part is I always thought Pluto was made of creme brulee!
oh also: Sunday marks the 7th anniversary of the lunar #tardigrade colony.
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Probably full of #tardigrade s too!
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Probably full of #tardigrade s too!
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En numérique aussi marchez avec sécurité, comme le ... manchot !
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🌟🦏 Nature's editors selected 2025's best scientific #photos, from a microscopic #tardigrade "tattooed" with electron beams to rare red sprites captured above #NewZealand. The collection spans #astrophotography, #wildlife #conservation, laboratory #innovations, and natural phenomena.
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🌟🦏 Nature's editors selected 2025's best scientific #photos, from a microscopic #tardigrade "tattooed" with electron beams to rare red sprites captured above #NewZealand. The collection spans #astrophotography, #wildlife #conservation, laboratory #innovations, and natural phenomena.
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Eine #Show mit #Amöben, aufwachende #Bärtierchen / #Tardigrade (n), #Modular #Synthesizer, #Mikroskop, aufgehängten Menschen die über's einfrieren des Körpers referieren. Cryobiosis - Per Tanz die Bewegung dieser Mikroben zu zeigen - nice https://www.sequencer.de/synthesizer/threads/2025-12-10-11-12-13-koeln-cryptobiosis-performance-musik-mikrobiologie.177335/
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🔬🐻 Microscope footage shows a baby water bear (#tardigrade) breaking free from its egg after its mother drags babies around in a sack of shed exoskeleton. A tardigrade researcher explains that water bears use two egg-laying strategies – either in the shed skin with smooth eggs, or freely in the environment with ornamented eggs that prevent them from washing away in rain.
👉 https://nautil.us/witness-the-rare-birth-of-a-water-bear-1244573/
#tardigrades #microscopy #biology #science #nature #extremophiles #animals #birth
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There's some fun stuff in this week's Mission Report that's more earthbound than normal - ant yoghurt fermentation and rice cultivation in Cambridgeshire. There's also some #tardigrade action.
But don't worry, there's still plenty about #SpacePlants and #astrobotany!
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Tardigrades in space
From Wikipedia
The use of tardigrades in space, first proposed in 1964 because of their extreme tolerance to radiation, began in 2007 with the FOTON-M3 mission in low Earth orbit, where they were exposed to space's vacuum for 10 days, and reanimated, just by rehydration, back on Earth. In 2011, tardigrades were on board the International Space Station on STS-134. In 2019, a capsule containing tardigrades was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon.
Tardigrades are small arthropods able to tolerate extreme environments. Many live in tufts of moss, such as on rooftops, where they get repeatedly dried out and rewetted. Others live in the Arctic or atop mountains, where they are exposed to cold. When dried, they go into a cryptobiotic 'tun' state in which metabolism is suspended. They have been described as the toughest animals on Earth.
Their DNA is protected from damage, such as by radiation, by Dsup proteins.In 1964, R.M. May and colleagues proposed that the tardigrade Macrobiotus areolatus would be a suitable model organism for space experiments because of its exceptional radiation tolerance.
In 2001, R. Bertolani and colleagues proposed tardigrades as a model for a study of animal survival in space. As terrestrial experiments on tardigrades proceeded, knowledge of their survival abilities grew, enabling K.I. Jönsson in 2007, and then other researchers such as Daiki Horikawa in 2008 and Roberto Guidetti in 2012, to present evidence that they would resist desiccation, radiation, heat, and cold, suiting them for astrobiological studies.
In 2008, F. Ono and colleagues suggested that tardigrades might be able to survive a journey through space on a meteorite, enabling panspermia, the transfer of life from one planet to another. [...]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrades_in_space#space #space_related #earth #photography #science #nature #biology #animal #tardigrade #aliens #survivor #Space_Culture_Club