Henrietta Lacks: Family of woman whose cells were 'stolen' settles second lawsuit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1pw0rmmgo

Somehow I missed the fact that Booker-longlisted "Endling" by Maria Reva is inspired by my snail antics. "So begins a journey of a lifetime across a country on the brink of war: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/23/endling-by-maria-reva-review-a-ukrainian-caper-upended-by-war

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00469-0

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Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026

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"‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?

#TheGuardian #UsIce

Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00081-3?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@steveroyle Thanks for the reassurance 😁. He ended up here: https://www.esalen.org/

I work on colourful Cuban snails (Polymita) and European snails (Cepaea). The last person to do that - at least according to Web of Science - was Alex Comfort. Now where do I know that name from?? 🤔🐌🤔👫 #snails #cepaea #polymita

Cuba is heading for a humanitarian disaster, because the US is prepared to use starvation to promote regime change. Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/15/cuba-crisis-oil-shortage-venezuela-donald-trump-havana.
Help here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/parvathi-kumaraswami-4
#Cuba #BloqueoACuba #CubaEmbargo #USCuba #JustGiving (edited for accuracy)

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@snailman/116063843003045526

Oh boy, I called it 24 hours before the reveal 😄 #TheArchers

A year of inaction: why has the Royal Society allowed itself to be hollowed out by Elon Musk? And why does that matter more than ever? https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

81 x two thousand word mini dissertations marked in two days, think that's a #LifeofPi moment 😫😄🎉🥂

@robpumphrey #TheArchers Is he covering for someone else, likely Ruariadh?

In which the government does wrong to us yet again, this time retrospectively rewriting loan rules to students, in effect benefiting the wealthy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/the-guardian-view-on-student-loans-a-graduate-levy-by-stealth-is-no-way-to-fund-the-nhs #labour #UKGovernment

@steveroyle I sort of knew already - having seen it somewhere else - but cheated in the end. Those twee indie types typically described as underachieving, can not be said for the above person

Small grant application funded 🐌🥳. Project involves field work on Sao Tome and Principe, in search of the Giant Obo snail, with genomics to follow. 🥳 . Only possible because working with Dr. Martina Panisi and many others https://www.mossy.earth/projects/helping-forest-giants #snails #saotome #principe #genomics

There’s so much we don’t understand about the brain, but sometimes mushrooms give us little hints https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

@JacobPhD interesting! Nothing on the likely evolutionary origins in the article. I wonder? 🤔

@AnaVinuela @steveroyle I think he will probably come to regret his words, like Mandelson and others before him. Defending the indefensible. 100% embarrassing, agree.