Katia Barrett
@KatiaBarrett18
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Joined November 2018
This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors @theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at @BrownUniversity. Olivia is a physics PhD student at @BrandeisU, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)
Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea https://t.co/dgcRTwNDTe
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Like a master craftsman, animals can mold basic materials into a variety of crystalline structures to perform functions ranging from pattern formation to camouflage and vision. The underlying mechanisms of this process have long remained a mystery. https://t.co/g2KEIxlsDV
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Our short report on a remarkable feature of #ctenophores out now: Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis. We show that Mnemiopsis is capable of reversal from mature lobate to early cydippid🤩. @MSarsCentre @UiB @biorxivpreprint #rejuvenation
https://t.co/EvCCYeqL20
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Our latest study published in Biological Theory argues that cognition is fundamentally grounded in chemical signaling and processing. We explore this through the eating behaviors of Porifera and Placozoa, organisms without neurons or muscles. Paper here.
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Biological Theory - Eating is a fundamental behavior in which all organisms must engage in order to procure the material and energy from their environment that they need to maintain themselves....
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It’s amazing how clearly he lays it out and how literally no one has picked it up.
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Pro-Gaza independent Shockat Adam has pulled off a huge upset in Leicester South, defeating Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth
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Five pro-Gaza independent candidates have ousted Labour MPs overnight. That means there are more pro-Gaza independents than Reform MPs heading to Westminster.
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"It is a thumping majority without a thumping share in the vote" What could possibly go wrong?
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New wound care behavior in ants! Here we show how ants amputate the leg of injured conspecifics (a first in the animal kingdom)! Interestingly, amputations are not always the best strategy to care for a wound and ants have adapted their treatment accordingly. A 🧵... (1/6)
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Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals. Our latest on using calcium imaging, to identify a novel behavior, which is synchronized in colonies. #choanoflagellates
https://t.co/QTWJiWeSjz
@ColgrenJeffrey @MSarsCentre @UiB @biorxivpreprint
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Unfortunately, a tabloid newspaper has got hold of a music video I recorded in Islington North with an iconic grime artist I've admired for years. They are planning to publish a heavily edited clip, so I'm releasing the full version myself. Watch here:
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(1/n) what do you do when you have something very rare in hand? @biard_tristan @fabrice_sbr @JohanD13016359 John Dolan & friends, surprise… with my postdoc Ben, Rahul and grad student Alex - off coast of N.California - in deep waters, we just found a “living” Cytocladus!
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Happy to see our work on How Hydrostatic Pressure controls Development via Yap in the cover of Nature Cell Biology @NatureCellBio. Congratulation to Delan Alasaadi @JstDyll for the design and thanks to @JMarcetteau for the image. To see the paper go to: https://t.co/OZqnoYcPaG
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In our new bioRXiv, @yamini_ravichan shows that soft compression of head-regenerating tissues from Hydra induces bicephalous regeneration. During soft compression, a second actin nematic defects appears on the wound. https://t.co/dJA6KQ7zCj
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We discovered that size-dependent self-avoidance allows macroscopic unicellular to migrate superdiffusively, known as successful foraging strategy in higher life forms. @PNASNews
https://t.co/4QVBj4WnhJ a🧵
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Excited to see our paper out today in @PNAS with @BhamlaLab! Our discovery that Cicadas pee in jets helped us develop a framework that unifies excretion across eight orders of magnitude, from cicadas to elephants. Brief thread below: https://t.co/5BqfLDnJIn
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Can insects weighing mere grams challenge our current understanding of fluid dynamics in urination, jetting fluids like their larger mammalian coun...
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Very grateful to @DemocracyNow for introducing us to Levi Pierpont, who knew and cared deeply for #AaronBushnell #FreePalestine
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In an act that has captured the attention of the world, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington Sunday to...
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