THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Speaking of how many (ex-)teachers do we have in the forum yet?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

What sounds better for representing a biome that is basically a field filled as far as the eye can see with Liverworts and Hornworts?

• Bryophyte Field
• Moss Field
• Bryophyteland
• Mossland
• Bryophytefield
• Mossfield

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Q, what will exactly define those two as being separate from mosses for example on alien planets?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Did you have actual samples of moss and algae in your class while teaching the subject?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Knowing DL they probably had. It’s not like they’re super expensive or anything…

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

@AnthropocenianAge

Did you have actual samples of moss and algae in your class while teaching the subject?

I do!
We had live specimens of leaf mosses, liverworts, and preserved specimens of hornwort. Each of these also had preserved specimens of various life stages (some of which were also alive).

We also had a selection of algae that were all alive (for the reproductive form of a particular species called Spirogyra it was preserved).

All were observed under a microscope or in a nictoscope.

Next week will be about ferns.

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Do you also talk about the evolutionary history of the different kinds of plants?

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

This is the basis. We go by the order in which each plant appeared (from algae (there were Volox too) to flowering plants). Only in the class with mosses, there was an explanation material about how we know from which family of algae we identify from which land plants appeared (green algae because of similar pigments, starch storage material, cellulose and a form of cell division called “cell plate”)
I can’t go into the depth of the matter of plant evolution because the students are first year undergraduates - young people, so you have to explain it to them like a five-year-old to some.

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Do you want to teach a graduate or senior level class on this subject eventually?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I suppose it would be more fitting for him since he needs to hold back with undergraduates

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

Since I am a first year teacher, I am starting small. Not too much

But they are all students who have just started studying biology academically. Some have studied before, some just arrive at the study lab and don’t know anything. That is why it is necessary to explain gently to them.

But they are all above high school and even college (the concept of college does not exist in my country)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Pretty sure I’ve not really heard of colleges either in my country

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Interesting scientific paper on gene duplication events being used to determine possible traits of LUCA.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02461-1

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I wonder if we’ll actually achieve artificial abiogenesis one day to figure out how FUCA looked like

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

And whether LUCA came from a combination of genes being shared from previous, older organisms.

[Evolution4Weak]

I just got a new laptop since my old one broke it’s a framework 13.

Order a Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series

I decided to do the diy version and it was pretty easy to put together (except for the bezel since I broke that by being stupid and forgetting to do a step)

I am very happy with it

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

I have technically tought students. It was a very strange and silly convuluted setup. In order to get govn’t funding my school hired me as a student tutor but i wasnt tutoring, i was teaching. (and not even students at my college, they were from high school and middle school of all things). I have genuinely had very few jobs but ive managed to cover a huge amount of ground in my non-career. No retail yet, that seems to be my biggest oversight. (i have also never worked food service, but i voluteerer at a rather professional kitchen, so i know how to work food service kinda?)

Oooh framework is so cool id love one of those.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

@aah31415

what will exactly define those two as being separate from mosses for example on alien planets

I don’t think it’s really necessary to differentiate them for Thrive purposes. Its a matter of “Moss” being more popular, more well known, and shorter and easier to say then Bryophyte.

[Animalia (Matti)]

Artificial abiogenesis would likely mean life is far more common in the universe than we believe, like WAY more common.

[blackjacksike (𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖊𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖗𝖉)]

@Deathwake

I have technically tought students. It was a very strange and silly convuluted setup. In order to get govn’t funding my school hired me as a student tutor but i wasnt tutoring, i was teaching. (and not even students at my college, they were from high school and middle school of all things). I have genuinely had very few jobs but ive managed to cover a huge amount of ground in my non-career. No retail yet, that seems to be my biggest oversight. (i have also never worked food service, but i voluteerer at a rather professional kitchen, so i know how to work food service kinda?)

I hope you have good luck in your career development.

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