Are #nerdy #membrane-spanning #lipids produced by #bacteria and #archaea admitted on #Mastodon?

These lipids, named glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (#GDGTs), are my favorite #biomarkers for their usefulness as #climatic and #environmental #indicators and for having been the #protagonists of my #PhD #research.

Recently, I participated to an #international #workshop organized by #GDGT #nerds for GDGT nerds, sadly not active on this #platform as far as I know.

"#Colonizers kill, #displace, #ignore, #traumatize, #exploit and #oppress the #indigenous #people who have taken care of the #land they lived on for THOUSANDS of years, and then when they see the land degrading around them have the fucking GALL to have all their #environmental messaging be like "Wahh #humans bad and #evil and #greedy :("

Like no you dumb motherfuckers you just uprooted the people who knew what they were doing, and when stuff starts to go to shit you decide it must be that humans are inherently awful because it's easier than admitting that YOU LOT fucked up."

"Its a reflection of how they consider themselves the #protagonists of #history and therefore everything about their #culture is normal and all their #faults are #universal. Its also trying to obscure the #responsibility of a particular #economic #system which very powerful people benefit from for the unprecedented #ecological #disaster we're hurtling into."

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchonist/718669970268192768?source=share