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#truffle

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Assisted by sniffer #dogs, researchers discover 3 new #truffle species phys.org/news/2025-08-sniffer-

#Phylogenomics, trophic ecology, and systematics of the truffle-forming Morchellaceae ingentaconnect.com/content/wfb

"the paper confirms what a lot of people had suspected for a long time, which is that the North American truffle species is genetically very distinct from its European relatives... Scientists are giving this #NewSpecies a name honoring the #Cascadia region: Leucangium cascadiense"

#Fungi
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Sibling scientists and their dog hunt for #Oregon's hidden #truffle biodiversity phys.org/news/2025-02-sibling- paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

"biology and ecology of Oregon #truffles are largely limited to research done in the mid-to-late 20th century—before #TruffleDogs were recognized in the US and before DNA sequencing was readily available... There's a lack of data on #fungi, as we're not taking care of them in the same way we take care of plants & animals"

#Mushrooms#Dogs#Biodiversity
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Dog-found #truffle: Researchers and canines discover two #NewSpecies phys.org/news/2025-01-dog-truf

"Tuber canirevelatum, meaning the dog-found truffle, was named in honor of #TruffleDogs and Monza, the dog who discovered it... The other, T. cumberlandense, was named for the #CumberlandPlateau where it was found by Margaret Townsend and her dog, Luca... This species enjoys a symbiotic relationship with white #oaks, growing from their roots and providing nutrition to the #trees"

#Fungi#Dogs#Animals
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Extinct #moa consumed colorful truffle-like #fungi in New Zealand phys.org/news/2025-01-dna-exti paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

"In other places, #truffle spores are dispersed by #mammals such as squirrels. #NewZealand does not have such mammals; the #truffles there have traditionally relied on #birds to serve as a disperser. But because truffles grow underground, birds need to be large in order to dig them up—moa would have made perfect dispersers"

Stefan Marr

New blog post: Which Interpreters are Faster, AST or Bytecode?

It gives a high-level overview over our OOPLSA paper, which investigates interpreters on top of metacompilation systems.
Will be presented next week at @splashcon.

stefan-marr.de/2023/10/ast-vs-

stefan-marr.deWhich Interpreters are Faster, AST or Bytecode?A brief overview of our study of abstract-syntax-tree and bytecode interpreters on top of RPython and the GraalVM metacompilation systems.
#graalvm#truffle#rpython
mem_somerville

Well, that was news to me today. The "Wild Boar Paradox". Wild boars in Europe are more radioactive than other species, likely due to their deer #truffle habit. The radioactivity seems to have no impact on them.

The radio version also distinguished the truffles better--said these are not the ones humans eat, which are not radioactive.

#Scicomm

bbc.com/news/world-europe-6666

BBC NewsNuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study saysScientists previously believed Chernobyl was the main cause of radioactivity in Europe's wild boars.
blake shaw 🇵🇸

I'm just now catching Andrew Whatson's talk on #PreScheme from #fosdem this year, and I just can't get over the fact that he was able to implement a working, reasonably fast systems programming language with Hindley-Milner type inference in his free time over the course of a few months. And I was in the #GuileSteel irc when the discourse first started, it was probably less than a month before he got it working. I even try it then and it seemed great for something that went up that quick. What other programming languages make rapid prototyping #compilers feasible without relying on massive frameworks like #LLVM or #Truffle/#Graal?

And even then...

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2023 - Introduction to Pre-Scheme
#guile#guix
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