-ista

British  

combining form

1. indicating a supporter or follower of someone or something

   fashionista

   Portillista

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Etymology

Origin of -ista

C20: back formation from _Sandinista

Example Sentences

"What appears to be self-sacrifice at first glance is, in fact, also beneficial to the signaler: it safeguards its nestmates, with whom it shares many genes. By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter colonies, which indirectly pass on the signaler's genes to the next generation," explains Erika Dawson, first author of the study and former postdoc in the Social Immunity' research group headed by Sylvia Cremer at ISTA.

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PhD student Andrea Stöllner, a member of the Waitukaitis and Muller groups at ISTA, studies the behavior of ice crystals that form within clouds.

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To help interpret these puzzling observations, they reached out to theoretical physicists David Brückner and Edouard Hannezo at ISTA.

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Bao, who first got interested in climate research during his PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and who now works as an IST-BRIDGE postdoctoral fellow at ISTA, wants to continue his work on extreme precipitation events to find more evidence for their causes and impacts using additional models.

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Caroline Muller, Assistant Professor at ISTA, adds, "Previous models have hinted at the influence of clouds clustering on precipitation extremes but could not provide the necessary data. In collaboration with our colleagues Bjorn Stevens and Lukas Kluft from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, our findings add to the growing body of evidence showing that cloud formation on a smaller scale has a crucial impact on the outcomes of climate change."

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