BodyBySisyphus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, I do not envy anyone trying to identify fungi through the fossil record. Color and fruiting body structure tend to play pretty big roles in ID because the spores themselves tend to be small and fragile, so except for a few genera that are known for highly ornamented spores it can be pretty challenging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s super neat. Is that little triangular bit at the top a germ pore or something else? It’s funny how you get one clade that takes what you’d think would be a really optimizable form like a spore or a pollen grain and takes a left turn with it. In fungi, Entolomas are really identifiable because their spores are pink and cube shaped.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The genus Cornus is a huge middle finger to growth-form-based taxonomy. It contains dogwood trees and also bunchberry, an itty bitty herb that grows on the forest floor.

  The first “trees” were also lycopods whose closest extant relatives are the club mosses, a name which gives you an idea of how big they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And so the Western Roman Empire would cease to exist by 476 A.D.

  And Byzantium, which survived for another thousand years, always therefore free from issues around currency debasement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLEASE bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Metabolomics isn’t a real field, it’s a trap invented by sadists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least anticipated game in history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad it’s not just me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fake reviews lol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s had a paper sitting with a journal since August I can understand the motivation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting for someone to solve the problem by telling him about the dangerous food additive dihydrogen monoxide.