oyfrog

@oyfrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you slice it??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought “A PhD is a good idea”

  It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TESTICLE 💖 SWANS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I CHOOSE YOU, BALLSACK FR- I mean, turtle frog! share.google/2q4ew0HzbeLWAjPfm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to this: XX and XY works for mammals, but not for other vertebrates (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians). Birds and reptiles have Z and W chromosomes, and unlike in mammals where females are homozygotes, males in these groups are homozygotes. Some reptiles have temperature dependent sex determination, where ambient temperature above some value will produce males or females (depends on species). Some reptiles are composed entirely of females.

  Some fish will straight up change sexes depending on age and male-female ratio in a social group.

  In other groups it’s not even different chromosomes but simply copy number of specific genes.

  Plants can do all sorts of whacky things like produce seeds and pollen in the same individual.

  Fungi are an entirely different cluster fuck because they have mating types which are not simple binaries.

  Eukaryotic sex determination isn’t a binary and it isn’t even a nicely categorizable spectrum. It’s a grab-bag of whatever doesn’t perma-fuck your genome.

  Source: me, I’m a biologist. Though admittedly I work on animals so my understanding of fungi and plant stuff is fuzzy at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s haunted by a drunk cow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great submission to "rate my professor"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Course IDs vary from university to university—when I was an undergrad, lower div classes were <100, upper div between 100 and 199, and grad level classes 200+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romantic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you both shit hard enough together at the same time and wonder to yourselves “was that splashback mine…?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cool yourself off⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quench your thirst with sausage infused water by throwing a respectable number of Vienna sausages in one of those infuser bottles.