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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of stuff where ML algorithms the state of the art. For example the raw data from nanopore DNA sequencing machines is extremely noisy and ML algorithms clean it up with much less error than the Markov chains used in years previous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anagenesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough in Canada we have mars bars instead of the US milky way and 3 musketeers instead of the international milky way. Mars doesn’t sell anything called a milky way here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like laying an egg.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is cuckoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Echinoderms:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell the jellies are on the right and that they’re in the genus Aurelia. Seems like a skill issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what makes them fluids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  gases are fluids tho…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Je suis un ananas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, popularized by C

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with that guy. C was a mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My markup has my cat's contributions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who wants to do this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms.

  There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies (eg the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a bunch of species of cactus (family Cactaceae) but only Rhipsalis baccifera is found in the old world. Even weirder is that it’s found in sub-Saharan Africa and for some reason also Sri Lanka

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  \mathbf. It’s consistent with \mathrm for well-defined constants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you monster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big ol booties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unbeweevible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had “no mouth pipetting” signs up in the late 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Organisms need some oxidizing agent to respire. We use oxygen because it’s very highly reactive and thanks to photosynthesis is goddamn everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pipetting liquid glowstone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked 🚫⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image You guys believe in objective reality?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crab vibes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pictured here outside the pelagic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the humanoid puppet pilot was way worse tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's no longer Wednesday, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the condensed course has an independent research project

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me & him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Male is the sex that produces the smaller gamete, female the sex that produces the larger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If aluminum’s so great, why isn’t there any lithotrophs that use it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah like look organopónicos in Cuba. Thanks to the collapse of the import market that fuelled industrial agriculture and government support of local growers, a good chunk of food in the country now comes from ecology-sound urban agriculture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carl?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic bug, who carries on genius in its genes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨epidemiology⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or any smallpox samples sitting in the back of an old lab, like the ones they found in 2014. Or the smallpox samples that the US and Russian governments keep as WMDs for research purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨salmon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but that’s only when they’re on their way back to the sea. For Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose territories don’t directly border the sea (so mostly Interior and Columbia Plateau nations) the salmon run was traditionally a major source of staple food. The rivers used to run so thick with fish that people up and down the major rivers could gather enough salmon to live off for the next year.