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- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 2 months ago:
For more info:
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 2 months ago:
This is the source, so no, this isn’t real :)
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 2 months ago:
Lol, good one!
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 2 months ago:
I quite often find bees sleeping in flowers in my garden. Especially inside Campanula flowers. Always so adorable to see them :)
- Comment on wrappers 2 months ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on MOREL DILEMMA 2 months ago:
You actually can eat the individuals that have not yet emerged from the ground. They look like eggs and are pretty weird in touch. But if you slice them really thin and fry them, they are delicious. (Disclaimer: I’m living in Germany and it might be different for the stinkhorns elsewhere.)
- Comment on the lifestyle 2 months ago:
What? Making a nice graph in excel? But yeah, ggplot2 does have a pretty steep learning curve. Once you learned it a bit it is really nice though. I love ggplot2 ❤️
- Comment on burden of knowledge 2 months ago:
In German, some people (especially men) use the phrase “I have pee in my eyes” for when they feel emotional or might want to cry. Maybe they are not emotional but instead are truly lobsters after all??
- Comment on Come to Biotech! 2 months ago:
Luckily Elizabeth Holmes isn’t in biotech anymore (because she is in prison)!
- Comment on Pants 2 months ago:
Maybe both? One leg goes this way and the other that way around…
- Comment on Caves 2 months ago:
Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least). Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren’t frequently heated or where you store food and you’ll find them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I guess in some parts of the world it is already wednesday, isn’t it?
- Comment on My markup has my cat's contributions. 3 months ago:
Wow, this is really neat!! I tried getting into vim some years ago but never managed to get it working smoothly with latex like this. But this looks really great!
- Comment on Fruit Flies 3 months ago:
Oh yeah, that brings up memories. We had to do the same experiments in genetics lab, too. I’ll never forget the smell of fruit flies :/
- Comment on Funky guys I found in my last hunt. 3 months ago:
Considering the “milk” that the mushrooms of this genus produce it is a good name. And this particular one is really delicious! :)
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
Well, they actually do have their ecological roles and it is always a hard decision if one should interfere on such a large scale with biological systems. We might think that we understand it, but it could be totally wrong. Really hard to predict. Mosquitoes are an important food source for other animals and are also pollinators.
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 3 months ago:
I don’t know any scientists that aren’t very passionate of their own research though. That’s making this even more absurd and nonsensical…
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 3 months ago:
The person on the right looks dreadful at the thought of sex then?
And well, PhD students are in the lab at night working overtime and doing their research lol
- Comment on Undulating 🐍 3 months ago:
For more info: true facts video about snake movement
- Comment on Hippos 3 months ago:
Yeah, pretty cute! Especially with the expression it got on its face ❤️
- Comment on 👣👣👣 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s how we did it for my PhD position as well. Someone still send an application anyways but they were clearly not fulfilling these hyper specific requirements so my prof didn’t have to invite them :)
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 3 months ago:
Oh OK. Apparently I completely misread the expressions. I read the expression of the person on the right as surprise and dread. Like the person on the left said they want to do something more fun and the person on the right now remembered something not so fun or was offended by what the other person said…
Thanks for explaining anyways!
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 3 months ago:
I’m serious, I really don’t get what this is about. That the research they’ve been doing isn’t fun? But why would this one scientist say this? Doesn’t make much sense and I clearly don’t get the joke. Maybe someone can explain?
- Comment on English Ivy 3 months ago:
Apart from what others commented on these being two entirely different species, there might be other factors at play as well.
Lianas and vines are pretty common and very diverse, especially in tropical forests. They are usually found as part of the upper canopy and if there is a tree fall, they manage to fill this gap pretty quickly. The trees grow more slowly, but will manage to establish themselves eventually, filling up that gap. But if you cut down an entire forest, trees have a much harder time to establish themselves because the whole ground is just covered in these fast growing lianas or vines. There are studies that look at exactly that, how lianas inhibit forest regrowth.
So, how overgrown with lianas or vines a certain habitat is, is very much dependent on the disturbance of this habitat.
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 3 months ago:
I don’t get it…
- Comment on Soup 3 months ago:
Isn’t that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.
- Comment on Science Journalism 3 months ago:
I’ve mentioned lemmy irl, too. Various times actually. Obviously no one knows it. But they usually don’t even know of mastodon or the fediverse either. And even reddit is just a name they’ve heard before. Everyone I know irl is on Instagram though.
- Comment on fwiends 3 months ago:
Fitting username :P
Although tbh they look kinda cute!
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 4 months ago:
What? Wolfspiders are pretty shy. When I try to take pictures of them from close up they always run away :( Also, they are not that big. Wiki says the largest are 35 mm in body size (1.38 in). And also they are no insects!!
- Comment on Satan's little helper 4 months ago:
I don’t know this plant, what species is it?