BodyBySisyphus
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- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 day ago:
Pictured: The creature who has promised to protect us from sentient machines not sounding like a carbon-based life form
- Comment on RIP America 2 days ago:
I’d say we had a good run but we really didn’t.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 1 week ago:
Not really seeing the niche overlap there, as most carnivores are small, shallow rooted, and herbaceous. Gingkos are relicts, conifers tend to be woody, deep-rooted, and can’t grow in pure peat, so there’s probably less pressure to solve nitrogen deficiency. That leaves cycads, which do grow in swampy soils, but they haven’t changed a whole lot in tens of millions of years.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 1 week ago:
If you go out in a bog and look around, most of the plants there are angiosperms. The non-angiosperms are mainly mosses (capable of surviving on atmospheric deposition, not really producing the sorts of complex structures that can be adapted for carnivory like leaves and roots), ferns, and horsetails. “Why no carnivorous ferns?” seems like an interesting question but it’s also kinda like “Why no flowering ferns?” Because you need structures (leaves, glandular trichomes, or roots) that can be exapted for a new purpose and flowering plants seem to have the most plasticity.
- Comment on geneticists 3 weeks ago:
morshupls They’re all QTLs! Phenotype is influenced by the environment! An h squared of 0.2 is actually highly heritable, guys!
- Comment on originality 3 weeks ago:
Zoologists were all “we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet” and then someone raised their hand and yelled “what about subspecies?” and they went “screw it, same rule applies for subspecies” and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it’s not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo
- Comment on MEN. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on MEN. 4 weeks ago:
Okay but I want to know where they got that stovetop alembic from. Were they just hanging out on Amazon the entire time while I had to struggle with wok distillation?
- Comment on On trees... 5 weeks 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... 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on On trees... 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Metabolomics isn’t a real field, it’s a trap invented by sadists.
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad it’s not just me
- Comment on Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’ 2 months ago:
It’s a cetacean micturation week, huh?
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- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
sees ur north pole OuuuO
- Comment on womp womp 4 months ago:
Autopipette tips. Wet lab work will consume a lot of 'em.
- Comment on listen, have you tried Positron yet 4 months ago:
Do you have a couple hours to hear about my lord and savior ggplot2?
- Comment on womp womp 4 months ago:
I don’t have the tweet so here’s my guess for 🧵 2/10.
- Comment on General Expression 5 months ago:
They’re all Wilder type phenotypes, though.
- Comment on GTFO 5 months ago:
It just doesn’t push electrons the way that sweet sweet red light does.
- Comment on Always start your y axis at 0 5 months ago:
Haha, yeah I just say “I dunno the small one? What’s the small one called?” It really annoys my wife.
- Comment on Always start your y axis at 0 5 months ago:
She’s a Starbucks Grande
- Submitted 5 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on Commitments. 5 months ago:
Unfortunately the crater is under a glacier at the moment so it wouldn’t be so simple as walking your chosen offering to the caldera rim and giving it a hip check.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 months ago:
“Here’s your medal but I have to admit I was thinking you were going to do your Julia Child impression.”
- Comment on I am not alone. 6 months ago:
There was, to put it mildly, a big brouhaha when this paper was published.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 6 months ago:
I think it might be nice as a guideline, but I don’t think it’s necessary to make it mandatory. I just thought it’d be funny to highlight the scholarly bathroom germ debate.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 6 months ago:
Teach the controversy via whiteboard marker on the bathroom mirrors!
