BodyBySisyphus
@BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net
- Comment on geneticists 4 days 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 6 days 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. 1 week ago:
- Comment on MEN. 1 week 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... 2 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... 2 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... 2 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] 3 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 3 weeks ago:
Metabolomics isn’t a real field, it’s a trap invented by sadists.
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad it’s not just me
- Comment on Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’ 1 month 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 4 months ago:
They’re all Wilder type phenotypes, though.
- Comment on GTFO 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
She’s a Starbucks Grande
- Submitted 4 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. 5 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!
- Comment on Germ Blaster 6 months ago:
Wilcox et al were working in a hospital setting and just found that the air bacterial counts were higher around hand dryers than around paper towel dispensers, which doesn’t establish whether the hand dryers are actually a source of bacteria. A more recent meta-analysis found mixed outcomes. So both the sign and the graffito need to revise and resubmit, ideally with a more comprehensive survey of the published literature.
- Comment on huehuehue 6 months ago:
Given that Psilocybe mushrooms are coprophiles (typically found growing in manure or pastures where manure is abundant), it’s unlikely that they mind being eaten.
- Comment on fake reviews lol 6 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 6 months ago:
Waiting for someone to solve the problem by telling him about the dangerous food additive dihydrogen monoxide.
