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- Comment on Zotero is still better. 1 day ago:
Ah thanks, I needed this to get what the symbols are! :)
- Comment on 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 3 days ago:
Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.
- Comment on Mosquito Sprites 3 days ago:
If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 5 days ago:
Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 5 days ago:
I doubt it would be hard to actually have better train infrastructure in Europe (and some countries do). For example, as a German, my perspective on this is that our government just doesn’t care to invest in most infrastructure because it isn’t seen as prestigious enough. The only projects that do get build are some shiny new additions that no one needs, like a new train station in Stuttgart that has been in planning for over 3 decades, will cost many billions and has seen huge protests against it from the start till today. But any project that is just basic maintenance, be it for cars or trains, just gets ignored and postponed. The German Autobahn is just as defunct and on the brink of collapse in many parts of Germany as its train network. And our infrastructure ministers have been corrupt and utterly incompetent for many decades now.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 days ago:
Oof, this was extremely painful to watch. I hadn’t seen this actor actually acting in anything before and didn’t realize how bad he was…
- Comment on I hope you like TICKS 1 week ago:
Well, it’s both though. Sone days it is really rough to keep working just because you can’t take all the abuse by the all insects anymore. And some days you’re just in a state of bliss because you spend so much time in nature and feel connected to it. And even more days you realize how fucking repetitive field work really is and that you need to do the exact same thing for the next weeks/months over and over again…
- Comment on I should call her. 1 week ago:
Yes! When I did electron microscopy, we had to cover the fix the samples and cover them with a very thin gold layer beforehand.
- Comment on born 2 l8 1 week ago:
Well, I’m crocheting one so jokes on you :)
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
Isn’t it
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- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 week ago:
It is different if it is a passive or active process though. The initial question is, in how far lemons benefit from this evolved trait. The benefits might be very different between passive or active evolution here. If it were passive, lemon plants might benefit by avoiding some disadvantageous animal species feeding on them. As it is active though, the benefit is that they are grown more by humans. The feedback loop between evolution and trait selection is very different if it is active or passive I’d say.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 2 weeks ago:
When I started paying closer attention to all the small insects around me, I felt like I was in an alien world. There are so many otherworldly and bizarre looking creatures just outside your door, you just have to get used to looking for them :)
- Comment on the living dead 4 weeks ago:
Hm no, the problem is much more at the roots of science than you think. Most of biology is based on humans’ biased assumptions and expectations. For example, only when queer theory was developed did biologists really grasp how much deviant the animal kingdom in regards to sex, gender and sexuality actually is.
Just think how many layers deep this is: humans exist -> develop social structures -> develop social constructs that feel essential -> try to describe their own biology through the lense of all the prior layers -> develop awareness about some social constructs -> revisit their own biology but still with a lot of biases
What you express by saying that it isn’t possible anymore to just speak about biology is imo rather an expression of denying certain advancements we’ve made. Our ideas and models of biology a few decades ago may have been simpler, but not more true. We’ve just realized to some extend how complex biology is and how our prior models have made many poor assumptions.
EO Wilson is having his own concepts and biases of human societies and projects them onto this pseudoscientific narrative. He is obviously not aware of his own position in society and how it shapes his assumptions.
- Comment on you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals 4 weeks ago:
Surprisingly short list regarding the millions of described species!
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 4 weeks ago:
Apple’s whole business model is creating hype around their products. And if this hype is preemptively damaged by leaking secrets that would otherwise feed the hype, they clearly are negatively affected by this. I don’t say any of this is good, that’s just their business model. And capitalism of course…
Your example wouldn’t really apply here either, because you aren’t a world famous company billions of people know.
- Comment on poaceae 4 weeks ago:
What kind of fruit a plant develops is something entirely different to what a grass is though. And these are all taxonomically different groups (palms, bananas and grasses).
- Comment on poaceae 4 weeks ago:
At least both Musaceae (Bananas) and Poaceae (Grasses) are both monocots. But that’s where their taxonomic proximity ends. They are not even in the same order (Zingiberales vs Poales)…
- Comment on Thoughts?? 4 weeks ago:
Came here to say this :)
- Comment on Bisexual Flowers 1 month ago:
Yes, bisexual means something else in both contexts…
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
Well, if it works for you, great. But that doesn’t mean that it will work for anyone else.
- Comment on >:( 1 month ago:
OK got It, so mostly oregano-ish with notes of thyme :)
- Comment on >:( 1 month ago:
Looked it up because I hadn’t heard of it. Wikipedia say the following:
Common names in English include Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban oregano, broad leaf thyme, soup mint, Spanish thyme.
What? So does it taste like a mix of borage, thyme, mint and oregano?? Sure, they are all Lamiaceae (except for borage), but they have wildly different aromas!
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
How is bread and sugar not plants?? Oversimplifying stuff doesn’t make it better…
- Comment on Biomimicry 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.
- Comment on RIP America 1 month ago:
It’s maybe comparable to a bee hive or ant nest losing it’s workers. Each single one of them isn’t important at all. But if nearly all of them are gone, the hive/nest will do much worse or even collapse.
- Comment on bork bork bork 1 month ago:
Nice, thanks!!
- Comment on Nightmare fuel 1 month ago:
Oh wow, the first one sounds mean. Never heard of an isopod parasite (but I’d now guess there are many more aquatic ones?). And inducing necrosis of the tongue to be the new fish’s organ, ouch :O
- Comment on he's SO handsome!! 1 month ago:
Lol, found an iNat guy in the wild! I immediately knew @neontetraploid because I’ve tagged them hundreds of times on iNat :)
- Comment on Jigsaw Trolley Problem 1 month ago:
Oh of course, I didn’t consider the “I know you don’t either” part. Thanks, I got it now :)
- Comment on Jigsaw Trolley Problem 1 month ago:
Thanks for the explanation, but I cannot follow on this line
Since he knows that Bernard doesn’t know given just the row, each ball in that row is in a column that contains more than one ball.
Why is that? Why couldn’t it be A2 or A3? In this case neither Albert nor Bertrand could tell what row/column this was either, because it would be in a row/column with another ball. How can you exclude any row with overlap with any single-ball columns?