My Love For Algae Just Keeps Growing.

Punnett squares had no business being that fun

would you just fucking look at him.

Feeling a bit called out right there.

Fun Fact!

Arapaimas, despite weighing in at anywhere between 200-300~lbs, have enough strength to launch their entire body out of the water when sufficiently threatened! They are also unironically referred to as “bulletproof” fish thanks to their rock hard scales and layers of defensive padding!

(tl;dr: this dude basically just got hit in the face with a fryingpan moving at highway speeds)

Mood.

My FAVORITE THING is researchers who wholeheartedly embrace the Ms. Frizzle aesthetic and wear their field of study on their literal sleeve. Everyone in the invasive crayfish consortium has tiny lobster-print shorts or socks. All the middle-aged dad scientists here at the lab have shirts with fish and/or fishing tackle patterns on them. My moss specimen and ammonite earrings keep getting noticed by women who are wearing silver fishbone-shaped or native plant-themed earrings themselves. Every single person on the outreach team has at least one shirt with an anchor pattern on it from Old Navy, and almost all the younger researchers have tattoos featuring their research interests – one fisheries biologist has a half-sleeve of native species she literally uses as an outreach tool. We are self-aware and having a blast with it, honestly.

What animal can change their gender?

fish do, more often than you think!

many fish are capable of sex changes, though whether it’s male-to-female, female-to-male or bidirectional depends on the species.

these sex changes come in two major flavors though- changes that are induced by external factors, or changes that happen naturally at a set point in an animal’s lifecycle.

in the first group, for example, we have the clownfish! 

clownfish live in family groups with one large female and multiple smaller attendant males. but if the female dies, one of the males will step in, bulk up, and transition from male to female! (so basically, Finding Nemo should have gone WAY differently)

CLOWNFISH learned TRANS YOUR GENDER

and in the other camp, we can look at the sheepshead wrasse- a large ocean fish where dominant males duel each other to control access to a large population of breeding females!

except that when a female sheepshead wrasse reaches a certain age, she goes through some major life changes- by growing a fuCKING ENORMOUS CHIN and transitioning from female to male!

SHEEPSHEAD WRASSE learned TRANS YOUR GENDER

and really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg! animals are basically doing weird sex bullshit every single second of every single day, these are just the easiest examples I could come up with. 

When you can’t afford an attachment for the lab vortex mixer (which needs to be serviced or replaced), and your sample processing protocol requires horizontal mixing at max speed for 10 minutes...

already knew landlords were bastards but reading that landlord tell fuck knows how many people to sell their cars, spend all their retirement savings, borrow from friends and family, and pay their rent before they fucking FEED THEMSELVES because “it’s more important to have a roof over your head than buy groceries” and “your money goes to pay my mortgage” really hit differently this time ……im pretty sure the guillotine jokes are 99% jokes but bro if you’re going to extort money from people who cant work without risking them and their children’s lives and threaten them and their families with homelessness during a worldwide pandemic? you honestly can fuck around and find out

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