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evologist devologist biologist
if you zoom out enough a lot of pet markets look like mechanisms for breeding large numbers of animals and then immediately throwing some of them in a meat grinder
I just met someone who rescues hamsters from abusive homes and gives them expensive medical treatment while looking for a new responsible owner and even the dog and cat people among us were visibly shocked to hear this is a thing
"self evident natural hierarchy seperating beautiful things and ugly things". interesting euphemism for fisherian runaway
Likely some people are so "progressive" that the experience of beauty itself becomes akin to seeing a symbol of fascism because of the self-evident natural hierarchy separating beautiful things and ugly things
also modern sperm whale are suction feeders, it would be an incredible thing to witness, seeing a sperm whale suck in a giant squid and swallowing it whole without chewing
People want sperm whale vs giant squid to be a kaiju battle so bad but realistically there’s no way the squid wins against a 40 ton toothed whale
the ability to consume a generalist diet is underrated. Many species simply lack enzymes required to digest certain biomaterials, going keto or vegan for these species would mean death
Every so often I’m like “Man, humans are so lame, why don’t WE have super hearing or crazy good vision” and then I remember oh yeah the whole sapience thing we got going on
tweet that would have been true during the devonian
oil is actually a renewable resource. its literally just hydrogen and carbon, and it is constantly being formed under the surface of the earth. the misnomer "fossil fuel" was promoted in the 1900s to make you think of dinosaurs. but biotic oil comes mostly from plants.
Only ever listened to a podcast when my uni made me for a sci communication class. probably makes me miss a major avenue to understanding the culture. oh well
The California Blind Goby (Typhologobius californiensis) lives with Tidepool Ghost Shrimp, (specifically Neotrypaea biffari) in their sandy burrows. The goby is endemic to the tidepools of Central and Southern CA as well as the Northern Pacific shoreline of Mexico.
Big news! Our study, just out in @Nature, is a game-changer for giant ichthyosaurs! We describe the 1st Temnodontosaurus flipper with fossilized soft tissue, giving us a unique look at how these massive creatures used stealth while hunting in darkness. 1/8 #science #NEWS #Scicomm
im not sure how much sense it makes to talk about basic facts in a complex constantly evolving system, unless the basic facts are the dynamics that govern its change
Its really striking to me that we learned about the atom and the distant universe before we learned many basic facts about human behavior, though we've had the relevant data there for hundreds of thousands of years.
by becoming an intestinal parasite
how do i achieve this physique as a cellcel
maybe this is a dumb question, but is it a common belief that simulations of brains would have the same experiences? why would they?
genuine question for EAs — does the simulation of enough happy c. elegans cancel out the suffering of another creature?
given the current shrimp situation i hope EAs never learn about nematodes
the strong and beautiful in this case are shrimp that avoided their ghastly culinary fate by having pretty colors that make humans want to keep them as pets instead
dunking on these people isn't even worth it. talking to them isn't even worth it. all that is of any value is to sigh wistfully and recognize that the world contains both the strong and the weak, the beautiful and the ugly, the awe inspiring and the pathetic.
giving a manuscript to claude to look for spelling errors and it tells me "the text is scientifically accurate with correct usage of morphological terms". how do you know im the first person to ever write about this animal
my favorite fossil is probably uatchitodon. its just a series of reptile teeth but they show a transition from a gila monster-like tooth with grooves to a snake-like syringe tooth. time series of the refinement of the venom system
