The Theory Of Natural Selection Basically:

queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

The universe has granted me this mofo

I love you mate but you're DUMB

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Favorite color: leafy green (used to be deep red but I don't like it anymore after hanging out in anatomy labs all the time)

Last Song : technically would be the Suprabatham (a prayer song) but an actual song is Would that I by Hozier

Currently reading: Cunningham's manual of clinical anatomy, academically, as for my own stuff, The veiled Suite by Agah Shahid Ali

Currently watching: House MD season 3 and a lot of bbc wildlife documentaries

Currently craving: BIRIYANI...SOMEBODY GIMME BIRIYANI NOW

Tea or Coffee: filter coffee my beloved

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Favourite colour: blue and purple

Last song: the challenge from EPIC

Currently reading: I just started Silverborn

Currently watching: rewatching Series of Unfortunate Events

Currently craving: nothing in particular rn, but I’m always craving iced tea

Tea or coffee: tea!

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Wahoo! May your sciencing uncover new swathes of knowledge :D

You might know this tiny frog.

This is Mini mum (photo by Andolalao Rakotoarison), a species I had the pleasure to name—together with a team of amazing colleagues—back in 2019.

That was the start of a fascination with the process and consequences of miniaturisation for vertebrates. How the hell does this tiny frog manage to fit all of its vital organs—more or less all the same senses and organs that we have—into a package the size of a tic-tac‽ Why and how has it evolved to be so small? And why don't we get frogs that are much smaller?

Well, I just secured 1.5 MILLION Euros (!!!) in the form of a European Research Commission Starting Grant, to answer these and other related questions in the genomes of Mini frogs and other miniaturised vertebrates.

Because it turns out, there are *lots* of miniaturised vertebrates, and they push the boundaries of how small we think it is possible for a vertebrate to be! Here is a little graphic of some of them, scaled to a BIC ballpoint pen.

The project is called GEMINI: The Genomics of Miniaturisation in Vertebrates! You can read more about it on my website here, and in the press release, here!

this looks worryingly like microplastic in a slice of strawberry 10× magnification

Genesis : the colored version

My art probably peaked here lmao

Illustrated here is an Ornate hawk-eagle. Just trying some stuff out with watercolor and gel pens

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I don’t have a title for this one

This is gorgeous

Siegfried. 🥰

neutrophil girl ripping her chest open, breaking her ribs and spiking her guts with it, lassoing an asshole with it and spitting her stomach acid on him, then getting up and curtseying

red blood cell girl bringing you oxygen on a cute little platter and then curtseying