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[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[amnhnyc]

Do you ever feel… like a plastic bag drifting through the sea? You might relate to the glass octopus (Vitreledonella richardi). This cephalopod can be found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world. Named for its transparent skin, it inhabits depths of around 3,000 ft (914 m) where sunlight doesn’t penetrate. Scientists think its see-through appearance is a form of camouflage that protects it from predators and conceals it from prey!

Photo: Richard E. Young, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist

[onenicebugperday]

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[dailycatsblog]

[useless-latin]

comploro, -as, -avi, -atum, -are, I complain, Cic.

[useless-latin]

[useless-latin]

At least there is one thing we all agree on

[herpsandbirds]

Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus), parents with chick, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Thomas Breuer

[destructionfanq]

reblog to blow up a transphobe

[onenicebugperday]

Burnet moth caterpillar, Zygaenidae, under UV light

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[onenicebugperday]

Pacific velvet ant, Dasymutilla aureola, Mutillidae

Velvet ants are a type of wasp; females are wingless and can deliver a powerful sting.

Photographed in California by brianjdykstranativebeesociety

[herpsandbirds]

Armadillo Girdled Lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus), HE BITE HIM OWN TAIL!!! family Cordylidae, West Coast, South Africa

photograph by Tyrone Ping

[pompeiusliker]

cicero moon

[robert-hadley]

Painted birds by Kristin Magnúsdóttir. The World of Interiors, March 2024. Photo - Mikael Lundblad

[thoodleoo]

also for everyone asking where the daggers option is. i know the ides of march are a big thing on tumblr but i need you to know theres an entire republic of fucked up little senatorial assholes out there and caesar is honestly not the most exciting. hes not the sluttiest. hes not the baldest. hes not the war criminaliest or even the most interestingly assassinated. hes not the cuntiest in the first triumvirate let alone in the whole republic. there are so many to choose from. be free.

[bardofvibes]

hey so the totality of the lunar eclipse tomorrow begins at 6:26 UTC

Emergence is 6:26 minutes long.

I hate this band (affectionate)

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Do you guys really think the conspirators would invite you to their assassination. They didn’t even invite the beautiful Marcus Tullius Cicero

[spanishskulduggery]

I was also going to mention it in the last post but it didn't exactly fit what they were talking about

Like there's el hall in Spanish which is "hall" as opposed to el pasillo or el corredor (more like "hallway" or "corridor", which implies narrow) but also a "hall" being el vestíbulo like a "vestibule" or "foyer" (which is larger and wider)...

But really what came to mind specifically was clóset

In Spanish there are three general words for "closet" and they're kind of interchangeable

la guardaropa is literally "wardrobe", but it's made up of guardar "to keep" and la ropa "clothing" - the word "robe" in English is sort of related to la ropa "clothing", it's medieval etymology so it's a bit different; our "robe" [la bata] is a different and more specific kind of clothing now, but "robe" used to be more general

The second word is el armario which is a direct transliteration of "armoire" which is French which was related to the idea of "to arm" or "to put on" like "to dress", so this is sometimes referred to as a "dresser" or "chest of drawers"

[it's also why you get little holdovers from a lesser used meaning of armar ......like armar el arbolito is "to decorate the (Christmas) tree" but it was related to armar in the sense of "decoration" and "put on" like clothing]

Again you'll find some very specific nuance in names of furniture if the dresser/wardrobe included a mirror or not, or if it was meant to hold clothes or linens/sheets

...

Finally, the third term is el clóset which is a direct word taken from English... there are some historical nuances if you went far back enough where a "closet" would have specifically meant a small room for keeping clothing rather than a piece of furniture

...But really the important thing here is that salir del clóset "to come out of the closet" is almost always the terminology used for queer/LGBTQ "coming out" (though some people do say salir del armario)

[postarcadian]

last night my spouse asked “is Vergil’s love of bees the main thing he’s known for, or is that just a niche classicist thing?” and I had to explain that the Aeneid is a whole thing. and I could leave this post there as a fun anecdote from my classicist-married-to-non-classicist household, but there’s also something interesting here in that it reinforces a trend I’ve noticed in teaching both Greek and Roman Civ classes for the last 5 years which is that non-specialists are now much more familiar with the Homeric epics and Greek material in general than they are with the Aeneid or really any Roman literature.

and I think there are a variety of reasons for this — the Odyssey especially seems to have a really strong transhistorical resonance as an adventure story (plus the hook of “man really wants to go home to his wife and his house,” which is admittedly universal), and pop culture in the last few decades has really amplified the prominence of Greek mythology in ways that have obviously helped the Iliad’s visibility. but there are also ways in which I feel like the Aeneid has very particular resonances at our historical moment - e.g. as a refugee narrative, as a comment on imperialism, etc — and so it’s kind of fascinating to me that familiarity with it seems to have dropped to the point that few of my students know anything about it before taking a Roman Civ class, when even in the mid-20th century I imagine the Aeneid may well have been more familiar to your average non-specialist than the Iliad