Out of Context Biology Diagrams

A collection of odd images occasionally accompanied by unhelpful text and even less helpful hashtags.

[sickdogs]

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

[sickdogs]

you don't have to do that. you can just not do that

[eddieintheocean]

:D they can do more :D (x)

[ajani]

One of my favorite things about biology is that there are so many diagrams like this that look like shitposts if you remove any and all context from them

[boarofthenorth100]

Enter The Boartex And Find Power Indescripable 

[sthrena]

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Rude

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Early Permian Muppet

[snailspng]

Are your legs (1) jointed, (2) fat, and (3) props?

You might have leg-plan of the baby.

(source)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Deeply curious as to what there are 146 1/2 of

[nentuaby]

That's figure 146 1/2 in the book's deeply chaotic organizational structure. (The next plate appears to be fig. 151...)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Totally normal and logical way to number your figures, well done, no notes

[snailspng]

Are your legs (1) jointed, (2) fat, and (3) props?

You might have leg-plan of the baby.

(source)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Deeply curious as to what there are 146 1/2 of

[gameraboy]

Comparing dinosaurs to a Boeing 737-900. Via BBC News

[markscherz]

Not gonna lie, there was a brief moment where I thought the y axis was cruising altitude

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

The cruising altitude of a moose is actually a couple meters below sea level

[seafossilqueen]

I am incredibly amused by these random Japanese women for scale with prehistoric creatures

Art by Satoshi Kawasaki

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Pokemon trainers chilling at the water gym

[dozydawn]

[lew-basnight]

Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Zhang et al. (2020)

[wtf-scientific-papers]

(Jordan et al. 2016)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

All right, for this diagram I'll need a (rolls dice) rodent that is (spins wheel) gay and (throws dart) has a passion for graphic design. For bonus points please include (stares at the clouds for a few minutes) 7 text bubbles labeled 3.2 through 6.2 in an absolutely unhinged order.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[curlicuecal]

does it indicate anything about me that I immediately recognized what paper this figure is from

[curlicuecal]

so I had to immediately go and pull this other amazing figure from the paper, which is "THE HEXAGON" a device with six rooms for fruit flies to have sex in and a central room for a fruit fly to observe six couples having sex at once

[szgrey]

they made a fruit fly sex panopticon and no one told me about it, what is science education coming to

[carys-the-ninth]

Unquestionably one of the funniest things I own is the draft first chapter of an evolutionary biology textbook written by one of my grad professors, in which he made approximately 1/3 of the figures himself in MS Paint with absolutely no graphic design skills or artistic ability.

[carys-the-ninth]

When I tell you this is one of the most comprehensible figures:

[carys-the-ninth]

I sat through this man's class for an entire semester. I got an A. I learned (this is not exaggeration or hyperbole) absolutely nothing. But I will always treasure these images in my heart.

[carys-the-ninth]

He had been banned from teaching undergrads and shunted to teaching graduate classes, in the hopes that we would be able to decipher his mad genius ramblings. These hopes were in vain.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[A potto falling after presentation of a snake.]

Charles-Dominique (1977)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Mood

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Santos et al 2005

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Wang and Lai (2014)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Dyeing for science

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models]

Warren et al. (2021)

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Ok but you have to include this very important scientific illustration

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Pittman et al. (2021)