Biology&Band

I will take asks about any random question I love looking up that stuff ~~~~~ Piccolo and tenor sax player - marine bio enthusiast- nintendo enthusiast- basically just a nerd- he/him - minor- octonauts fandom member-

[partialscarab]

[daily-jelly]

Desmonema gaudichaudi

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4781366

[cerastes]

I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.

[partialscarab]

This is so real. 99% of the people I see talking about ‘bring back bullying’ will then proceed to describe having a really blunt friend who will just tell them when they are being embarrassing/annoying/incorrect/cringe in some way. Sometimes correcting people means you care enough that you don’t want to see them be potentially embarrassed, but people stray away from doing it because the other person might take offense/you might look like a jerk. You don’t want to be bullied, you just want to break the cultural norm of being overly polite to spare people’s feelings.

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

hello fishgirl might I beg some non-scary open ocean facts? I’m trying to break my fear of it through gradual introduction of its better qualities

:( but the scary ocean facts are the best ones....

but i suppose if i had to pick:

"Fish" aren't actually a real thing, at least not really genetically speaking. the things we categorize as "fish" are so random and varied that any definition of fish that includes all things we categorize as fish would also categorize humans as fish as well.

a group of seals is called a "Bob"

you often see the factoid of "weve only explored 5% of the ocean!!!!!" used to fearmonger about how scary the ocean is, but thats not really that accurate. by "explore", it means literaly how much of the ocean have we had a physical human go to that part of the ocean and look around. The reason so much of the ocean is "unexplored" is because we have technology that can look around those areas for us, in ways that are a lot cheaper and safer than physicaly sending a human, and most of the ocean is kinda just empty so theres no reason to waste a ton of resources sending a human being there. We actualy know a fucking LOT about whats in the ocean, and the unknowns that remain arent anything you actualy need to be afraid of

[partialscarab]

Quick note about the “fish” thing. Fish girl is right that there is not a genetic group of fish, creatures are always evolving in and out of the aquatic lifestyle. The term fish can still be used to describe a general body plan and lifestyle, so definitions for the word do exist and are usually based on

-living in water

-Being vertebrates

-not having limbs with digits

-usually having gills and breathing underwater (rip the cetaceans)

but at the end of the day, perhaps the real fish were the friends we made along the way.

[sharkwithpaws]

me and all the moots will have the most whimsical summer possible

[colfy-in-a-jet]

respect all hymenopterans (and other unliked arthropods)

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[mevil]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[stupidestasshole]

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

[partialscarab]

I have made a terrible mistake using the diet tag one (1) time. Although I will die on the hill of eating sufficient fiber, (you should not go 3 days without pooping), my dash is filled with pro-anorexia content. I must now specify to the masses that i love food and my goals in life are to bench as heavy as possible so that I can lift progressively larger women, and also to discover a new species of fish. Spamming fish to get my dash back to how it should be.

[partialscarab]

happy pride bug people

[shinraalpha]

i am losing my mind over discovering that there's a species of jumping spider (Pellenes nigrociliatus) that builds nests in empty snail shells and makes little silk webbing curtains to close off the entrance

look at her!! she is so cute!!! i want to cry!!!!

[the-queer-rambler]

@buglvr22 (I know spiders are arachnids and not insects but I have to tag you on this sweet little baby)

[buglvr22]

AWHHH SHES SOO CUTE!!!! (I don’t mind actually i love arachnids as well as insects :33)

[partialscarab]

Perhaps the true Bugs are just whatever brings us joy

[thingstrumperssay]

I am going to ignore the thousands of puns I could make because I'd rather point out the fact that he's pretending to cook burgers (or whatever the fuck he's doing here. It looks like he's salting the gap in between the uncooked burgers there) while wearing a full suit.

Watching these people pretend to be normal is making me think that maybe I can see where the reptilian theorists are coming from. (Or "wormian," in this case.)

Anyway, there was a war on protein? The hell did that assumption even come from? And what's in my peanut butter?!

[the-worm-in-his-head]

Excuse you, but Bobby has never cooked his meat a day in his life. He's trying his best. You'd look a little dorky doing something for the first time too, yknow.

And what's this about peanut butter?

[partialscarab]

War on protein is a crazy statement in a world where protein granola has been invented.

not granola bars

the little pieces of granola I put on my yogurt for texture can be purchased in high protein variants. I fear there is too much protein actually

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[partialscarab]

one thing about me is that I feel obligated to read all my library books in the order that I checked them out regardless of how much I am enjoying the book. If I get a book rec that I like, I have to finish every other book I had before I can start the one that I am most excited for. Cannot have the librarians be judging me for returning books when I have older books still checked out to me that I have yet to finish.

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems