Perservering Biologist

Jake, He/Him/His, Biologist, Grad student, Neutral Good, Gaymer, Fantasy and Sci-Fi lover. Fiance of @steamhunk

[werewolf-fricker]

Furries reblog the fat money knot for friendly werewolf encounters and wealth

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Wang and Lai (2014)

[gemstone-gynoid]

[kyleehenke]

these are basically turning into my video diaries

[hellsitegenetics]

happy 4th to her

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[cringeunworthy]

I'm gonna get so much mileage out of this one

[knightly-scholar]

Been a while

[the-reconciliation-of-all-things]

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

[importantandunavoidable]

there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first

[mossyquill02]

Even cooler, recent research has determined (through classic conditioning of caterpillars) that these insects generally retain their memories from before metamorphosis into their new form!

[svendryn]

Holometabolous insects are super cool. There are also a lot of cells/tissues preserved during metamorphosis! There are neurons don't get fully eliminated during the process. They retract and prune some of their arbors but then regrow from a more immature state. The larval neurons also act to help the new adult neurons from similar origins to grown and develop into the adult neural circuits! The imaginal discs are some of the clearest examples of we have of how genetic and molecular patterns help coordinate the growth and development of complex limbs/appendage. Such a cool organ system.

[ifanimaltrapped]

[cryhounds]

TH GAY PEOPLE IN MY PHONEWHEN I DROP IT ON THE FLOOR

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Hey! Spin this Wheel of all Pokemon Abilities!

You now have this Ability in your real life!

How do you feel?

HELL YEAH THIS IS AWESOME

This is extremely great!

This is very good!

This is… pretty good

This… could be worse?

I feel utterly neutral about this

This has very strong upsides and downsides, feel conflicted

This is basically useless to me!

This… isn’t great

This sucks…

This is really bad, actually!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Voting ended onApr 11

[twili-midna]

[a-really-bad-decision]

Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.

And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.

And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.

[lowpolyanimals]

Crypt Rat from Old School RuneScape

[greatlordfluffernutter]

you’re telling me THIS guy’s voicing Mario?

[gatheringbones]

[“A FAGGOT FABLE

Some faggots were more beautiful than other faggots. The beautiful ones only wanted to touch and be touched by the other beautiful ones. Orchard was the most beautiful of all and all the beautiful faggots wanted to touch Orchard. One day Orchard made himself ugly, very ugly. When the beautiful faggots saw what he had done. they wept and then they turned their backs on him and forgot him. Only the ugly faggots now wanted to touch Orchard. So he gathered them all together and took them to a mountain top where they lived in harmony and joy. As they learned to love each other more and more, Orchard and the other ugly faggots grew more and more beautiful. After many years they floated down from their mountain top down into the town. The beautiful faggots were astounded by these newly arrived creatures. The beautiful faggots wanted to touch them all and love them forever. But Orchard said, "No, you are too ugly for us. Go and love the ugliest faggot you can discover and then we will love you in return." So they left the town and did as they were asked to do, spreading the notion that to love the ugliest will make both beautiful. At last, one day, all the faggots everywhere were so beautiful that no one had to think about it any more. Now they all loved and touched each other with great pleasure and ecstasy."]

Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends In Between Revolutions, Calamus Press, 1977

[burins]

you can read the entirety of The Faggots and Their Friends in between Revolutions on the internet archive here! it's a good scan and you get all the lovely illustrations. the archive also has an audio version.

[kumboochies]

Only sluts and whores can reblog this

[persimmonlions]

[brainrotdotorg]

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[brainrotdotorg]

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[brainrotdotorg]

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[brainrotdotorg]

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