#cilia

[captainzigo]

theres a suggestive version of this on my alt

Cilia is the engineer on the air ship that this chapter of my pony ttrpg campaign has been following. i love making NPCs. i love playing toys with my friends! i should make more changelings

[alarnia]

cuddling for warmth

[thesideblog101]

[thejuicingmachine]

The Lady Buster is a character in my pony ttrpg campaign i run. she is the famous wife of an oil baron. Cilia has spent the campaign thus far disguised as her out of admiration. at least in large part because Buster is famous for inventing and driving cars in addition to being rich and beautiful. and Cilia is freaky about the combustion engine in addition to being gay.

ill post an edited version on my main @captainzigo

[bpod-bpod]

Visualing Function

Here, imaging-based CRISPR screening of the genome (to mutate genes of interest), allows cell-regulating molecules and modifications to be revealed in live and fixed cells. Primary cilia – whiskery functional projections found on most cell types – are studied here as a proof of concept and several previously unknown ciliary regulators identified and characterised, such as microprotein TZMP1. Shown are tadpole skin cells with cilia – left, unmanipulated and right, after CRISPR-targeting the gene encoding TZMP1

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Jingbo Sun and colleagues

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Video contributed by the authors and originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Developmental Cell, November 2025

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[i-hate-you3000]

OKAY HI ANOTHER OCEAN ANIMAL RANT POST

so im watching Jacksepticeye play Subnautica 2 and he came across the Deepwing Brooders and i saw this:

and i was like

"OH SHIT."

"THOSE LOOK LIKE FILTER FEEDERS!!!"

so i immediately start thinking about what it is i know about filter feeders (quoting the comment i made here)

baleen whales have the baleen or "whalebone" (the keratin, hair-looking things that hang from their mouths)

fish like whale sharks have filter pads, basking sharks and manta rays have gill rakers (which are typically bony or cartilaginous)

bivalvia like mussels and oysters have cilia in their gills that help trap food

(these are microscopic)

and so i think. hmm. from that image they look the closest to the gill rakers and filter pads. so they probably eat some sort of plankton or whatever the equivalent is on that alien planet.

and so i go and decide to check the wiki:

AND I WAS RIGHT!!!

THEY'RE FILTER FEEDERS, THEY EAT PLANKTON, EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD IS GREAT!!!

i also love the detail of the beak being used for opportunistic hunting of hard prey, i think that's really cool!

but yeah, that's it, just wanted to share that! :3

[greatwyrmgold]

[stephifa]

Getting reps in drawing my FFXIV character, Cilia, before Dawntrail. The G'raha Tia brainrot will be at an all time high when I start shamelessly drawing them together.