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[markscherz]

Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!

Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0

At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.

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Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?

No, they're little treefrogs!

Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0

Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.

Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!

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These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.

Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0

I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:

'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'

— Vences et al. 2024

There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.

On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.

You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.

[ovenproofowl]

everyone goes insane over threshold and how none of the crew talks about Paris and Janeway’s lizard babies past that episode but what I think we’re all forgetting is that one time my boy Harry Kim literally died and was replaced by an alternate version of himself and it was never mentioned ever again 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so if demons are sticklers for contracts, demand high payment for their services, and have firm/specific rules regarding summoning rituals (aka the hiring process & availability of their labor)—what i'm hearing is demons are fully unionized

[logically-asexual]

i feel so seen!!

(twitter thread)

[lordbrezel]

Holy shit, this!

I would say I am a cis guy, yes, but I really don’t care. I could see myself being a girl aswell (heck I prefer to play feminine characters in video games that allow me to chose), but not in a way would I consider myself trans. Like, I would be fine with any. Obviously I don’t have the experience of being trans, but there is no dysphoria for me. There are things I don’t like about myself, but I feel like that would be the case in any way.

Gender is such a weird concept to me.

[cyanwrites]

This is so true!

I'm a cis woman, but only by default. My assigned gender at birth is the least amount of gender it's possible for me to perform since it just happens passively while I ignore it, so that's the box I tick when asked, but if nobody ever asked about my gender again I wouldn't even notice. If others were to describe or define my gender, they'd probably call me agender or nonbinary, but identifying with/expressing those labels would require me to actively examine and evaluate my gender, which is way too much work for something I couldn't care less about.

My sexual orientation is very firmly asexual, but my gender is like when you backspace halfway through an online quiz because there are too many questions and you got bored.

[arrghigiveup]

Well that’s reassuring to know it’s not just me. For the record, I will respect anyone’s wishes to be referred to by whatever pronouns they want, but, I’m not gonna lie, I don’t... understand it for myself, and I don’t particularly feel any gender. Which I guess would make me nonbinary, but it doesn’t feel quite right either because I don’t really have a conscious objection being classified as being either a woman or a man. I just straight up don’t get what it would even mean to be female or male once the concept is divorced from biological sex. I am afab and present as a bit more “conventionally” feminine than masculine, which is why I do go by she/her especially in professional circles, but that’s just cos it’s easy, and it’s what people assume on sight/sound, and because I just don’t care otherwise. I would not care if anyone decided to call me they/them, and most of the time I play male characters in online games, and I regularly get referred to as he/him by gaming acquaintances who met me in-game and have never heard me on voice call. I enjoy a bunch of “traditionally” feminine things, and I enjoy a bunch more “traditionally” masculine things, and my hobbies and other things I enjoy honestly feel like a significantly firmer part of my identity to me than my gender label is 

[aces-to-apples]

I came up with a joke about the link between my asexuality and distaste for gender when I was like 17 and honestly I stand by it:

"Why should I have a gender? It's not like I'm using it!"

[ragemovement]

[ygosideblog]

who keeps giving her these things

[frommetrunui]

[super-saiyan-rose]

she ends up condemned too D:

[princesspornstar-deactivated201]

damn bitch get it together

[estrogenpatchnotes]

[megadethzenbu-deactivated202011]

She’s a Darklord now too

[ashestoashesjc]

[spdy4]

This what my phone translates the last card to

[ygosideblog]

hey guys guess what

her old friends joined her

[smooththegoofyshark]

Good for them fuck shit up ladies

[boobiemom]

I wanna add those two girls’ names as cards, and they’re pretty great names. 

Also they are 100% drawn to be placed at Condemned Darklord’s sides. 

This is what peak polyamory looks like.

[thetetrarchyofcassidy]

Any girls wanna get corrupted together and then have hot gay sex maybe?

[ygoheritageposts]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Heritage Post

[caffedinotte-deactivated2018020]

not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

[dontgetmadgetmaddie]

I think you should know he was 23 when he finished this and the ass gets a lot of attention but the hand on Persepina’s side/tummy is also exquisite

[assignedfaggatbirth]

before i saw the caption I knew that HAD to be bernini.

I try not to make sweeping statements but I think there’s a case to be made for bernini as the greater sculptor there’s ever been.

here’s his bust of costanza bonarelli

here’s apollo and daphne from the front, where she’s mostly human

from the back, where she’s mostly tree

and details

[bogleech]

this is the one art form I genuinely just cannot get my brain to accept as real. I’ve watched sped-up videos of it being done, read about it, seen in-progress marble statues and I still just can’t get it to sink in or stick. My mind doesn’t want to believe that any person has ever been able to start with a big block and break little bits off of it until it looks like a finely detailed person. At some point it has no recognizable shape and they still know where and how deep they should take a chip out of it that’ll still be the right decision 50,000 fucking chips later?!?

[tearybabylaura]

aight i guess i’ll try to be back here, what with the fall of twt, remember what my face looks like

[cinturongazo]

i wish cleaning the dishes was more fun. specially the bottles

[snowywarmthkuya]

[radiotroph-deactivated20180625]

me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass

my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!

me: 

[orphanblaque]

when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit. 

[persistentmanlyagitation]

[mpregwizard-deactivated20260125]

anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[captain-trash-cannot-deactivate]

Anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[locustradio]

Takenaka is absolutely mortified

[neil-gaiman]

did you ever consider becoming a literary writer rather than a fantasy writer? w

I don't think I ever wanted to be anything more than a storyteller and a writer. Other people can decide where the books get shelved.

[thenightling]

@eurphrasie​  That felt rude.  Since when is fantasy not literature?!

[gholateg]

You know, It's kind of fitting that It was Sir Terry Pratchett himself who answered this question in an interview, just going to paste this up real fast:

O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?

Pratchett: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.

O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.

P: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.

O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.

P: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.

Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.

(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.

Have to say I agree with the man.

[lurlur]

It's the casual death threat for me

[tearybabylaura]

i forgot what a hilarious and lawless hellscape this place was lmao. i have been cackling nonstop

[world-of-us-n-bowie]

Weird, Swedish class portrait

[facts-i-just-made-up]

The joke here is that the Swedish term for “student” is “jagharenklockaförettansikte,” which depending on pronunciation can also mean, “I have a clock for a head.”

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Yes… ME!!!

[erowid]

Cowboy jumps ten feet in the air over the horse, looping himself inside his lasso, near Austin, Texas, undated.

[acybernetickiwi]

Did you find the mind goblin in Elden ring yet?

The what!?!?!?!?

[acybernetickiwi]

i have been eviscerated... i cant believe this

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

sometimes when I’m bored I anonymously send random ppl vague things like “I still love you” or “we don’t talk anymore but I still care about you” just to see what happens

maybe a little “I think about you when I’m with him” to spice things up

i believe in prison abolition but i also think you need to be put away somewhere. a deep well, maybe