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grimark

did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real

this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house.

grimark

oh fuck you were not kidding

manyblinkinglights

#Two months on‚ Rothney is in a co-working arrangement with the nest‚#which is now more than a metre tall and swallows an entire bookshelf of ring binders.#owns. of course they feel safe around her bc she is a queen

#why would you want to destroy that work of art anyway #animals

onenicebugperday

Emerald moth, Cathydata batina, Geometridae

Found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by stephenluk, 2 by carrollperkins, 3 by desertnaturalist, 4 by damontighe, 5 by julianbiol, and 6 (for scale) by smejiadu

#animals

alcnfr

So far as I can determine this is the 2 extremes of my local Robberfly species, quite small Common Micropanther and giant Red-Footed Cannibal Fly.

#animals

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snailkites

Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

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teaboot

Black Vulture couple locate Crested Caracara bisexual unicorn across the bar in a rare W for all parties

#video #animals

chocomichhi

toby's got a favorite color combo i think

#undertale #deltarune

dimetrodone

Mesmerized by the aba aba knifefish right now

dimetrodone

These guys are also notoriously aggressive fish, reach over a meter long, and have a mouth full of sharp teeth.

But also their body is silly.

despazito

Some kind of shrew

#animals

ratsquinks

the rat play area has moved! miso knows less than usual

#miso....#animals

draconym

Hanging Thieves really look like they belong on a tarot card or a motivational poster.

hang in there, baby

thegrindingwheel

#animals

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

#video #animals

innerchildabortionclinic

the hot chocolate enjoyer when you ask where all the milk is going so fast:

faraway-ant

i’ve seen this user post this photo as a sort of reaction image a couple times now and it makes me laugh every time. because this is the incredibly elusive marbled cat and they really do just have a tendency to look so pitiful, guilty, and empty in the head. so here’s some more photos of them looking like there’s just one marble bouncing around their skull:

#cats #animals

scramratz

saw a youtube video with a date of 20 years ago and i thought "surely this is a glitch, youtube wasnt even around 20 years ago" and then i watched as my hands shriveled and fell to dust before my very eyes

wavezies

things in phm that really tickled me as a marine biologist:

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

humanity's greatest hope being a teacher. humanity being saved by grace's ability to find novel ways to communicate well with others -- something that made him excellent as an educator, and enabled him to bond with rocky

manyblinkinglights

#god i just love this movie i love it so much#i love SCIENCE i love HOPE i love LEARNING TO BE BRAVE WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE TO BE BRAVE FOR#i love COEXISTENCE WITH OTHER SPECIES i love USING NATURAL PRINCIPLES TO SAVE ALL LIFE#most of all: i love MYSTERIOUS MICROBES in OSTENSIBLY UNINHABITABLE ENVIRONMENTS that are FUCKING SHIT UP#also i agree with grace that there has to be non-water-based life out there. the universe is so fucking big like unfathomably big#somewhere... ryland grace's vindication exists

#project hail mary

maxknightley

from what I've seen, there are exactly Three Jobs hiring at any given time. they are:

senior logistics strategist at Hewlett Packard. $140,000 / year. requirements: three separate MBAs, fifteen years of business experience, no "ethnic" grandparents, unearned sense of confidence

"customer success ambassador" at Glurp. $70,000 / year, give or take, since 90% of your pay is based on commission. requirements: associate's degree, no experience, has never heard the phrase "pyramid scheme," no sense of shame

part-time server at Le Bon Mot. $15-$16/hr depending on level of experience. must work weekends, overnight shifts, holidays, while asleep. requirements: you will let customers spit on you.

maxknightley

I feel like I make some variant on this post once every two weeks, which should tell you how well the job hunt's going.