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November is all about taking afternoon naps and waking up disoriented from the realities
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"are you a back sleeper, side sleeper, or stomach sleeper" i'm a roadkill sleeper. i sprawl in an unmoving heap across the mattress like a carcass struck by several tons of fast-moving steel and dragged a few hundred meters down the highway from where i died. i'm a bug and my bed is the windshield i'm splattered on.
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look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat
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My oil painting of an Uncrustable
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My oil painting of an Uncrustable
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Everyone always portrays Gem as this responsible mother hen character when in episode 22 of Sausage’s esmp1 series she literally says “I’m not a thief, I just own everything by default”
Like hello?? She’s sassy?? Just because the rest of her alliance is batshit insane doesn’t mean she’s normal T-T
#I AM ALWAYS SAYING THIS#happens to pearl too#there's this tendency in fandom spaces to put female characters into the role of the Responsible One#Which I hate with every fiber of my being#But Gem and Pearl? The two people who did hermitcraft and esmp at the same time?#like come on man#those two were insane
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NATIVE CARBON DIOXIDE FOUND ON JUPITER’S MOON EUROPA
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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.
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!
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.
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i will sexualise the horrifying and find the horror in the sexualised
#clenching my teeth really hard and muttering this into a mirror#staring really intensely at the painted face reflecting back at me#affirmations
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OFFTOBER DAY 2. Impurity
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What if I was a thing without eyes and u were a thing that cannot be looked upon and we were in love in Minecraft
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Open ended hc, to be decided by a poll!
#gricko is a great cook#from a certain point of view#Delicious cuisine!#goblin cuisine#lots of bugs and rats and strong flavors that don't make a lot of sense
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