#Water and Bacteria

[microbes-in-hats]

Daphnia pulex (Water flea)

Photo credit: Paul Hebert

Source: Functional Genomics Thickens the Biological Plot. Gewin V, PLoS Biology Vol. 3/6/2005, e219. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030219

[chipped-chimera]

Finally got a fancy(tm) pic of my aquarium - think I figured out the solution to awful photos is just I have to do them at night because the hugeass window in my room directly adjacent ruins everything. Going to try and take a pic like this weekly to track growth!

Anyway it's looking close? Closeish? to being cycled so the question is: WHAT COLOUR SHRIMP

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

Love the fact that everyone's acting surprised that the We-Dump-Shit-In-The-Water country has had an outbreak of There's-Shit-In-The-Water disease.

[hamelinsnightmare]

CiderTalk'84

🤖 💉 🤖 💉 🤖 💉 🤖 💉

[kirstielol]

The crabitat paludarium is pretty much finished! I still need to order more plants, all I had on hand was some lemon button fern and random moss. I'm going to order some more plants soon, aquatic and terrestrial, including a lady of the night orchid (brassavola nodosa) that I plan on mounting to the cork bark in the background. Should be so beautiful when it blooms 🥰

Also I did not buy enough distilled water so the water level is much lower than it should be! Going to pick up more in the next day or two.

I'm pretty happy with the set up, except the colour of the sand is bugging me a bit. Bf says I'm being nitpicky and it looks fine, but idk.. I'm not 100% happy with the sand colour in contrast to the gravel and everything else. Kinda wish I went for a golden colour sand... I might end up replacing it.

[brawley1492]

I wonder?

Are there "bacteria" on the Sun?

and

What would their purpose be?

By the way,

Bacteria can survive in sulphuric acid and "heavy water" in nuclear power stations and extreme heat conditions ... bacteria facts

[blauesonnenblume]

i used to not kill mosquitoes because of buddhism (take no life) but my bf is really allergic to them so now i protect him from pain and the truth is i also protect myself now even when he’s not here but i still feel guilty about it

[lameow-l]

this was literally the only question i was curious about, thanks for asking that for me paimon

like fontainain people married other nationalities yeah?? how did they have kids if they were oceanids.. anddd umm if they could fuck normal humans wouldn’t that make the oceanid in springvale falling in love with a boy from mond a bit problematic lol especially since it’s no longer a fairytale but an actual thing that happened and we witnessed it last patch??

so it’s not the case and new oceanids are just turned into humans but wait!! so celestia allows that?? it keeps constantly happening but they’re not stopping it.. ok sure but also

i wonder how many generations of fontaine people will it take for them to realize that they have to sexually mate to create children now

[opens-up-4-nobody]

hey um not to be parasociall but how did the meeting with your advisor go???? also would it be possible for you to switch advisors/program or something so you can change your research interests if that's the issue? Im a doctoral student as well so I get how tricky that stuff can be depending on your program.... Anyway I hope things better for you xoxo

Lol, ur fine! It went alright

[microbes-in-hats]

Tardigrade/Water Bear Species: Acutuncus antarcticus

There are approximately 1,300 known species under the phylum Tardigrada. They are found almost anywhere, including mountaintops, tropical rainforests, the deep sea, and the Antarctic. They are extremophiles, capable of surviving a few minutes at both 151°C (304°F) and −272°C (−458°F; 1 K) and a few days at −200°C (−328°F; 73 K).

This particular Antarctic species has been found to be able to survive for 30 years at −20°C (−4°F). (Tsujimoto et al. 2016 Cryobiology)

Photo credit: Megumu Tsujimoto/NIPR

[sol-consort]

taking a turian to a waterpark on the worst first date ever

[mulderscully]

took monday off because it's the 14th (!? holy shit) anniversary of my mom's death and i dont even know what to do with 2 days off anymore

[transwolvie]

But okay legitimately I saw people dunking on France abt the Seine cleanup and how much it cost and the breaking news abt it still failing those tests for feces.... and they STILL made the poor Olympians swim in it?? It's got doodie in it!

[elbiotipo]

Ragua is supposed to be "shark-like" but she doesn't resemble a great white or most well known predator sharks, she's rather like a cat-shark:

I like this one (Scyliorhinus retifer, it's also flourescent!), but there's a lot of sharks to draw inspiration for. Moreover, her coloration is bright and colorful, like a tropical reef or a parrot (fits, since she can easily imitate sound). I migth also give her some feather-like structures for a more alien appearance. The sharp teeth, triangle fins and rough skin are a must, though.

I am being a very, very bad biologist by assuming such a convergent evolution here, of course. On the other hand, this is supposed to be a retro space opera setting like Star Wars, and lots of aliens are a must (I'm SO INCREDIBLY tired of human-only sci-fi, or sci-fi with only four or five different species, I want all sorts of creatures). I might throw some lines about panspermia, especially if I go with the lore that there's an aether interestellar ecology that might disperse life across worlds. That does raise some awkward questions, but it works for the setting.

[slimmestslime]

weird creature got scribbled across my canvas. wonder how that happened

[queen-boudicca]

Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity: