"A piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet" - I'm just sitting at the interview with this fascinating person, suddenly she cries Yabba dabba doo! - her species won the Guardian #Invertebrate Of The Year contest! 🎉 "They are gloriously independent animals. They don’t need us half as much as we need them." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history
Should I ask her what she thinks about the article?

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February's sticker club design: a tardigrade!

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It's a parody of the NASA insignia, cuz they do be shootin' these lil fellers into space. They're actually quite fragile, and not true extremophiles! They just try their best and fall asleep in stressful climates. Be nice to them.

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While sketching tardigrades for Sloth and Manatee, a dumb ol joke

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There’s a German term used in biology for today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “overgrowth”: aufwuchs. 🐡🧪🌿It means the collection of small plants & animals that adhere to surfaces. At sea, in my field, we geophysicists tend to call the algae etc. that grows on equipment “biofouling.” In freshwater you get algae, insect larvae, rotifers & tardigrades, like this one.

Tardigrades have short, plump legs & …

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