Fiona TiffinDec 19, 2022
Cat 🐈πŸ₯— (D.Burch) β 

Microbiologists are larger than one might expect.

#CatSalad

Dec 4, 2022 at 12:24amWeb
Show threadCat 🐈πŸ₯— (D.Burch) β Feb 13, 2025

Looks like I breached containment at some point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/zdattb/a_misleading_profession_name/

Show threadglasspshrFeb 13, 2025
@catsalad we’ll cover for you. Don’t look back!
Show threadAlex HoffmannDec 4
@catsalad nice.
Show threadGrunkDec 4, 2022
@catsalad Ecology of scale FTW
Show threadBobOHaraDec 15, 2022
@grunk @catsalad I bet you’ve never met a macroecologist
Show threadstevecoulsonDec 4, 2022
@catsalad
Words to live by.
Show threadJaciDec 4, 2022
@catsalad
Heeheeheehee
Show threadBryan WrightDec 4, 2022
@catsalad Also: Nuclear physicists aren't, really.
(They're mostly still coal-fired.)
Show threadRebusKnebusDec 4, 2022
@catsalad I am certainly larger than I would expect
Show threadmarkevansDec 4, 2022
@catsalad :)
Show threadWTFDec 4, 2022
@catsalad πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
Show threadMike NicholsonDec 4, 2022
@catsalad true story. I am beginning to wonder if they should even be allowed to use micro in their title? 🀣
Show threadtaffysaintDec 4, 2022
@catsalad Upwards of 1.8mm I have heard?
Show threadAdrian TchaikovskyDec 4, 2022
@catsalad palaeobotanists are younger, too.
Show threadToWaKo  πŸ‡­πŸ‡°πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊDec 4, 2022
@catsalad True.
Show threadAdamJWestDec 4, 2022
@catsalad I started out as an Industrial Biologist, became a Microbiologist and then a Molecular Biologist, #HelpImShrinking
Show threadKatmaDec 4, 2022
@catsalad Cryptologists should get some credit then for accurate advertising
Show threadMike PDec 4, 2022
@catsalad Nanobiology is the future!
Show threadEridanusDec 4, 2022

@catsalad

Hmm … subconsciously I expected microbiologists to be roughly the size of Bernadette Rostenkowski (#TBBT).

Show threadJay MoltzauDec 4, 2022
@catsalad well we do work with a lot of πŸ„ fun guys πŸ„
Show threadBrian HawthorneDec 4, 2022
@catsalad My late father was a molecular biologist, and he was substantially larger than one might expect!
Show threadG Johnstone writer/artistDec 4, 2022
@catsalad the one on The Big Bang Theory looked pretty small. And that show is guaranteed’scientific’…
Show thread🚲Dec 4, 2022
@catsalad Why would anyone have a biologist when you can fit 1,000,000 microbiologists in the same space?
Show threadThommyDec 5, 2022
@catsalad worst case of false advertising since the neverending story
Show threadJenny BrownDec 5, 2022
@catsalad πŸ˜†
Show threadSaveraDec 5, 2022
@catsalad Even larger than hugobiologists?!! Huh?
Show threadKacem Le MoΓ«l a pris vapeurDec 5, 2022
@catsalad microeconomists are larger, and somewhat richer, as one might expect.
Show threadAbdullahi Usman Dec 5, 2022
@catsalad should I say "in their tiny world". πŸ˜‚
Show threadJohn S. WilkinsDec 5, 2022
@catsalad Invertebrate biologists are more upstanding than I expected
Show threadRonak | β€˜In Search of Starlight’ out now πŸ’«Dec 5, 2022
@catsalad Today I Learned 😳
Show threadzendao42Dec 5, 2022
@catsalad
Waiting for the rocket scientists to blast off
Show threadbob Dec 6, 2022
@catsalad I can attest to this.
Show threadRaquel ByrnesDec 6, 2022
@catsalad LOL, clever. πŸ˜„
Show threadDenverdigiman (Rick)Dec 6, 2022
@catsalad @rmondello I read this as micro blog experts
Show threadMaria DugganDec 6, 2022
@catsalad
πŸ‘πŸ‘
Show threadWild_RodentDec 12, 2022

@catsalad Dr Drosophila the Microbiologist is very, very small though!

https://kennyyoungandtheeggplants.com/album/1386648/doctor-drosophila-pt-1-2-3

Doctor Drosophila, Pt. 1, 2, & 3

Doctor Drosophila, Pt. 1, 2, & 3

Show threadwren154Dec 15, 2022
@catsalad Quantum mechanics repair tiny cars.
Show threadHuw PriceDec 16, 2022
@catsalad In Cambridge the rate of exchange was one microbiologist for a thousand nanotechnologists.
Show threada bad daditude ☠️Dec 18, 2022
@catsalad πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†
Show threadGyanDec 19, 2022
@catsalad I didn’t think I would like them but they are beginning to grow on me
Show threadbor[x]a πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ γƒœγƒ«γ‚·γƒ£ Jan 6, 2023
@catsalad historical linguists are surprisingly alive!
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Apr 9, 2024

@catsalad

Pretty sure this was your first post that I encountered. Lovely to revisit it.

Show threadsteelmanApr 9, 2024
@catsalad @agturcz
Show threadDavidOct 12
@catsalad Look, I'm trying to slim down a bit, but it's not easy...
Show threadDr David MillsOct 12
@theplaguedoc @catsalad
I'm a microtomographer and I'm not small or thinly sliced.
Show threadMiguel CorreaOct 12
@dtl @theplaguedoc @catsalad I shall not confirm nor deny the cybernetic nature of us computational biologists.
Show threadMichael GemarOct 12

@catsalad β€œThat’s what *she* said!”

(Haha, what a witty response to a two-year-old post! I’m *so* relevant!)

Show threadvieuxnezOct 13

@catsalad

Theoretical physicists? Real!