David Christianson
Sheril KirshenbaumWhat kind of biologist should you be?
I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.
S.T. Veje@Sheril @rosemarymosco Seems it's either birds or snakes for me. I do love both, so pretty accurate indeed.
Michele Scallan@Sheril @rosemarymosco Plants rule!
joshuastar@Sheril @rosemarymosco is that a stinkhorn at the bottom??
Alan Wolf@Sheril @rosemarymosco As someone who studied frog calls, they missed the shorter path of “Would you rather sleep all day and work at night” it might have led to bats as well.
Gaina-Cee (She/Her)@Sheril @rosemarymosco That sent me round in cricles! Conclusion: I want to I study ALL THE THINGS after 10 am (and at least one cup of coffee). 🤣 ☕ 🐸 🐠 🦔 🐦 🐍
RBRATSPIESthis is terrific
Barbara@Sheril @rosemarymosco this is so appropriate for my aspiring mycologist teen
Derek Caelin is writing a book
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ScottyF1950@Sheril @rosemarymosco love this chart
SudoNaaame@Sheril @rosemarymosco Can I get this as a poster for my room???
Tappin Lisa@Sheril @rosemarymosco 🤣 I never thought I would see "Eh, needs more mucus" as a decision on a flowchart.
Jim Jones@Sheril @rosemarymosco I am going to show this to my 8th grade daughter who has, out of nowhere, decided that fungi are immensely fascinating.
Karen E. Lund 💙💛@GreatBigTable @Sheril @rosemarymosco They are! And as someone who grew up when NYC's air was too bad for them to live here, I am now a huge fan of lichen.
Adam Fields@fields @GreatBigTable @Sheril @rosemarymosco I'm familiar with both #LichenSubscribe and #Mosstodon. Just today I discovered #MarshMadness.
@Sheril @rosemarymosco I have to add minor in chemistry or maybe a double major if someday you want more salary.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@Sheril @rosemarymosco Hmm. There are other potential questions ...
My lad tried a project on tree frogs in a jungle, which involved amongst other things measuring the pH of the water pools in bromeliads at night (or some such). An easy peasy project to publish about, as there appeared, he thought, to be very little existing literature.
But it turned out that carrying a ladder (and a bunch of other kit) around a jungle at night by the light of a head torch is *hard* ... which is no doubt why nobody had done the work before. An interesting theory meets the hard reality of field work logistics. He switched to a different project.
So, there's still some "easy" research here that nobody has done. 🤣 🐸
JulesceltNow I know why I wound up at plants!
That and the fact they're easy to study as they wander very, very, very slowly. Easy to catch. 😄
@julescelt01 @Sheril @rosemarymosco In a webinar on using iNaturalist in 2020 I somehow (rather infamously) uttered the words "I can outrun most trees."
See the flowchart options leading to birds: "How do you feel about seeing lots of small, fast, brownish things?"
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️This flowchart lead me to frogs, which is actually one of my favorite animals. Cool.
Paul Marrow 🇪🇺@Sheril @rosemarymosco It's great 👍🏻 but what about those of who studied large (not so fast moving) mammals? 🤔
Maura Hubbell@Sheril @rosemarymosco My father was a microbiologist. I think he would have laughed at this.
ArmageddJen@Sheril @rosemarymosco I think it's funny humans aren't on here when there's still a bunch of stuff that we're like "we GUESS this is how it works but we can't prove it,,,yet" like how Tylenol/paracetamol actually works
AdiDaft@Sheril @rosemarymosco I got Moths.
I'd have preferred mammals, fish or reptiles.
BeatGrounds@Sheril @rosemarymosco I got microorganisms 🦠
PittstSidnumber44
April@Sheril @rosemarymosco I pick fungi
dragfyre> fungus amongus
WackyGenes@Sheril @rosemarymosco the wacky genes kind 😂
Angela Loves Salem@Sheril @rosemarymosco At one of my grad school interviews, one lovely women stated to me, dead serious, "yeast is the Rolls Royce of organisms."
Sarah Fazen@Sheril @rosemarymosco I work at a natural history museum and this has been hanging on my office door for years 😉
DROP\ TABLE Hacker of Earthsea@Sheril @rosemarymosco botanist, I shall name my flower!
Patricia Gerstenberger@Sheril @rosemarymosco Priceless. Truly priceless.
Emil Fischer 🏳️🌈@Sheril @rosemarymosco microorganisms!
@Sheril @rosemarymosco I favor plants (especially trees) and fungi. Fungi growing on trees would be ideal.
Laura Sophia@Sheril @rosemarymosco Plants it would be for me.
@Sheril @rosemarymosco mammals or birds
Mieke Siemons@Sheril @rosemarymosco micro organisms for me.
Mike McGraw
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