I'm just here for your posts with silly puns and awesome photos of nature.
Biologist, genetics-nerd with an obsession for cats, weird genomes, travelling and photos of slime-molds.
I'm just here for your posts with silly puns and awesome photos of nature.
Biologist, genetics-nerd with an obsession for cats, weird genomes, travelling and photos of slime-molds.
It’s not ‘radical’ to care about the environment.
It’s not ‘radical’ to hold oil and gas corporations accountable and make polluters pay.
It’s basic human decency.
"We are so glad to have found you," the aliens said. "So many of our old friends are gone."
"We're so sorry to hear that," the human said. "What happened to them?"
"Oh, just the expansion of the universe. They were closer a few billion years ago. We write, but it's not the same."
This timelapse of a fungus kept by leafcutter ants is remarkable. Thousands of ants monitoring humidity, the nutrition needs of the fungus, removing unwanted growths, keeping their brood and harvesting food. Inside: the queen. Totally inclosed in a living home. The walls are food, a place for her eggs, they slowly renew, tended by her daughters.
As every living organism maintains itself, but on a strange macro-scale. These are your cells shedding and being replaced.