Home page: http://DoctorZen.net. Biologist. Author of Better Posters book and blog. Collector of academic hoaxes and academic slop graphics.
Good will to all
God will to all
We’ll go first: Mary E. Brunkow, PhD, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2025: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/she-didnt-believe-she-won-the-nobel-until-a-photographer-showed-up-at-her-seattle-door/ #WomenInSTEM
🎵 Da-da-da-DUM 🎵
🎵 Da-da-da-DUM 🎵
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We’ll go first: Mary E. Brunkow, PhD, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2025: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/she-didnt-believe-she-won-the-nobel-until-a-photographer-showed-up-at-her-seattle-door/ #WomenInSTEM
Marmorkrebs, the marbled #Crayfish, which is an obligate parthenogen - literal virgin birth!
This is reflected in the scientific name, Procambarus virginalis!
marmorkrebs.org
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At least for me, with 15 years of data and roughly the same number of followers on both platforms.
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H 👏 E 👏 B 👏 !
H 👏 E 👏 B 👏 !
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This is…
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#Scotland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
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Here, it confuses the plot of a TV show with an actual story and replaces a Hollywood Reporter headline about the racial disparity in available leading roles with the absolutely insane hed "Simu Liu's brain hacked"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
BUT the science of crustacean "pain" is FAR more complicated than the article lets on. From the blog vault:
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/01/what...
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Happy to answer any biology questions if I can.
Iceland has the 13 Yule Lads and their terrifying mother. Tag yourself, I'm Door-Slammer.
Also, Iceland lore has a gigantic Yule Cat that eats people who do not have a piece of new clothing at Christmas.
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It hints at something I’ve thought about streaming TV series: that too many try to do plot driven story arcs, but TV thrives on character driven repetition on a theme.