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@cellsareneat.bsky.social
Superellipsoid of goo with ADHD and an MSc in cell biology, amateur necro-alectryomancer, 'biology autocorrect', and maker of (very) bad niche jokes. He/Him
Fryrmblal
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It gets even weird in Danish, where not only do you have the flamingo the bird and flamenco the dance, you also have styreform. Because the company the introduced expanded polystyrene here was named Flamingo, the material is commonly just called that now.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Did you see this very interesting bit of news about them? They only get weirder the more we learn about them bsky.app/profile/tbha...
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments

Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Yea, there is some uncertainty about it, but at least some of the things seems to be well-ish documented
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Glad to see that you include some reference to the fact that the universe clearly didn't want the saxophone to exist. The amount of ways it tried to kill him is wild
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It definitely is one. After having a look, or rather listen, I can even tell you which species it's likely based on: Pelophylax esculentus. It's only frog species here that sounds remotely like that, and is one of the most common
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"kvæk" in Danish
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There are apparently mods that add it, but I shouldn't have to do that in a game from a well-established dev that 100% could afford to spend the time and money
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So, deep love?
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
May I suggest the humble, but supremely weird Mormyrids?
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM