*they start with more "normal" looking shells, but they lose the top whorls as they grow, so their shells always look like that as adults (see a bunch of younger snails here www.inaturalist.org/observations...)

You know that if one day I finally manage to grab stable research job, I have Ideas and Plans about Europe vs rest of the world comparisons of introduced European snails?

(About loping: bsky.app/profile/mdah...)

Not easy and just barely but I can

Of course pelicans would know about fishlore

I've seen "Does It Fart?" mentioned already, the herring that's mentioned elsewhere in replies is literally the first example in the main text of the book. The species the authors put in the book are in no way representative, but I just checked my copy and there is more "yes" than "no" fish in it

something felt off on 3, then on 17/18, but gotta admit it didn't click at all until I checked the floorplan

The 'direct, specific and distinctive' is specifically why it reminds me of that tumblr post so much I guess

I think it's the combination of the WTH of it all and the starting 'Remarkably' that makes it pop

In 'favourite' & 'recent'-ish I mentioned this one in a chat the other day www.cell.com/current-biol...

I have so many questions on my mind and they're all variations of "where can I get this?"

I was thinking there had to be membracids doing weird mimic stuff with their weird pronotum, and a quick search gave me a couple potential candidates: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteron... + www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I *think* I got the why! It's a 'in which order are we grouping them' thing! (plot1|map1)/(plot2|map2) also works

I might! I'm tired so I'm struggling a little to understand *why* it works when (plot1/plot2)|(map1/map2) doesn't, but playing with plot_layout does: (plot1+map1+plot2+map2) + plot_layout(ncol=2,nrow=2) for instance

(unless I'm so tired I didn't get your question right)

Some of these sound like honorifics you'd give members of some weird parliament