just had a conversation with someone about methanogenesis, nitrogenase, and geomicrobiology and it was the happiest and most inspired about science i've been in YEARS. i want to do a postdoc on one of these nutrient cycling enzymes sooooo bad

Anytime I encounter one of the "XX and XY only" crowd, I dust off my favorite graphic for them and watch their eyes slowly glaze over.

followed a few researchers studying “early life” not realizing they meant it in a developmental biology kinda way and not an abiogenesis kind of way