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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM

@frenchsilkpie.bsky.social

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microbiologist, medical lab scientist, quilter, gardener (4b) , animal lover, vegetarian, lover of shiny objects & of the oxford comma. Millennial. guardian to a shiba inu (see profile photo) and a cat <3 & a whippet puppy! very liberal American - MN

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · 15d

I feel like The Last Unicorn would fit in with these movies also.

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Oct 2

... For either humans or the armadillos, I mean!

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Oct 2

One species of armadillo carries leprosy. I don't know which one though, and I don't believe there's a vaccine... 🤔

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 28

Different species than the one humans get. Also there's a vaccine for the koalas now!

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 13

Preordered plants over a month ago to be picked up today. 😁 This is what I got - 6 Jack-in-the-pulpits, 6 wood lilies, 3 Michigan lilies..... In theory. It feels like really I bought a bunch of dirt. 😅 (Confirmed bulbs in the dirt though.) Dormant natives feel like a joke.

Fifteen 3-inch plant pots with tags in them in 5 rows of 3. Only 3 of the pots have visible plants; the other 12 look like empty dirt.

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 8

When I was younger, I always pictured underwater basket weaving as something that required at least a snorkel if not scuba. Like, the basket weaver ALSO had to be underwater. 🤔😅🤷‍♀️

🍂 Robin Bobcat 🍂 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · Sep 8

The worst part is that's literally how you make some types of baskets. You have to soak the canes, and the baskets are woven while being held underwater.
At some point, someone offered a course on this technique, and it got picked on as something completely ludicrous despite being totally valid.

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 8

IS THAT WHY YOU WERE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is all I can think of, with that last line of the article. SORRY NOT SORRY. YOU'RE WELCOME.

www.queenofwands.net/d/20040121.h...

Queen of Wands webcomic from January 21, 2004: depicts two women dancing around the grocery store singing, to the tune of Hakuna Matata, while a man with them facepalms: "Vagina dentata...what a wonderful phrase...vagina dentata - ain't no passin' craaaaaaze- It means no weiner, for the rest of your daaaays...It's a penis free, girl cavi-tyyyy, vagina dentataaaa.... hmmmhmmmHMMMoooOOOooooooOOOOO- It means no weiner, for the rest of your daaaaaays - It's a penis freeeeeeeeee vasectomyyyyyy....VAGINA DENTATAAAAA!" and the main complains "I can't take you two anywhere."

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

"“This insane, absolutely spectacular feature flips the long-standing assumption in evolutionary biology that teeth are strictly oral structures,” Cohen said in a press release. Who knows where they’ll turn up next?"

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Behold the Gloriously Weird Spotted Ratfish. It Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex

Researchers have finally traced the origin of the spotted ratfish’s bizarre forehead teeth, which are used for mating

www.scientificamerican.com

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 6

@tkingfisher.com 's alter ego, Ursula Vernon, has a series - Dragonbreath - that might be great for him, as well as a few standalone kids books! They might be meant for kids just a smidge older than 7 though...

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Does the sperm have to be from one specific other species, or just any other closely related species' sperm will do? 😬🤔
Also, Amazon mollies are named for the mythological Greek women and not the river/rainforest! Neat.

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is what baths are for...? 🤢

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Aug 29

Minnesota, USA. English. I'd call the onomatopoeia "meow" but I'm terms of writing how it actually sounds might use meow, mrrow, or mew for different meows. For a purr, either purr or just prrr. 🤔 Miaow feels British to me?

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Aug 28

hummingbird food baby! (food egg? 🤔)

Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just a couple of minutes feeding lets this little female calliope hummingbird pack on the micrograms and become pleasantly plump.

#birds

An early morning black and white photo showing a hummingbird feeder on the right side of the frame, it has a flat top and feeder ports around the side along with plastic semi circles under the feeder ports for the hummingbird to perch on. A female calliope hummingbird is drinking at the left side feeder port. She's fairly thin in this photo, contrast that to the next photo where she has been feeding well.

Same hummingbird as the first photo, on the same feeder perch and drinking from the same feeder port. She has grown in size considerably after drinking the rich sugar water. It's always interesting to see the before photo (photo 1) with the after photo (photo 2).

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Aug 26

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Where solving their problem" really means "determining out the cause of it" (or confirming the doctor's suspicion) but frankly the doctors can take care of actually treating it...

French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Aug 22

I feel like the chime-adder is kind of like a dog and I am going to be so upset if something bad happens to her..!!! 😩 #hemlockandsilver

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Aug 22

I am literally on a panel tomorrow called DOES THE DOG DIE

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Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Aug 22

@secondlina.com had a very nice one: www.tumblr.com/secondlina/7...

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💬 176 🔁 52623 ❤️ 66656 · Hiveworks Comics · I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~ It's time! Today is the day. Share the comic you've been working on all summer with th…

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French Silk Potato, MLS(ASCP) SM @frenchsilkpie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh my god T. Kingfisher has given a perfect description of a lab tech in her latest book! 😍😅 @tkingfisher.com This, and all the related paragraphs, are exactly on point for how many of us in the lab feel (and why we're there and not seeing patients!)

Screenshot of a highlighted snippet from Hemlock and Silver: "I genuinely wanted all my patients to be healthy and happy. I just didn't feel any need to be involved with that beyond solving their current problem."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 19

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!

Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.

Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!

Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!

Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!

Fund mRNA research!

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · Aug 12

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.

I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.