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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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I feel like The Last Unicorn would fit in with these movies also.
... For either humans or the armadillos, I mean!
One species of armadillo carries leprosy. I don't know which one though, and I don't believe there's a vaccine... 🤔
Different species than the one humans get. Also there's a vaccine for the koalas now!
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.
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. 🤔😅🤷‍♀️
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.
IS THAT WHY YOU WERE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
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...
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
@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...
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.
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?
hummingbird food baby! (food egg? 🤔)
Just a couple of minutes feeding lets this little female calliope hummingbird pack on the micrograms and become pleasantly plump.

#birds
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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.
"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...
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
I am literally on a panel tomorrow called DOES THE DOG DIE
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!)
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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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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.
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.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
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Catbus @hayao.lol · Aug 6
I will *never* apologize for a post
I really hope this little friend doesn't get eaten. 🤞