So, I read this article a few days ago.

I have to be honest, I have mixed feelings about research like this.

It's not because it's wrong. I mean, it is to some extent; one of the authors of the study pointed out that they know the dataset has issues, but that's going to be true of pretty much any dataset that tries to cover something like human ( Read more... )

Well, this is impressive: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/sea-slug-cut-its-own-head-and-lived-tell-tale

Decapitating yourself in order to get rid of parasites; that's a new one.

There's a video, which is pretty hilarious and I recommend everyone watch.

This week's Science is a special issue literally titled "A World of Mud." It is full of news reports about mud and I find this immensely entertaining. Unfortunately I can't just link the stories.

There was a story about the bacteria (in mud) that make these structures, which I found interesting because they are very long for what are cables of ( Read more... )

Been a while since I posted anything that was completely public, but I thought I'd share a scientific paper about a shipworm that burrows through and ingests rock ( Read more... )

I'm doing well in my internship. When I started, I was worried I wasn't going to be able to keep up with the other interns, which quickly turned out not to be the case. According to the senior intern, I'm pretty fast, though that may be as much due to other interns not focusing on their work as it is due to any natural skill I have ( Read more... )

Summer is going well so far; I actually have work experience now. Currently I'm not being paid because the university has no money because Certain Individuals Who Shall Not Be Named defunded Illinois (university budget is getting slashed by 40%, IIRC). Everyone's pretty pissed about it ( Read more... )