Amplexus, fuck yeah.

Perform what though?

I use polident to clean my Zojirushi container.

So, this line-up suggests there’s room for a cross-over story where the football squad wearing the color changing dress pounds the main character’s ass.

Thanks for joining penis and intermittent organ facts.

Did you know that the “tail” of the male coastal tailed frog is actually an extension of the cloaca effectively acting as an intermittent organ?

Reply ‘more cock’ for more facts about penises and intermittent organs.

Hemipenes (and penis/intermittent organs) are really diverse in terms of size and shape. A lot of lizards and snakes have little nodules and barbs that vary from species to species. Not sure what the ornaments do, but it’s interesting. Also interesting is that having two (i.e. one on each side) potentially means that there’s a handedness in terms of the preferred side used for mating.

Other fun facts about penises and other intermittent organs: cats and other felids have barbed penises that force ovulation in the female. Tangentially related are the pseudo penises of female hyenas.

More fun facts: damselfly males have intermittent organs that are spoon shaped so they scrape out the sperm of rival males.

Respond ‘cock facts’ to learn more about penises and intermittent organs.

Respond ‘stop’ if you don’t want to learn cool shit.

I’m a biologist/bioinformatician—a lot of my presentations require some schematic representation of the analysis or pipeline.

I tend to build simple pipelines with PowerPoint and add animations (makes it easier for me to talk through step by step). If it’s complex, I build parts in some other thing (R, illustrator/Photoshop), and animate the PDF/PNG in.

Equations I try to avoid because most of my audience tends to gloss over them. On the occasion that I’m talking to more computational folks, I’ll build the equation elsewhere, export it as an image, and animate it in with annotations.

Again, I’m a biologist and present mostly to biologists, so some of this may seem stupid or nonsensical to folks in other fields.

I just did this yesterday with footers. Create section breaks at the end of 5 and 6. Then click on the footer, unlink it, then delete. Then you whisper to yourself “fuck yeah”.

Yeah, preprints are becoming more common in bio too.

Not always—it depends on the publisher for sure, and possibly the field (e.g., physics, chemistry).

In biology, you have several models for peer review. Completely blind reviews where both reviewers and authors are anonymized. You also have semi blind models where the reviewers know the identities of the authors, but the authors don’t know reviewers’ identities. You also have open reviews where everyone knows one another’s identities.

In completely blind and semi-blind models, you occasionally have reviewers that reveal their identity.

I didn’t have the tape, but instead had the plastic rings that had a tiny bit of powder in it. I wonder if they had similar smells.

Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .

You forgot the part where you step on the rake in different ways to see which one whacks you in the face the fastest.

The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.

I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought “A PhD is a good idea”

It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.

I CHOOSE YOU, BALLSACK FR- I mean, turtle frog! https://share.google/2q4ew0HzbeLWAjPfm

Adding to this: XX and XY works for mammals, but not for other vertebrates (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians). Birds and reptiles have Z and W chromosomes, and unlike in mammals where females are homozygotes, males in these groups are homozygotes. Some reptiles have temperature dependent sex determination, where ambient temperature above some value will produce males or females (depends on species). Some reptiles are composed entirely of females.

Some fish will straight up change sexes depending on age and male-female ratio in a social group.

In other groups it’s not even different chromosomes but simply copy number of specific genes.

Plants can do all sorts of whacky things like produce seeds and pollen in the same individual.

Fungi are an entirely different cluster fuck because they have mating types which are not simple binaries.

Eukaryotic sex determination isn’t a binary and it isn’t even a nicely categorizable spectrum. It’s a grab-bag of whatever doesn’t perma-fuck your genome.

Source: me, I’m a biologist. Though admittedly I work on animals so my understanding of fungi and plant stuff is fuzzy at best.

What the fuck is a sewer slide?

Maybe it’s haunted by a drunk cow?

Course IDs vary from university to university—when I was an undergrad, lower div classes were <100, upper div between 100 and 199, and grad level classes 200+.