Anecdata @anecdataaa

Joined January 2017

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

3 years ago

sclerotized means hardened into a type of protein, like that which makes up the the cuticle or exoskeleton of an insect. The spinning structures are themselves feathery, useful also to avoid being targeted by parasitic wasps 2/🧵

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

3 years ago

These leaf insects with spectacular leaf mimicry, walking leaves with elaborate marks resembling veins, disease, damage, holes and ‘insect bites’ This kind of camouflage where animals blend into their surroundings is called protective resemblance

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

3 years ago

The Malayan leaf frog, perfectly camouflaged amongst the leaf litter of the damp and cool lowland and submontane rainforests where they live. Laying still on forest floors waiting for unsuspecting prey item to pass by

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

4 years ago

Look at this moth from the genus Phalera It looks like a fragment of twig complete with chipped bark and even the layering of wood tissue at the “cut” ends... perfectly resembling a broken piece of wood to avoid predation.

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

4 years ago

Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green birdflower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae. Its flower strongly resembles a bird attached by its beak to the central stalk of the flowerhead [read more: buff.ly/2I1gzXS]

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

4 years ago

Biologists found a marine green algae during a trip to the island in 2019. It took two years to identify it and give it a name: acetabularia jalakanyakae. The main feature of the species is that the plant is made up of one gigantic cell with a nucleus buff.ly/2WcRrc6

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

4 years ago

A snapping turtle emerges from weeks of sleeping beneath a muddy lake that had dried up. Credit: Timothy C. Roth.

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XKCD Comic @xkcdComic

4 years ago

Types of Scientific Paper xkcd.com/2456/ m.xkcd.com/2456/

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David Nogues-Bravo @Noguesbravo

4 years ago

Fireflies plus long exposure photographs...

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie

5 years ago

Communicating NEGATIVEs: Dont imply X is false when you just dont have evidence! Instead of: ❌“No evidence of X” Say: ✅”No one’s studied X” ❌”Little evidence of X” ✅”We studied related things but not actually X” ❌“Limited evidence of X” ✅”We studied X but not very well”

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Patrick McKenzie @patio11

5 years ago

There are far fewer conspiracies, and far more emergent behavior, than is popularly imagined. So much so that when people understand they are looking at emergent behavior, they describe it as a conspiracy anyway, because conspiracies are an easier narrative to understand.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky

5 years ago

It's weird to think some normies use the term "lived experience" to mean "undeniable truth" rather than "I am reporting my first-order sense impressions here, obviously the underlying truth or the average case could be different but please hear out my report yo"

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Paul Graham @paulg

5 years ago

You get an email that makes you think "this requires a thoughtful reply." So instead of dashing off a reply as you would with an ordinary email, you wait till you have time to give it the reply it deserves. <Montage of life happening.> You never reply.

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Andrew M. Webb @AndrewM_Webb

5 years ago

I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet. These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

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Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon

5 years ago

Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots" that become perfectly uniform, straight and completely knot free lumber.