There's a sea creature whose common name is the pikachu nudibranch and I need everyone to see it immediately.
Oh, some of us definitely have 👀
THIS! We have a level of understanding of what they may see, how they think/behave, but there is still so much we don't know about animal behavior. Heck, we are still learning things about how our OWN brains work all the time!
BIG ole PEEPERS! 👀
I fear their tiny little heads would simply COMBUST.
...I... I didn't realize there were stabby ones...
nightmares beyond comprehension mayhaps
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW TOO! I remember learning this FOREVER ago in university but this was a long forgotten bit of knowledge in my head... until now!
Awww, you're so welcome! This means so much to me!
I love cephalopods SO much. Absolutely one of my favorite groups in the animal kingdom, I wish more people cared about them!
Ooooh, I had never heard of this before now! Definitely adding this to my list to check out! Thank you for sharing 🖤
oh... oh no.
felt.
this is going to be my headcanon forever for them now, thank you.
shrimps is bugs
Let's just hope they have a built in sharpener.
Gosh... I miss the oatmeal SO much. Used to look at it all the time when I was younger!
sometimes if I think too much about concepts like this it feels like my brain starts to smoke and overheat pfft
this is VERY true! thank you for your excellent question @drcharleshay.bsky.social and for your answer @shubhamtr.bsky.social. I love when I have a chance to learn from replies to my own post. bluesky is a very refreshing place to be! 🖤
that's an excellent way of thinking about it!
the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.
humans have 3.
we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.
the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.
#addOcean
Three women.
Three fields.
A thread for International Women's Day🧵
What a coincidence! I am also on my silly little phone in my silly bed!
Who's a woman in science who inspires you most? Drop her name below 👇
They followed what they loved into the places the science world told them they didn't belong - and they rewrote everything. That's what happens when you refuse to accept the world as it is handed to you - and change it anyway.
The planet is better for it🖤
Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
Told she was too emotionally attached to her subjects. Spent two decades in Rwanda documenting mountain gorilla behavior anyway. She was murdered in 1985, almost certainly for her anti-poaching work.
~250 mountain gorillas in the 1980s. Over 1,000 today.
Rachel Carson (1907–1964)
Published Silent Spring in 1962. The chemical industry spent millions trying to discredit her - called her unscientific, emotional, a spinster. DDT was banned in the US ten years later. The modern environmental movement has her work at its foundation.
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)
They said sharks were mindless - no learning, no memory recall. She proved that false. Aquariums still use her training theories today. She also founded what became the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium - still producing marine research decades later.
"Too emotional. Too attached. Too much."
That's what they said about the women who went on to change what we know about sharks, gorillas, and the air we breathe.
The leaky pipeline in science is real. These are three of the women who didn't wait for it to be fixed.
