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#out of context #fruit flies #sometimes in science you just have to get really weird with it

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Unquestionably one of the funniest things I own is the draft first chapter of an evolutionary biology textbook written by one of my grad professors, in which he made approximately 1/3 of the figures himself in MS Paint with absolutely no graphic design skills or artistic ability.

#just enough context to make you despair

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Mood

[A potto falling after presentation of a snake.]

Charles-Dominique (1977)

#out of context #I too wish to fall dramatically to the ground when faced with adversity #potto

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Santos et al 2005

#out of context #lemur cognition #close up magic #big lemon

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Dyeing for science

Wang and Lai (2014)

#out of context #blue dabu dee dabu dye #rat #sort of #more of a nonagon with whiskers

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Ok but you have to include this very important scientific illustration

[The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models]

Warren et al. (2021)

#some context #this is a very serious ecology paper #in the exact same way as that study where they put a dead fish in an MRI and found a signal #it's pointing out a real problem with computer modeling of complex ecological systems #with a Kangaskhan

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Pittman et al. (2021)

#out of context #dammit Jim I'm a paleontologist not an artist #aerodynamics #bird #bat #pterosaur #no really that first one is supposed to be a pterosaur

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As an anthropologist focusing on functional anatomy, let me assure you that nature absolutely did not find the best way to build muscles over bone. It found a good enough way for something fish-shaped to move and had been iterating mostly adequate variations on that plan ever since. Which is the complete opposite of the pyramid thing; it IS about common origin, not about being the best form for the purpose. The principle is beautifully illustrated here with a dance dance dance.

“The muscles of man and cat compare favorably, indicating common origins.” . Zoology. 1952.

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#someone is wrong on the internet #reblog #yeah yeah i know I'm doing the thing #if you're going to be salty at least be correct #anatomical drawing #comparative anatomy #some context #evolution #cat #I'm a kitty cat and i dance dance dance

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Science diagrams that look like shitposts

#I have no idea what's going on #but am contractually obligated to reblog this #out of context

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Rock lobster is now stoned lobster

Let me in the lobster hotbox

#out of context #lobster #thc #i guess the main thing I'm missing is #WHY #seriously why #why do we need stoned lobster #what do we learn from hotboxing a lobster #also how do you tell me exactly what you're doing and yet leave me so many questions

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Strother et al. (2021)

#out of context #protist #cells #naked protist puts some dang clothes on

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“The muscles of man and cat compare favorably, indicating common origins.” . Zoology. 1952.

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#comparative anatomy #muscles #some context #cat #i don't have to make a jokey tag on this one it's taken care of #slightly disappointed they did not address the wildly disparate morphologies of the gluteal muscles but I'll take it

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snipitty snip

#out of context #probably something with dna? #idek but this is Classic Bio Textbook style #A+ submission #from anonymous tumblrer #submission

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algae……fucked up if true…….

#algae #eldritch #spiky wheel of too many eyes

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Choose your starter pokemon

enter the r o d e n t  o r b

#out of context #rodents #pokemon #entropy in locomotion #dipus sagitta is a weird name for a grass starter

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What. Is this Nonsense. *unintelligible sputtering*

So there’s a paper on rhinoceros electromagnetism (the context being tracking implants) and it somehow got away with publishing this fucking diagram, and I’m losing it:

(if you don’t see it: that’s a Tyrannosaurus skull)

#what #very bad anatomy #rhinoceros #sort of #not really

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When I catch you in my visual field

#out of context #walrus #visual field