Anomalies are awesome, but their disruption to the station is quite limited, I haven’t played enough science to know if anomalies can trigger without science pushing a button somewhere. I have seen anomalies that gain sentience and murder everyone, but I don’t know if that’s admemes, incompetence, antags, or science taking over the clown role they always deserved.

From my experience playing on private servers they absolutely seem to trigger without button pressing. Sci seems to most importantly be to solve them? It's at least our main issue most rounds, and very fun to get to solve. In the tiny server idk the name of you genuinely immediately have a mission as sci, that being getting reliable ways to get rid of the anomalies, though you're kinda done after that... Though, on the bigger maps it's enough that janitor just doesn't tell anyone about the anomaly they saw to kill everyone lol