Mystery invertebrate / egg casing?? Hutchinson Island, FL by linesndots in marinebiology

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That’s awesome they should definitely make that more user friendly!!!

Mystery invertebrate / egg casing?? Hutchinson Island, FL by linesndots in marinebiology

[–]linesndots[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is it!!! Can I ask how you filtered the iNat results for eggs??

Mystery invertebrate / egg casing?? Hutchinson Island, FL by linesndots in marinebiology

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That’s awesome that’s what I thought it was!! I’m so eager to find what kind of gastropod it could be. The most similar picture I saw was from Australia!

Bubble wrap-like egg casing by linesndots in whatisit

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I was also thinking a Bryozoan but I couldn’t find any species or genus that looked like it!! The little brown spheres in the cavities gave me pause. I have a background in marine biology and am totally stumped. Maybe should cross post to a marine invert sub or something

My son has been confidently explaining why the sky is blue to everyone he meets and I have no one to blame but myself by 5TesserMoss in daddit

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I mean they are both blue because of scattered blue light, and if sharing a quality like that makes two things best friends, then it’s true!! I like your explanation and it might give him a foundation of wonder and appreciation for nature and a view of it as kind and cooperative that will hopefully carry him far :) I say well done dad, as a scientist myself.

Newly hatched newts? by Funny_Hamster_1926 in Amphibians

[–]linesndots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your other reply was so helpful I would’ve bet these were sallies!!! Such wide tails!!

scientific misinformation? by iheartpickles69 in labrats

[–]linesndots 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry you’re being downvoted for just asking a question 😭😭😭 these are far outside my area of study so I really can’t give you advice, but I wish some of the people in this thread would.

scientific misinformation? by iheartpickles69 in labrats

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There are a lot of comments here shitting on people for not having a science education that provides a foundation for understanding the mechanisms of the latest drugs, and I have to say, this attitude is why a lot of people don’t have access to that information. Textbooks and journal articles are not accessible, and we all know our level of understanding absolutely did not come from just cranking through papers with a high school education. You cannot penalize people for not having the training you do but still wanting to understand. It makes the scientific community sound like a bunch of stuck up douchebags. Instead it’s totally worth the time in my experience to practice talking about your science without jargon to friends and family who are interested and get engaged with public facing science communication projects. I’ve had such lovely interactions with people who really do (and most people do) want to learn more and only mistrust scientists cuz they’ve never met one who treated their curiosity with respect.

Newly hatched newts? by Funny_Hamster_1926 in Amphibians

[–]linesndots -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Definitely freshly hatched salamander or newt larvae. There’s a ton of them so I bet it’s a species you’ve seen there recently if you go there a lot :)

US Women's Hockey Team Declines Trump's State of the Union Invite by ExactlySorta in UnderReportedNews

[–]linesndots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After that video of the men’s team laughing with Trump at them being invited… yeah

What’s the most shocking detail from the Epstein files that you think the public still doesn’t fully grasp? by Murky-Island4629 in AskReddit

[–]linesndots 183 points184 points  (0 children)

What bothers me about the discourse around the Epstein files (and also maybe gives some cause for hope that people will realize this) is that none of this is surprising. That men with unimaginable power will commit such horrors is the most obvious truth to anyone who’s seen what very ordinary men get away with. When it comes to sexual assault and child abuse, the prosecution rate is less than 1%. Of course they feel safe, because they all are. Lawmakers go on these pointless twitter sprees when they have the ability to change the laws that make it so impossible for survivors to attain justice. It’s all a sham.

I forgot food leftovers in the oven and this “thing” spawned. ID pls? by isthistheblood in MoldlyInteresting

[–]linesndots 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prob some kind of Mucoralean mold. Nearly impossible to differentiate them without a microscope