Hyperbolic Tangent Distributed Observer. Snark is my first language.
Whenever someone writes "they can't hybridise", Nature says "Hold my beer".
RosewindWe have a beautiful mandarin (known as Mandy or Rin) who comes and hangs out with our mallards on the canal He seems to prefer mallard company to that of other mandarins This means we don’t get baby mandarins (they can’t hybridise) but he is much loved by tow path denizens
"The rest of the long first paragraph lists all the qualities Catherine Morland does not possess: she is declared to be not an orphan, not poor, not mistreated, not beleaguered by ill-health, not beautiful, not feminine (i.e., not physically weak), not sensitive, not exceptionally gifted,..."
Courtney MilanOne of the things I love about Jane Austen is that everyone knows what these characters look like, people almost universally agree on what that is, and the text itself NEVER PROVIDES DESCRIPTIONS beyond bare bones things like "tall," "very tall," and "exceedingly tall."
"The depths of scientific stupidity are always expanding…" Deep is the well of stupidity. Should we not call it bottomless?
Sholto DavidToday I'm posting a blog about another ridiculous antibody blunder. Dozens of papers in the senescence and ageing field have mistakenly used an antibody for E. coli β-galactosidase when trying to stain for the human protein with the same name. forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...
"It's my thing!" I say, to explain the almost inchoate black entity from some other plane of existence that always accompanies me, always behind and on the left, somehow protectively yet slightly closer every day
LurkyMcLurk“its my thing!!” I say, dragging a dead deer through a conference hall
My use of a pseudonym when sciencing is inviting lots of research questions already answered by my use of a pseudonym. journals.openedition.org/regardssocio...
They call it 'addictive manufacturing' but I CAN STOP ANY TIME.
peer-reviewed-slopYeshiwas, T.A., Tiruneh, A.B. & Sisay, M.A. A review article on the assessment of additive manufacturing. J Mater. Sci: Mater Eng. 20, 85 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s407... Journal Impact Factor 4.3
TIL that drinking pearls has many health benefits. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha... I grieve to report that the authors of this TCM fiddlefaddle failed to cite the Cleopatra case-study. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/jou...)