Spot-On SMBC Comic about Scientific "Findings"

The comic-strip author this one.

Mouseover text: "Somewhere, there's a scientist reading this, wonder[ing] why I made a comic with no hyperbole."

Some scientists get all the breaks pic.twitter.com/l327NT5vFd

— Adam J Calhoun (@neuroecology) June 14, 2019

Does Scientific Reports Correspond to an Outhouse?

So, based on that analogy, does Scientific Reports correspond to a nearby outhouse? :P

Thinking of submitting to Nature, by which of course, I mean going deep into the woods to live in a cabin and never opening a laptop again.

— Amy Schwartz 🦇 (@lizardschwartz) April 10, 2019

Plants that Look like Stones

Wow!

Lithops, South African plants that have evolved to look like stones. pic.twitter.com/6NQqniKZbJ

— Back To Nature (@backt0nature) November 5, 2018

XKCD: "Negative Results"

I am amused.

"Compass Grass" (aka "Clock Grass")

This is amazing.

Word(s) of the day: “compass grass”, “clock grass” - common names for kinds of beach grass (Ammophila), given for their habit of inscribing perfect circles in sand when their leaves are swung by the wind.
Photo by @JamesPMarsden (”8.30 on the sand-clock”) pic.twitter.com/NvBN2O4V9e

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) January 29, 2018

Natural Space Invaders

Check our this natural game of Space Invaders!

Who made this?!! 😂 #EntoGIF 🐞🐛🐞🐛💥 pic.twitter.com/UYpLReeW8I

— Ashleigh Whiffin (@AshWhiffin) December 10, 2017

(Tip of the cap to Matthew Holden.)

The Bee Nailed It

Bee removes a nail to make a nest in a wall 🐝 pic.twitter.com/CXSjZAkVLA

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 12, 2017

(I saw this Tweet because Sabine Hossenfelder liked it.)

Eclipses Go Meta

Good. Something is right in the world. (Also, I strongly approve of this!)

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" during the total solar eclipse? Bonnie Tyler will perform her hit during the eclipse. https://t.co/G8ouPpTmeM pic.twitter.com/cOYJ20ryrx

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 16, 2017

(Tip of the cap to several people for this news. I got the tweet from Cathy O'Neil.)

Turkey Tail Mushrooms

Wow! These turkey tail 'shrooms are beautiful!

''Turkey tail mushrooms,'' an actual thing, not a painting pic.twitter.com/l7I4Yha34A

— Life on Earth (@planetepics) July 17, 2017

(Tip of the cap to GrrlScientist.

A Really Nice Dragonfly

Check out the awesome patterns on this dragonfly!

And now, a lovely dragonfly by Budak https://t.co/nFrMiOn2v6 pic.twitter.com/KwIeODq9GG

— Gwen Pearson🐜 (@bug_gwen) June 25, 2017

(Tip of the cap to Meghan Duffy.)

A Cookie Undergoing Mitosis

This is a rare shot of a cookie undergoing mitosis in the wild.

A Colorful Bird

Here is a gorgeous, very colorful bird.

(Tip of the cap to IFLS.)

Images of a Microscopic World

These images of a microscopic world are gorgeous (well, most of them).

(Tip of the cap to Alexander Morisse.)

Trojan Butterflies

I recently wrote a blurb for the Improbable Research blog on what I like to call "trojan butterflies". As you will see from my blurb and the article to which I link therein, the monicker is apt and the phenomenon is fascinating.

New Prescription-Strength Nature

The sad thing is that I assumed that this video about prescription-strength nature was referring to the journal Nature rather than to actual nature. I think I need to get out more.

(I was also wondering if the prescription-level version had less bullshit than the off-the-counter version.)

Clearly, a parody of this parody video is in order.

Ocellated Turkey

Wow, the ocellated turkey is really pretty!

(Tip of the cap to IFLS.)

Raindrops on Spider Webs

I really like the patterning that I saw this morning with a bunch of raindrops on spider webs. I am showing one picture in this entry, but here are a few more.

Coral is Beautiful!

Take a look at these absolutely gorgeous pictures of coral! Wow!

(Tip of the cap to I Fucking Love Science.)

Letters (and Numbers) and Butterfly Wings

Well, it turns out that one can find every letter in the English alphabet, as well as the numbers 0--9, imprinted in butterfly wings. Awesome!

P.S. I hope somebody appreciates the allusion in the title of this entry.

(Tip of the cap to I Fucking Love Science.)

Water Bear

The "water bear" depicted on this page looks epically awesome, doesn't it? (It looks like an alien out of a science fiction novel or possibly a creature out of a Monster Manual.) Apparently, they are virtually indestructible.

(Tip of the cap to whoever does the Facebook posts for "I Fucking Love Science".)