Meriel's blog

Well my week has been exciting so far.

I had some other work to do this morning (Figuring out some algae stuff involving 1000 L mesocosm up a mountain) so mystery species has been sitting alone in the lab all morning…..

Made it up to the lab today to find this. It’s probably from the fridge defrosting and not the creepy “algae”.

June 13th Update.

According to a few colleagues it’s either a plant, an algae, or a fungi. So that’s been helpful.

After a day with some sunlight I think I might be seeing some chloroplasts.

It seems to like the nutrient solution I added yesterday though!

I for one welcome our new plant, algae, or fungi overlords.

I was about to say “in a sensible lab people wouldn’t waste time with this, they’d autoclave the bottles and move on” but on reflection I can’t think of a single bio lab I’ve been in that wouldn’t immediately go “ooh, mystery algae, that sounds like a fun challenge; let’s devote multiple hours to identifying it for no reason”.

I need updates tell me about the algae

The mystery algae/plant/fungi/alien is stuck in the university growth chamber. With everything going on I probably won’t get to check in on it until September, possibly not until 2021.

So by that time it will have developed what, writing?

God I hope so, then I can train it to write my thesis!

This entire post is the most on-brand biologist thing I have seen in my entire godforsaken life. The moment this pandemic is over these guys have another crisis ready for us.

Can we get an update cause this is crazy

Update: Due to the global pandemic, the algae has been left alone in a weird hidden growth chamber for a year and will likely stay there for another year. Enjoy that information!

Oh god oh fuck oh Jesus fuck

small child: [absolutely incomprehensible gibberish]

me:

(photos via @snickers)

Honestly that’s a brilliant marketing strategy

nobody look at me I'm an idiot

I am the smartest person alive

nope, I’m dumb as fuck

I’m a beacon of knowledge

Monsterfucker makes it sound like I only want them for their body...no...I am a monster romancer. I want to take them out on a date, have some delightful and witty conversation over wine. Dance together under the moonlight to an orchestra of crickets. I want to learn about every little thing that makes them who they are. And then I fuck them.

Guillermo del Toro ghostwrote this post.

They didn’t make it

SCREAMING

listen to me. are you listening? i’m looking directly into your eyes. pay attention. the reason baby yoda is popular is because he’s a puppet. if he was cgi nobody would even care about him. remember that.

[photo id: Twitter post from James L. Sutter/@jameslsutter: “I hereby propose Henson’s Law: Even the best CGI will look crude in 10 years, but awesome puppets will always look like awesome puppets.” end id]

Cmon guys. Wikipedia deserves this

PLEASE THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

Boys will be boys

I found the stickers! Looks like they're in Dollar Tree

Once sent these to a friend (to award herself), so cute to actually give to roommates like that!

That's not a map that's an Excel spreadsheet.

#god can someone gerrymander that a little #just for variety

fool (self-diagnosed)

in superman adventures #19, there’s a villain named multi-face who can convincingly disguise himself as anyone, even tricking dna tests and x-ray vision. Superman initially can’t stop him

and the only reason he gets caught is because multiface decides to disguise himself as, of all people, CLARK KENT i’m screaming

why do villains always mess up so badly

Clark Kent attending Bruce Wayne’s yacht party where Bruce told Clark to wear his clothes and……

This bullshit needs to get into the movies, not edgy-grimdark shit

I especially love the fact that, in many depictions, Bruce Wayne somehow ended up looking similar enough to the one Kryptonian on Earth that they can Parent Trap people

*Deathstroke bursts into the Legion of Doom headquarters* “Guys, you won’t believe this, but I think Bruce Wayne is Superman!“

today I learned that Clark Kent is sloppy drunk and I am in eternal gratitude for that

I’ve seen this post go around a couple of times and I’ve never seen anyone add the time that Clark somehow got high.

i say “somebody’s making brownies in North Dakota” whenever my irl bizarrely strong sense of smell is bugging me plz reblog so ppl will get the reference thx

sometimes i forget that bart is canonically a telepath

HES A WHAT

Of all the random lore I have stumbled across on this site… Canon Telepath Bart Simpson is the absolute last thing I expected, and that’s saying something.

i dont think any of you understand how important i am to the plot

you can kill me off but everyone will stop watching