#Morphology

Jonathon Owen

ArrantPedantry

Come on, people! There's no "p" in whomstever.https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1385071383642664964 Not in the spelling, anyway. There may be an epenthetic [p] (that is, one that is inserted for pronunciation reasons),

James Gardiner

runflyjump

1 #WBTC1 #EvoBeh1 Bats have diverse diets and foraging strategies which shape their morphology. Anecdotally, frugivores have small ears and no tail membrane. How similar are these traits between frugivorous

March For Science 🍑

MarchForScience

Listen to Experts. Or else your car could be crushed by flying whale blubberhttps://twitter.com/MyDoncaster/status/1247083713428631553 Semi-relatedly, though not really but cool because this account is run by a bunch of nerds,

Kassandra Ford

kassthefish

Oh hell I'm drinking so let's do this.So evolutionary biologists sometimes use terms without clear definitions. For instance, "convergent evolution". While organisms may be *similar*, at what point are they

Costas Anastassiou

BrainiacCostas

TL #epilepsy is the 4th most common #neurological #disorder. #hippocampus is linked to disease severity and phenotypes like seizure frequency yet impact of the disease at the cellular level remains

David R Tomlinson 💙

DRTomlinsonEP

#EPeeps Are you looking for something to do while visitags turn red?Here’s an idea+it even involves looking at much beloved squiggly lines: transmural RF effect in vivo!Pic: LAPW 1st siteGA,

mothperson

80ghosts

can’t wait for the fungal hive mind to decompose me and return me to the earth I swear to fucking god if any of you fuckers put me in a

Littlefoot

LTF_01

Twitter people who like to say that "Gould is a charlatan who didn't contribute anything to evolutionary theory," I have a question for you:Who is your favorite evolutionary paleontologist, and

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

Sex is indeed binary. Why?The answer is because of anisogamy: reproduction through the fusion of two gametes of differing size. Because there are two evolved reproductive anatomies to support two

Joel McGlothlin

joelmcglothlin

How about this: of course fitness is a phenotype because you can measure it (with error) like any other phenotype and it is the product of an interaction of genes

Vijay Ramesh

vjjan91

It took seven years, yes 7, for this manuscript to finally see the light of day. Stoked to see my undergraduate thesis in print! So what did we do? 1/nhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237431

Teresa Scordino

TeresaScordino

Peripheral smear call thread #3: Lymphocytosis #hemepath @pathelective First question when approaching a smear with lymphocytosis: is it reactive or neoplastic? Patient history can provide some clues (younger patient, symptoms

Lauren D. Pharr

ldpharr

It's Day One of #BlackBirdersWeek! The first ever week dedicated to visibility, awareness, and dialogue. We're kicking it off by celebrating our love of the outdoors and being #BlackInNature. Use

Sam K

samk_strength

The Intimate Relationship Between Strength and Hypertrophy [Thread 1/5]Strength = force production against external resistance.In the human body, It is a combination of multiple factors.Muscle massMorphologyNeurological adaptationMovement s

Peter Sokolowski

PeterSokolowski

1) The fact that people care deeply about language is an unambiguously good thing! It's easy to explain why 'irregardless' is in the dictionary, and to show that the clear

Christopher Such

Suchmo83

I think teaching vocabulary should focus on two approaches: prioritising particularly valuable vocabulary and teaching children the underlying morphology and etymology of written English so that kids can increasingly work