I Am Home Safe From ICVM 2016

i am home safe from ICVM 2016

i really, really need to figure out a way to get paid to attend academic conferences because holy shit what incredible fun that was even just an afternoon.

e: on that note have you all considered helping support my work on patreon

okay i may have made a tactical error 

i found out one of grandmother's least-racist friends was also coming so i chose to not be a shut-in 

my grandmother spun it as me going only because she was and she has become 

handsy

a dilemma

have breakfast with grandmother BUT her racist white friends will have Opinions™ -OR- stay in my room for a sixth consecutive day, eating terrible pickles and tweaking Windows 10

peacocks are more efficient and better at moving when they have a full train as compared to without. turns out this may be because they get swole af during breeding season to compensate

Mark Hughes talks to CBS 

Smith’s Longspurs have a mutualistic relationship with a peculiar sort of fungus of the genus Cyathus, more commonly known as a Bird’s Nest fungus. This unusual mycorrhiza forms as a shallow bowl-like structure, and utilizes the droppings of nestling Longspurs to nourish itself and surrounding grassland. In return for vital nutrients, the grasses provide shelter and food for the small insects that parent Longspurs feed to their children. By the time the chicks are ready to fledge, they are coated in fungal spores and will distribute them far and wide.

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“Hey Nikole, why do you still read newspaper comics?”

because that is not edited in the slightest