This past weekend, I was off at Lake Itasca with a group of new biology students, and one of the things they did was collect plankton and bring them back to the lab where we took micrographs of what they found — lots of algae and crustaceans and rotifers, etc., etc. But we also saw some colonial protists, and one of the things I saw the students excitedly discuss was Volvox. It’s always nice when I can just sit down and shut up and the students are enthusiastically explaining to each other how biology works.
So, anyway, I think I know a few more people who are in the market for the swag mentioned by Matthew Herron.
Yay ! And another shout out for my old buddy dictyostelium discoideum, another micro-organism which lives in the fuzzy interface between unicellular and multicellular lifestyles.
Looks like you’ve got it made, this year, anyways! (And none of ’em believe Goddidit, eh?)
Adorable. I especially like the Diatoms t-shirt.
Students teaching each other? All you need now is a couple of good VHS tapes and you’re on easy street. (;
More lovable marine ganisms: “Cuttlefish found to have number sense and state-dependent valuation” http://phys.org/news/2016-08-cuttlefish-state-dependent-valuation.html
Tpyo stole “or” from organism :(
OT: Placentas rule! “Genetic study of skinks suggests extreme matrotrophy evolved only once in Africa” http://phys.org/news/2016-08-genetic-skinks-extreme-matrotrophy-evolved.html
OK, not a water organism, but still cool…
The Microorganism (Boiled in Lead).
Warms my heart.
Boiled in lead? Meh. It did not stop the Alien.
*perks up*
…oh. Misheard.