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I wanna stop this misinformation being spread. Does anyone know how to report an incorrect google reverse image search result. This is not a shark named 'tasselled wobbegong", but is infact a misclassified goosefish/monkfish. https://t.co/l7pfPARDLP
A goosefish/monkfish appears to be be a subspecies of anglerfish, closely related to frogfish.While deceptively flat, it's important to also not confuse anglerfish with flounder. Brighter colored thing is actually the anglerfish species!https://t.co/UU7dTNrrYL
That video can be seen as a component of this larger collection exploring the frog fish https://t.co/2tSq76fQUL
It is also not a stargazer. They look similar when on the sea floor, but stargazers more classical fish shaped and really only appear flat because they bury themselves (instead of using camouflaged appendages like the anglerfish subspecies). https://t.co/d8kK3OSIeM
Interestingly, many stargazer and anglerfish varieties are able to use lures. The stargazer's is located in it's mouth. 😋I'm not sure if the original monkfish/goosefish imaged above has a lure.https://t.co/XJCbVUy8f4
It is possible that there are stargazers that use appendages. I am not a marine biologist, so I am not well versed in stargazer ambush tactics.This one apparently is Biofluorescent, and to my naïve eye looks patterned like a koi.https://t.co/wQLxEo1VxU
Biofluorescence is more common in fish than we previously thought, according to this 2014 post from the American Museum of Natural History.https://t.co/QflQW6Szl0
Today I learned that sharks also glow in the dark. The effect seems to be more visible if you use a lens that is adapted to a shark's vision. Also it is somehow antibacterial?!https://t.co/ijCPCYeSGp
Technically 'glow' is relative here. Fluorescence isn't quite the same thing as generating light (like firefiles), it's more a sort of remixing of UV (such as the moon).Language gets confusing quick. I am not sure if this is distinct from https://t.co/16EkQotsEi or a subtype.
Filter feeding shark has shiny teeth."white band denticles reflect wavelength in the entire visible spectrum, megamouth sharks could use the white band to reflect either downwelling light or luminescence produced by the plankton to attract and feed on it"https://t.co/hA03R2jNjr
Apparently my GF likes weird fish stuff.So now I'm learning about the varied morphology of shark eggs. Jawesome.https://t.co/EoVkItxouH
F****** mermaids, how do they work?https://t.co/X3M4EOlGmq
The shape of the horn shark is interesting. Looks like a fancy video game powerup.I wonder if the morphology of the egg has larger impacts on the morphology of the animal itself.https://t.co/FN3835wLcB
I thought sharks gave birth to live young, so this makes me wonder about echidnas.https://t.co/XkWNY2Ktgp
Apparently 'skates' also grow from 'mermaid purses' that look like shark eggs.So that means manta rays are closely related to sharks, neat! https://t.co/aybuK36aJ0
do sharks lay eggs?do sharks have dicks?do sharks fart?All vital questions for exploring the nature of an organism.https://t.co/tWtSFzJo0M
Yes, sharks have two dicks. Technically they aren't penises tho. They are called claspers.Nurse sharks apparently also like to bite during mate'ing.https://t.co/O8LC27tp1T
"Unlike a true penis, a shark's claspers aren't an independent appendage. They're actually extensions of the pelvic fins (the paired fins located on the shark's underside). Grooves within the claspers help channel semen where it needs to go."https://t.co/C8pmUcyMdB
Someone catalogued how big shark brains are. Horn shark has a huge brain compared to it's body mass (note: measuremetns are grams to kilograms)https://t.co/eW4Pzm6VF7 https://t.co/Lau5Gm2lNS
Apparently there are sometimes spurs involved with the claspers.Yeehaw.https://t.co/JN8zZTzIRR https://t.co/5NNSuAKLym
Have people experimented with this? Sounds like the kind of weird shit someone to try. :("Each shark has one anal fin, located under its body, near the tail. The anal fin helps to stop the shark from rolling sideways like a tube."https://t.co/8sKM3cXEwt
I'm imagining a bunch of baby sharks biting off fins like how axolotls nip at each other and one of them just suddenly barreling around like a tube and not giving a fuck.Baby shark, Do doo do doothttps://t.co/hodZ1vqWUy https://t.co/XX5gfYxZm5
"Several patterns of brain allometry previously observed in mammals have been found to hold for sharks and related taxa (chondrichthyans) as well." [2010]https://t.co/5e3u9Lp2uNhttps://t.co/35FY3sjDXp https://t.co/mBiTD0Wyk1
https://t.co/3ruTjJlWGh https://t.co/BnuMhNCBLe
🤔😂https://t.co/cinj2RJEFv https://t.co/8SJZBESB0h
We cannot make it without sciencehttps://t.co/NICIBXpRcW https://t.co/CweiZ2152k
Baby sharks, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh"One reason for the "incredible shrinking shark" over the eons may be the process of neoteny -- the ability of some adult sharks to retain juvenile traits -- or their ability to achieve sexual maturity at earlier ages"https://t.co/amwzBfPzjp
Cyclops sharks, do, do, do-do, do-doCyclopes are real? Thats wild."The teratogenic mechanism was identified as inhibition of the sonic hedgehog (Shh) signal transduction pathway."https://t.co/n0XyHTUdnD
Huh. Cyclopes effect also seems to coincide with brain development strangeness. Holoprosencephaly"Cyclopia: A Rare Birth Defect That Could Help Cure Cancer"https://t.co/IYUHqgMwT8
Flowers are pretty.https://t.co/XIplvGY8Gshttps://t.co/BUeXDtPdhF
If bees self medicate by grabbing pollen from certain flowers... I need to figure out what a flower is to a fish.https://t.co/ZV5XoycUY4
"Antidepressant and antianxiety medications are found everywhere, in sewage, surface water, ground water, drinking water, soil, and accumulating in wildlife tissues. [...] potential ability to disrupt [...] aquatic organisms is extensive."https://t.co/Fnw8tg8dj9
"hey google, do why don't sharks have penis bones?"https://t.co/wWneY4v1Bx
Oooh neat. Rib development seems to stem from mutations from once being a fish.With the loss of spare ribshttps://t.co/kHgNBcsapCand the loss of rib bones in humanshttps://t.co/islIKuXdYfMight explain this strange mummy https://t.co/Ms4yMw04MC https://t.co/mFeGGFN36L
It sounds like they were doing genotyping. If its the same genes as the fish, we'd expect oddness in hox genes.https://t.co/DyvwuIVm0e
Tho this doesn't preclude bone development abnormalities from other processes. It seems gut bacteria can impact fly's hox genes. https://t.co/1omNQh2NjX https://t.co/md29HwzWjy
"Hox genes continue to be expressed in adult tissues and are misregulated in certain human cancers, but their functional roles in these adult contexts are not well understood," [Nov 18 2021]https://t.co/XhEKWe7zuT
Would be really funny if biblical stories about differences in rib counts was due to oddness in hox gene expression that has since been bread out of our gene pool.https://t.co/bcXD4AJm6v
Yet another hunch derived from ant-bacterial symbiosis as it interact with genetic expression."Carpenter ants need endosymbiotic bacteria to guide the early development of their embryos. New work has reconstructed how this deep partnership evolved."https://t.co/UgPQ5bds8M
It seems that we may be able to use oddness in hox genes within sharks to mine insights into the development of how "gnathostomes" (jawed vertebrates) evolved. Jawesome.https://t.co/SanbERzEz3
Why do they call them "elephant"?oh, they have big flappy "ears" and a trunk.https://t.co/EAKCmb8Kuo
Neat that they swim with their pectoral fins like a skate/ray and not undulating their tail like one would expect.Could they have also managed to get out of water like the tiktaalik?https://t.co/jsBcjouObR
"The graceful whale swims by undulating its wide tail up and down. And so does the shark, right?Wrong.Like other fish, sharks swim by moving their tails side to side. "https://t.co/c5hIxqh1NdALSO WRONG, lmao.
I hope some poindexter comes along and corrects me on the classification on the elephant shark."Well actually, they're not really sharks at all you see..."Listen buddy, they're named sharks. not "ratfish".Not my fault their slow to evolve.https://t.co/W44wKVcmlT
Next you'll be gatekeeping me about sturgeons.https://t.co/CxeuoB2EHX
@Bullwong @WhySharksMatter Fish are really confusing in general. I learned yesterday that Chondrostei were once thought to be sharks but no longer due to fossil record findingshttps://t.co/heHwI5cUY2I grew up being told sturgeons were a kind of shark because they had cartilage and i'm salty about it.
Gonna invent a contrived classification scheme based on the number of hox gene clusters within the animal because at the moment I find that lens to be the most useful. By definition, the clustering method is defined by rolling a 5 sided die. https://t.co/3AEsC7D3sn
You can just make up classification schema. There's nothing stopping you. https://t.co/3BvIqCRQNf
Discover how to annoy the scientific establishment by classifying everything as a fnord. Taxonomists hate him. Taxidermists love him. Machine learning classifiers are unsure about him. The establishment can't explain it.https://t.co/oaQJCfMz8L
Orthologs are neat."We also show convincingly that the horn shark HoxM and HoxN clusters are divergent based on the same characteristics described above and that HoxM is orthologous to the mammalian HoxA cluster, whereas HoxN is an ortholog of HoxD."https://t.co/l9fNobcLXI
Mice with HOXA1 mutations exhibit autism signs.https://t.co/TnecPyTgjLBut it doesn't seem to hold up in humans.https://t.co/oOxF9PBVxJMight just be impacting expression of something else?https://t.co/v9uG0DHSeGneat.
Somehow I've wandered away from shark gene mutations and have begun to explore snail penises.https://t.co/ywawsLmzsfhttps://t.co/fo8HU1YEC9 https://t.co/6Js0dUYVLN
Maybe explains asymetrical sharks?"Bilaterian animals are more or less symmetrical about the midline that divides left and right, but internally most organs are asymmetric in location or shape. How is symmetry broken during development"https://t.co/GOvXKkOyAh
"Asami maintains a particular mutant strain of a land snail species, called Bradybaena similaris, in his lab. These snails have about a 50-50 chance of coiling left or right. Right-handed mothers in this strain lay both right-handed and left-handed eggs."https://t.co/KEriDwP1hf
Sharks might store sperm, or do that whole fish gender change thing."Understanding these mechanisms—and how they impact genetic diversity—could be vital for the future of shark conservation."https://t.co/HoCWv9sDbf
What species is the Prozac shark?https://t.co/tEmI5u8snf
What happens if you put methylation related compounds in the water and induce stress in the shark by impacting feeder fish?"These findings provide insights into the epigenetic control of gene expression underlying stress-induced behavioral adaptation." https://t.co/LxJmkc99KV
"Disappearance of a keystone species often results in a complete rearrangement of the food web."https://t.co/6Loqo1tqmyhttps://t.co/jdYoMCANCN
Trophic cascade go vrrm."being affected at a distance by things they can’t speak to. And the three points in the triangle, as far as the worm-pig-orchid cycle, each of them are performing acts that are independent of the next one"https://t.co/MsCjYFyIbAhttps://t.co/KffXhhgBPm
We are as yet unsure the impact trophic cascades have on biodiversity. "Our results argue for greater consideration of physical processes in the modeling of community dynamics." https://t.co/a4wqBs7C1J https://t.co/MtKYPoTb7F
"Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth"https://t.co/AUWu45sfAG https://t.co/6loV8XdPdi
Cold loving greenland shark lives a long time.Here's @hankgreen talking about nematode worm genes as being possibly related to why.(Also contains cool bit about Wobbegong lobes at the 5m58s mark.)https://t.co/yaX3ILfOIt https://t.co/9ifwdj6x3m
If sharks are fish, do you think they eat worms?It seems that research on cold tolerance among nematodes has been expanded to include C. Elegans related adaptations in this Sep 2021 paper.https://t.co/c9fpscK7sgYes, yes! Haha! sharks.https://t.co/jG7xyKIpde
I bet there's a direct link between cold sensing TRP receptors in cold tolerant wild C. Elegans and downstream impacts on metabolic function. It should also be mirrored in that long-aged shark, but perhaps via an ortholog/paralog/homolog.https://t.co/POM05ZxAQA
@SuryaGanguli I've been looking at gut bacteria as a possible mediator of oxidation to impact longevity. It also shows up in C. Elegans.https://t.co/ADy9z1IgIUWe are modeling TOR signaling in that species.https://t.co/UpG0pxcaj4 and implications around how gut bacteria impact mTOR.
"Genomic biology needs to get beyond semantic issues. It needs to focus on defining those sequence-structure-function relationships that are necessary for understanding both the structural origins of biological function..." https://t.co/v6wYPo60OnFNORD!
Everyday I learn more about sharks.Apparently there is a Wikipedia initiative to document every known Shark. https://t.co/oyi5xVE0yvhttps://t.co/qHljuL4f6C
I also found #sharktober on tumblr via /r/FuckYouImAShark and wow some of these diagram are great. https://t.co/oo6xJ7nER1 (there are posters!) https://t.co/a9vqm77OxS
Baby shark...https://t.co/2hyTiaHd4u https://t.co/MKQqjbqn3R
I'm learning so much about sharks.https://t.co/95eisUKb1h https://t.co/VBXwOhYPol
I'm learning how to teach with memes.https://t.co/7MI9JkuSfq
Ancient Soomer probably liked sharks too."All three Sumerian names suggest that the vanes were made of wood; one of the three may possibly indicate that the vane was made in the form of either a fish (shark?) or a mythological water monster." https://t.co/YDV6g6zUC7
How many monsters are now simply myths?"As temperatures rise and the oceans change, our fate has become linked to that of our terrible but beloved sea monsters, our squids and whales and sharks. Our challenge will be to not let them fade into myth."https://t.co/9GgbHekM0d
Ichthyostega is a funny looking mudkip. I wonder if they regrew limbs like the shark.Dragons are real.https://t.co/NLrNQBsqpJhttps://t.co/hBfIlLxiLq
Ribbed for her pleasure?https://t.co/2KiG5sK2rN
"*Interesting: Some believe that the “rib” in the biblical creation story is a mistranslation of a biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, and it was the bone removed from Adam to create woman explaining its absence in humans but presence in other primates"https://t.co/UdF26O9mtU
I find it strange that all my threads about evolution and limbs end up touching on about penis morphology. Its super annoying. https://t.co/EMjKqiCwks
Freudian jokes about penis envy bias aside. It seems one of the major reasons is simply that its easier to see phallic morphology over vaginal shape and function? https://t.co/QW9PLc8ilQ
So for my purposes, the egg seems to be a good proxy since it seems more commonly understood, widely used in the animal kingdom. We also focus on egg laying because it's used in chickens /ostriches as a foodstuff in industry, so there is a natural research bias in funding.
Even Jesus framed himself in a feminine coded caring role, but western ideological bias would frame him as a giant cock or something. SMH. https://t.co/1hSGhsI08f
"in which Jesus likens his care for the people of Jerusalem to a hen caring for her brood. This image, had it caught on, could have completely changed the course of Christian iconography, which has been dominated instead by depictions of the Good Shepherd"https://t.co/ySOYc1Tqly
I wonder what Jesus would say about stealing children.https://t.co/a0mg4x5bgO
The lion laid down with a ewe. Due to a bacterial infection driven the by sheep having Syphilis, the ewe had a lamb via a phenomena of parthenogenesis like the shark.https://t.co/QVhP5StRtK
People with Diabetes seem to have neurosyphilis more often than not. No one knows why, but it might be due to gene expression.https://t.co/ZGXcUS7J9j https://t.co/GQP70vl6Mh
I can just make things up as a joke. And they turn out to be more true than not. https://t.co/e9PAtZF3TTI hate this so much.https://t.co/xtRPyD3zRM https://t.co/ckhLEOmQcK
Who's going to win? Some autistic guy who DGAF so is out here making jokes about sonic hedgehog to reference a children's cartoon about evolution and gene splicing, or some curmudgeon who like to bash religion because it gives him high status?Jawsome.https://t.co/s8oerEBV7S https://t.co/cefZkXGI0c
Just shitposting about a plausible mechanism to drive immaculate conception because of wondering why sheeps can sometimes have two heads like a shark.Now I want a two headed pupper.https://t.co/QULbuHggcR
Oh, of course SSRIs in the water impact Diabetes and MAPK and acting on this pathway wtih viral infections could mimic parthenogenesis in the shark. Duh.https://t.co/M9hu9FOvc6Doesn't everybody know this? 🙃https://t.co/jv48BwqfmP
beyond.https://t.co/ElWmQuKoQlhttps://t.co/MRx9sxgJkM
"Some scientists say the condition, known as diprospus, is a variant of the change in embryonic development that leads to two-headed animals.Others argue it is due to an increase in expression of the sonic hedgehog (SHH) gene" https://t.co/F8LCI6C4ic😘
Brb, looking up spontaneous regeneration of ovaries after dog is spayed.Do you think I can have a spayed dog give birth to a mythic two headed beast?I bet I can.https://t.co/lok4j5AbtO https://t.co/RDw3SswMmx
Another stickynote for my wall of insane ideas that I think are plausible.https://t.co/3FSATpMrbw
Riva is right."it is becoming evident that T. gondii infection can also cause problems in immune-competent individuals." [2012]https://t.co/EZqrNbzBrdhttps://t.co/TxsGQ4cAit https://t.co/EfpiiX03rK
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly.https://t.co/DtGpqfW2w9
I know a lot about T. Gondii.https://t.co/UZDhwFcDQA
Highly recommend reading everything about T Gondii put out by Robert Sapolsky.https://t.co/HXTsAsnMSr
And being really curious about bear dicks.https://t.co/sZiHOH6G6d
@Leon_Vandenberg @GMDxCo I also have a hunch that the weird thing where maned lionesses pass on their traits to their offspring is associated with T gondii + stress. I guessed from this that brown bear females would a) have t gondii, and b) have pseudopenises like some hyenas. Nature is so weird.
*exasperated reeeeee'ing noises*https://t.co/wSSVRfwclk
Oh wow, now Alex is angry at Joe for "knowing all about it". This is what it's like for me at family events -> its like a penis measuring contest over knowledge. Poor Alex has no idea that Joe did an interview with Robert Sapolsky on the topic of T Gondii?https://t.co/PLSuHQydVO
"Robert Sapolsky talks about Toxoplasmosis.Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #965."https://t.co/tBNVqAy7Dj
I think I figured out why there are some mongooses that don't get T gondii. Some scientists assume it's a genetic resilience. I suspect its just because there aren't any snakes acting as hosts/vectors on the islands.https://t.co/1fQwxGHe1t
Can FMT cure this?"Our lab has started using Toxoplasma to model Crohn's disease in humans and help us find the pivotal perpetrator, which has turned out to be a cell from our own immune forces." [February 22, 2011] https://t.co/uZOeg1wnLRMaybe.https://t.co/XyDLjMwuTH
Is T Gondii the only culprit who can trigger that autoimmune feedback loop?Not if I'm right about human hibernation.https://t.co/zzQluA0z8U
Sure wish there was some connection between seed oils, oxidative stress, and gut microbiota that someone might be willing to test on themselves.Oh wait, I did. It worked.https://t.co/4CGGsbyG0k
"Grip Strength Is Associated With Cognitive Performance in Schizophrenia and the General Population: A UK Biobank Study of 476559 Participants"https://t.co/jJ5QnCHpdu🧐🤨🤭😘😌😏😉😜🤪https://t.co/DsPBx1lozP
It's been a long journey. I had some success after my crazy gut cleanse thing in 2018, but triggering the immune flair up made it reverse. After the FMT my crohn's symptoms complete vanished and now I'm stronger than ever.https://t.co/KEhrVja9yJ
"transplanting a totally new human gut microbiota in one shot, which is referred to as FMT, is likely to strongly improve the efficacy of microbiota-orientated treatments in MD and schizophrenia and maintain the effect over time." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/Ged7u2Twxj
Hopeful that things may eventually change.https://t.co/XyDLjMwuTH
I am removing sticky notes faster than I can create them.https://t.co/wu9C1MycI8
Where the fuck do ideas come from, anyway?https://t.co/gDHV01nt0a
@ultimape i do think this impression might actually only have become pronounced in recent years tho. there's been large efforts in recent decades in US at making the church more "man-friendly" (as they were losing men at a much greater rate than women through later 20th C.)