if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
Reblogging for the new phrase. I’m now using it every time I accidentally step on a bug, etc
Aphrodite: Let’s see how bad I can fuck things up
Apollo: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Athena: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Xanthus: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Hephaestus: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Artemis: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Hera: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Ares: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Zeus: FUCK YOU POSEIDON
Poseidon: FUCK YOU ZEUS
Zeus: NO YOU
Poseidon: YOU
Zeus: YOU
Poseidon: YOU
Hades: Can you guys please quiet down up there I’m trying to work