I understand, however, I feel that the critique of this meme is an overreach and, frankly, misdirected. By focusing on this as a problem, we risk diverting attention from the real, substantive issues that need our energy and advocacy. It’s important to pick our battles wisely and concentrate on fighting blatant sexism and inequality, rather than reading into harmless humor. We do a disservice to the cause by attacking allies over perceived slights that, in reality, are neutral and unrelated to the broader struggles women face in STEM. Regardless of who is in this meme, it does not effect my position as a woman in STEM in any way.
Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis experience enormous changes in both morphology and lifestyle. The current study examines whether larval experience can persist through pupation into adulthood in Lepidoptera, and assesses two possible mechanisms that could underlie such behavior: exposure of emerging adults to chemicals from the larval environment, or associative learning transferred to adulthood via maintenance of intact synaptic connections. Fifth instar Manduca sexta caterpillars received an electrical shock associatively paired with a specific odor in order to create a conditioned odor aversion, and were assayed for learning in a Y choice apparatus as larvae and again as adult moths. We show that larvae learned to avoid the training odor, and that this aversion was still present in the adults. The adult aversion did not result from carryover of chemicals from the larval environment, as neither applying odorants to naïve pupae nor washing the pupae of trained caterpillars resulted in a change in behavior. In addition, we report that larvae trained at third instar still showed odor aversion after two molts, as fifth instars, but did not avoid the odor as adults, consistent with the idea that post-metamorphic recall involves regions of the brain that are not produced until later in larval development. The present study, the first to demonstrate conclusively that associative memory survives metamorphosis in Lepidoptera, provokes intriguing new questions about the organization and persistence of the central nervous system during metamorphosis. Our results have both ecological and evolutionary implications, as retention of memory through metamorphosis could influence host choice by polyphagous insects, shape habitat selection, and lead to eventual sympatric speciation.
More than anyone wants to admit and it usually gets incinerated for safety reasons, depending on how good your regulations are. Labs have to contract services for this.
We don't judge here. :) (mander.xyz)
What does a PhD mean? (mander.xyz)
Its diving speed during flight is more than 300 km (186 miles) per hour, making it not only the world’s fastest bird but also the world’s fastest animal. (mander.xyz)
Oxygen. (mander.xyz)
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Solanum Smoothies (mander.xyz)
Greebles! (mander.xyz)
best time of my life!! (mander.xyz)
Wolfram 🍑♥️🔥 (mander.xyz)
Memory Soup (mander.xyz)
Survey says: You're louder than the bullfrogs. (mander.xyz)
Hmmm... pungent, weakly aromatic! (mander.xyz)
This one goes out to all the pipettes I dropped. (mander.xyz)
Mustard brings all the boys to the yard. (mander.xyz)
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This would have been a better WoT meme. (mander.xyz)
But the wheel weaves as the weave wills, Mandragon....
An impressionist fond of a waterlily pond, that's a Monet (upload.wikimedia.org)
GitHub - cbh123/narrator: David Attenborough narrates your life (github.com)