When your girlfriend gets excited about mantises looks you in the eye and says "you know what they do to the males right" with the biggest shit eating grin.
Bug girls are fun.
I am forever telling my boyfriend weird bug facts. He listens, smiles, and lovingly calls me a dork.
He’s not wrong!
Be the beautiful Orchid Mantis you've always wanted to be.
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I feel like Tilda Swinson falls into this category.
That FKA Twigs?
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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If you are here asking: "Is this a science meme?"
Probably, yes. We use the Dawkins definition of meme: a replicating idea, not just an image macro with a fact on it. A good post here doesn't need to teach you something. It needs to make you ask something: who, what, where, when, and especially why or how.
Science isn't a filing cabinet of facts, it's a conversation. For example, a photo of an eel or other localized wildlife counts because most people never see one, and wonder is the first step of inquiry. A car meme counts if it makes you curious about what's under the bonnet. If you want to talk about something you noticed in the world, chances are someone else wants to talk about it too.
We moderate for vibe, not category. Pruning is light, especially where a post creates interesting discussion. Experimenting is encouraged.
See the pinned paper on Shitposting as Public Pedagogy if you want the academic case for why this works.
