• spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    one of my intern cohorts upon seeing a bunch of starch granules in an algal TEM: “are these cells kinda… fat?”

    supervisor: basically yes

    (makes sense as we cultured them under blazing 24/7 LED lights in rich growth media)

  • 🐋 Color 🍁 ♀@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Chonkus sounds like the name of a videogame boss.

    You beat the “chonky” cyanobacteria. You think you’re safe and you’re going to use all that EXP on upgrading your armor, then suddenly you’re greeted to a gigantic health bar which takes up the entire width of the screen, with the name “CHONKUS” above it.

    Boss music plays