Hey for those of y'all who decided to start following me here, I don't even post here anymore? If you want to see new posts, you should head to my bsky account

@ErickRudianto A special brand-new one just for today

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@aconfused_bi @JHelminthology @FossilFlex Aww, thank you! 😊 I'm over on bluesky too - I post more often there

@MalMyrth0 You'll be surprised by what a lot of wild animals can tolerate. If you look at crickets or mantis that are infected with the freshwater species of hairworm, the parasite is really large compared with the host, yet they manage to survive long enough for the hairworm to mature.

@raptor_chatter Host manipulation can be costly and may require the parasite to secrete certain molecules in order to bring about the altered behaviour. If it's not necessary, then they won't do it. Most parasites don't engage in active host manipulation because it's not worthwhile.

Had a conversation with my friend about how applying for a tenure-track position is like the academic equivalent of the first-class mage exam in Frieren

@GPFindersClub Yeah sure, feel free to do that

Hey y'all, I have a new paper in Parasitology Research about parasites in flathead fishes. In summary, they got worms all over - worms in the mouth, worms in the guts, worms in DA BALLS. It's open access, so it's free to access for everyone.

@FossilFlex @JHelminthology OMG lol

It's really surreal to see Japan's next prime minister doing all this publicity about how much of an otaku he is, because there's a whole thing in Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction about the PM in that story being a massive otaku

@lovessmallsong It reminds me how in Chinese there's two translations for laser - there's "激光" which means "excited/stimulated light", but then there's the phonetic translation "雷射" which translates directly into "Thunder Shoot"

Current WIP

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