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Remember when you'd turn on the radio and almost always Poker Face was playing

Back when God was still listening

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it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

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queen of the world to me

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By studying calcifying organisms, Leanne aims to better understand the impacts of human activity on marine ecosystems. Through her research, she hopes to influence policy that helps protect marine calcifiers in the future.

“Why is this important? The idea is that the more porous the shell, the weaker it is. Mussels need strong, robust shells to protect their inner soft organs—and that strong 3D structure is important for ecosystem function as habitat formers and storm defenses.

Currently, the changes seen in shell porosity are not large enough to influence the material properties, so we aren’t seeing weaker shells just yet. But with further warming in our oceans being predicted, this could potentially lead to even more porous shells, potentially impacting mussels’ function as habitat formers and storm defenses, as well as their ability to protect themselves from predation,” Melbourne explains.

Learn more about her research here.

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i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

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HELP i think i just found the funniest thing ever

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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

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Chappell Roan npr tiny desk concert cigarette butts in her hair lipstick stains on her teeth "I didn't watch the superbowl last night who fucking cares" polaroid photo of the audience entire band in matching pink outfits and cheap blue eyeshadow + running mascara the giant butterfly necklace looking like something from claire's in 2006 trashbag in her wig tiny bedazzled flip phone Suger the webkinz "I love npr I'm serious I donate" "be bimbos ladies" she is everything she is the drama she is the moment she is a STAR she really is our midwest princess

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Megan Thee Stallion Presenting Anime Of The Year Award At 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards