Dr. Anna Krahl
@paleokrahl.bsky.social
PhD, geologist, paleontologist and flipperologist, Junior Consultant for ecolables and communication, mom in #STEM, she/her
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Look at this MANPAD-ahh nematode
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Look at this MANPAD-ahh nematode
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
(note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time)
From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey
A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, Emory physicists have found.
news.emory.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
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Like other academics, I have collected work contracts like other people have collected stamps.
a woman in a red and white striped shirt is throwing papers into the air
ALT: a woman in a red and white striped shirt is throwing papers into the air
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November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Like other academics, I have collected work contracts like other people have collected stamps.
Is there anyone out there who is also put off by certain 'quirks' in people's voices?
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is there anyone out there who is also put off by certain 'quirks' in people's voices?
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore.
Me:
I am always extremely suspicious when everything about someones live is perfect: perfect career, perfect look, perfect partner/marriage, perfect kid that's perfect at every thing... you know what I mean. I truly deeply believe that this doesn't exist because humans do human things and fuck up.
a girl in a school uniform is standing in a car with the words i wish you luck below her
ALT: a girl in a school uniform is standing in a car with the words i wish you luck below her
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December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I am always extremely suspicious when everything about someones live is perfect: perfect career, perfect look, perfect partner/marriage, perfect kid that's perfect at every thing... you know what I mean. I truly deeply believe that this doesn't exist because humans do human things and fuck up.
Yeah, well, I can't sit still for a minute but to each their own.
Cave life's not all bad for olms. They live *exceptionally* long lives for an amphibian (100 yrs!), possibly arising from the fact that they have no natural predators & have been known not to move for up to 7 years.
Just tiny pink dragons guarding their tiny water-filled caves for a century. 🐉💧
Just tiny pink dragons guarding their tiny water-filled caves for a century. 🐉💧
One blind, aquatic salamander may have sat mostly still for seven years
Olms may live for about century and appear to spend their time moving sparingly.
www.sciencenews.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Yeah, well, I can't sit still for a minute but to each their own.
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... at least, in the adult. The larval form do have functional eyes, but these never develop, get overgrown as they mature, described as "regressed".
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
The olm: the blind cave salamander that lives to 100
In the caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives an animal that’s a cross between Peter Pan and Gollum. It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the proteus and the “human fish”, for its...
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
... at least, in the adult. The larval form do have functional eyes, but these never develop, get overgrown as they mature, described as "regressed".
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell.
But what about the brain regions?
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Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
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Searching for answers but not seeing shit
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Searching for answers but not seeing shit
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
Cutting through my burdens over and over again
Put these beautiful people six feet underground
I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets
I hate everyone and every fucking thing
This is my war
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Eine Mutter ist mit ihrer Tochter im Kindergartenalter bei uns in der Praxis.
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Eine Mutter ist mit ihrer Tochter im Kindergartenalter bei uns in der Praxis.
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist.
"Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?"
Die Kleine:
"STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!"
😳
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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I had a job interview recently...and for the first time in my whole working life I thought "This isn't my dream job, so you can't use me and make me deal with shitty circumstances and your bs. What if _I_ don't want _your_ job under these premisses?!"
a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is holding his hands to his chest .
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November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I had a job interview recently...and for the first time in my whole working life I thought "This isn't my dream job, so you can't use me and make me deal with shitty circumstances and your bs. What if _I_ don't want _your_ job under these premisses?!"
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you must become the cactus
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
you must become the cactus
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Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?!
Quelle: Merkur
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Quelle: Merkur
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Warum fressen Krokodile keine Capybaras? Expertin gibt Antworten
Capybaras gelten als die entspanntesten Tiere der Welt und sind Lieblinge des Internets. Sogar Krokodile lassen sie in Ruhe. Aber warum eigentlich?
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November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?!
Quelle: Merkur
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Quelle: Merkur
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I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.
a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a building and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a building and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.
Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?!
Quelle: Merkur
search.app/6xHtZ
Quelle: Merkur
search.app/6xHtZ
Warum fressen Krokodile keine Capybaras? Expertin gibt Antworten
Capybaras gelten als die entspanntesten Tiere der Welt und sind Lieblinge des Internets. Sogar Krokodile lassen sie in Ruhe. Aber warum eigentlich?
search.app
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?!
Quelle: Merkur
search.app/6xHtZ
Quelle: Merkur
search.app/6xHtZ
I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.
a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a building and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a building and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.
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"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
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Reposted by Dr. Anna Krahl
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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If you see this, post a monster 🌊
#kleinekunstklasse
#kleinekunstklasse
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If you see this, post a monster 🌊
#kleinekunstklasse
#kleinekunstklasse
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You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Me 🤝 mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Me 🤝 mashed potatoes
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.