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Nightmare fuel
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
A foundational memory for me was a fish dissection in middle school in which we respectfully sliced the innards of one of these bad boys only to find this exact parasite inside. All the other groups just had a fish to dissect, but we also took a supercurricular lab detour to dissect that other thing too, as my classmates from other groups gathered around with real curiosity.
Frankly haven’t thought much of it in years. Would be cool to know what this is actually called.
Fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
Butterfly https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratothoa_oestroides
Geographically given where I am, it’s probably this one