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TFW when I was watching Ruri Rocks and decided to check the online discourse

Making Autism Acceptance month start with April Fools' Day feels like a hate crime

Ascodipteron euryale is a newly described species of wingless, endoparasitic fly. The female fly burrows into the base of the ears on a bat and form a cyst where she will spend the rest of her life. 🧪 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1835...

Alright, time to check out what AliExpress has recommended to me lately

There are so many things in organismal biology that are so inherently funny that they can be humorous without any embellishment. The secret is to deliver the punchline in the same tone as the rest of your talk, let it sit for the briefest of moments, and move on without drawing attention to it.

I've written a post on Pinnotheres pholadis, a species of pea crab, and it is about how a smol bean can stunt the growth of juvenile scallops 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/03/pinn...

I was looking for new materials to add to my nematode lecture and stumbling up some highly explicit worm porn, starring a pair of Caenorhabditis elegans. 🧪 From here: www.wormatlas.org/male/musclei...

I'm FINALLY back on my bullshit. It's been a while since I've drawn a Parasite Monster Girl so I'm a little rusty, but it feels good to be getting back into it.

Also, it's great that we finally get to see Methode POP OFF this episode

Something I've liked about those anime-only fight scenes in this adaptation is that they depict how Frieren has essentially been showing Fern the way to deal with tough opponents, and how this culminated in the way that Fern was finally able to defeated the demons in this arc.

While most parasitic flatworms (like flukes & tapeworms) belong to a group called Neodermata, there are a few other families of flatworms that have independently evolved parasitism. One of them are the Fecampiids which infect a wide variety of marine animals. 🧪 www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I wish there were more episodes of Gnosia so we can see what happened in these loops

NGL, that'd be me, for the right book

Ooooh they're dropping hints about Solitär... 👀

One of my favourite papers about Trypanosoma parasites is this study where researchers infect zebra fish larvae (which are transparent) with Trypanosoma carassii and were able to observe how these single-celled parasites move through their host's body. 🧪 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I might not look it, but this is what's going on in my head whenever I have to talk to a stranger or a colleague whom I don't speak to often

Oh, the Manatees! They're full of flukes, apparently. 🧪 journal-of-parasitology.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

That's a big meal you have there, queen - I hope it will keep you well fed 🙏

As a general rule, I *never* interact with the fandoms of the things that I enjoy, and that's how I have been able to *continue* enjoying the things that I enjoy

Australia is honestly so Americucked - despite tourists getting randomly detained by ICE for weeks at a time, the government's Smart Traveller site still list the US as a safe destination for travel and you only need to "Exercise normal safety precautions" www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations...

This one for the pentastome real heads 🧪

This isn't funny! Tanks only do this when they're very stressed!

Me walking to the library: Yeah i'm a total litpilled bookcel. I'm basically going read mode and i'm giving librarycore vibes.

Just found out there's a tiktok trend of people recording audio/videos of "planking til failure" and here I am, doing multiple sets of planking until failure everyday for the last 9 months without ever recording a single second.

I've written a post about Galactosomum nagasakiense - a flashy fluke which lives rent-free in the heads of fish and literally gives them brain rot 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/02/gala...

The bone collector caterpillar is a carnivorous caterpillar that lives in spider webs. It disguises itself with the corpses of the spider's prey, while stealing food from their eight-legged host's web 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Uncle Roger's entire bit is just doing a really racist accent and playing a racist caricature of Asian people. His career is basically built on that whole schtick. It gives people an excuse to be racist towards Asians.

The ocean's Little Monsters: Monstrilloids are copepods with a peculiar life cycle. While the adults are planktonic, the juveniles are parasitic. They invade the bodies of invertebrates such as polychaete worms, and burst out of them xenomorph-style 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/11/cymb...

When I show my friends some new trinkets that I have just acquired

Just a reminder: Don't try to chat/DM me on this site - I can't read them

Tergivelum cinnabarium is species of deep sea acorn worm which is noted for being a big fan of Junjo Ito's Uzumaki #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wormception: Veneriserva pygoclava is a worm with a name that translates into "Venus' servant" - but the truth is quite the opposite. It is a polychaete worm that has evolved to live as a parasite inside the body of other polychaete worms. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/vene...

💅 Not me and @alaskanime.bsky.social in discord comparing who's been a Jack Horner hater for longer* *spoilers: She won, she's been a hater since 2005, whereas my Horner haterade started at ~2010

This is by far the best anime-original depiction of Frieren

Usually when a light novel gets an anime adaptation, the ultimate goal is to attract more readers to the light novel. In that regards, Shiboyugi has failed for me - because I refuse to experience this story in any other format which isn't this.

I was on Tune FM (the University of New England student radio station) to talk about Sponges, Carnivorous Sponges, and a worm that lives with carnivorous sponges 🧪 #Invertebrate www.tunefm.net/2025/12/19/c...

Shiboyugi has an oppressive atmosphere that lingers throughout every second of each episode. It's like a quiet nightmare that fills you with dread at every moment.

I know we won't get to that arc this season, but they did hinted at *him*

I was on Tune FM (the University of New England student radio station) to talk about Polypodium hydriforme - a bougie caviar-munching jellyfish relative 🧪 #Invertebrate www.tunefm.net/2025/12/23/t...

As someone who prefers to cite their sources for just about everything I post online, and always try to make my statements as lucid as possible, this vagueposting trend is an absolute bane. I'm not falling for that engagement bait shit, I'm just gonna keep scrolling

Gotta hand it to Gary Larson - literally cow tools 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Finally got myself the Chinese edition of 寄生蟲図鑑 - the illustrated book of parasites published by the Meguro Parasitological Museum

Big Croakers vs Big Suckers: I've written a post about an outbreak of Limnotrachelobdella okae leech at a croaker farm off the coast of Raoping County, and how those big leeches and their bloody appetite caused a mass fish die-off #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/01/limn...

Pectenophilus ornatus is a species of parasitic copepod that lives on the gills of scallops, and it doesn't look anything like what you'd expect a crustacean to look like #Invertebrate 🧪 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biog...

Whenever I find out a colleague is using LLM to do literature searches and to "summarise" papers

Hexametra angusticaecoides is a nematode worm that usually infects lizards, (see: dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2020/08/hexa...) but this study found bats infected with this worm, possibly from eating insect prey which are usually eaten by lizards. #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Look at my cats #Invertebrate #Insect

I am always on the look out for papers to write about for the Parasite of the Day blog, but because I can only write 12 posts each year, there are always interesting papers on my short list, that I didn't end up writing about on the blog. 🧪 The thread 🧵 below are the PotD honourable mentions.

My EDC kit includes some reading material, so if I find myself in a conversation I don't want to be in, I can do a tactical roll and start reading a scientific paper or review/edit a manuscript instead