#nematode

desmodora very very dizzy and very very confused

why? because of all the goop and the slop in the world. all the glop in the walls and the muck on the floors, in your brain and in your lungs. thinking about it drives her crazy yet she always thinks about it, because it's very hard to ignore!

you'd understand if you were a nematode

glorpiness rating: yet

what a lovely face!

illustration from nemaplex?

Here is the link to the whole publication, on the HathiTrust, and the citation:

Cobb, N. A. 1859-1932. Antarctic Marine Free-living Nematodes of the Shackleton Expedition: Contributions to a Science of Nematology, I.. Baltimore: [s.n.], 1914.

What’s truly notable for a scientific publication like this, is the fact that the cover designer (and artist of the illustrations within) was noted in a blurb in another related journal published by the “Helminthological Society of Washington”. I suspect that the “Mr. Chambers” refers to Jay Chambers, one of the earliest members of the famous book designer firms known as the Decorative Designers!

I was wrong about which Mr. Chambers designed the cover!

It was actually made by W.E. Chambers, microscopist and artist!

Feb WBMC: Experimental Sex by @latelylately

Experimental Sex came about as I was thinking of all the amazing ways that sex (both the noun and the verb) manifests in nature. “Biological sex” in truth is diverse, outlandish, and quite beautiful. I have a particular soft spot for these microscopic hermaphroditic worms that I studied in college. This is my ode to the worm!~Ruben

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