stefanie

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

The first couple positively looks like Anne Lister and Ann Walker

Hmm

They're almost here... soon.

How lovely it is to start Monday with some good news (Brazil and Serbia obliterating farrightos) 🥳

Just saw a wonderfully rotund rock pigeon with pretty plumage. The very definition of a borb approaching a blorb shape

At last the time has come, Miss Fortuna smiles upon me! [narrows eyes] Oh no, wait, it says "misfortune". Ugh I tend to conflate those two

Kestrels always look so cute politely perched somewhere with their polite looking talons, it's easy to forget that they're one of the most precise tactical hunters

If I had to attend some kind of inter galactic symposium in order to plot against dark forces, then Hanae Mori’s mid #1970s butterfly dress seems well suited to such an endeavor #iwamiartmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Vision is sort of an anthropomorphic personification/metaphor for both Westview & The Witches Road - a bunch of subjects trapped in an illusory place until something happens and they're free in a way. The question is, how will *this* quest end

Also, the leaves protect tree roots during winter and benefit the soil ecosystem in general 🍂

Speaking of POI, I will absolutely *never* forgive the show for killing off Root

My lesbian awakening definitely was these two

Finally reading(and loving) Tom Baker's Doctor Who: Scratchman. An exciting, gripping high-stakes adventure

Honestly, not the best idea ever this sun devouring thing. I mean look at Apep

Re-Animator but it's about Re who, out of slight boredom, comes up with a brilliant idea to breathe life into every single hieroglyph across the entirety of Kemet

T'Pol, my beloved

"I have been challenged to a duel," she said. "For kissing a woman." "Did she consent?" the swordmaster said. "Yes, but men courting her did not." "Ah. How many?" "Are these men good?" She gave three names. "Far below your level." "Excellent!" She rose. "There are more women I want to kiss."

ASTRONOMERS DISCOVERED THE FIRST EVER GREEN STAR AND NO ONE’S TALKING ABOUT IT

The biggest upside of having a(quite severe in my case) aphantasia is that i can read horror genre books without being even slightly unnerved. You can't be terrified by a faint outline projected against a shapeless grayish void in your mind's eye

The way a Doctor Who/Lower Decks crossover would totally fix me(probably)

Yes! Every possible animal, including scientifically accurate dinosaurs

Oh the cast of VisionQuest is stellar stellar. Jarvis in his original form, Jennifer Goines and Deacon(of 12 Monkeys the series), Dennis and Robert(Goes Wrong Show) and PHILOMENA CUNK

Absolutely adore this photo. Plus it has very Anne Lister(Gentleman Jack) vibes

My personal choice is Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. If you weren't afraid of the dark before, watching it might at the very least make you wary of it A tiny downside tho - when i see any depiction of a skull sporting an astronaut helmet i can't help but refer to it as 'Vashta Nerada' 🙃

I'm as excited about the upcoming The Ninth Doctor and Susan's Xmas audio reunion as the next person but oh how i wish it was live action

Making the local festival fair a part of your route especially when you're broke is hardly a wise idea, but a walk is a walk(and must be taken)

Anyone barely remembers but cats were using rats(and mice) to dowse for cheese 😌 /j

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

I don't think Ammit would approve of this attempt to interfere with her diet as she obviously prefers to gobble them hearts raw 💁‍♀️

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." 🩸 Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Just learned that the snoot of a prehensile-tailed porcupine is soft and squishy(kind of like marshmallow). The boopiest of snoots

Entering the month of Halloween like 🎃💃

it’s sword time

I can't even begin to describe the magnitude of despair that i felt upon seeing those headlines. Noooooooo

TNG wouldn't be the same without Picard's omnipotent boyfriend occasionally emerging from the Continuum to annoy him 🤧

Star Trek: Generation Next ♪ next phase next stage next grade 🇳​​🇪​​🇽​​🇹​ ​🇼​​🇦​​🇻​​🇪​ ♪

I'm a bit surprised no one made a Doctor Who video set to The Littlest Hobo theme song

All of a sudden i have a barely controllable urge to rewatch Enterprise. I miss T'Pol

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.

I liked the Uhura-centric season finale. And TAS easter eggs? Made it even better

Ibis' out for a walk with pizza.

idk why eating soup makes me so sleepy. Seriously, the effect soups have on me puts to shame most of sleepy teas 🙃

I know a malophile who would totally appreciate those apples