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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.

Ironically her "method" did start to show some success

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The same person who'd hug a tripping octopus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Only Japanese ones

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So β€œoctopuses” would be technically correct with β€œoctopodes” and β€œoctopi” also accepted.

If you’re writing Latin, you’d want octopi instead. If you’re writing Greek: octopodes.

But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Octothingies is my favorite

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it's actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you'd still want octopodes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, look at all these plurapodes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

There's lodes of them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You want 8 pies? What?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Title fixed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

An octopus stole the pixels, huh

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

"the lab's pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a" just doesn't have the same oomph

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you people share webp links to messaging apps? Preview never shows and sometimes the image doesnt open

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.