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Torymus sp. chalcid wasp today at the Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK. Despite the large ovipositor, this tiny metallic green parasitoid wasp does not present any danger to its untimely perch, AKA my finger.
inaturalist.org/observations/1

Real time. Hi I'm Dani, a medical lab scientist. I've been on the net since the '80s, so this isn't my first rodeo. :blobcatfingerguns:

If you don't know what we do, we make doctors look smart. We do all the blood and body fluid testing — , , , , , etc. We are the jack of all lab trades.

In my previous life I was in . I love all kinds of , , , , about games and media, , and . My guilty pleasure is .

Damn. I wrote hear instead of here. Where's the edit button?

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Now I just have to find out how to send direct toots to someone (not DMs). Lot's of fun hear, like polysaccharides, without which we wouldn't exist.

In case you wonder what I do: I run a small last-mile Internet operation in rural Eastern Poland (no, that's not me in the picture, that's our technician)

Academics, I am BEGGING YOU when you move on to a new uni please for the love of god leave a forwarding email!

Y'all all moving to a new uni every 5 seconds and your old email just dies. It's probably cleansing, like when a force quit closes 500 tabs, but I'm a tab! Please I want to talk to youuuuuu.

Not gonna give up after half an hour here, but how do I follow people on other servers? [no, I didn't RTFM]

Wetlands, where I live, two years ago. Now they're drying quickly.

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