Last week I used the office hot water dispenser for tea, and it was so gross I couldn't drink it. I immediately rage bought an electric kettle for the office. Now I'm enjoying a perfect cup of tea as God intended, complete with tardigrade mug.
#TeaBreak #tardigrade

Finally, finally, I've mastered the #moss sex without using complicated technical terms. Now it's time to ask the #tardigrade more questions. Then scripting the outro. The final spurt.
In the evenings and during breaks, I create the sound design for the episode (in thoughts).
Sleep is overrated, coffee undervalued. 😂

Tomorrow a disaster day of proofreading between multiple appointments.
I'm my own worst critic.
Then sleep. A voice needs sleep.

#NatureMatchCuts #podcasting #scripting #comeback

Tardigrades are amazing. Dehydrated, cooled down to -143 degrees Celcius, warmed to room temperature under vacuum, rehydrated, and still living.

#science #tardigrade

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/april/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-tattoo-tardigrades.html

Tardigrade
#Tardigrade #MossPiglet #WaterBear
A4 Giclee prints or Organic Cotton Teeshirts with a space tardigrade printed design. Available with a black background.
Message me for details.

as a #tardigrade species has been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear , #CurrentBiology have plugged my recent feature about them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIQmslDMwJT/ #science #ecology #invertebrates

Zwei meiner liebsten Tierchen ...

#capybara
#tardigrade

Woohoo! A #tardigrade is Invertebrate of the Year! 🥳

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 winner

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history

"A piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet" - I'm just sitting at the interview with this fascinating person, suddenly she cries Yabba dabba doo! - her species won the Guardian #Invertebrate Of The Year contest! 🎉 "They are gloriously independent animals. They don’t need us half as much as we need them." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/guardian-invertebrate-of-the-year-2025-natural-history
Should I ask her what she thinks about the article?

#NatureMatchCuts #tardigrade #tardigrades #invertebrateOfTheYear2025 #podcast #mossPiglet #invertebrates

It's crazy, I spent nearly the whole afternoon working on the interview with a Tardigrade (research+writing) - and spoken it's only 10 minutes long. I need another day for writing ...

End of the working day now. Laziness!

#podcasting #interview #tardigrade

"When the researchers injected messenger RNA encoding this [#tardigrade] protein into mice, they found that it generated enough protein to protect cells’ DNA from radiation-induced damage. ... This protein plays a major role in tardigrades’ ability to survive radiation doses 2-3,000x higher than what a human being can tolerate." http://news.mit.edu/2025/tiny-tardigrades-protein-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapy-0226

if this looks familiar its because i worked on it more...
still so weird to me i came up w 'taks as a tween and then tardigrades were real,, this whole time

original is for sale: https://ko-fi.com/s/4f724e4c84
#tardigrade #nikitak #painting #canvas #originalalien

#Innewsoftheabsurd and in competition with Water Bears (survived outer space exposure) Ozobranchus jantseanus, a turtle leech, is the largest animal known to survive being immersed in liquid nitrogen for >24 hours. Its ability to survive ultra-low temperature seems to be a side-effect of its adaptation for surviving desiccation. #Science #Nature #extremesurvival #waterbears #Tardigrade #water https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/10/7/bio058524/270852/Morphological-mechanism-allowing-a-parasitic-leech

#Innewsoftheabsurd and in competition with Water Bears (survived outer space exposure) Ozobranchus jantseanus, a turtle leech, is the largest animal known to survive being immersed in liquid nitrogen for >24 hours. Its ability to survive ultra-low temperature seems to be a side-effect of its adaptation for surviving desiccation. #Science #Nature #extremesurvival #waterbears #Tardigrade #water https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/10/7/bio058524/270852/Morphological-mechanism-allowing-a-parasitic-leech

#astronauts #tardigrade #DNA #radiation #cancer

"Scientists have discovered a wild treatment that they say could protect astronauts from the copious amounts of space radiation they'd be exposed to during trips into deep space.

In an effort to find new ways to protect cancer patients from the many side effects of radiation therapy, a group of researchers found that a protein from tardigrades — tiny, practically indestructible 'water bears' that have been known to survive the hostile vacuum of space — may be the answer.

The protein was previously identified as helping tardigrades survive some of the most extreme conditions on Earth — and yes, even space.

Now, a team led by Harvard Medical School instructor and MIT visiting scientist Ameya Kirtane used messenger RNA encoding to inject the protein into mice. As detailed in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, the team found that their technique generated sufficient protein to protect the mice's DNA from radiation-induced damage.

The same method, they hope, could eventually be used in human cancer patients."

https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-astronauts-tardigrade-rna-radiation-damage

This little fella is a #tardigrade and I absolutely adore how chubby it is with it's eight little legs. Slowly floating through space - umm I mean a water droplet.

just a lil painting. i still cant believe i made up nikitaks and the real life little water bears was right there with all their little claw limbs already traveling the stars. so cool

orig in the https://ko-fi.com/s/7a2b3adfc9

#tardigrade #nikitak #painting #acrylic #smallcanvas

ざわ・・ざわ・・

#tardigrade #plushie

some tardigrades have crystal poop which forms during digestion

#tardigrade #poop

this is neostygarctus lovedeluxe. it is the best species name

#tardigrade #jojos_bizarre_adventure