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I don't know any scientists that aren't very passionate of their own research though. That's making this even more absurd and nonsensical...

But it may be something to work towards to, isn't it? Or at least get rid of these societal taboos?

Where I live and grew up (Germany), there isn't that much of a taboo on nudity. I liked showering in my gym for example where there is only a shared (gendered) shower. Since starting my transition I wouldn't feel welcome in any gendered shared public shower however. I would really like to stop hiding my body but instead feel more included among cis people. One day I hope...

I still prefer going swimming naked (if there are not too many people around) because it avoids gendered swim wear. At most lakes in Germany you can find people going swimming naked or with swim wear. Just coexisting :)

That sounds really nice!! Unfortunately it is hard to find such a space where people who are non-binary or have bodies that don't fit into the gender binary can go to and feel welcome :'(

The person on the right looks dreadful at the thought of sex then?

And well, PhD students are in the lab at night working overtime and doing their research lol

Haha yes, recursion is always fun!

Although I'm still confused on what the clock would show in an hour. Because if the subclocks mirror the parent clock at the given time, then they would all be stuck to the hour they are positioned on? Or if they can move then the sublcocks are coupled to 3 o'clock of the main clock. But well, it is all hypothetical anyways :D

For more info: true facts video about snake movement

Yeah, pretty cute! Especially with the expression it got on its face ❤️

Yeah, that's how we did it for my PhD position as well. Someone still send an application anyways but they were clearly not fulfilling these hyper specific requirements so my prof didn't have to invite them :)

What a fun idea!

Is it on purpose that all clocks in this are coupled at the 3 o'clock position? I assume all the clocks go the same speed. Then the large clock and all the smaller clocks at the 3 o'clock position (there are 13 of them) would show the same time. E.g. in one hour, the 12 o'clock position would show 1 o'clock, but the large clock and all the clocks on the 3 o'clock position would show 4 o'clock.

Oh and why is it a clock squared if you have three layers of clocks? Isn't it cubed then?

Oh OK. Apparently I completely misread the expressions. I read the expression of the person on the right as surprise and dread. Like the person on the left said they want to do something more fun and the person on the right now remembered something not so fun or was offended by what the other person said...

Thanks for explaining anyways!

I'm serious, I really don't get what this is about. That the research they've been doing isn't fun? But why would this one scientist say this? Doesn't make much sense and I clearly don't get the joke. Maybe someone can explain?

Apart from what others commented on these being two entirely different species, there might be other factors at play as well.

Lianas and vines are pretty common and very diverse, especially in tropical forests. They are usually found as part of the upper canopy and if there is a tree fall, they manage to fill this gap pretty quickly. The trees grow more slowly, but will manage to establish themselves eventually, filling up that gap. But if you cut down an entire forest, trees have a much harder time to establish themselves because the whole ground is just covered in these fast growing lianas or vines. There are studies that look at exactly that, how lianas inhibit forest regrowth.

So, how overgrown with lianas or vines a certain habitat is, is very much dependent on the disturbance of this habitat.