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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago

Correct me if I’m wrong…. But isn’t finding a new bacteria rather common for people who look at bacteria?

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

Yes.

For a long time identifying bacteria required growing them on different media. If then bacteria didn't grow on the media,, we didn't know what it was. However for most pathogenic bacterium we did figure out how to culture them.

Then molecular biology advanced to a level where we can amplify and sequence a single bacterium's DNA. This has led to a continuous stream of new species discoveries from different environments.

Finding a new pathogenic bacteria for humans is still a rare discovery.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's new to me.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If that happened to me, and I got rid of it, I'd ask if the infection could be named after me.

I want it to be remembered that I won.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Nah. They would name it Spspspspspiosis.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

That sounds more like the name of the treatment than of the bacteria itself.

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

Meowmonella

[-] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago

Really? You want an annoying disease to be named after you? Like "fuck me i got the stoy today"

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I would want them to let me choose the name.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I'd want to have them to name it after me. "Dave Fever" has a ring to it.

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[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 45 points 2 months ago

Way to ruin that guy's Plague Inc run, man.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

20 years later...

Kid: Dad, why did everybody turn into cat-zombies?

Dad: They caught Dipshit Nigel Disease, son.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 36 points 2 months ago

For science!

🫱😾

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

I foster extra spicy kittens and tame them so they can be adopted. Each time one bites me I think about how I have almost no insurance and this could be the one that unalives me. Those puncture bites are amazing. This little predator weighing less than 1% what I do can do me in with just their teeth.

My pet geese are so much safer.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 27 points 2 months ago

spicy kitten

If it looks like this, it's a lynx.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This spicy puppy was recued from a frozen lake and driven to the vet.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

"I am too cold to do anything other than lay here, otherwise you'd get a bite."

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

That's a werewolf kitten, you can't fool me

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

No, these are werewolf cats

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No lynx native to my area. But a bobcat is always an option. Some legends tell of cougars. I can always hope.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Foster also, just had a foster fail.

But man, even if it killed me, still totally worth it.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

We had four cats die within a year. All orange boys.

Then one day I get a call from a place I'm doing Trap Neuter Release. Some mom just dropped three kids on a porch. I go grab the kids and set a trap for mom. I get the kids home. Three orange girls, two are bobtails. I've been on the hunt for an orange girl for years. Jackpot.

Really hoping we get mom because these are bottle babies. Get mom. Orange girl with even less tail.

I know I'm probably keeping mom no matter how feral she is. Definitely one of the kids too.

Time to make the decision. Which kid to keep. Wife vetoes me. We are keeping them all. Plus two more orange girls that will show up over the year. I have six orange girls. Probably more than anyone on the east coast. So much foster fail. So few braincells.

Eventually tame mom after 12 months and multiple attempts on my life. So many orange girls.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Omg.

We were up to 6, chain reaction of cats really.

Last two of those, found one standinf in traffic, ran out and scoped her up, we were close ever since. Second was my wife's foster fail, turned out she was pregnant and didn't know.

Last one was a tortie who got attached to me, haven't done a ginger yet, used to do a ton of bottle babies, those were painful.

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[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 27 points 2 months ago
[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 months ago

Sure, he gave permission for them to publish the paper about him. But, did he give them permission to address him solely as "48 year old obese man?"

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

That is literally adding insult to injury.

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago

I call the big one bitey!

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

All the people who let their cats roam, run the risk of this and other horrible things. If cat owners are too selfish to care about the local ecosystem and their neighbors, maybe their and their Kitty's safety will get them to listen.

Found a half a cat in my yard a few weeks back, cause the neighbors wouldn't fucking listen when I kept telling them that there are coyotes in our area

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

The most important part is missing: Did he got to name the bacteria?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Cat haters violently rubbing their hands...

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

How do you violently rub your hands? Do you mean excitedly?

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You rub them so hard it starts producing smoke!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 months ago

You imagine that you're grinding up little tiny people between your hands while giving an over-the-top maniacal laugh.

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[-] Fabrik872@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[-] Toes@ani.social 9 points 2 months ago

Oh this is how we all turn into cat girls

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the screenshot but where is the link?

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I don't know what the rest think, but if you can't find an article when you know the name of the site, the name of the author, the date and the title I think it's more appropriate if you don't get a link.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Link for convenience. This could be AI generated garbage.

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We are going to be fucked when ai learns to write articles and attach them to links

[-] odelik@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago
[-] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

That's a great picture

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago
[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 months ago

Involves a cat, well known meme vehicle for millennia

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I too really want to bite that pink nose in the picture

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