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A series of Tweets, each a reply to the previous.
- ABC News @ABC: Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country. [With a picture of a brown stick insect among some green leaves.]
- mary @theoceanblooms: can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now
- soul nate @MNateShyamalan: Entomologist here 🙋♂️🤓🐜 Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more 👀 Let’s dive in 👇🧵 (1/?)
- soul nate @MNateShyamalan: he look like stick (2/2)
The answer is that we don’t fund science at the rate that we should, especially not bug science. Want discoveries? Gotta pay someone to actually do the work.
Looking for weird sticks doesn’t make anyone rich though. Think of the economy for once.
Won’t anyone think of the
shareholder value!Think of the stockholders!
And what’s with the stickholders?
They’re entomologists!
Sorry, the best we can do is fascism, open corruption, and rampant anti-intellectualism.
You mean that scientists don’t just hang out outside during their free time and go looking for new species? That’s not how it works?
That’s definitely how the government would like us to work. But we would like piles on cash in the form of a living wage, thanks
i mean there are absolutely a bunch of people who’d love to do this, if someone made sure they have food and clothes and stuff.