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[–] eldain@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Human zoomies feel great :)

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I say this to myself when I see people jogging and I really just want to yell "what are you running from!?"

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are running from existential dread.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Syltti@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Always have been.

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

Let's say it's part of a mating ritual. I know this is not true, but I believe it gets the point across.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My favorite is to shout out, 'What are you running from!' when people jog by.

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[–] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago

Would look creepy on a T-shirt and even more creepy as a tattoo.

Maybe it could work on like an ironic t-shirt or something, but it would heavily depend on if there is anything else on the t-shirt.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the animal, I suppose. A lion or a wolf would be too edgy and have rapey vibes, but a house cat or derpy good boy would be funny to me.

An octopus with Apex Predator under it while it is unscrewing a jar would own.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

One time, I was in the arctic doing some research. On a snowmobile, in winter, we crest a hill and see a couple of wolves pigging out on a caribou. I'm riding in the toboggan, and I start telling at the driver: "go go go!" They proceeded to chase our snowmobile for like a mile, with no hope at all of catching us, but running anyway. Like dogs chasing tires, I think they had no choice. Instincts are strong.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago

If an apex predator is running, maybe keep up.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I know it's a joke. But would a wolf consider a human an apex predator? What about bears? Do these animals fear humans? I can't say I'm familiar with them. I figured they wouldn't, in most circumstances. I would think their default stance towards us is that we're their prey

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 23 points 4 days ago

We are certainly not their prey and without modern urban sprawl forcing animals into urbanized areas they would avoid humans as much as possible and this has been true for thousands of years.

Humans are the ones wielding fire after all.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The bears and coyotes around here hide from me! Even if I try and creep on 'em, they still usually sense me and run.

[–] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe put your dick away then

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Just giving the boys some air! Some animals are so damned judgemental.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

"ah shit, it's that weird human again. Better hide or it will get awkward"

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 days ago

Most animals know humans are too much trouble to mess with.

Sure, you can kill one human. But next thing you know your whole species has gone extinct, or worse, has been domesticated into pocket yappy dogs that can't breathe properly.

In places where we've been around long enough staying away from humans has practically been bred into every surviving predator's instincts by now (which is what makes polar bears so terrifying, they're about the only dangerous predator that doesn't have this instinct yet, and probably never will, now that murdering whole species has become a bit of a bad look); anything that considered us prey and didn't learn not to simply doesn't exist anymore.

Wolves in particular (in the few places where they survive) definitely know not to mess with us, except maybe in the frozen depths of Canada, and so do most bears (again, with possible exceptions in the least populated bits of North America) except polar ones.

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[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Conserving energy is not really our thing.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The thing is, humans are astonishingly good at conserving energy when running. We can literally run prey to death by just keeping on going when most animals run out of energy.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sweat offers cooling bonuses.

Something about being upright too but I don't recall.

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