Did you like this cartoon from the other day?
Good news! Now you can buy it on t-shirts and totebags, and the profits go to the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. It’s a must-have for every biologist feeling oppressed by the vertebrate hegemony.
Nov 09 2011
Invertebrates for Peace
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QV
9 November 2011 at 8:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
octopuses
Ty Gardner
9 November 2011 at 8:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sorry, but I refuse to support those of you that lack the backbone to stand up for what is right.
Xenithrys
9 November 2011 at 8:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I won’t support any group that’s not monophyletic.
Amphiox, OM
9 November 2011 at 8:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
But why are there two molluscs represented, and only one arthropod?
And what’s that clade-traitor echinoderm doing there?
Glen Davidson
9 November 2011 at 8:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The only reason anyone can say that they’re the 97% is that there’s no actual taxonomic greed.
Not that we mind stepping on a whole lot of them. But they do have their taxa.
Glen Davidson
Caine, Fleur du Mal
9 November 2011 at 8:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
One tote/shopping bag will be purchased on Friday. Can’t have enough of those.
DudeOfDubiousFunniness
9 November 2011 at 8:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@PZ
Not sure if this had been done before… but…
“Want to be taken seriously? Grow a spine!”
ChasCPeterson
9 November 2011 at 8:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Copepods are too hard to draw.
Why, representin’ for the Ambulacraria, one presumes. Not just invertebrates, but proud of it over there on that branch.
WebbessD
9 November 2011 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s a must-have for every biologist feeling oppressed by the vertebrate hegemony.
Stop. Biologists are privileged vertebrates. They can be allies, but they shouldn’t pretend like they *get* it.
A. R
9 November 2011 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
What about virologists! I detect a hint of lifeism here! :)
Amphiox, OM
9 November 2011 at 10:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Do you think there could be a sufficient combination of inducements and appeals to Deuteurostomic solidarity, that could peel them off back to our side?
Amphiox, OM
9 November 2011 at 10:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You just need a new definition for “life”. How hard could it be? What with all the options already floating about out there….
gijoel
9 November 2011 at 10:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@qv Ocotopi. Die heretic scum.:P
shouldbeworking
9 November 2011 at 11:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m a hard core (some of my students would say hard ass) physics teacher, and I want one!
Physics: messing up students’ minds since Archimedes.
Russell
9 November 2011 at 11:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Invertebrate diplomacy seldom avoids war because spineless pacifism cannot rear its ugly head.
Besides, It takes jaws to jaw jaw
stubby
10 November 2011 at 12:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That got a solid chuckle out of me.
may
10 November 2011 at 2:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
you left out the cuttlefish of Spencers Gulf in South Australia.
Chris Bonds
10 November 2011 at 2:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Showed it to a friend and he was disappointed that beetles weren’t represented. I think he was recalling Haldane’s comment.
mythusmage
10 November 2011 at 8:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Down with metazoans, support bacteria; the 99.999%!
shouldbeworking
10 November 2011 at 3:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Eukaryotes rule!
Marius Rowell
10 November 2011 at 6:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Cool logo – had to buy a shirt just for the fun of it :) Love the message too…..