A few day ago , podcastJust the Zoo of Ustweeted a somewhat unobjectionable and fun Charles William Post ask their follower : " What is the most overhyped animal ? "
The podcasters , who order animals , probably bear a few half - joking , half - right answers along the likes of " dolphins are gummy sharks " and " cats are just a bull type of dog " . Which they did get at first , and a lot of them were pretty with child , evoke some good points and everyone kept things civil .
Then , Michael Eisen , editor ofeLife – a value compeer - reviewed open entree scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences – joined in with an result that turned science twitter into an unexpected Battle Royale : He thinks a 1 - millimeter foresightful worm is overestimate .
A fate of masses took it in the spirit it was meant .
However , it sprain out you could call otter overrate swampland rats , but dangle forCaenorhabditis elegans(C. elegans ) and you ’d advantageously not escape .
The nematode – while it does go onward and backwards a draw , and is one of the simplest organisms with a nervous scheme – is incredibly useful in scientific inquiry . Many of their factor have functional counterpart in humans making them a useful simulation for human disease , for example , and they have a brusque life cycle and pump out bollock like nobody ’s business . They can even be stop dead and defrosted , as pointed out in the tweets above . They ’re also transparent , so you may take a glance inside them at individual cells without anything nettlesome like skin have in the path .
It also has a for the most part humor - free fanbase , as theC. eleganscommunity have against Eisen ’s input in more and more bizarre , disproportionately furious responses .
Eisen at least has a sentiency of humor .
TheC. eleganstalk spill over into non - worm Twitter , where it briefly trended and was met with quite a lot of bafflement . This was , after all , an argumentation about somebody smack - spill a 1 mm roundworm .
finally , he ended up spelunk into Twitter requirement and praised the worm . All hailC. elegans , and all who stick to it .
And the Twitter business relationship that started all this ? They learn their example about try out to do anything fun on the Internet .
