The Southern Fried Scientist is TA’ing Invertebrate Zoology with Cindy Van Dover at the Marine Lab here. They are having their students create a 2-3 minute podcast of a published article on invertebrate biology, called Topic in Marine Invertebrate Zoology (TiMIZ), and he is posting them to his blog and the course YouTube Channel.
I must say that I am B L O W N A W A Y by all of their performances. Especially the latest one which I absolutely had to embed here. It stars an undergraduate working on a project with me on the population structure of the vent scaleworm Branchinotogluma. These up and coming spineless idols just put out their new release Lazy Vertebrae about this paper on Osedax (one of our favorite worms here at DSN!).
Did you hear that?? DAMN!! Those are some amazing lyrics. SFS will have the lyrics up on his blog post soon. But here are my favorites:
“All the ladies are the pimps and the men are the ho’s”
“Heterotrophic degradation equals crazy delicious”
“I’m crazy ’bout those dwarf males Profizzah”
UPDATE: Lyrics are posted here.
Sweeeeeeet!!!
Osedax rap!!
I love those crab cakes like Van Dover loves chiton!
Lazy Vertebrae
Wake up to the sound of itunes
Call Cassie just to wake her up too
Hello?
What up Childs?
Yo Kirsten whats happenin
You thinking what Im thinking?
DEEP SEA VENTS
Man its happening
But first my hunger pains are sticking like duct tape
Lets hit up some dinning and mack on some crabcakes
No doubt sly and sandy could outcook King Triton
I love those crabcakes like Van Dover loves Chiton
Fish, no snails, no clams, annelidae!
I told you I’m crazy for those dwarf males profizza
Yo wheres the place to find em?
Deep sea vents, old chum
Lets hop aboard the Challenger, got things to get done
I prefer Alvin
Thats a good one too
Snorkeling is the best
True that
Double True! (two snorkel masks one over the other)
Gray whale carcasses
Step on it sucker!
Whatchu wanna see Childs?
Bulbus sac muther f@#cker
It’s the Dwarf male-WHAT-annelidea
Yes, the dwarf male-WHAT-annelidea
We love the dwarf male WHATE- annelidea
Pass the dwarf male- WHAT- annelideadeadeadea
Yo down to the whale bones
Red plumes and green stuff
They got the root sheaths
Packed with bact-teria
Got endosymbionts to be nutritious
Heterotrophic degradation equals crazy delicious!
Worm tubes are these dwarf males homes fo sho
All the ladies are the pimps and the men are her hoes
Its all about the sugar momma, baby
Hundred ‘leven to one
Polyandry like crazy
3k meters to the seep
Osedax, an all-new genus
Two different types of peeps
Species Frankpressi, Rubiplumus
No seen gut or mouth but got a crown like King Midas
No kisses from this queen even if you try-dis
Shes got a trunk of muscles and glands
Gonna use em to get males; sharing never the plan
Hope you all paid attention; to teach was our quest
And after this last chorus theres gonna be a test
On the Dwarf male-WHAT-annelidea
Yes, the dwarf male-WHAT-annelidea
We love the dwarf male WHATE- annelidea
Its the dwarf male- WHAT- annelideadeadeadea
ANNELIDS RULE!
hahaha Cassie and I spent about twelve hours to create this. The lyrics took me three hours to work out. The ones you quoted are those I’m particularly proud of :)
You realize that Andrew and I just sit here all day and sing those lyrics.