Spencer Debenport, a plant pathologist at Ohio State University, sports a tattoo of a tardigrade, a microscopic animal known as the water bear. “I have always loved microscopic critters, and there is none other as intriguing as the tardigrade,” he writes.  “The fact that they are so hardy, yet still that odd mixture of ugly/cute drew me to them and the more I read up on them, the more I wanted one permanently on me.  I am also a mycologist, so whenever I look at lichens I get to see loads of these little guys roaming around.”

In Science Ink, I included another tattoo of a tardigrade, and describe it this way:

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