The shirt reads: “THEY’RE BRAINROTTING A FRUIT FLY.”
Below it, a fruit fly hovers in front of a mobile phone showing a scrolling feed, its compound eyes fixed on the screen.
Fruit flies are the standard laboratory animal for genetics, so testing something on one is a real methodology. What is being tested here is not.
For the very online, for biologists, and for a joke that is funnier the more you know about Drosophila.
