If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.
This is where I am these days too! Sometimes it feels like there is this pressure to always be dating new people but that gets draining really quickly
my classmate is popping ph strips into her mouth like gum 😐
So, let's talk about measles since there's a new outbreak in Canada.
Measles is even more infectious than Covid and tends to spread quickly, mostly in unvaccinated children. It's a miserable disease and the side effects can be nasty, even deadly. It's especially unpleasant in adults.
Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
When I was first looking into research project topics for my masters thesis I was like ‘IRB approval looks so tricky I def won’t do a project that requires it’
….
Guess who just picked a research project requiring IRB approval 😔
I have never done musical theatre, nor do I ever intent to do so, but I know there is an alternate universe out there in which I play Pierre Bezukhov in The Great Comet of 1812
Born to love The Great Comet of 1812, cursed to have it never play anywhere near me 😔
More pottery #Nudibranches! These are not based on particular species, just generally nudi-inspired. And if you are a ceramics person: I used mason stains to make my own colored clay for the little spiky pieces so I didn't need to paint them one by one. #Nudivember #SciArt #handbuilding #ceramics
A couple of days ago I was telling my partner all about these land mine sniffing rats and other rats with jobs and today I got an instagram ad to support land mine sniffing rats…
omg snails :3 thats so fun and whimsical
#promosky looking for new friends + moots :)
☼interests!☼
✦ books/reading (esp. fantasy)
✦ biology (zoology + epidemiology)
✦ dropout
✦ podcasts (science + fiction ones)
especially looking for other trans and/or polyam people or other grad students :)
Trying to read more lately; just finished The Raven Cycle (loved!!!) and starting The Poppy War soon
heya thats me! i’m a trans polyam grad student :)
My partner was on a date today so I took my book to the bar and I must say I did feel very whimsical and mysterious (I also finished my book!)
I put some chicken in my crockpot tortellini soup yesterday and let me just say,,,game changer
I’m a vulture defender til I die
They are cute!!! And I don’t even think they’re ugly-cute they are just cute little guys! And scavenger work is very important and I appreciate them :)
my son is so big now 🥺
It leans about half physical copy, half ebook for me. I prefer ebooks, but my local library has more physical copies available and I’m trying to avoid buying as much as possible.
realizing now that there are not really a lot of great industrial hygiene or environmental health flavored emojis
thinking about him 💖💖💖 (George, our gas monitoring chamber that is two trash cans taped together with holes drilled in it that is almost certainly leaking various substances into our lab space at any given moment)