almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

Monterey Bay Aquarium
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if i look back, i am lost
NASA

#extradirty
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸

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trying on a metaphor
i don't do bad sauce passes
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Electric bacteria create currents out of thinâand thickâairÂ
Generating electricity from thin air may sound like science fiction, but a new technology based on nanowire-sprouting bacteria does just thatâas long as thereâs moisture in the air. A new study shows that when fashioned into a film, these wiresâprotein filaments that ferry electrons away from the bacteriaâcan produce enough power to light a light-emitting diode. The film works by simply absorbing humidity from the surrounding air. Though researchers arenât sure exactly how these wires work, the tiny power plants pack a punch: 17 devices linked together can generate 10 volts, which is enough electricity to power a cellphone. Â
Bmal1 gene is not an essential regulator of circadian rhythms
Deleting the circadian rhythm-associated BMAL1 gene in animal models, researchers discovered tissue continued to follow a 24-hour rhythm, even in the absence of external stimuli that can influence the cycle.

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Meanwhile, back at the planetarium:
Ahh, I remember when weekends were a thing. The good old days.
Just a light joke
Questions to any fish people. I have a ten gallon freshwater tank with a dumbo betta (Mr. Banana pants) and a new clown pleco (Sir. Bobo). I introduced the clown pleco recently and I just want to make sure that there is a safe transition between Mr. Bananapants flying solo and now having a roommate. When introducing Bobo I to bananas out and rearranged the ornaments to make it look like a new tank. I even flipped the side that the filter was on so that bananapants needs to re-establish his territory. When meeting Bobo, bananapants flared and tried to goad Bobo into fighting him by mirroring but there have been no fights so far. Minor nipping, but no fights. Second day and Mr. Bananapants seemed to have forgotten that Sir Bobo is there at all. I am still keeping an eye on the two of them but is there anything that I should be looking for? I plan on transferring them to a bigger 20+ gal tank but I might be moving in a few months and don't want to establish a tank just to take it down again.
Life path unlocked. Heâs a scientist now.
If your dad is telling you in great detail about something heâs passionate about, youâre going to be hooked even if you donât understand a word.
He tells us moreâŚ
So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.
Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni .Â
Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.
Itâs funny though â on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.
I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone â¤ď¸
Addendum: he has really grasped onto the âeverything is made of atomsâ part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.
âAnd my bed?â Yes, and your bed. âAnd that wall?â Yep. âAnd the armchair?â Yes, the armchair too. ⌠⌠âAnd⌠the book case?â Yâ
âAnd my home?â Yep, the whole apartment block. âAnd your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.â Haha, it is. ⌠⌠âBut is it made of atoms?â Yep. âAnd⌠[best friend]âs home?â Yes, it is. And [other friend]âs home, and [third friend]âs home.
âIs [yet another friend]âs home?â
Update from the other night:
âIs my⌠is⌠[extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?â âYes! Yes it is.
I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.
Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks âis [baby sister] made up of atoms?â
yep!
*runs over to her on the floor* *puts face up real close to hers* âHI! YOUâRE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?â
@radioactivepeasant @themagdalenwriting @iusedtohaveanaccount
âHI! YOUâRE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?â

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
â Madeleine L'Engle
(Humanitas library, Cluj, Romania)
College students in nice suits for no reason triggers my fight or flight response
Itâs good practice to distrust business students
Tired: engineering and humanities/art students hating each other
Wired: Everybody hating business students
The thing about being a teacher is this. You feel like you only succeed when your students succeed. This is partially true. If you donât adjust your classes to your students, if you donât provide help or other resources for your students and make a sink/swim mentality, you are a bad teacher and you have not succeeded in any way. However, if you provide all of these resources, make class as interesting as it can be, and your students refused to do the work, refuse to get help, and refuse to better themselves, at that point, it is on them.Â
I struggled with my class for the longest time. I gave them every opportunity to succeed and I still had students failing my class because they refused to do the work. I blamed myself for their grades. I got anxious before every test because I wanted them to do well. I tried my hardest to get the kids interested in their work and blamed myself for being a bad teacher when they failed. This nearly destroyed me in my first semester teaching. I learned and adjusted my class but it still washard for me to accept that sometimes there is only so much one person can do. By the end of the semester I learned a very valuable lesson.
You can lead a horse to water but you canât force them to drink. As long as the horse has the opportunity to drink you did your job.Â
Welp, got accepted to one of my dream colleges for a master's in molecular biology. I am nervous to start but super excited.
I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post.Â
So lets say youâre researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.
do not fear! copy the link to the article
go to sci-hub.se     (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)
slap the article link in there
bam! free access!Â
This doesnât work if the paper is on Jstor via Harrassowitz-Verlag publishing.
Just a sidenote for anyone whoâs looking for linguistics papers and continues getting âproxy canât be foundâ messages.

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That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. Iâd thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They canât even interbreed. They donât have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
These
are more genetically compatible than These
and thatâs why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues
@aviculor
The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the âstandardâ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms âlook likeâ theyâre related. When in fact theyâre a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. Itâs why people always say âbreedâ when they mean âspeciesâ, especially when talking about groups like lizards which canât even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.
I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more âmodernâ fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. Theyâve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate.Â
This
And this
Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish
Which is absolutely fuckin wild.
Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three âfishâ are to one another as well.
these
are genetically closer than these
andâŚ
these
are genetically closer than these
and my personal favorite, it really fucks with peopleâŚ
these
are more genetically similar than these
COOL.Â
just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, âDinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,â which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.
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