searchin for my lost shaker of salt

pasha 𓆟 23 𓆟 they/he ⚧ 𓆟 art @evilwizardrealm 💉 9/18

[beroidae]

ok so as of literally Right Now i've reached 50k posts on this blog so i think i'm going to force myself to take a break from tumblr, finish my blog archival project and either archive or delete this blog after i've finished. i've been wanting to unplug from social media for over a year atp so this will hopefully give me something to do in the meantime before i inevitably come crawling back again. i would say its been fun but lowkey i feel like the more time i spend on here the more i get pissed off for no reason so hopefully stepping back 4 a bit will help with that ^_^ ✌

[beroidae]

ok ik i should be back to being offline again but what the hell is going on over there

[letmeinimafairy]

A second attempt to paint this jasper. Dusty and heavy sky, blooming desert. A sea of lilies after the rain.

Available

[blurds]

Distinctive body language of man attempting to explain baseball to a pelican

[parafrasando]

[milksockets]

'bocal en poissons' by françoise coutant, 1997 in animal: exposition du 24 septembre 1999 au 16 janvier 2000 - musée bourdelle (1999)

[formlab]

Candy 812/3-110-812/3, Ann Veronica Janssens.

[rslashrats]

i really wish "just write characters like they're men and turn them into women after!!" wasn't an actual advice thing people were giving to just. write women normally

[rslashrats]

idk it sucks that the only advice that seems to stick for some (important note: only some) men is just, "treat women like you treat men" like it's a groundbreaking and revolutionary idea. "women are people" shouldn't be an argument anyone is having!!! but yet.

[carolinawrenn]

Spring Light. Made by Stephanie Wilds.

[architectureofdoom]

Uferpark Attisholz Süd (former sewage treatment plant), Luterbach, Mavo Landschaften, 2019

[kuvaton]

[serenityfails]

been working on stuff that isn't finished yet and drawing gorls in between. here is a gorl

[redlipstickresurrected]

Bebhinn Eilish (Irish, based Wicklow, Ireland) - Bean Sídh, Inktober day 30, Watercolor, Ink

[the-hounds-daughter]

Wait for me mutual . You are not far

[great-and-small]

One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

[2087]

architect imagines paul rudolph's LOMEX proposal for a new york city that could have been

[achesspiece]

keep meeting cis gay guys that are like "erm sorry i only like penis" like okay well i have a strap? just because it's silicone doesn't make it less real and if you need to suck dick so bad then you can be daddy's little sea turtle and choke on plastic