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[kiwi]

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

[kiwi]

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clip studio paint models

pexels.com

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if you have any more please reply!

[nohara]

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[gamersapphic-deactivated2022121]

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they have flattering and elegant clothing

[geologypage]

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[neurosciencestuff]

Why are some mushrooms “magic?”

Psychedelic mushrooms likely developed their “magical” properties to trip up fungi-munching insects, suggests new research.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

Mushrooms that contain the brain-altering compound psilocybin vary widely in terms of their biological lineage and, on the surface, don’t appear to have a whole lot in common, he said.

From an evolutionary biology perspective, that is intriguing and points to a phenomenon in which genetic material hops from one species to another – a process called horizontal gene transfer, Slot said. When it happens in nature, it’s typically in response to stressors or opportunities in the environment.

He and his co-authors examined three species of psychedelic mushrooms – and related fungi that don’t cause hallucinations – and found a cluster of five genes that seem to explain what the psychedelic mushrooms have in common.

“But our main question is, ‘How did it evolve?’” Slot said. “What is the role of psilocybin in nature?”

Slot and his co-authors found an evolutionary clue to why the mushrooms gained the ability to send human users into a state of altered consciousness. The genes responsible for making psilocybin appear to have been exchanged in an environment with a lot of fungus-eating insects, namely animal manure.

Psilocybin allows fungi to interfere with a neurotransmitter in humans and also insects, which are probably their bigger foe. In flies, suppression of this neurotransmitter is known to decrease appetite.

“We speculate that mushrooms evolved to be hallucinogenic because it lowered the chances of the fungi getting eaten by insects,” Slot said. The study appears online in the journal Evolution Letters.

“The psilocybin probably doesn’t just poison predators or taste bad. These mushrooms are altering the insects’ ‘mind’ – if they have minds – to meet their own needs.”

And the reason that unrelated species have the same genetic protection probably comes down to the fact that they commonly grow in the same insect-rich mediums: animal feces and rotten wood.

This work could guide medical science by pointing researchers in the direction of other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the brain, Slot said.

Psilocybin has been studied for the treatment of a variety of mental disorders, including treatment-resistant depression, addiction and end-of-life anxiety. A handful of researchers in the U.S. are looking at potential treatment applications, and much of the work is happening abroad. Strict drug laws have delayed those types of studies for decades, Slot said.

[justsomeantifas]

doctors: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE we have found a treatment for diabetes it’s called insulin! people won’t die from this illness anymore if we just give them insulin isn’t this great news?

united states of america: how about we make it so poor people have either limited to zero access to this insulin?

doctors: but don’t we have enough resources to provide for everyone in need of such a medication?

the united states of america: yes!

doctors: isn’t that genocide

united states of america: YES

united states of america fist pumping and chanting ‘U’ ‘S’ ‘A’:

[justsomeantifas]

capitalism is genocide

[aurorastrikes]

i usually don’t add to posts i reblog but as a type 1 diabetic this makes me so fucking angry.

i have an insulin pump. each time i change the port (basically what connects it to my body, similar to an iv) i use about a third of a bottle refilling the cartridge. i change it every three days, so one single, 10ml bottle of insulin lasts me around nine days.

i had to look this up because my parents don’t like to tell me how much my supplies cost. (for reasons like this. i feel guilty for my t1d. i shouldn’t have to feel guilty about an autoimmune disorder i was born with.)

you know how much it is for that one, single 10ml bottle of insulin, for those without any insurance?

$328.

for nine days.

$328 for a nine days supply of the medicine that i literally need to survive. the medicine that once i become an adult and have to take care of myself, i will have to pay for. the medicine that unless, by some miracle, they find a cure, i will need to take for the rest of my life. $328 for nine days of my life.

[culturenlifestyle]

Artist Was Diagnosed With Schizophrenia At The Age Of 17, So She Began Drawing Her Hallucinations To Cope With It

[read-thebuzz]

Eighteen-year-old artist Kate AKA “awkwardapostrophe” was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 17. She has decided to be open about her condition in a series of intriguing illustrations to debunk stereotypes.

Keep reading

[the-potential-drgreen]

Cute Components of Blood

These prints can be found here :) 

[3rdeyechakra]

[i1964m1965]

2018年7月22日　平池公園　兵庫県加東市

[sophiaslittleblog]

Hay guys! So I finally went ahead and started a Patreon for my book projects! My monthly Patreon goal is set at $200 a month. This would cover the monthly cost of hiring a book publicist. Basically I’ve done all that I can to the best of my abilities with both my blog and my other social media outlets. 

I need the help from a publicist so my works can receive more exposure. Having more exposure can lead to better things for my works and for myself, like podcast interviews and book blog reviews. My lowest donation tier starts at $1 and the highest is $10. Even if you can’t donate to my Patreon just passing this post along would be a great help to me. Thank you!

[miscreant-side-puffs]

Yeah the activity page is broken and the site itself may be crumbling from the inside out. But, I’m gonna keep reblogging this cause, folks should support Sophia, as she continues her conquest, to rule the land of YA for Black girls. 😊

[tiffanarchy]

Please consider donating to killedbypolice.net. They’ve kept a very important resource alive (no pun intended) for years, and they’re asking for support.

http://killedbypolice.net/

[tiffanarchy]

[currentsinbiology]

Solar powered sea slugs shed light on search for perpetual green energy

In an amazing achievement akin to adding solar panels to your body, a Northeast sea slug sucks raw materials from algae to provide its lifetime supply of solar-powered energy, according to a study by Rutgers University-New Brunswick and other scientists.

“It’s a remarkable feat because it’s highly unusual for an animal to behave like a plant and survive solely on photosynthesis,” said Debashish Bhattacharya, senior author of the study and distinguished professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers-New Brunswick. “The broader implication is in the field of artificial photosynthesis. That is, if we can figure out how the slug maintains stolen, isolated plastids to fix carbon without the plant nucleus, then maybe we can also harness isolated plastids for eternity as green machines to create bioproducts or energy. The existing paradigm is that to make green energy, we need the plant or alga to run the photosynthetic organelle, but the slug shows us that this does not have to be the case.”

The sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, steals millions of green-colored plastids, which are like tiny solar panels, from algae.Credit: Karen N. Pelletreau/University of Maine

Cheong Xin Chan, Pavel Vaysberg, Dana C Price, Karen N Pelletreau, Mary E Rumpho, Debashish Bhattacharya. Active Host Response to Algal Symbionts in the Sea Slug Elysia chlorotica. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2018; DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy061

[cenkrett]

The quietly desperate work culture of “I hate Mondays”, “thank god it’s Friday”, “working for the weekend”, and similar nonsense is deeply disgusting, and I hate that it’s seen as normal.  We are burning away 70% of our lives waiting for the 30% where we can recuperate from work and actually live for a little while.  This is absolutely not the way life is supposed to be.  This is obscene.

[bookhobbit]

hands up if you had a bad high school experience but after you graduated you just kinda boxed it up and moved on without processing it so now when someone brings up high school you’re overcome with rage and bewilderment about how messed up the whole situation was

[ec-sanderssides]

Boring

“Asexual characters are boring” I have traveled across eleven countries and ten states When I was thirteen I had hydrochloric acid dumped down my back and I walked away without a scratch When I was twenty-one I broke into castle ruins with a professor and found out afterwards that they were probably haunted

I once got stranded on a mountain while I was searching for the Cave of Zeus and got rescued by a little old lady who didn’t speak a word of English and the local village’s schoolteacher who did

I’ve learned how to surf on water, to dance with fire, and to bungee jump through the air I’ve walked up mountains, down beaches and through forests

My friends tell me I have the weirdest luck of anyone they’ve ever met and laugh about what mysterious forces must conspire to keep me alive

And yet, according to you a story about my life would be dull and uninteresting simply because I have no interest in sex

I wasn’t aware that that was the sum total of my value That no one cared about what I’d done only who

That every man must get a girl and every girl must be gotten and that to do otherwise is to be banished into obscurity

And yet I’m still here, still writing, still telling stories, and while I have been described as many things boring has yet to be one of them

Asexual characters are boring I pity your imagination

[animals-lovers]

[postgenderspock-deactivated2018]

Ahem, don’t mind me, I’m just shamelessly self-promoting, but if you were ever interested in reading a book that’s:

a Lambda Award finalist 

on the Stonewall Book Award Honour List

named one of the best releases of 2017 by the Guardian, NPR, Bustle, Paste Magazine, & Publishers Weekly

praised by folks like LeVar Burton on LeVar Burton Reads, Amal El-Mohtar in NPR, & Ann Leckie, etc

about a woman who’s Black, intersex, genderfucked, and gay all at the same time

set on an antiquated (neo-Victorian-ish) generation space vessel

centered on a young woman’s investigation of her mother’s suicide and its connection to a series of blackouts that threaten the ship’s voyage…

then you might enjoy An Unkindness of Ghosts, my debut literary SF novel.

Happy Reading <3 

[kushandwizdom]

“Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?”

— Paulo Coelho