a portrait of the autist as a young man

i'm martin, 20, university student, chemistry major, an autistic face in an nt place, socialist, anti-fascist, transgender. i'm very excited about science and i cry when i look at dogs. he/him

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

mes pensées sont avec la france ce soir

[quebecolicityfan-deactivated201]

A tous mes amis français, mes pensées vont vers vous et je vous souhaites courage et force afin de traverser ces moments difficiles.

[disastergirl]

In case any of my fellow Americans were unaware this message is an echo of the headline of Le Monde on 9/11: Today we are all Americans.

My parents were traveling in Europe immediately on and after 9/11, and everywhere they went people offered condolences and asked if they’d lost anyone that day. This generosity continued for the entire five weeks of their trip.

So the very least we can do is hold the people of Paris in our thoughts and prayers.

[captainstudmuffin-deactivated20]

Reblogging for the comment. I thought this was familiar.

[ladyendymion]

Ce soir, nous sommes tous français.

[98rainbow]

yslelf:

muslim followers / bloggers

don’t go through the islam tag. there is so much islamaphobia at the moment and it will not help. i advise you to just blacklist the tags islamaphobia tw, islamaphobic tw, etc. please for your sake it’s not something you want to read. i’m a muslim too i understand how scary this please please try to stay away from this

non muslim followers / bloggers

please do whatever you can to help and prevent hate please this is beyond terrifying the amount of hate coming is beyond imaginable. thank you in advance

[hellfucingshitfuck-deactivated2]

the ice cream store in town started selling “flori” as their version of a flurry? and i was like “that’s albanian for gold” to my dad, and he said “oh… is that where the chemical symbol for gold comes from ? Albania?”

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

the chemical symbol for gold is Au..👀

[charlesoberonn]

Atom Joke: “I lost an electron” “Are you sure?” “I’m positive”

Atom Anti-Joke: “I lost an electron” “Are you sure?” “Yes”

Anti-Atom Joke: “I gained a few positrons” “Are you sure?” “I’m positive.”

Anti-Atom Anti-Joke: “I gained a few positrons” “Shut up, nerd.”

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

“there are huge sequences of genes in our dna that don’t seem to code for anything; we used to call it "junk dna” but we can’t call it that anymore because it’s not politically correct or something"

[theonion]

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method 

[danielmartindiaz]

[tapeducttemporary-deactivated20]

Emotions??? In this economy !?!

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

I'm back! sorry I disappeared for a while, I've been having a really hard time

[theangryacadian-deactivated2016]

chemists hate everyone and are just fucking with us at this point

[quasi-normalcy]

Even With Hard Evidence Of Gender Bias In STEM Fields, Men Don’t Believe It’s Real

The first step to solving the problem of bias against women in STEM is admitting it exists.

What bugs me about this is just the sheer extent to which it goes against the basic concept of scientific thought; if you are prepared to ignore or discount strong evidence of statistical trends repeatedly reported in peer-reviewed literature, and if you refuse to examine your own behaviour for signs of cognitive biases, whether it is on gender-bias or any other subject, then you have no business calling yourself a scientist.

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

my super hot girlfriend kept sexting me while i was trying to do an acid-base titration and i overshot my fucking endpoint fml

[academicssay]

Linguistic anti-humor.

[transgarrett-moved-blog]

lmao (laughing my anxiety off)

[dichlorocyclopentane-blog]

"what do you get when you have a mole of moles digging a mole of holes? a mole of mole asses! i hope you liked that joke because it's all downhill from there" -chemistry professor, on the first day of class

[hisiheyah]

As a former student of biology and history of science, the topic of women in science is one that is near to my heart. These three portraits feature three 20th century women scientists who made seminal contributions to their fields: Barbara McClintock in genetics, Grace Hopper in computer science, and Chien-Shiung Wu in nuclear physics.

The idea of a pantheon isn’t limited only to figures in traditional mythologies. Famous figures in modern times, when present in our collective consciousness, can also form their own pantheons. With this project I explored the roles of prominent 20th century women scientists: the symbols associated with them and their work, the larger-than-life nature of their accomplishments, and their contributions to their respective fields.

[genetics] Barbara McClintock’s most famous accomplishment is the discovery of transposons, or jumping genes. She used phenotypic color variations in corn kernels to study transposable elements. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

[computer science] Grace Hopper invented the first compiler for a programming language, helped develop COBOL (one of the first high-level programming languages), and popularized the term “debugging” after removing a moth from a computer. She was also a US Navy Rear Admiral and an avid teacher, among her many accomplishments.

[nuclear physics] Chien-Shiung Wu was an experimental physicist and one of the leading experts in her time on beta decay. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, the results of which contradicted the then-widely accepted law of conservation of parity. She was also a respected professor.