i don't do bad sauce passes
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Misplaced Lens Cap
occasionally subtle
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
One Nice Bug Per Day
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
cherry valley forever
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YOU ARE THE REASON
Jules of Nature
Peter Solarz
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DEAR READER
trying on a metaphor
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Kaledo Art
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Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers
As described by Selnick’s article:
Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.
Because I realize all my characters do is look at each other and have their eyebrows shoot up. Sometimes they even lower their eyebrows too!
Pademelon at Mary Cairncross Reserve
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good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose
It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.
The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)
this is all in all an adorable video 10/10
Who Would Win?
Three apex predators
OR
One Screaming Long Boi
Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) Okapis have really big ears, and they’re quite mobile too! Here’s a little pencil-drawn gif to show that off.
Instagram - website © Marie Ducom, 2018
Stone-Curlew, Brisbane by interestedbystandr
They say the devil is in the details, so here’s the details of the devil! Some close up of my favorite parts of my recent piece which I wrote about here, and also featured in Earth Archives.
STOP it
hello! I decided it was time to finally contribute to the studyblr community instead of just reblogging #aesthetic photos. So here we are. I’m no graphic designer, just a sleep-deprived biology undergrad but I have read a few scientific papers in my day. Scientific papers can be intimidating because there’s a lot of jargon and figures that are just a blur of cell cultures and graphs with way too many lines. Here’s a way to simplify nasty looking papers.
[download printable here!]
Write the title (in the banner! how exciting!), authors, and date of publication at the top of the page. This is convenient for citations later on, and the date of publication gives some context for the paper.
Read the abstract (which gives a handy little summary of the paper) and the introduction. Write the purpose of the experiment.
Skim the paper. Make notes of terms you don’t recognize. Look up their definitions and write them in the key terms section.
Read the paper again, highlighting and annotating this time.
Make a note of the key techniques involved, especially the ones you don’t recognize, and what the purpose of each technique is. [i.e, RT-qPCR: quantitatively measures gene expression]
Take a look at all the figures (yes, even the ones that are scary). Draw a little cartoon or diagram of the specific experiment the figure is describing. This helps you visualize what the experimenters did.
Next to your lovely illustration write the results–what is the figure showing us? [i.e, Fig. 1 shows that expression of telomerase increased when Tetrahymena were subjected to stressful conditions.]
Carefully read the results and discussion. Now you should be able to summarize the main conclusions of the paper.
hope this helps! let me know if you want more tips on reading scientific papers or if you want to know more about life as a college student or life as a biology major.
Storia naturale degli uccelli che nidificano in Lombardia ENGLISH Natural history of birds that nest in Lombardy
By Bettoni, Eugenio. Dressler, O. (Oscar) Publication info Milano :coi tipi del pio Instituto del Patronato,1865. Holding Institution: Naturalis Biodiversity Center Sponsor: BHL Europe
Jan 25,2018 Today’s my science exam!!! Here’s some ecology review notes to celebrate
A GUIDE TO MAKING EFFECTIVE SLIDES aka how to create presentation slides that actually improve your presentation
By Eintsein
(apologies for the variation in image quality. idk what went wrong with tumblr)
Its my 21st birthday and I’m stuck inside writing a literature review on alpine vegetation and grazing. Last 2 weeks of my 2nd last trimesters at university
UPDATE: I ended up getting a pretty decent score on this assignment! I got 76.5%, which for someone who absolutely hates plants, and who was struggling with a very hard period of depression at the time, I think is pretty good! I still have not recieved my overall score for my degree, that will come in the next month!
Next chapter of life
Firstly, I’d like to apologise for this lengthy post. But I feel its necessary given the massive change that has recently developed in my life.
Soooo, I finally finished my Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology)! This degree has given me opportunities I would have never been able to do anywhere else -interacting with absolutely beautiful native wildlife out in the field, travelling to AFRICA to volunteer on a wildlife reserve, exploring absolutely stunning biomes all over my state. It’s been great.
I have decided however not to pursue honours in my degree, despite initial plans to do so. I thought this degree would be more concentrated on the animals, however the last 6 months of my degree showed me that it was more on countless boring statistics, sleepless nights of reading journal article after journal article, and slaving away behind a computer for days only to come to a less than satisfactory conclusion.
That is not what I am in for. I am not here to be a slave to someone else’s idea of whats good for me. I am here to co-exist alongside animals directly, to communicate and to bond with them. To educate others on these animals. Not to want to throw my head through the computer screen every time a file becomes corrupted. I have a very unique talent, many people believe they do but only few actually act upon it. And I know I have this talent, to communicate with animals. To not only understand what they think,but to feel their existence, their being. I don’t want this talent to go to waste to meet the approval of my professors, of my family and my peers.
The last 6 months of University almost killed me - literally. My mental health worsened to the point where I was suicidal. I know it is not solely the fault of tertiary education as I have been dealing with depression and anxiety since I was 14 years old, but the pressure and expectations of me to put in so much of my life, expectation to put my studies above everything else, above work, volunteering, hobbies, friends and family, to put all my energy into something I was not enjoying doing at all, coerced me into a very dark place, where I was seriously considering taking my own life just to escape that. Just so I could have a break from it all, even if it was permanent. So I am glad to finally be free of that worry.
On that note,
After months of stress and application after application and interviews. I am absolutely THRILLED to be accepted into studying a course at my local zoo about the ethical care of keeping wildlife and exotic animals in a zoo-based setting. One of the BEST zoos in the world. I have managed to be one of the best out of hundreds, if not thousands of applicants. And I am so excited to finally pursue what I feel I was born to do.
I start my studies mid February. Maybe, with more time on my hands, I will be able to update this blog more often.
Forest creature | moners
ya know what I want to see more of in the study/bujo community
I want to see more dark photos.
I want to see more photos with diverse, colourful, and interesting backgrounds.
I want to see more notes written in ballpoint
I want to see more of the rushed bujo pages made because you didn’t have time to do it but didn’t want to have that week missing from your journal
I want to see more in-class notes, the notes you took before you re-wrote them to make them “post worthy”
I want to see more messy desks. The aftermatch of journaling and studying
I want to see more wooden desks, more desks that aren’t white, more desks covered in coffee rings and paint splats
I want to see more on the fly photos
And I’m not writing this because I want to support “small accounts” or “poor study accounts” I want to see it because I’m sick of every single post looking the same as the one I saw last. I’m tired of accounts with amazing content not getting the growth they deserve because their photos aren’t overexposed on white desks. I want to see it because it stands out, it’s different, and I like it.
So many accounts quit before they even get started because of the precedent that you have to have expensive stationery and stark white photos to grow and make an impact. Because they don’t feel they can live up to the expectations of the community. And that makes me really sad.
