All Perception is an Illusion

Quin. 25. Lesbian. Feminist. Chicago

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by Anton Koshetarov

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Everything about this feels peaceful.

Photograph by Hyun Joo

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Cypresses Vincent van Gogh, 1889

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reminder that if you’re questioning your gender, “what do I want?” and “what will make me happy?” tend to be much more useful questions than “what am I, really?”

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Globe flowers by Yorkshiredales

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Carrion crow posing on a very grey January day, but the feathers shimmer nonetheless. 

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Light-Mantled Albatross. Photo by flip de nooyer

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20 minutes apart

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BANKS in Lever Couture photographed by James Mountford.

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"American spiders and their spinning work: A natural history of the orb weaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits" (1889)

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If you guys are able, consider donating to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database.

“In the US, murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian women, the rate of rape on some reservations can be ten times higher than the national average, and Native women and girls are highly overrepresented in cases of missing persons (for example, in Montana, Native people make up 8% of the state population, and yet 40% of the state’s missing girls are Native). A complex maze of jurisdictional policies and institutionalized violence means much of this violence is not only not addressed, but not documented.” 

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More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a 'soft science,' according to new research

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

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Ive been fucking saying this to everyone for years! It happened to sociology, it happened to psychology, and it’s currently happening in biology. When I was in HS, the top earning major was consistently chemical engineer, and engineering majors were about 20% women. Chemical engineers are now approximately 50% women, and the value of that degree has decreased. Women don’t coincidentally all pick low value fields as specialties, the field itself is assigned a lower value if women begin to be represented there.

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