the Forest always knows.

🌿 30. non-binary? rangeland science major, earth sciences minor? at Oregon State University— post-baccalaureate. study blog and lots of science. B.S. in Psychology, minors in studio art and philosophy. definitely a stoner who’ll be wandering in the Midwest woods if you need me. 🪴uh, @butchbent for me being real gay.

[only-tiktoks]

[theunaestheticstudyblr]

This is me telling you with your face in my hands that if you failed a class, that's ok! That if you didn't even go to your final because you knew you were going to fail that class, that's ok! That if you were passing until you bombed the final, that's ok! That if you sent a panic email to your professor the night before grades were due asking if you could do anything and got a negative or no response, that's ok!

Failing a class doesn't make you less. Failing a class or a whole semester doesn't immediately comment on your value or worth or intelligence. Your grades don't reflect you. Maybe you work a full time job or two outside of classes. Maybe you have kids. Maybe you are going through a bad mental health episode. Maybe you've experienced a death, a divorce, a breakup, or another major emotional event. Maybe you lost your job or housing. There are so many things that you don't receive grace for in academia because you're expected to perform perfectly regardless of everything else.

So listen to me. FAILING A CLASS OR A SEMESTER IS OK! Give yourself the grace you'd give to a stranger or a friend coming to you crying and distraught because they failed. You wouldn't tell them that they're stupid and lazy and should have worked harder. You'd comfort them and tell them that it's ok. You need to give yourself that same energy babe.

[txttletale]

its so fucking funny that nuclear waste is such a contentious topic. like yeah those damn nuclear advocates need to figure out somewhere reasonable to put that nuclear waste. for now we will  be sticking with coal power because it puts its waste products safe and sound In Our Lungs, where they cannot hurt anybody,

[txttletale]

you cant just put nuclear waste in the ground it might hurt somebdoy :/ put it in the air that everyone breathes like a responsible power source :/

[secundus-cinaedus]

ohhh noooo :( you can’t just produce three cubic metres of waste per plant per year, that’s so little how will anyone notice :( you have to produce 240,000 tons of toxic waste and emit 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide per plant per year so everyone knows where the danger is :(

[exxdrostudies]

The sad thing it’s not so much a waste product management issue as a “this nuclear waste is a security issue” because weapons and what have you. Not that I agree that it should be the primary factor but much of what I read is the waste product opportunities that companies don’t want other people to have.

[conspiring-limabean]

every single fossil was once a living thing that lived its own life. isnt that fucking insane. you'll never comprehend what it was like to be a cotylorhynchus in the marshes of early permian texas

[smiles-advice]

you are not obligated to have a relationship with someone who is bad for your mental/emotional health, even if they’re family

[a-list-of-moods]

despite what popular opinion may lead you to believe, some rocks actually do have scientifically-proven auras! Unfortunately, those rocks are uranium and the aura is cancer. 

[manyblinkinglights]

#blessed objects fake; cursed objects real

[fossilforager]

Deep sea buds 🌊✨

[maderchode-deactivated20240415]

The fact that I don't just go absolutely mental and set a car on fire is honestly a miracle of life

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

we need to destigmatize dropping out of college I am so serious. like dude if u realize that is Bad For You then you can just Leave. I am so fucking serious. just stop. there are other options and you don’t need to force yourself through shit you can’t do and go into debt. i promise you can just Not.

[cannibalchicken]

[evilthotiana]

not my whoville ass eating roast beast

[frogseyy]

mutuals feel free to do this

[mite75]

I love this lil guy he looks so happy ;_;

[deathbars]

So apparently i had to find out by accident today that stickbug eggs look like tiny pots and they hatch out by opening the lids and crawling out

[exxdrostudies]

What's your favorite part of the natural sciences to study?

Hmmmmm, that’s hard! I’m taking classes for an Earth Sciences minor and I loved geology a lot. I adored my ecology class too! Unless we’re looking for specific areas like physically, I love aquatic life— oceans. Also been curious about getting into astrobiology. Being able to tie in info to conservation needs is awesome too. I just like seeing how everything is connected because then maybe I can help with some of the damage we’ve caused. Anything from fungi to whales to snakes and all sorts of flowers. I love it all!

[everythingfox]

“Strawberry snek boi is hidden”

(via)

[hungwy]

yeah. thats not very mouse wearing a sweater and holding a cup of tea behavior. sorry.

[exxdrostudies]

I ended the quarter with two A-‘s and one A.

Wildland Ecology, done.

Environmental geology, done.

Biology 1, done.

To Climate Science, Interpersonal Communication, and Chemistry 1.