🌻 Sunflowers 🌻

a | an adult (20↑). personification of the sparkling heart emoji. genshin impact currently owns my entire soul.

[ryebreadedd]

im a protected species you fucking asshole

[yms1]

do u ever miss your own energy. like damn what happened to me

[9puppiesdrowninginapool]

Ken was created from Barbie’s rib

[stuckinapril]

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

[hangup111]

ROAD TRIIIPPP!!!!

[suibokuga]

[queermania]

if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

[heedra]

if you really want to fuck a vampire then i’d say you’re down for the count

[heedra]

damn thats a lot of notes and a lot of vampire fuckers, i guess its time to raise the stakes

[rlyehtaxidermist]

one of the best academic paper titles

[rlyehtaxidermist]

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

[imightbeobsessedwithsocks]

I still don’t understand

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR

Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

[crazy-pages]

Also to be clear, it turned out the problem was that the algorithm used to analyze all of these tests was broken and improperly evaluating the significance of correlations. It's been 15 years and I still don't think consequences of that have been fully expunged from the neuroscience literature.

[yuutaguro]

judge jury executioner

[lilaccatholic]

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

[reinanova]

[terror-billie]

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[nicolegendary]

"this is what ive BEEN saying" - me about a thought that 99% only exists in my brain and i maybe mentioned briefly in one tag once

[fallstale]

im being dragged back into bnha lmao….

anyways!!! imagine a celebrity!au where sero gets a new phone bc his old phone broke or smth and as he’s walking out the store in the mall he comes across a huge ass billboard/ad for men’s underwear featuring his longtime celebrity crush todoroki shouto baring abs & titties (yessir) and he takes a pic with his new phone (and wow omg look at that improved quality) and sends it to denki BUT bc it’s a new phone he doesn’t have his saved contact so had to type the # in :)))) and he sends off the pic w added commentary (dude he has abs u can bounce a coin off) and he’s expecting a text back w denki commiserating with him bc this is new or groundbreaking (the grass is green, the sky is blue, and sero has a big, fat crush in todoroki) BUT instead he gets “who is this? How did you get his number?” And he has to explain that it’s him sero!! And “denki my # didn’t change is this how I find out you never had my # saved bro 💔 I lost my contacts bro now console me as I cry about how hot todoroki is” and then gets a “wrong number. What do you like about Todoroki?” and oh man it’s sero’s time to write poetry about todoroki and he goes on tangents about todoroki’s soft smiles and the secret charity work he tries to do so his fame doesn’t derail the organizations and how kind he is in fan engagements and how he is so pretty and ahhhh and todoroki, the wrong #, now has to contend with this, this kindness and honesty he never asked for sitting in his phone :)))) wouldn’t that be neat??

[autistobrat]

I’m lying face down on the floor. Reblog to join.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

[flying-lemons]

oh do I have the game for you

[dancing-crow]

I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.

[foone]

oh my god, if you are the kind of person who gets sucked into logic puzzles, do not click that link if you have to do anything/go to sleep in the next couple hours

[stood-onthecliffside]