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I'm a physiology student, with aspirations to be a diangnostitician and researcher. Personally, I have a Spanish Timbrado canary and two mixed breed woofs. if it's stress related, I probably have it. I identify as demigirl, preferred pronoun is eir. Icon credit goes to birbykind.

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GamesDoneQuick - Twitch

AGDQ 2017 benefitting the Prevent Cancer Foundation - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

Hi! Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) is an annual event where gamers band together to perform a marathon of speedruns in aid of various charities. This year is for The Prevent Cancer Foundation. In just ONE WEEK, they have raised over $1.6 million. The last planned run, which will start around 04:40 GMT, will feature a Pacifist run of Undertale by TheGuitahHeroe. Watch if you can, please help this amazing event cap $2 million to aid in cancer research.

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DA DA DA -- HEY!

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I got 100 followers some time ago, so to celebrate a little, here's a cosplay I did not too long ago: Bill Cipher! It was a lot of fun and this is probably the cosplay I'm most proud of.

[warmheartedradfem-deactivated20]

Made this a wile ago (last year, I think), and thought it might be good for Black History Month!

[forkheadfalls]

which scientist should you fight

geologist: will throw copious amounts of rocks at you. not recommended unless you can also throw equal amounts of rocks back

botanist: knows 1001 ways to poison you. probably shouldn't fight

zoologist: knows 1001 animals that can kill you. probably shouldn't fight either

entomologist: spiders. enough said.

physiologist: they know too much about the human body and how to cause optimal pain with minimal damage. not safe.

geneticist: will unleash their army of mutated fruit flies at you. can be either good or bad thing, depending on your preference for flies with legs growing out of their eyes

immunologist: they have perfected the t-cell inspired technique of "death by neglect". if you fight them you will die in the saddest way possible

microbiologist: please don't fight someone who is already pissed about antibiotic resistance and can identify bacteria based solely on their smell

climatologist: will choose the battlefield as somewhere in the path of a category 5 hurricane and then leave you to die. do not fight please

environmental scientist: they can control the entire world do you really want to fight them

chemist: have you seen breaking bad? no, do not fight them. do NOT

physicist: will kill you with math. not the best way to go

herpetologist: can probably speak parseltongue and know just which frogs are best at taking over your habitat. only fight if you live in antarctica

cancer biologist: has immediate access to at least 5 different tumor cell lines and knows exactly where to inject them in your heart to cause metastases. don't even look them in the eye

marine biologist: is a real life aquaman. will lure you with cute river otters and then finish you off with some terrifying deep sea creature. better to just stay home and never leave

psychologist: is basically a mind reader. will drown you in your deepest darkest fears. 10/10 do not recommend to fight

molecular biologist: will kill you organelle by organelle. you will die a slow and painful death while covered in budding yeast

statistician: their power is always over 80%, and they will quickly punt you in the path of a normal distribution even before you can yell "Wilcoxon!"

archaeologist: can use a trowel 59 different ways, and only 9 are for digging. one can only guess the other 50, so may be advisable to stay far away

astronomer: will launch you into space and send you to a planet so inhospitable not even matt damon can make it back this time

pharmacologist: why would you ever fight someone who knows all about drugs. why

computer scientist: they know the perfect algorithm for death. do not fight, even with a firewall

linguist: no matter where you are, they can talk about you behind your back in the native tongue. do you really want death by humiliation. do you

dinosaurologist: are you kidding me?? the answer is no

[techopath123]

Good thing Fe3+ is called Ferric. Otherwise it would be Ironic…

[badsciencejokes]

*bud dum dum dum chsssssss!*

[23pairsofchromosomes]

I must say that mine isn’t so bad today, but this is after my computer decided to crash yesterday. I’m always the worst for having a million tabs open at once!

[caffeinatedcraziness]

Getting more and more accurate every day….

[forkheadfalls]

I was annoyed at my laptop bluescreening until I remembered I had 40+ tabs open on Chrome for two days.

[butthorn]

[geyships]

Science side of tumblr please explain the science side of tumblr

[dumb-science-jokes]

[imagineyouricon]

Imagine poking your icon’s tummy

[forkheadfalls]

I have no idea how that would end, but I’d imagine not too well...

[ruingaraf]

[themarchrabbit]

Seriously, it kills me when I see people hold scientists up as pinnacles of logic and reason.

Because one time the professor I was interning for got punched in the face by another professor, because mine got the funding, and told the other professor his theory was stupid.

This same professor told me to throw rocks to scare the “stupid fucking crabs” into moving so we could count them properly.

SCIENCE

[ruingaraf]

thank you

this is one of the best comments this post has recieved

[tyrror]

I have witnessed:

Two professors hiding around a corner and snickering, “Shhh, here she comes!” While a female professor approached and, when she finally found them, she proceeded to scream while pointing from one to the other, “You! I called your office but you weren’t there! So I tried to call YOUR office to figure out where HE was but YOU weren’t there!”

Two grad students standing outside a closed and locked door yelling, “Come out of the damn office. You haven’t left for days. If you didn’t have a couch in there I’d be concerned as to where you were sleeping!”

A religious studies professor apologizing for being late to class because, “security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit”

Watched a professor snort the results of my experiment to determine if I had the right final compound.

Two archeology professors toss priceless fossilized teeth back and forth in an attempt to figure out who is smarter by “guessing the type of tooth and species of animal before it lands”

Multiple fully degreed individuals throw dry ice at one another in an attempt to be first to use the lab/get that piece of equipment/or change the iPod song.

A genetics professor build furniture out of stacks of paper and planks of wood because she is that far behind in grading papers/responding. One of the impromptu furniture pieces housed a fish tank.

I could go on but I think that covers the larger portion of the insanity…

[gessorly]

Every time it comes around on my dash, it gets better.

[thepioden]

- I have had a professor buy a huge fuckoff bottle of rum during fieldwork in Costa Rica and let the undergrads get wasted because “you’re not underage in Costa Rica and we’ll be up all night with the bats anyway!”

- Same professor hung a bat from her headlamp and wore it as a decoration for an entire night. 

- A whole swarm of older women - and these are women with PhDs and world-renown bat experts, the bigwigs - all, to a woman, go to the formal charity dinner at an international research symposium in Toronto in late October dressed in skimpy Batgirl costumes. Because Halloween was that weekend, you see.

- At a different conference, a professor get blackout drunk and pass out on the side of the road. 

- “Yeah, we have to say we did it properly for the grant but to be really honest, Miracle-gro works better.”

- Teaching lab: we had liquid nitrogen for a demo, and after class the professor, the other TA, and I spent a good two hours freezing and breaking things in it. 

[onsheka]

a chemistry class begins with 30 students nine months later just six of us left sitting on tables dipping paper into contaminated chemicals to see what happens when we burn it teacher making idle suggestions while he marks our work

“go to the fume hood thing, yeah now put some potassium in chlorine” can i burn the results sir? “fuck it sure whatever its tainted anyway”

[themarchrabbit]

The prof I’m working for just asked me if I knew how to pick a lock, and when I responded “yes” she replied, “see, this is why I hire the former delinquents instead of the suck-ups. You’re actually useful.”

I then let her into her office.

[shelomit]

“Security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit.” I would bet anything this has happened to Dr. Medievalist.

Semi-related non-academic anecdote: The concert hall security guys tried to throw out our violone player in between performances this spring because they thought he was a homeless guy. Despite the fact that he was wearing concert black… and carrying a violone. There is no more obvious instrument.

[amuseoffyre]

One of my English Professors admitted that sometimes “you just have to do a soliloquy” and would phone up the main office of the department on the internal phoneline to recite a Shakespearean monologue at them. No greeting, no warning, just “To be or not to be”.

[roachpatrol]

every time i read this stuff i think about how upset vulcans would be to meet earth’s greatest scientific minds

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[031exuberantwitness-deactivated]

Even if OP had false info, it’s pretty obvious to see that breeders are specifically breeding to conform to a list of traits that don’t make much sense — and are actually harmful in some ways. And the only way to breed perfectly to get those traits is to inbreed with others that have those traits. Just google German shepherds. Look at what they used to be, and then look at them now. Im not super knowledgeable about dogs but it doesn’t take much to see that. Pointing fingers is what we need to do, because if people knew the abuse that went on then they would want change — lets just point fingers at all of them, not the ones we decide are okay.

[simply-canine]

[Thread trimmed to save space and my sanity.]

The thing is, only a select number of breeders are guilty of qualzucht, not breeders in general. That was my problem with the original post: that it used a tiny number of the worst examples of qualzucht as a means of condemning all breeders everywhere. The reality of the matter is that many dog breeds have remained virtually the same in appearance over the last 100+ years, and breeding to extreme deformity is not the norm for most breeds, even in conformation lines. Look at the following breeds, for example:

[Scottish Deerhound - 1879 & modern]

[English Setter - 1879 & modern]

[Saint Bernard - 1890 & modern]

[Borzoi - 1890 & modern]

[Dalmatian - 1890 & modern]

[Greyhound - 1890 & modern]

[Newfoundland - 1890 & modern]

[Irish Water Spaniel - 1891 & modern]

[Skye Terrier - 1891 & modern]

[Old English Sheepdog - 1893 & modern]

[Chesapeake Bay Retriever - 1895 & modern]

[Flat-coated Retriever - 1895 & modern]

[Curly-coated Retriever - 1897 & modern]

[Field Spaniel - 1897 & modern]

[Harrier - 1897 & modern]

[Irish Setter - 1897 & modern]

[Irish Wolfhound - 1897 & modern]

[Beagle - 1897 & modern]

[Whippet - 1897 & modern]

[Gordon Setter - 1897 & modern]

[Xoloitzcuintle - 1897 & modern]

[English Pointer - 1897 & modern]

[Otterhound - 1899 & modern]

[Dandie Dinmont Terrier - 1901 & modern]

[Schipperke - 1903 & modern]

[Foxhound - 1904 & modern]

[Saluki - 1904 & modern]

[Tibetan Spaniel - 1905 & modern]

[Cairn Terrier - 1910 & modern]

[Yorkshire Terrier - 1910 & modern]

I think it’s reasonable to say that the majority of dog breeds have not changed significantly in structure over the last century. Many of those that appear different are only superficially so, due to improved grooming techniques. A number of breeds have been improved structurally (the modern varieties have straighter backs, better rear angulation etc.). It is only a select group of extreme conformation breeders that contribute to qualzucht. Condemning all breeders, including responsible ones, due to this would be throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Pointing out abuse is good, but if it’s done in a hyperbolic, wildly inaccurate manner, what’s the point? That’s essentially what extreme AR groups like PETA do all the time. They run ads smearing breeders, blaming them for killing shelter dogs, and then turn around and kill 96% of all dogs surrendered to them (the highest kill rate of any “rescue” in the US).

[salty-sighthound]

✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼this is it heaps of breeds are doing just fine and a lot of breeders are working really hard to actually improve breeds or keep them from running into issues, breeders will even import to keep the lines from inbreeding and go to great lengths to ensure health testing is done and mates are picked very carefully to produce sound healthy pups. Granted their are some breeds and breeders known for breeding unsound dogs and making issues worse but for the most part this isn’t the case. Any action taken or information distributed should be aimed solely at them hell. And maybe educate people why the dogs are not as healthy I know a lot of non dog nerds who had no idea pugs were generally very prone to healthy issues. Tell people why shorter legs and snouts are bad etc etc

[badsciencejokes]

MOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

[christinetheastrophysicist]

How to Draw a Black Hole 

This image of a black hole was rendered by the Python Black Hole Raytracer created by Riccardo Antonelli of the University of Padua. This image was achieved by the process of raytracing: generating an image by tracing the path of light through a system. In this case, the system is a black hole.

Riccardo explains the physics and the implementation of the raytracer on his GitHub page.

Image Credit: Riccardo Antonelli

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Sleepy woofs.

[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.

[nubbsgalore]

though usually hidden to the human eye, naturally occurring marine biofluorescence can be seen under certain wavelengths of light (like ultraviolet), which causes the cells of the organisms seen here to absorb the light — and some of the photon’s energy — and then emit back a now less energetic light that consequently has a longer wavelength and thus a different colour. (biofluorescence is not to be confused with bioluminescence)  

photos by (click pic) daniel stoupin, alexander semenov, bent christensen, louise murray, and american museum of natural history (click pic for species)