Hello!

🌿 Mairi, 24 🌿 PhD student of plant sciences in the UK. :) Own posts tagged #my work, main blog @mairithepotato. (a joke about foxgloves was lost in the mists of time)

[imanbenerrabeh]

i love a map :v)

[matchafigs]

slow mornings

[sipteareadbooks]

Studying French today after a long break of not practicing. Reading novels in French is a lot harder than practicing by watching shows, but I want to finally feel the accomplishment of finishing a complex fiction novel in French.

[thesecrethistori-an]

Last night's late inspiration. Started writing an article and hopefully I'll make the deadline to submit a first draft for a workshop

[thewhimsicalarchives]

30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes. Anything can make a difference.

[lottiestudying]

23.04.2026—been sleeping quite weirdly this week, but have managed to be very productive and make lots of progress on my current draft

[sysy-studyblr]

wednesday 15/04/2026

signed up for modules and did some planning

♫ écoute chérie - vendredi sur mer ♫

[charmwasjess]

Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"

[study-bloom]

these days it's just me & my desk & endless scholarship applications

[blessphemy]

if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didn’t biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis

which is to say. All of it is miraculous. and all of it is mundane. biology is Chaos vs. Order locking horns forever

[artofelanor]

Have you seen the new movie? It's on library. It's literally on the library. It's on library without ads. It's literally on your local public library. You can probably ask for it on your library. Dude it's on your library. It's in the original case too. It's on library. You can watch it at the library. You can go to your local library and watch it. Register onto your local library right now. Go to your library. Dive into your library. You can watch it. It's on there. Your library has it for you. Your library has it for you.

[imanbenerrabeh]

moleskine + filofax

[shamesonlydaughter]

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

[fiyero3305]

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

[foxscarf]

'Trade perfect for done'

[forestweaver]

3/100 days of productivity | online biochem lecture, online quiz, and textbook reading

[bujonoe]

D-305

Back at it after a long break during which I still did work. I am now onto chapter 5 which is about halfway done. The summer has been spent working on my PhD which is due in 305 days. I have been trying to keep everything cute and aesthetic to motivate myself and it has mostly worked.

Warm cup of tea for comfort. Tani study for company.

[imanbenerrabeh]

tuesday :0

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔬𝔣𝔱 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱, 𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡