Life, as I stumble down its winding path..

Hort science grad finishing a degree in Ag Biotech. Science, plants, and all the crazy sh*t that happens in the lab.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[plaht]

↖️ this blog supports honey bees 🍯🐝

[adventuresinchemistry]

Lewis the Science Hippo + adventuresinchemistry

[blackfairypresident]

me as a doc

nurse: THE PATIENT NEEDS OXYGEN

me: (moves a plant next to the patient) :D!

nurse: DOCTOR THIS IS NOT THE TIME

[homotology]

This is it. This is who I am in a nutshell.

[yeltumpar]

I <3 William Shatner on Twitter

[lifeisducky]

I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.

[grandpafucker-deactivated202310]

Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds

[lordicexx]

This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.

[prettyarb]

Honestly this just about brings me to tears.

Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols and all the rest of the original Star Trek cast and crew had no small role in making the moon landing as important as it was.  A few years before they set that lunar module down, this little TV show came along and fanned the dream into wildfire with an image of what humanity in space could actually look like—not only peaceful on our own world, endlessly curious, and prosperous enough to pursue it, but an active force for good in the greater universe.  Carrying not what’s most toxic about us, but what’s best about us out to the stars.

Everybody who has worked at NASA or any other space agency for the past 50 years is waiting for the day when that unmanned probe doing a flyby on a comet can be controlled from the bridge of a space-faring vessel.  When we’re not just looking at that comet through a color-coded sonar map, but we can look out a porthole and see it tumbling by with our own eyes.  When as a species we can finally outgrow hate and fear and violence, and turn our faces with joy toward all the beauties and wonders that lie waiting to be discovered.

And every time he does this, Shatner is reminding them of what that hope feels like.

[audrizzle]

This was too great to not repost.

[annaknitsspock]

Adding this one:

[skunkbear]

It should come as no surprise that some biology nerds are also Star Wars nerds.

Image Credits: J.W. Armbruster/Zookeys, AMNH, Wikimedia, Antweb.org, University of Aberdeen, Records of the Australian Museum, All Star Wars images; Lucasfim

[sciencefriday]

Awesome.

[nicoledreamsinblue]

Pic of the Day: Holiday Deer

This holiday deer is a beautiful Christmas gift from our microbiology department. It was drawn with live bacteria: S. marcescens, S. aureus and S. epidermidis.

This photo was taken from www.microbeworld.org. Submitted by: bindre Thanks to the author (s): Indre Budvytiene, Stanford Hospital Clinical Microbiology lab

[meangirlnurse]

the author of this paper misspelled “protist” but now i’m just sitting here imagining a eukaryotic protest

down with the prokaryote majority! no nucleus, no opinion

[fuzzywuzzz]

In Organic Spectroscopy this week:

Professor: Where can we find organic molecules?

Student: Sigma-Aldrich

Professor: *Awkward laughter*

[justlabthings]

Just lab things #1: blowing your nose with kimwipes because you can’t leave the lab to get a real tissue

[gothicprep]

[whatshouldwecallme]

My career path

[coolthingoftheday]

The American Society for Microbiology just held its first-ever art contest, challenging microbiologists to mix art and science. 

(Source)

[sciencejokes]

Source: [x]

[adventuresinchemistry]

I love it when tv/movies show fancy graphics of DNA to signify cutting edge science but they just show a generic helix without any bases or other actual genetic information

[phdstudents]

when someone points out all the issues i haven’t addressed

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

When I realize Thanksgiving break is over