a moss-covered rock

final year undergrad studying plant ecology and evolutionary biology, pretending to be grad student for even more of this nonsense: lela-dax.tumblr.com

[bisexualgambit]

I have ADHD so I’m immune to podcast

[the-pink-bunny]

stealing this from @chefpyro 's tags cause same

[tricktster]

always thought that it was crazy other folks with adhd couldn't focus on podcasts when i was totally immune from that issue then quarantine happened, i stopped driving long distances every day, and you will never fucking believe what I learned I can't do

[pa-hey]

[lthmath]

This is great :) My favorite is proof by ghost reference, what is yours?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[books-in-order]

Original credit to NonRock on R/Funny

[azrael556]

Cats have the need to spill blood.

[thatsbelievable]

Source: The New York Tattler, July 8, 1909.

[mapsontheweb]

Countries whose names in Arabic include “the”.

[deutsian]

What 80% comprehension feels like

I know I should be on my hiatus but this is something I really need to share with you all; those who are intermediate can relate. Some guy called Marco Benevides visually demonstrated what it’s like to only understand 80% of a text

Here is 98% comprehension

You live and work in Tokyo. Tokyo is a big city. More than 13 million people live around you. You are never borgle, but you are always lonely. Every morning, you get up and take the train to work. Every night, you take the train again to go home. The train is always crowded. When people ask about your work, you tell them, “I move papers around.” It’s a joke, but it’s also true. You don’t like your work. Tonight you are returning home. It’s late at night. No one is shnooling. Sometimes you don’t see a shnool all day. You are tired. You are so tired…

bold = uncomprehended 2%

Here is 95% comprehension

In the morning, you start again. You shower, get dressed, and walk pocklent. You move slowly, half- awake. Then, suddenly, you stop. Something is different. The streets are fossit. Really fossit. There are no people. No cars. Nothing. “Where is dowargle?” you ask yourself. Suddenly, there is a loud quapen—a police car. It speeds by and almost hits you. It crashes into a store across the street! Then, another police car farfoofles. The police officer sees you. “Off the street!” he shouts. “Go home, lock your door!” “What? Why?” you shout back. But it’s too late. He is gone.

bold = uncomprehended 5%

Here is 80% comprehension

“Bingle for help!” you shout. “This loopity is dying!” You put your fingers on her neck. Nothing. Her flid is not weafling. You take out your joople and bingle 119, the emergency number in Japan. There’s no answer! Then you muchy that you have a new befourn assengle. It’s from your gutring, Evie. She hunwres at Tokyo University. You play the assengle. “…if you get this…” Evie says. “…I can’t vickarn now… the important passit is…” Suddenly, she looks around, dingle. “Oh no, they’re here! Cripett… the frib! Wasple them ON THE FRIB!…” BEEP! the assengle parantles. Then you gratoon something behind you…

And this really sums up how ***** annoying it can be to be an intermediate speaker. To be able to get the basic of gist of what’s happening, but never be able to get any kind of finer detail. I don’t think I’ve seen such a good illustration of intermediacy in a long time.

Source: http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2016/08/25/what-80-comprehension-feels-like

[deliriousacademia]

If you’re a stem-based studyblr, please reblog this and I’ll follow you!!!!

I need more stem-based studyblrs to follow!! literature is wonderful and all, but I can’t relate

where are all my mad scientists with anatomy posters hung across their walls and tangled hair and wild ideas at???

[hamamelidaceae]

hey hey! plant evolutionary biologist over here

[academia-jpg]

Hi! Could you make a LGBT vocabulary list in Arabic, please? :)

i very much could and vey much wanna but also bc of this i might or might not have my account tracked

The Arabic language does not really have positive words to express the emotional or sexual relations between two people of the same gender. The known expressions in formal or classical Arabic are negative and degrading: shouzouz jinsi / شُذوذ الجِنس (pl.); the word شاذ in arabic describes something that is unnatural or abnormal, so it’s not used within the community, and more positive terms are now used and accepted.

LGBT vocab in Arabic 

LGBT+ community - مُجتَمَع الميم*

queer - (pl.)  أحرار الجِنس //  (fem.) حُرَة الجِنس // (masc.)حُر الجِنس

homosexuality - الجِنسِية مِثلية

heterosexual (people)* - مغايرو الجنس

homosexual (people) - مثليو الجنس

sexual orientation - الميل الجنسي

sexual identity - الهوية الجنسية

gender identity - الهوية الجنسية

homosexual male - مِثلي الجنس

gay man - مِثلي

homosexual female - مِثلية الجنس

lesbian/gay woman - مِثلية

bisexual man - مُزدَوِج المُيول الجِنسية

bisexual woman - مُزدَوِجة المُيول الجِنسية

bisexuality - ازدِواج الِميول الجِنسِية

asexual (people) - اللاجنسيون 

bisexual (people) - مزدوجو (الميول) الجنس

pansexual (people) - جامعيو الجنس

cisgender (people) - الموافقون جنسهم 

questioning (people) - الُمَتسائلين عن مُيولِهِم

intersex (people) - ثنائيو الجنس 

heteronormativity - تطبيع المغايرة

transgender or transsexual - (fem.) مُغَيِّرة الجنس // (masc.) مُغَيِّر الجنس 

trans -  [very negative] (fem.) مُخَنَّثة // (masc.) مُخَنَّث 

sex/gender - جِنس [same term]

The word queer means in Arabic “شاذ” (different or unnatural). Unlike the LGBT movement in the West that had embraced the negative word queer and had made it positive, we chose a new, inherently positive expression to replace the word “شاذ”. This new expression is “أحرار الجنس” which can be translated in to English as “sexually free” instead of “queer”. —from this article

* مجتمع الميم : the first words - مجتمع -means community and - ميم - is the letter م in ِarabic. it was coined as such since, very much like LGBT, all Arabic words for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (and more) start with this letter.

*the words that i’ve added (people) have arabic equivalents that are plural 

ps. i have for the excluded some of the very negative words that are used offensively 

[hamamelidaceae]

I want to read but I don’t want to read, does that make sense? I want the words to flow straight into my brain with zero effort from me. I want reading to be not hard.

[hedgehog-moss]

I like to think there is a parallel universe where reading comment sections is known as a soothing pastime because everyone on the parallel Internet is as kind and polite as the commenters on yourdailypoem.com:

[pervocracy]

After you’ve been steeped in online culture for a while, it’s genuinely hard to summon up the vulnerability and honesty to leave comments like this.  But it’s worth doing when you see something that you love, or that speaks to a good part of yourself.

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

tag yourself I’m “So easy to picture this wonderful bird!”

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

[afriendandboy]

i love getting emails from those petition websites

[gardenspirits-deactivated202207]

A home full of cats and plants 

[vlindervin7]

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

[vlindervin7]

“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »

- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016

[archangelruind]

my friend is studying for the mcat and was just trying to explain to me about heat transfer and she said ‘you know, like the reason you get cold when you go outside on a freezing day is that your tiny human body is trying to warm up the entire universe’ and i think that’s the best thing i have ever heard

[telesilla]

I kind of needed this today. Thank you.