Busy Like Bees

lol pour one out for the studyblr class of 2020 🐚🐝🌿📖 harvard univ. •marine biology • she/her • infp •i follow back with 🐚@browneyedmergirl🐚

[gonzogirl88]

You don’t realize how good you have it til you lose institutional JSTOR access

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[anti-potato]

sources? a little birdie, et al. (2024)

[baelonthebrave]

biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like

They are not kidding

[normal-horoscopes]

We are full of so many fuckign guys

[lurking-kitty]

This is actually a full on interactive map! You can put your cursor over any structure to focus on it and see its name, you can focus on all the structures that are part of a specific pathway and, when you click on proteins, you open it up on PhosphoSitePlus, which is a curated database of proteins and their post-translational modifications. It has a helpful description and summary for each protein!

This is a HUGE complementary resource for learning molecular biology! It really helps to make sense of each individual pathway and it puts everything into perspective. It only focuses on human, rat and certain other animal cells, so it won’t have all the pathways one would wish to see… But for the pathways it does include, consider opening the image and accompanying it as you learn or revise them!

[the-real-seebs]

oh wow, thank you for the additional information, i had no idea, that’s so much cooler than just the flat picture.

[guccixcucci]

Long but important

[candybanshee]

towards a gentle academic

be up front and honest about the things you do not know

acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context

do not feign mastery where you have none

respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases

be generous, not only with others

but also with yourself

you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork 

privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy

nothing is ever neutral or apolitical

support the progress of other scholars

collaboration over competition

[toastbutteregg]

[diarystudyblr]

The university has great corners, especially its light✨🎓

_autumn studying challenge;

🍁8th November - How are you preparing for winter?🍁

I have taken out my thickest and warmest coats and sweaters and I have already been able to enjoy the Christmas drinks.

[browneyedmergirl]

is it hard having bigger, stronger, hotter braincells than everyone else? asking for a friend

[er-cryptid]

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[aceademic]

reading is like. i’ve read 5 books in 3 days. i have not read a single sentence in months

[callmebarbie]

evil education system be like i'm letting my students have a life and a sleep schedule

[samagri-ladki-deactivated202205]

I want evil education system

[academicssay]

[catradoraism]

[academicssay]

I don’t procrastinate. I proactively accumulate guilt-contingent motivation.

[footloosellama]

Chefchaouen, Morocco

[soracities]

hey happy new year, i was wondering if you can give a list of books to read while in your 20s or books that deal with being in your 20s or books written by people in their 20s. It can also be poetry or else. Just anything that can help me reach my 2019 book goal thank you xx

a very, very loose mix of recommendations that, I hope, will fit what you’re looking for

the opposite of loneliness by marina keegan

too much and not in the mood by durga chew-bose

a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit

cat’s eye by margaret atwood

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

heroines by kate zambreno

the heart is a lonely hunter, carson mccullers

letters to a young poet by rilke

bluets by maggie nelson

as consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks by susan sontag

the complete persepolis by marjane satrapi

a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers by xialou guo

ways of seeing by john berger

gilead & housekeeping by marilynne robinson

the secret history by donna tartt

my brilliant friend by elena ferrante

the fire next time & giovanni’s room by james baldwin

a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan

just kids by patti smith

philadelphia, here I come by brian friel

demian & steppenwolf by hermann hesse

girl meets boy by ali smith

a little life by hanya yanagihara

near to the wild heart by clarice lispector

white teeth & swing time by zadie smith

sister outsider by audre lorde

madame bovary by gustave flaubert

between the world and me by ta-nehisi coates

garments against women by anne boyer

all about love by bell hooks

far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy

the country girls by edna o’brien

the girls by emma cline (if you want something much darker)

poetry:

what is this thing called love? by kim addonizio

elise cowen: poems and fragments by elise cowen

teaching my mother how to give birth by warsan shire

bright dead things by ada limón

coeur de lion by ariana reines

loose woman by sandra cisneros

what the living do by marie howe

the book of women by dorianne laux (though I would recommend anything by her)

rose by li-young lee

chloe by kristina haynes (you can find her work here)

night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong (you can follow him @oceanvuong and find his work here)

citizen: an american lyric by claudia rankine

twenty-one love poems by adrienne rich

our bodies and other fine machines by natalie wee (you can follow her @natalieweepoetry and find her work here)

anything by emery allen (you can follow her @wethinkwedream and find her work here and more on her patreon)

anything by mary oliver

anything by lorca

and if you want to try slam poetry: anything by sarah kay or sierra de moulder