always tired

Hafdís | 23 | Queer | Iceland | My Studyblr | in uni studying masters in chemistry | Learning German for fun | Post science & aesthetic | May post my own notes or drawings

[evichuart]

shopping day!!

[bebengki-deactivated20250804]

I've been extremely busy for the past few days because of uni so here's a nami wip to compensate 🥲

[acoffeeplease]

[nathanallardart]

Pale violet from mussel shells. There is something beautiful about color when you know its origins - it was made in the ocean under the waves.

[leitharstjarna]

— Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (1977)

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

“Columbia” is a music video illustrated with fluid dynamics, chemistry, and biology by the Beauty of Science team. It’s got everything from precipitation to crystallization, from infrared imagery of wakes to timelapses of growing molds. (Video and image credit: Beauty of Science)

[mindblowingscience]

Chemistry Nobel awarded for technique to produce mirror molecules

The 2021 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for developing catalysts that produce molecules of a desired left or right "handedness"

The 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for developing an entirely new kind of catalyst for making chemical reactions take place, and allowing chemists to choose the “handedness” of their molecules.

“This new toolbox is used widely today, for instance in drug discovery. It’s already benefiting humankind greatly,” said Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, a member of the Nobel committee, during the prize announcement.

Up until 2000, said Wittung-Stafshede, we only knew about two kinds of catalysts for making chemical reactions take place. One kind is enzymes, which are large molecules made of hundreds or thousands of amino acids strung together.  The other kind is metal catalysts, such as the platinum in catalytic converters. Often the metal is embedded within a molecule.

List, now at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Germany, wondered whether an entire enzyme was really needed to catalyse one reaction. He tried using a single amino acid called proline instead.

“When I did this experiment, I thought maybe it’s a stupid idea,” said List. “When I saw it worked, I did feel this could be something big.”

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[jextaime]

The fallen Angel Lucifer and the Moon on March 31 2020

[radcybergoth]

This is the only post I ever want to look at ever again

[mentally-homeless]

This person: *takes photo of moon surrounded by clouds* Ah yes, I know exactly which mid-19th century painting of a biblical winged nude beefcake this reminds me of

[ruffboi-mags]

listen, I know we are programmed to see patterns and faces in things, but that is EERILY similar, y’know?

[callmebliss-got-swamped]

Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

[mindblowingscience]

Physicists Detect Tantalising Hints of a "Fundamentally New Form of Quantum Matter"

"We are now imagining a wholly new quantum world hidden in insulators. It's possible that we simply missed identifying them over the last several decades."

Metals and insulators are the yin and yang of physics, their respective material properties strictly dictated by their electrons’ mobility - metals should conduct electrons freely, while insulators keep them in place.

So when physicists from Princeton University in the US found a quantum quirk of metals bouncing around inside an insulating compound, they were lost for an explanation.

We’ll need to wait on further studies to find out exactly what’s going on. But one tantalising possibility is that a previously unseen particle is at work, one that represents neutral ground in electron behaviour. They’re calling it a ‘neutral fermion’.

“This came as a complete surprise,” says physicist Sanfeng Wu from Princeton University in the US.

“We asked ourselves, 'What’s going on here?’ We don’t fully understand it yet.”

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[adriannaglaviano]

[lisaminnci]

STUDIO GHIBLI + AUTUMN 🍁☕️

Only Yesterday (1991) Tales from Earthsea (2006) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Pom Poko (1994) Princess Mononoke (1997) Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

[archaic-stranger]

the chemistry students

safety goggles and pristine white lab coats

the low flame of a bunsen burner

memorizing polyatomic ions, knowing the periodic table by heart

data tables filled with neat strings of numbers

the satisfying clink of glassware on the lab table

precision and steady hands

strings of calculations and conversions

balancing reactions in your head on the first try

deep focus, working through the procedure step by step

cold coffee abandoned on the windowsill

the light pink of a perfect titration

performing flashy demonstrations to impress your friends, delighting in their surprise

finding real world examples of complicated topics

graph paper and messy handwriting only you can understand

chemical formulas scrawled across the blackboard at the front of the classroom

neatly formatted lab reports

periodic table hung on your wall, atomic models on your bookshelf

hair pulled back, not a strand out of place

studying alchemy, fascination with the early pioneers in your field

lewis dot structures doodled in the margins of your lab notebook

working in the lab late at night, performing trial after trial until you know your data is accurate

formulas scribbled on your hands

being unfazed by vials of deadly chemicals

the vibrant colors of pH indicator solution

the gratification of a hypothesis proven correct

[hvitarstjornur]

Omg I found a website where you can design a picture of yourself as a scientist!

Anyway, here is me 🧪✨

Link: https://picrew.me/image_maker/634561

[unsympatheticchemprof]

[hvitarstjornur]

This weekend I switched my little plant pots... I don´t know the English word for this process but in Icelandic we call it “umpotta” which is a fun word to say 😊 🌱 Then I put two earthworms into the new soil to help it stay healthy! 

[antikvarnica-deactivated2025110]

"I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something."

- Agatha Christie, Endless Night