[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

eugeniakelcy

[fleetling]

I was young then and able to banish things, but seeds do grow.

—Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

[prinnay]

The Botanists

Had a lot of fun making this one :)

[aaaarma]

[fairyygore]

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[iamawomansrights]

🤍

[mrcmxwll]

Iyeketi

[iamawomansrights]

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language. I began to ask each time: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, “disappeared” or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”

— Audre Lorde (via theblackamericanprincess)

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

tianalaboor

[arinzeture]

[mrcmxwll]

radiantramona

[iamawomansrights]

[supremecoco]

[lemontongues]

shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

[mrcmxwll]

gezellerenee

[romeclipse]

snoopy loves love!!!!

[bpod-bpod]

Beyond the Quail

It’s often an agonising decision for a biologist: where to focus? The individual cell, or the whole tissue? Fortunately, as technology advances, it’s sometimes possible to choose both. Here researchers watch cells in a developing quail embryo swirling into patterns that will define its circulatory system. The embryo is transgenic (has gene/s introduced by genetic engineering), and switching on artificial genes in its cells produces fluorescence spotted by a powerful microscope. Using impressive computer analysis of images captured over a wide field of view, rainbow colours reveal cells at different depths in the embryo, with cooler colours deeper within the tissue. The team analyse the movements of these endothelial cells over 24 hours, revealing details about the behaviour of these cells in 'real life' and giving clues to the development of similar tissues in human embryos.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Taro Ichimura and colleagues

Transdimensional Life Imaging Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research, Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, February 2025

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