[parakavka]

[follettina1111111111]

crystals with landscapes of nature

[momsagainstinternetuse-archive]

[wir-click-wir]

DAVID WEISS (1946-2012) Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1999

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao

[50watts]

Louise Janin painting

[decophotolove]

2011. 81 Bowery, New York.

[nevver]

Hot Rocks

[sawasawako-archived]

the pragmatic view of love honestly makes me so emotional

[sawasawako-archived]

like what do you MEAN it’s up to us to create and nurture the relationships we want to have with people? what do you MEAN loving others and caring for others and being kind to them is a choice that we have to make every single day, in each moment? what do you MEAN we are the makers and sculptors and artists and architects of our own interpersonal relationships? i’m losing my mind!!

[sawasawako-archived]

it really demystifies the whole affair. once you realise that love and thriving relationships don’t just drop from the sky or appear out of thin air, once you realise that it isn’t miraculous or due to “fate” or design, that it’s really just the choices that we make and the beliefs and values that we hold, everything becomes clear. you don’t just sit around and wait for things to change, or passively wish them to be different, clinging onto the idea that since it’s mystical, you’re not entirely responsible for shaping it. but you are. and that’s scary, but it’s also, like, the only thing that really matters at the end of the day?? i cannot

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

Vintage Vivienne Westwood ‘Medusa’ Eyeball Necklace

[deadpanaesthetic]

Man Ray, Decorative book binding.

[sumrot]

[detailedart]

Details, version II : Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström. Can you hear them whisper?

[sillynoose]

sweetpea

[metallicmauve]

[consolation-deactivated20161214]

me selling my wares from the forest

[timotaychalamet]

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Well my week has been exciting so far.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

I had some other work to do this morning (Figuring out some algae stuff involving 1000 L mesocosm up a mountain) so mystery species has been sitting alone in the lab all morning…..

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Made it up to the lab today to find this. It’s probably from the fridge defrosting and not the creepy “algae”.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

June 13th Update.

According to a few colleagues it’s either a plant, an algae, or a fungi. So that’s been helpful.

After a day with some sunlight I think I might be seeing some chloroplasts.

It seems to like the nutrient solution I added yesterday though!

[lynati]

I for one welcome our new plant, algae, or fungi overlords.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was about to say “in a sensible lab people wouldn’t waste time with this, they’d autoclave the bottles and move on” but on reflection I can’t think of a single bio lab I’ve been in that wouldn’t immediately go “ooh, mystery algae, that sounds like a fun challenge; let’s devote multiple hours to identifying it for no reason”.

[kit6]

I need updates tell me about the algae

[neat-deadandlive-things]

The mystery algae/plant/fungi/alien is stuck in the university growth chamber. With everything going on I probably won’t get to check in on it until September, possibly not until 2021.

[howieduet]

So by that time it will have developed what, writing?

[neat-deadandlive-things]

God I hope so, then I can train it to write my thesis!

[alexaloraetheris]

This entire post is the most on-brand biologist thing I have seen in my entire godforsaken life. The moment this pandemic is over these guys have another crisis ready for us.