#eardrums

[dandelionjack]

starting a band called ‘courtly love’ we perform exclusively covers of hole (band) songs on medieval instruments dressed as knights and ladies from a preraphaelite painting. we’d be a hit at renfaires from year to year

[possible-streetwear]

Scarlet's Remains

[bpod-bpod]

Ear Popping

Our eardrums move with changes in pressure transmitting a world of sound to our brain. But a loud noise, whack, or ear infection can pop it. They usually heal on their own, which is quite the feat as the eardrum is normally a taut membrane suspended across a canal, meaning cells repairing a hole must somehow bridge the gap without a ready-made surface to travel over. Perhaps not surprising then that one in five don’t heal without treatment. Using a mouse model to better understand why self-healing sometimes fails in humans, researchers have found the eardrum (pictured) has lots of nerve fibres bearing the protein Trpv1 (green). Mice with damaged eardrums that lacked Trpv1 had delayed and disrupted healing. Specifically, fewer immune cells called macrophages accumulated at the wound and new blood vessel growth was impaired. Targeting Trpv1 and recruiting immune cells may, therefore, help speed up healing in damaged eardrums.

Written by Lux Fatimathas

Image from work by Yunpei Zhang and colleagues

Oregon Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

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

Published in eLife (reviewed preprint), May 2025

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[euesworld]

"Soft heartbeats sound like true love when you are sweetly laying your head on someone.."

Nothing says I love you quite like a heartbeat bumping on your eardrums - eUë

[watatsumi-island]

Me: *Listening to a soft quiet calming song on shuffle from my playlist.*

Me earphones: I will now sing the song of my people. *Apple Bottoms Jeans begins to burst directly into my ears*

[thesebooks]

"Sweet Fucking Eardrums, It's Nine O'Clock" — The ridiculously loud clock strikes again!

Original title: "The Mystery of the Screaming Clock" by Robert Arthur (1968)

[neurosciencenews]

When the Eyes Move, the Eardrums Move Too

Simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too, says a new study by Duke University neuroscientists.

The research is in PNAS. (full access paywall)

[dandelionjack]

the twelfth doctor’s one of those guitarists that doesn’t sing. he just refuses to. it’s not his style, he doesn’t do well to express himself in words when melody and chords can do the trick. you know who *is* the singer of this imaginary all-nuwho-doctor band though? ten. he has all the vibes of a cheeky lead vocalist from some 90s alt-pop-grunge band. i mean, he’s literally jarvis cocker. thirteen’s the drummer, nine is on bass and eleven’s on keys. fifteen i don’t know yet, we’ll have to watch the devil’s chord to decide

as for the master’s rival band, saxon is, in a tragic twist of irony, on the drums, but he can only play in 4/4, so they’re a shitty punk band. missy’s the obligatory Hot Goth Female Bassist — fitting that stereotype plays right into her intense performance of gender. spy is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist: dramatic and theatrical, he makes a show of every phrase…

thinking about this as an au now. that would be cringe. i don’t write aus i don’t write aus i don’t