#science!!

[vivaciousinsomniac]

various doodles and other such balderdash

[subdee]

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the bod

HIV's ability to conceal itself inside certain white blood cells means there is a reservoir of the virus in the body, capable of reactivation, that neither the immune system nor drugs can tackle. Now researchers in Melbourne have demonstrated a way to make the virus visible, paving the way to fully clear it from the body. “We were overwhelmed by how [much of a] night and day difference it was – from not working before, and then all of a sudden it was working. And all of us were just sitting gasping like, ‘wow’.”

Just in time for Pride month... Some good news for y'all.

[dykeselfcest]

I also work in a research lab, I work with rats! I’m so curious as to what you study. No need to share if you don’t want to but I wanted to let you know I love seeing your science posts :)

oh nice!! I can talk about it a little more openly now that I'm in a new lab because my research area is a bit less niche lol so it has a lower chance of doxxing me completely. my new lab does gut microbiome research, primarily in mice though sometimes we get human samples from collaborators. broadly we look at dysbiosis though I feel like that's kind of implied by gut microbiome research, but there are several different disease states we look at. I'm also still kinda new (it's been almost a year but my life keeps getting hit with chaos) so I feel like I still need to get situated intellectually in how all our projects work together.

I gotta ask about the rats, bc I've only ever worked with mice, but in my initial tour of our animal facility they showed me some rats and they were Huge. but I know some rats are more in the "only a bit larger than mice" range and not those behemoths. which rats do you use 👀 (this seems silly to say having worked with mice for 6+ years but I don't actually know much about rats) - would also love to hear what you study if you want to share!

[cabbage-rat]

He's the ~beeeesst~ of both worlds!!

[bevcrushes]

Women Are Researchers : National Instuttutes of Health : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A short promotional and informational video about women in the biomedical sciences. It features an introduction by Gates McFadden. Descripti

i'm lowkey obsessed with this video of gates mcfadden celebrating women in stem!!

[le--fruitcake]

I hath prepared an Alchemic Experiment! I am told I shall grow crystals from naught but stone, water, and powder.

[eudevie]

Why Grillby is "short" in Snowdin and Fuku is "taller"

So, one would think being colder (denser air) and more oxygen would mean a taller flame. But Grillby looks like this:

His glasses are awfully low, and his head is all squished when the top flame wooshes aside.

And fuku like this:

Her eyes are higher up. But hotland is, well, hotter and less dense. This is how pressure effects fire:

But wait, Snowdin is higher than Hotland! We fall into the dump, and the river flows downhill.

Ebott, according to this guy, is 16,734 ft. Assuming, of course, the humans didn't climb to the summit, minus the fall and Toriel's basement, I'm going to go with, let's say 12,000 ft. Partially pulled out of my ass. (Human vertical limit is like 18k, in case anyone was concerned about the humans.)

Assuming Snowdin is 15-30F...

62,657 Pa is of course, 62.6 kPa. Looking at the chart referenced before, it makes Grillby's head make more sense.

So all those varying Grillby heads on merch? Very possible!