misha

25 | Biology student | science and study stuff ig?? | I have nowhere else to post this. | ENG/SPA | Likes and follows come from : @pointless-ness

[naturalist-journal]

[theerlenmeyerflask]

it's 2026 and this bitch is STILL writing her thesis???? (yes)

screen-maxxing to meet a self imposed deadline I probably won't achieve but hey, the spirit is there... I guess

also doggies! and experimenting (badly!) with watercolor 🌸

[aftermidnightcoffee]

too cringe for pinterest academia, too based for studytube; just miserable enough for studyblr.

[theerlenmeyerflask]

who wants to invite me to a study server? :D

[theerlenmeyerflask]

bring back the study with bts videos 😔

one more day of thesis writing while I'm a week behind schedule... or one year, who knows 🤪

also my cat keeping me sane, obvs

[theerlenmeyerflask]

back on my bullshit (cramming my entire thesis work)

seriously need some accountability/writing partners 😞

[ghostingpen]

back for another productive saturday. i already got a lot written in an hour. don't underestimate the power of writing by hand if you're feeling stuck.

today's song: sorry for party rocking - LMFAO

novel progress: 46561/90000

[darkmacademia]

my current obsession is my coffee mug that looks and feels like an orange 🍊

[itscolossal]

Turn-of-the-Century Tactile Graphics Illustrate Nature for People Who Are Blind

[milksockets]

dennis ashbaugh + iñigo manglano-ovalle in the molecular gaze: art in the genetic age - suzanne anker + dorothy nelkin (2004)

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

ATP synthase!

(The membrane beside it kinda looks like shit though. ) Froglights are to represent ADP binding sites, and are not spatially accurate.

Structure was referenced Cryo-EM model of E. coli ATP synthase from Sobti et. al. Structure 6PQV on PDB

Sobti, M., J.L. Walshe, D. Wu, R. Ishmukhametov, Y.C. Zeng, C.V. Robinson, R.M. Berry, and A.G. Stewart. 2020. Cryo-EM structures provide insight into how E. coli F1Fo ATP synthase accommodates symmetry mismatch. Nat Commun. 11:2615. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16387-2.

[hellsitegenetics]

I just know genome databases hate to see you coming

me showing up at the NIH website to overload their servers by BLASTing the entire bee movie script

[triviallytrue]

oh man, they made you defend your thesis? that's fucked up, they told me mine was perfect the way it is and just gave me the phd

[star-anise]

The most valuable thing I learned doing a Masters degree with depression, anxiety and ADHD was to change my “things I’m bad at” list to “things I can’t do on my own.” Stop thinking of them as things I could do if I tried hard enough, and accept that I can’t accomplish them by effort and willpower alone; they’re genuine neurocognitive deficits, and if I need to do the thing, then just like a blind person reading or a mobility impaired person going up a storey in a building, I need to find a different method.

I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.

Accept your limitations and learn to leverage them, instead of buying the neurotypical fairytale that they’ll go away if you just try hard enough.

[bead-bead-deactivated20190901]

I needed this so much.

[supervillainny]

…holy shit

holy shit

[theerlenmeyerflask]

I am still stuck on the same data analysis (but finally towards the end !). To avoid posting the same desk pic for days in a row, I'll have you meet my lil study buddy 🥰

[theerlenmeyerflask]

I'm still chained up to my laptop trying to finish the thesis work I didn't do for the last three weeks !

... love that for me 😪

[calware]