The Unaesthetic Studyblr

Laur || 25 || she/they || marine biology || part time gator handler and cryptid/ghost hunter

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MASTERPOST OF MY POSTS

Advice posts:

Small things you can do to help keep somewhat sane when life is chaos incarnate

Tips for a super busy life with add-on by lilliesandlovebirds

How I prep for a new semester at uni

STEM writing advice

Realistic academia

schedule time for yourself

Broke college student tip: cook

Overwhelming failure

Small changes make big impacts

Gathered school advice

advice for new college students

Failure is normal and a part of the learning process

tips for playing catch up

Getting back into school

UNIVERSITY WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

How to bounce back from failing a test

How to get a good work/life balance

 Study stuff:

review/summary pages

Testing tips: minutes before the test

Fun ways to help stay focused while studying

A survival guide for finals week

different study methods

How I condense notes for quick reviews

How to study for a test with lots of info

Testing tip

My 20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

Autism and School

Productivity:

Productivity and disability

One of my favorite productivity tips:

Healthy productivity

don’t be productive all the time

How to make the most out of a sick day

slow mornings

How I limit my productivity and why you probably should too

Other:

Easy and cheap study snacks: stuffed croissants

failing is ok

academic wins

You got this

Easy, fast and cheap foods for under $5

Don't feel shame about your academic journey

TIPS FOR MANAGING CHRONIC MIGRAINES AND ONLINE CLASSES with add-on by phdstudygirl

Things I learned from failing classes

[catasters]

[mikkeneko]

That gator:

[wizardpotions]

Oh? You think the world is full of pain and suffering huh?

Well look into the big, soothing eyes of anomalocaris and maybe you'll stop being such a hateful idiot

[ismael5135]

[theunaestheticstudyblr]

You're not a failure. You're not an awful person. You're not so far behind that everything will fall apart. It's just Wednesday. You're ok. Life isn't a race. Just sit for a minute and be alive.

[reikacchan]

don't give up

[mornington-the-crescent]

[hobgobknowsbest]

makes me just think of this poem by Caitlin Seida

[catchymemes]

[kosmogrl]

[free-my-mindd]

[marinebiologyshitposts]

[marinebiologyshitposts]

[fragilebluelobster]

OMFG THIS IS THE REAL SHIT THEY DIDN'T PUT THIS IN MY MARINE BIOLOGY BOOKS AND I'M SO PISSED OFF RN FOR THAT IT LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It is!!! Sea mice are really not talked about nearly enough for how cool they are!?? They should be a marine biology staple like seahorses or pufferfish! Their hollow scales can reflect back the entire spectrum of light, which hasn’t been documented before in any organism!

[autistic-af]

"I can't be autistic. I handle school just fine. If I was autistic, I wouldn't be able to handle all that noise and stuff."

Yeah... But how are you AFTER school?

Do you shutdown? Struggle to do homework because your brain can't handle any more input? Are you extra sensitive to smells, noise etc, so that even dinner cooking can smell overwhelming? Do you sleep in on the weekends and want to do nothing whilst your friends are going out and having parties but you can't even shower?

This is called masking. You are surviving school, but nothing more.

*Note: not all autistics can mask. Not all autistics go to standard school. This is just from my POV.

[autistic-af]

I forgot about this post. I did not survive school, tell you what.

Ain't surviving work either.

[official-linguistics-post]

this isn't linguistics-specific, but it is very important and deserves to be known:

you don't have to have an institutional affiliation to use @jstor.

there is a free option that lets you read up to 100 articles/month online - which is a lot!! and even the individual subscription is only $19.50/month or $199/year as of july 2024, which is leagues better than having to purchase (or in many cases, "rent") articles individually from the publishers.

the only downside to the free account is that it doesn't allow downloads, which is tragic for those of us who enjoy hoarding pdves, but not necessarily a dealbreaker.

i've seen simply too much lamenting about jstor accessibility for non-affiliates. it's there to use!! go forth and inhabit your research rabbit holes!

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[wifehaver103947]

I need the rainbow trout truck so bad

[wifehaver103947]

ladies you aren’t gonna believe this but I found a second trouck

[theunaestheticstudyblr]

One thing I need to work on a lot is time planning. Not time management but planning. I CAN get all the essentials done perfectly fine. But I don't have free time. I work 40+ hours, I'm in lab twice a week with over an hour commute just one way, a pet to care for, a relationship to manage, and a household to keep myself. This obviously leaves very little free time for me and so when free time comes, my burnt out ass just rots (which is perfectly fine and healthy in moderation). And I feel like I'm missing out on so much. I don't go out anymore. I don't go to the gym or on walks or to the beach or library or swim because no time and energy.

I'm working on time planning though now, which to me is very different than time management. Time management is there to ensure you get everything done when needed. That's not the issue. The issue is making time for me and living. That's where the planning comes in. I need to plan events and move my schedule around for ME. Life is so short and needs to be enjoyed. I wasn't put on this earth to slave and make a rich person richer. I was put on this earth to feel sunshine and watch birds and look for snakes and bugs. And now I need to plan time to do those things.

[spirulin4]

a quick “why is my life so bad” checklist

how’s your sleep schedule

have you eaten or drank anything besides sugar and caffeine

how long have you been sitting in one spot

have you gone out in public recently

have you taken a shower/brushed your teeth/groomed yourself properly

have you spent time doing an activity that doesn’t involve a screen

etc

[spirulin4]

i myself needed to be reminded of this today. the freedom of summer also means the risk of falling back into bad habits if i'm not mindful

[byjove]

One thing that pisses me off is people seeing fish in aquariums (the establishments, not home aquariums) and being like “It’s so sad because the ocean is so big and the tank is so small and they’ll never know freedom blah blah blah-“ I’m not talking about sharks and marine mammals here but the majority of fish are not at all bothered by being in an aquarium instead of the open ocean. Like, I personally would love to be a little clown fish in one of those big reef tanks. Fed regularly. Whole team of people monitoring my health and well-being. No predators. Medicated if I show signs of illness. Aquarium fish have cushy gigs in comparison to their wild companions.

[byjove]

I saw someone say this about a blue lobster that was wild caught and brought to an aquarium. Like dude. It’s a lobster. They’re solitary sedentary creatures. They live in little crevices and they don’t move from them often. They abhor other creatures. Also, this lobster is distinctly bad at being a lobster because it is bright neon blue. I don’t think he’s yearning for the open sea. He’s probably yearning for his next mussel. Which is, coincidentally, the same thing he’d be doing if he wasn’t in an aquarium.

[queerscout]

Once when I worked at an aquarium in the Pacific North West a visitor stopped me to talk about how sad she was to see all these animals in tanks. (This is surprisingly common from visitors.) She mentioned the sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) in particular. They were her favorite, and she used to see them all the time while diving locally and suddenly there were none, but we had them and that just didn't seem right.

We ended up having a lengthy conversation about how a disease, sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS), decimated the wild populations of that species and many sea stars a few years prior and how that aquarium was actually one of the few in the country exhibiting Pycnopodia that didn't lose their entire population to the disease. We talked about some of the research that was happening to help protect them and she started to feel a little better. She wanted to feel like it was okay for her to visit the aquarium and that she wasn't just staring at caged animals.

Pycnopodia are now listed as critically endangered. They are a keystone species in their environment and SSWS is estimated to have killed 90% of the wild population. Without them, the shores of the entire west coast have changed. Now, ten years later, that same aquarium was the first to establish a successful treatment for the disease. Before that, most aquariums had the protocol to remove symptomatic animal and generally had to euthanize them because nothing could be done. Within a matter of days, they were completely melted. Now, there is a treatment. It's not a cure, but there's hope that something can be done. That same aquarium is also part of efforts to work towards reintroducing Pycnopodia to the wild to help restore the ecosystems.

People have started to understand that zoos work in conservation and education, but aquariums do, too. We talk about the California condor and black footed ferret as success stories and Panamanian golden frogs and rhinos as works in progress, but aquariums are doing that same kind of work! There are coral conservation labs, efforts to reintroduce wild animals and remove invasives (looking at you, Florida), housing of non-releasable marine mammals, research into new medical procedures and treatments, and breeding of endangered species. The fish (and inverts!) in aquariums have an easy life, and might even be part of something so much bigger.

This is your permission to feel good about visiting reputable aquariums! Enjoy looking at the pretty, and not so pretty, fish (and inverts! please give the little sea bugs some love), and know that your admission is helping to keep them healthy and well cared for, and might even lead to something that can change the world.

[onlytiktoks]

National Park Service effectively bans uniformed staffers from Pride marches

Uniformed park rangers have marched in some of the country’s largest Pride parades in recent years, including those in New York City and San

[fly-chicken]

“Institutions will fail us but community is where we hold power”