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@cece-seesaw literally me today for no good reason

hey sorry for getting really pissy at you earlier because I could hear you chewing. see I have a condition called [remembers pathologizing my behavior is unhelpful] it's actually because I hate you, specifically,

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What a majestic eternal fuck. If deities roamed the earth, they would be octopus.

A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani

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@cece-seesaw @strangetallwoman

aphobes saying that sexual and romantic attraction is what makes us human

so… what they’re really saying is that people on the aromantic and asexual spectrum are gods

wait- demisexual and demiromantic people are demigods

this is amazing lmao

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European Hamster, Morava, Czech Republic

by Lubomir Novak

Wild Planet Photography

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Smoky Mountain Sunset (USA) by Andrew Soundarajan

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YEAH, I know some of the things I do are weird and 'unnatural' to others, but there's not one thing that makes me absolutely despise a group of people the way our politicians do now. I think as someone with schizophrenia, I should say that a lot of us are afraid of stereotypes people make of us and I DO NOT want to in any way be a stereotype of bigotry.

I keep seeing people call the Trump administration shit like “schizophrenic” and “psychotic” and can we fucking not do this please???? schizophrenics and people with psychosis have a biological and neurological basis for their behavior and beliefs. there is no biological basis for being racist and sexist and a monster. schizophrenics and ppl with psychosis are innocent. you can’t beat bigotry with more bigotry

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Replacement Pump

If a zebrafish’s heart gets damaged, there’s a good chance the cells will fully regenerate, just as those pictured have done. Unfortunately, the same isn’t true for humans and, if a person survives a heart attack, they are stuck with a suboptimal pump for the remainder of their lives. Because a damaged human heart can ultimately weaken and fail, scientists are investigating cell replacement therapies to restore muscle function. One problem is, lab-grown heart cells don’t fully mature and so fail to work within the existing muscle. Recently, scientists have discovered the machinery in regenerating zebrafish heart cells necessary for their maturation, integration and function. When the equivalent machinery was switched on in lab-grown human and mouse heart cells, they showed similar signs of maturity. The next step, then, is to see whether this maturation machinery can promote the cells’ functional integration the way it does in the fish.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Phong D. Nguyen and colleagues

Hubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Science, May 2023

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Consider reblogging, on tumblr reblog or die

Noooooo, I'm only a faint little guy...

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Ah yes, you found one of the causes of my schizophrenia

extremely evocative textbook diagram