#Researchers

[archivegeo]

So proud of my maps from this past week. I'm testing the hypothesis.... I'm noticing patterns! Plus plus this week is cph pride week and I'm volunteering every day, so it is only natural I fall in love

[transastronautistic]

I can't handle how cute this is. i want a slime pet too

Link to the Tweets. And here's a link to the study. ID in alt text and below the readmore.

Image 1:

tweet by e. @MelytraMithra reading "oh my goddddd

researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial… developed an emotional attachment to it [two sobbing emojis]"

The Tweet includes a screenshot from the paper, described in next image.

Image 2:

The tweet's screenshot, which reads:

Developing a connection.

All participants expressed various feelings of connection with our device. P1, P2, P4, and P5 all described it as a little friend and/or pet. P2 expressed, “it’s always good to be accompanied by some living creature, I really like different, animals or plants. (. . .) carrying this little friend also made me feel happy and peaceful”. P4 noted that she would be reminded by the slime mold’s presence by its smell, even stating that it felt endearing, “my cat’s kind of have a smell, dogs have a smell, the physarum, I recognize the smell and it smells kind of, organic, it’s kind of yeasty but not like decaying, it smells alive”. In recalling an experience where she had to take a long drive, P4 explained, “oh, I gotta bring my little pet mold friend, during the drive, I was also thinking about how I used to be really into Tamagotchis (. . .) with the physarum, (. . .) it has this smell to it which your Tamagotchis don’t have, it has a sense of physicality, (. . .) they’re definitely different”. P1 stated that their personal care routine ended up linked to the device’s care routine “I think every time I fed myself is when I would remember to at least check it, I think that was actually quite linked”. While she was sick, P5’s partner helped take care of her as well as helped to take care of her device. P5 recounts, “I was taking care of the slime and feeding it oats and stuff, my partner was also feeding me oatmeal because I was sick and so she was like you’re my little slime and I was like yeah, I am (. . .) then she started calling me her slime because I mean me and the slime, like, we were eating the same stuff, (. . .) we were both being fed and watered”. P2 & P4 also stated that the visual appearance of their device affected their mood. P2 explained that growth made them feel refreshed. P4 associated the bright yellow of the physarum with happy feelings, noting this affective quality several times in her diary entries and in her interview.

Image 3: A reply tweet from the original tweeter reading "well nourished. in my lane. lively. growing." There's a photoset from the study described as "a slime mold oscillating between living and dormant stages." There are four images of the slime mold, which is a yellow color. The first shows it "dried / dormant / not growing." Second shows it "water added / resuscitated / growing." Third shows the slime "well nourished / lively / growing." The fourth shows it once again "dried / dormant / not growing."

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Andrew MacKenzie - Apparitions & Ghosts - Arthur Barker - 1971 (jacket design by Tom Simmonds)

[jstor]

You're pretty good at searching here and there, but there's a lot more to academic research. This is why we put together this free, self-guided course!

Because three is the magic number (look it up!), the course is made up of three modules of three short lessons and three sets of practice quizzes. Try it try it try it!

[zooliminology]

What is your favorite little guy in the facility dear researcher

Delta is my favourie little guy!!! Its so fun annoying them!!! -Nu

[nicknaysayer]

SMILE! 🌟🌟

[mysharona1987]

[queerbrownvegan]

Decolonize Research through Critical Ecology

How do we ask better questions about what it means to be a researcher? My work with Critical Ecology Lab, featuring Dr. Suzanne Pierre, allowed me to understand more of how research must also extend itself to liberation rather than extraction for science.

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If you want to learn more about her work, I highly recommend watching the episode- love you all!

[redhairclara]

Justine Johnstone photographed by Ira L. Hill, 1920. From my collection.

[chroniclesofachemist]

STUDENTS! RESEARCHERS!

I got a lil tricky trick for you;

You can use chatgpt to write highly specific database/library search strings. I realise not everyone is good at this skill so having a tool do it for you can be really beneficial for big literature reviews et cetera.

Try it sometime!

[adambibliophile]

History speaks for itself.

[archivegeo]

I took a 40min phone call in the office and when i left again, my footprints were gone. I have less than 5 pages of the necessary 15 for this reflection report of my time in research lmaooo it's due on the 25th 💀 a life without internet is a helluva drug and boy i am now realizing it wasn't normal to have constant access to communications. the trees and 8ft snowpack have liberated me. but yeah i still have a thesis to write so i need to get it together 💘 accepted my next position and that also has service free housing, and I'm genuinely excited. (ft. beans)

[ineedfairypee]

To P or not to P(hD)

[stormsonjupiter]

The only three words women want to hear is, “accepted without revisions”.

[jstor]

Ah, so this is what they mean by "infinite scroll"!

Zephorene L. Stickney (left), college archivist, and others holding the Sesquicentennial Scroll in the Wheaton College library stair tower in 1984. From Marion B. Gebbie Archives Image Collection, an open collection on JSTOR!