#it's so overwhelming

[hannahssimblr]

hi they're not in love they wouldn't do that

[roetrolls]

jfc this update is unusable

[valkoinenlintu]

i'm so fucking lonely and stressed out at the moment it's killing me inside

[wanderingmind867]

The Museum is Too Much!

We made it to the museum, and it's already too much for me! Within minutes of arrival, I learned that the whole museum is incredibly echoey, the stairs are wide and thick so they feel dangerous, and did I mention all the noise!? There's so much noise!? I'm currently in a Wing of the museum dedicated to Inuit art, and I refuse to leave! I might agree to later, but I refuse right now! I'm hating this day! Getting so hot I'm starting to be really sweaty.

[opeial]

i submitted my postgrad application today

[darkmothsy]

Terrible thoughts keep cycling in my head and I can't get free

[doubletrucks]

girls everything is so difficult all the time

[sparrowsingsstories]

I gave myself an anxiety attack by doing the tutorial for the website my student teaching program uses for, well, everything related to student teaching.

[prentissluvr]

oh my god if this is all from caffeine..... i can't caffein + adhd is soooo bad rn oh god

[markscherz]

You might know this tiny frog.

This is Mini mum (photo by Andolalao Rakotoarison), a species I had the pleasure to name—together with a team of amazing colleagues—back in 2019.

That was the start of a fascination with the process and consequences of miniaturisation for vertebrates. How the hell does this tiny frog manage to fit all of its vital organs—more or less all the same senses and organs that we have—into a package the size of a tic-tac‽ Why and how has it evolved to be so small? And why don't we get frogs that are much smaller?

Well, I just secured 1.5 MILLION Euros (!!!) in the form of a European Research Commission Starting Grant, to answer these and other related questions in the genomes of Mini frogs and other miniaturised vertebrates.

Because it turns out, there are *lots* of miniaturised vertebrates, and they push the boundaries of how small we think it is possible for a vertebrate to be! Here is a little graphic of some of them, scaled to a BIC ballpoint pen.

The project is called GEMINI: The Genomics of Miniaturisation in Vertebrates! You can read more about it on my website here, and in the press release, here!

[minjimunji]

Figuring out how to draw them 😖

[fairyvoids]

i miss having friends i feel so much grief for everything being sick has stolen from me

[lizardkingeliot]

lestat when louis stops paying attention to him for two whole seconds

[nikossasaki]

In loving memory of Bernard Cribbins 1928-2022 ↳ 14x01: The Star Beast || 14x02: Wild Blue Yonder

[wdapteo]

Phil supporting Dan will always be a love language

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:

There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’

like wow babe. good fucking point