#scientific messages

[eddieintheocean]

Pros of having institutional access to scientific journal sites: free papers for research for my essays

Cons of having autism and institutional access to scientific journal sites: help...... I'm stuc in the rabbit uole... let me out its been so loong

[polaris-stuff]

HMMMM

Solarmoon AU where Moon and Solar are soulmates but Solar continues living in another universe and they communicate through notes on their bodies (yes, I am using the concept that soulmates are connected and can feel what the other feels and write things on their bodies that appear on the other's body).

[icewindandboringhorror]

There's always a slight yearning in the back of my mind wishing I had been born in the right place, time, family situation, income level, etc. to have just lived in one single house for my entire life. Imagine being born in a place that still suits you, even through all of your personal evolutions and etc. The idea of deep familiarity with an area because you've lived and explored it for 40+ years, being encased in a web of memories and connections. Being able to clean out your old childhood bedroom and find personal artifacts, to dig in the yard and remember. I know those lives can still be plenty imperfect, but there's just something so seemingly solid and stable and Grounding about it that I sometimes wish I could have.. (At least from my outside perspective as someone who's moved around a bit geographically and even within the same area, never lives in the same house/ apartment /etc. for more than a few years usually.) Like... having a place that is printed upon, fully your own, rather than chronically a visitor, every thought of a space always tempered with the notion that one day soon you'll have to pack it all up again, etc. There's something peaceful about the permanence.

[fatchance]

I’m pausing posts for a few days. Back soon. 

Here are some Arizona saguaros to bridge the gap.

Image adapted from U. S. Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian from 1878, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s flickr photo stream. If you enjoy vintage scientific illustration it’s a great place to while away the hours until I return.

[goldkirk]

When did the latest 1,000 of you follow me??? good lord hi and welcome, I should maybe pay attention to my notifications and activity page more 😭

[cedarspiced]

heads up for folks that use it, sci.news is fully IP banning users that make any kind of comment even vaguely anti-AI.

[vaguely-concerned]

going postal... fallout new vegas... postman pat (I assume)... again and again we must face that inevitable truth: the ideal protagonist is a horrible little postman with problems

[alithographica]

Hello Alithografica! I love your work here! Everything from your sketches in the museum to the scientific illustrations u do. Can I know what u are studying? Im actually confused with what course I should take in my academics and I was curious abt your career and course. I really find it intriguing

Lots of love❤❤❤

Hope u don't get offended 💐

Thanks! I've long since graduated, but when I was in college I was in an interdisciplinary major program that let me build my own major—so I built a scientific illustration major out of mostly biology/chemistry classes and a handful of studio art classes.

There are some structured scientific illustration undergrad programs out there—both majors and minors—but I'm really into the science side of things and wanted to leave myself the option of going to grad school in science, just in case. (My 2.5 years in a university genetics lab cured me of that desire though lmao. I LOVED working in the lab but research academia is not my cup of tea. Science communication is!)

Anyway, scientific illustration is a very flexible career to enter into. Unless you do medical illustration (where employers typically want to see a Master's in medical illustration,) there are no degree requirements for scientific illustrators. Instead, you need a strong portfolio—and a formal program will help you develop that, and will help you get great connections, but you can also do it on your own. It's good to have a strong science background so you understand the science you're depicting and can communicate easily with any scientists you're working with, but a science degree isn't necessarily a requirement for that either.

I have colleagues who went through formal programs, others who are professional scientists and just also do art, others who are artists who have just had a passion for science, others who are teachers or librarians or otherwise...Just be curious, build your science knowledge and problem-solving skills, work on your portfolio, and find places to connect to others. Check out your local museum, botanic garden, or arts center—they sometimes have scientific illustration classes. It's a great way to get a little structure and connect with others. The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators is also a great organization, and you can join various communities online too.

On that last note, I run the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Discord server—if anyone wants an invite link, message me! GNSI membership is not required, and it's open to all levels of artists—just come chat, see cool art, get advice, etc.

[brucenorris007]

So. Um.

>Gerald mucked around with Shadow’s memories, hence why so much about what actually went down on the ARK and who Gerald and Maria were is up for interpretation

>Gerald created Shadow simultaneously to satisfy the government’s demands for a super weapon/Ultimate lifeform which he thought could also mitigate, if not cure, Maria’s illness

>It stands to reason that he intended for Shadow to mitigate her illness through chaos energy, hence why he literally exudes and expends so much of it that he requires inhibitors

>Maria’s illness is described as a neuro/immuno, as in issues with her immune system and tied into her brain

>Did... did Gerald tweak and manipulate Shadow’s memories through the use of chaos energy? Changing wavelengths and frequencies or some such?

>And... if so, is it possible that Knuckles might be able to restore Shadow’s memories, SA2 and prior, in full, using the Master Emerald?

@generic-sonic-fan

[jizzlords]

@ciircex asked: He said he doesn't like her.... so nows she's gonna bite him, maybe on the neck 👀 / unprompted, always accepting.

Now, to be frank ... the little box on the paper said he didn't like her. Such words have never come from his mouth! You gotta force it out of him if you're so convinced. With that said ... sinister chuckling rumbles from the Sin's chest.

❝ Oh yeah, ❞ it's almost as if he were counting on such violence. Who's to say for certain? Don't say it's the way he cants his head to reveal more exposure to his neck, either. Don't say the way his tail whips with anticipation, either. ❝ Ooh ♪ harder, baby. Just like that. ♡ ❞

[pia-writes-things]

We love giving our master's pre-thesis to our apprenticeship tutor so they can proofread it, and all they have to say is that's it's "too political" and "too controversial", that I should "censor" (no jokes, they used that word) the extract of my field diary that's in it, that I should delete or rewrite one of my hypothesis and, finally, that interviewing teachers for my research is "too delicate".

[asexualdreammorpheus]

the first sex scene with fane is so much funnier as an undead instead of him feeling weird about that thing the godwoken does with their tongue he feels weird about what the godwoken did with their tibia

[dballzposting]

Unedited post in my drafts from July 23 2022:

GT if Goten had gone as intended instead of Pan

Trunks: (maneuvering the ship around asteroids)

Goten: (being dramatic) Wo-wo-WOAH! I told you to take it easy man. I get sea sick..!

Trunks: (takes a hard turn just to piss him off)

Goten: WOAH! I felt that one in my prostate.

Trunks: SERIOUSLY? You're gonna talk about your prostrate when your father is right there, man?

Goten: What? He knows about my prostate. Hey dad you know about my prostate right

Goku: Huh? Your what?

Goten: (not embarrassed at all) Oh it's. It's like, an organ, I think.

Goku: Oh, an organ? What's it do?

Goten: Oh it, uh. It, um. Um. Hey Trunks what does the prostate do

Trunks: SERIOUSLY? I'm not answering that. (Doesnt know the answer)

Goten: (pulling out his phone) I'll ask Gohan he'll know.

Trunks: You're not gonna be able to reach him we're in SPACE (exasperated becasue hes already explained this twice)

Goten's phone screen: first text that says "hey bro do u know what the prostate does ?? I know youve been on an etymology kick lately but maybe u could pull out some anatomy books to help me out."

(Pause)

A responding text that says "Sure!" followed by highly technical jargon

Goten: Oh, I got a response.

Trunks: WHAT ?

Goten: Man I cant parse any of this. He should know better than to talk to me like I know shit

Trunks: WHAT ?

Goku: Oh you got Gohan on the phone? Hey, ask him how Chi-Chi is doing. Ask if she'll make a big dinner for us when we get home (swinging his feet excitedly)

Trunks: WHAT ?

[a11sunday]

" you're coming back. " sanji!

it's useless now to say he doesn't want her to worry. who wouldn't be worried in a situation like this ? your evil biological family turning up at her place of work to threaten her into telling them where sanji was. apparently, they'd already checked the restaurant and other places he's been known to frequent. their last resort was to squeeze the information out of someone dear to him , and hold their life over his head.

with all the courage he could muster, sanji's lips spread wide into a reassuring smile , even chuckling as if to dismiss the threat of danger looming over both of them. soon , the threat over her would dissipate and he would carry it squarely on his shoulders alone. it's not del's problem to deal with.

" of course i am. i'll see what they want, get 'em out of our hair, and it'll be back to normal in no time. these guys -- they just don't know how to act fuckin' normal. don't wait up, all right ? " @mournlamb , meme.

[headcanonsandmore]

I should have mentioned it earlier but yes I do love the Nyssa/Tegan ship! {all thanks to you, all your posts and fics about them} it’s such a cute ship. I also do love my gay ships ☺️🤣

Yay! That's fantastic!

So glad I helped you get invested in the Indestructible ship!

[blueiskewl]

A Four-Rotor Enigma Cipher Machine Heimsoeth & Rinke; November, 1941

Serial number M4117, with complete electrical wiring, three aluminum rotors (IV, V & VII), Gamma rotor and B reflector all with matching serial numbers, raised 'QWERTZ' keyboard with crackle black painted metal case, plugboard in the front with eight patch leads, four spare patch leads to lid which is fitted with spare bulbs and a previously unknown, probably unique, metal security screen, housed in wooden carrying case -- with a German Navy telegraph key.

13½ x 11 x 6in. (34.5 x 28 x 16cm.).