#scientists of Tumblr

[queer-ecopunk]

Plz reblog, I need to know I'm not alone in this.

[we-are-all-paranoid]

[markscherz]

this is an absolutely insane question, but what does your accent sound like?

(have autism) (would like to read your posts in "your voice") (thought you were American) (now confused)

Not insane at all, quite understandable!

As it happens, you can find recordings of my voice in quite a few places on the internet, including

My podcast, The SquaMates Podcast (off air for more than a year and a half now, due to crazy schedules and life events, but there are many hours to be listened to anyway)

My YouTube dissection series, AnatomyInsights (behind schedule, like the rest of my life, but we're working on it)

My TikTok (I am bad at this, as you will soon see, but I hope to find time to work on it)

Sometimes I do Facebook or Instagram live videos, mostly when I am measuring frogs

Various guest appearances on podcasts, e.g. The Chameleon Academy Podcast, New Species Podcast

And I've done a few TV and radio interviews; an exhausting but not exhaustive list of media appearances or coverage of my work can be found on the Media page of my website.

You will quite quickly learn that my accent is wholly fucked, but has an American flavour to it because I lived in the US in my early childhood, but a largely British vocabulary (and spelling) because the rest of my life has been in Europe, very often among Brits. I am also an accent sponge, and tend to mirror other people's accents when speaking to them, which can get quite awkward.

[ethan-acfan]

Okay, I just saw a video talking about the concept of black light. Not like a black light, but a light that emits black. It would work like a regular light, but instead of light, it would emit darkness.

So, I started thinking about this concept a little bit more. Why don't we have a black "light"? Obviously, it wouldn't be a light since that's not scientifically possible. But why don't we have the concept of something that is able to suck in light and make an area darker. How would something like that even work?

Well, I came up with an idea. Now, it wouldn't necessarily function as a light. It would act more as a magnet. Sucking in only light. Naturally, my mind jumped straight to a black hole, but black holes suck in everything, not just light. So we need to make a few adjustments.

First, ima state a few tiny facts/problems. 1. This lamp can't work like a traditional magnet since light photons have no charge and negligible mass. 2. This lamp would have to utilize quantum physics because with quantum physics, there is a way to "trap" or channel photons.

So, with quantum manipulation, we are able to use a thing called a quantum blockade, which consists of specially designed structures to control the flow of light. If we can figure out how to get these on a smaller scale (small enough to fit on a lamp shade probably), then we can most likely use this to help attract our light.

Next, we would also have to use cavity trapping. This uses optical cavities to confine protons to small spaces. We can use this to keep our light trapped inside the main power source to keep our lamp running.

This would probably mean we would have to find a way to direct the light towards the cavity in the first place, then trap the light inside the cavity, then convert that light into energy which is a super technical sciency experiment that I don't feel like attempting to understand rn.

Now I'm thinking, for this lamp, it could work similar to solar power. When it is turned on, it can manipulate the light into energy to keep it going. This might be a bit tricky and would probably have to also rely on regular electricity to keep it going since it would run out of light really quickly. So if we wanna stick with the solar power technique, we could probably stick solar panels on the base, and you can just leave the lamp in the sun when you're not using it.

On the note of solar power, we can probably power the main core by trapping the light inside solar panels, and then the solar panels can power the lamp. But it would probably have to combine both solar panels and quantum manipulation, which would honestly change the game with solar powered devices. If solar panels could attract all the light in an area, imagine how much power we would get from that. A single pannel in a well placed field could power a city.

I got off track, but anyway, theatrically, it's possible. But we probably need to make a few more breakthroughs in quantum science before hoping to achieve an anti-light lamp for all you cave dwellers. Also, I would like to propose the brand name "Ton-18" for whoever sees this and decides to start making these. Or really just name the brand after a black hole and I will be happy

Also, take this entire post with a grain of salt, I am but a nerdy 14 year old who is just really obsessed with quantum physics

[penmethame]

DEBUNKING REALITY SHIFTING

I am not here to share my biases or anything hurtful. I am a shifter myself. As an active community i respect ur interest and devotion into reality shifting and i am so interested i am writing an article to understand it better. I am no scientist or journalist, just a writer trying to make sense of this fascinating thing. So i ask for a favor for those who are interested, if you aren't i won't force anyone don't worry.

My article is called "Shifting: a variant of dreaming? And how we don't understand our brain power yet" -- i am both taking the social understanding of it, through experiences and beliefs, and the science behind dreams, how our brain can perceive experiences and senses into the dream state and more.

i want to know the experience. Not the process. The experience after shifting, the way objects appear, the way sounds and touch feel, how vivid is it? Every detail i can get out of your experiences. That way, if it is really possible to do so, we can find a better way to achieve this.

I appreciate both shifting and non-shifting input.

These can be done publically or through dms, i don't mind which i am just here to get a better understanding of this topic. Getting the hard truths is my goal and i intend to keep it that way. as trurthful as possible.

if you are interested in this project, please do reach out to me through this account, or email me at phoebethame@gmail.com

thank you

[thelegendofstudy]

Ok so scientists of Tumblr. Is it worth it to make a professional science Twitter? My current PI suggested I do to find opportunities but Twitter is Twitter and I don't want to touch it with a 10 foot poll. But, I am lacking in marine science opportunities and absolutely need to network.

So, strangers on the internet what's your opinion. Is science Twitter worth it?

[missfierfly]

Can stars have rings???

ya know, like those Saturn rings 🪐

If the said ring is in the Goldilocks zone of the star, and can somehow sustain life...

possibly an intelligent one...

will there be 'round ring'ers as we have flat Earthers?

[that-dumbass-rabbit]

Bruh someone explain this I'm confused

magnets and an old mac classic

[theineated]

Agarose gels look very tasty but they are unfortunately forbidden jello. Fortunately, agar-agar is the same thing but food grade

Behold the unforbidden jello

[we-are-all-paranoid]

look at that inflammatory process!!

this is a intestinal polyp slide. also check out that hemossiderosis in the hemorraged vessel to right!

[baddiesource]

@mariahscientist

[cpt-fluffybutch]

This goes out to programmers/researchers of Tumblr: can this be measured in any way? Like, is there a way to detect bots and count them in any social media platform? Sounds like it'd be a fun research project and it'll be insightful for everyone here. What would it take?

it's always wild to me how many people use social media exactly like the fake users they make up in tech demos do. just commenting on chipotle's post about a new type of steak like "😍 can't wait to try it!" and reacting to articles on mass death events with "😥"

[stardella]

Siblings but in space

[tapiocats]

*Carlos' voice* THAT'S MY HUSBAND !!!

[ashclouds366]

"if you ripped your fingers off and glued them to someone else, would you still be able to control them?" - five-year-old

scientists of tumblr please she needs to know

[zzoupz]

"Cecil would want Sans to win" "Sans would want Cecil to win" you fools. you buffoons. Cecil would want his husband Carlos to win