#student scientists

[trees-expertise]

Science side of Tumblr PLEASE share your tips/advice/hacks for academic conferences!

Im attending my first academic conference in a couple weeks and I’d appreciate anything you’d like to share with a lil baby bio undergrad like me

[otaku553]

I am going to be So Insufferable about this man in 2 days.

[legodna]

You guys wanna see a science Lego set? Well, here's Lego DNA!

With a scientifically accurate DNA model, and a historically accurate lab + 5 scientists!

Aims: to promote science to kids and honor Rosalind Franklin.

Less than 4,000 votes needed to get it considered as a real official Lego set to be sold worldwide!

If you like it, please support here and share with your friends: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/c92cd95b-49e7-46ec-b844-ac6482c51139

[stealingyourbones]

Demon Twins AU that focuses on the discrimination and bullying that Danny faces from being a kid who appeared out of nowhere, evidently adopted, and is impacted from his reactions to the world as a former League Assassin and the culture shock that would come from it forever imprinted on the minds of his peers and fellow Amity Parkers.

[easydoesit-rn]

The amount of gender euphoria a single lab coat can give you is crazy.

[marlynnofmany]

Alien grad students studying humans is always a fun concept. I'm picturing a few of them abducting two humans to study human social interactions, and they manage to grab a divorced couple. The results they're getting from this study are not at all what they expected. Weren't humans supposed to be a social species? This can't be right.

So they get another pair, and this time it's a pair of newlyweds, and well that doesn't make sense either. How are these two so different from the others? Is there something wrong with the first enclosure?

The alien grad students try all sorts of things, arguing with each other all the while. Different enclosures. Different times of day. Mix and match the couples with each other. Only it turns out one of the humans is racist towards another, and the other two are old friends from school. Is it a gender thing? How can you tell which is which, anyway? (It's bodyweight, right?) (Of course not; you can tell by how loud their vocal calls are.)

Anyways, the research is a mess, the aliens are tearing out their hair-equivalent, the humans are worried and confused and just want to go home...

Then a grad student brings in a friend who's studying something else, and that one drops a translator in there.

[katiajewelbox]

Today I submitted my PhD thesis.

[thestudentempanada]

Inside the MIT Encampment, uploaded by a supporter on Instagram April 27, 2024:

“Those in solidarity with our corpses but not our rockets is not one of us.”

That’s explicit support for terrorist activities you’re posting on Instagram right there.

[kitkatstu-dies]

40 more days of the semester (4/03/2025)

Immunology exam -> got to the school before they unlock the doors??? i found a door that was open to the backroom, but everything else was locked lol

Read a lot of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

[amnhnyc]

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[legodna]

Do you wanna build a Lego science set? Here's Lego DNA!

With a scientifically accurate DNA model, and a historically accurate lab + 5 scientists!

Aims: to promote science to kids and young adults and honor Rosalind Franklin and her legacy!

3,800 votes needed (we already have 6,200!) to get it considered as a real official Lego set to be sold worldwide!

If you like it, please support via the link above or here: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/c92cd95b-49e7-46ec-b844-ac6482c51139

[shazzbaa]

scribble of Sam's lab crew studying poisons the only way they know how: feeding it to samuel!! This is a real option ("dose yourself") in the game that gives you a bunch of research and, wounds...... Between Lettice, Hephaesta, and Samuel himself this has gotta be the least safe lab in all of London

[authorsleepy-girl]

Hello fellow Maze Runner fans. Today I offer you my headcanon on how exactly the Flare works.

What we are told (pulled from the Maze Runner Wiki on Fandom.com):

"The virus eats away the brain, turning anyone who was in contact with the virus into savage beings. The mutation rapidly increased the mortality rate of uninfected humans." 

"Symptoms (mood swings, paranoia, poor balance, headaches that get worse as time goes on, irrational anger, and aggression *) gradually worsen as the virus rapidly infects the cerebral cortex, resulting in suffering from dementia, temporarily memory-loss, and Alzheimer's-like symptoms. The rapid decaying of the brain causes psychotic mental disorders to appear from the infected, stripping the victim of their humanity, and turning them into a demented, cannibalistic, zombie-like lunatic."

"An extremely active brain, especially if by stress, will quicken the rate at which the virus does its damage."

*In the films, the symptoms differ from the novels. The Flare starts with swelling blood vessels and angiitis-like symptoms, and necrosis of the infected skin area. If an individual is infected but retains most of their intelligence, some will have strange vine-like bones protruding from their bodies which is the result of mutation growing from the virus.

That is all we are given, a general description, symptoms, and an addendum. I wanted to know how exactly the Flare works in the body. What does the virus do inside? How does it interact with the immune system, the nervous system, etc.? I couldn't find anything so I took my textbooks and notes from my Human Physiology classes and my Psychology classes and tried to figure at least some of it out. And so I now present:

How I think the Flare works specifically (WARNING: some pseudoscience at work here):

The virus presents itself as a low level threat that enters via injury (injection, bite or scratch to begin spreading) and when the wound heals it traps the pathogens inside.

The pathogens will then begin an incubation period within the infected and seep into the white blood cells and attach itself to the nuclei.

 When the cells divide and double, so does the Flare.

On the outside the infected will start behaving “off”, they will present with mood swings, paranoia, affected balance, headaches, irrational anger, increased aggression (This period lasts about 2-4 months however high levels of stress will make things worse)

After a few months of dividing and multiplying within the infected the Flared white blood cells will start attacking red blood cells and nerve endings (This is why Cranks and other Infected don’t feel pain as strongly). The virus will also attack Glial Cells, which are the cells that mediate immune responses, support the nervous system, insulates neurons, and lines neurons up to communicate.

On the outside black veins may start to appear originating from the initial infection site (Like in the movies)

Once the Glial cells are affected, the Myelin Sheaths of the brain start to shrink (now braincells start to fry), and the brain starts to flip its excitatory and inhibitory responses to ideas and stimuli (whereas normally you wouldn’t attack your loved ones, under the Flare you would). The affected area is mostly the cerebral cortex.

This results in dementia, mild amnesia, and Alzheimer-like symptoms. The outside of the body may also show signs of necrosis near or on the initial infected area

Eventually the affected area will rot/fry away and the infected will be a true “Crank” that’s beyond the “Gone”

[durchdenspiegel]

28.03.2024

A little over a month left to finish my BA thesis, so in reality, a few weeks to get a decent product to send to my friends to read over… I am determined to actually have a first draft at the end of the week (utopian) because I really want some space to breathe before the next semester sweeps me up again.

Roughly one third written - I‘m testing if „study with me“ videos help me stay productive long term to meet my goal 😮‍💨

[sidhion]

surprisee visit at werk!!!! :333

[feelslikesugarinme777]