#that is not lab regulation

[clarissasbakery]

test tube redesign i made as a warmup!!! old design (2019) under the cut

[the-shadows-request-candy-corn]

Trump may be about to sign the death sentence of the National Institute of Health, and, by extension, the Office of Lab Animal Welfare.

He gutted research animal protections.

Any vertebrate that isn't a mammal will have no rights.

Neither will mice or rats.

If NIH grants are stopped, researchers can't pay anyone. They can't perform research. They can't pay for veterinary services.

They won't be required to provide veterinary services.

The only medical research that will happen will be self funded by big pharma, and they can torture the animals and skew all the lab results that they want.

Just like Musk did to the primates in his neuralink research.

I don't know what's going to happen to me or anyone else at the university where I work. My job is to make sure the animals are treated humanely and to provide veterinary care. I'm especially scared about what's going to happen to those research animals if veterinary staff gets laid off. The USDA only covers mammals, and it doesn't even cover all of them. Every rat I've ever made a tiny paper gift box full of marshmallows for, every mouse I've ever watched grow up, every rodent I've ever separated from an aggressive dominant brother and then treated their tiny wounds, they have no protections if NIH goes down. Decades of research into humane handling, euthanasia, and animal behavior will be tossed aside and wasted.

Please, do everything you can. Protest. Contact your representatives. Anything you can do. Do it for science, for medicine, for people's lives, for people's jobs, and for the animals.

Edit: thank you to everyone who's spreading this, but please reblog the updated reblog that I have pinned to my profile. The NIH is no longer frozen, but "indirect expenses" limits is just as big a threat to lab animal welfare, scientific integrity, and people's jobs as an NIH freeze.

[electricpurrs]

PLASTIC TUBES AND POTS AND PANS

BITS AND PIECES AND THE MAGIC FROM THE HAND

WE'RE MAKIN' WEIRD SCIENCE!

[he/him]

[frogseasons]

hypothyroidism is crazy. cause why are my levels “normal” yet if i kept going without treatment for it my heart could just crap out.

[na102]

So who's hearing about Vinegar eels for the first time?

[morninkim]

[ wip, workin on colors ehehe ]

timeskip zero gang!!

(check my "sv timeskip" tag for more info on them :3)

[milliebugydementia]

i love nonverbal eleven so much like yessss girl say nothing. it's always like "what did you see?" "who's going to die?" "what did you do?" my mysterious autistic angel. my beautiful cryptic princess tell them NOTHING

[wereshrew-admirer]

I imagined Broun as a cluttered workshop-for-a-room type of person, and only just had the realization of how much of a change living with asepsis must have been?

they're really pushing asepsis as a moral-purity type of divine this season but it started out as an evil space roomba, so i'm just imagining poor Brnine finally gets their space ship but then being forced to keep it in this minimalist easy-to-clean style...

[quaranmine]

Small thing but thanks for like. Vaguely mentioning your field in passing cuz it gave me the spesific branch of biology that I wanna pursue, ecology! Aka I now have a more spesific target other than "idk, bio."

I think. At least. If I'm wrong then thanks for mentioning ecology's existence in passing at least lol

oh this is such a wild ask to receive since I'm somehow part of this revelation. I'm glad you could figure that out! I hope you have a good time studying it if you decide to pursue that field. I'm actually not an ecologist, but I have taken ecology in college. My bachelor's is in Environmental Science, which is a pretty broad field involving many forms of physical and life sciences. My job has labeled me both "Physical Scientist" and "Life Scientist" at different times, but I'm not doing in lab work, field work, or experiements so some people might argue against the scientist label.

In general, my education and career lean much more heavily into less alluring and less glamorous subjects like pollution, toxic chemicals, energy, landfills, remediation of hazardous waste sites, etc. I do a lot of outreach in my job, typically things like: creating outreach strategies, creating outreach materials, ordering materials, speaking with city and state government employees, speaking with community nonprofits, actively making professional relationships for my organization, organizing symposiums and classes, attending events with educaiton materials, presenting educational material, answering questions from the public. The subject of my job is mostly things about lead poisoning, children's health, public health, environmental regulations, and recycling but I have also spoken about pesticides, brownfields, groundwater pollution, etc.

Much of what I learned in school wasn't, like, pretty nature or wildlife or plants--although that's what everybody thinks I studied. It was about toxic chemicals exposure. Pollution sampling and monitoring. Wastewater treatment and drinking water quality. Remediation techniques like pumping sites, filters, bioremediation, etc. Groundwater hydrology and how pollution moves in aquifers. Environmental law, legal exposure theshholds, how to write risk assessments and quantify risk, etc.

However, there is a very strong overlapping link between ecology as a field and my field--there's a reason I also studied ecology as part of my degree, as well as biology! An ecologist might "classically" study things like how ecosystems work, food chains, wildlife populations, habitats, etc. The intersection with my field comes in with questions like: How does this chemcial spill affect the fish population? What is the impact that this proposed construction project might have on the local ecosystem and is that reason to block the project? How does pesticide runoff from agriculture affect non-target plants and animals?

Anyway, I love ecology. It's one of my favorite branches of science. I would have studied it or gone into it fully but the allure of preventing toxic chemical exposures/cleaning them up was too great xD

[onemillionfurries]

i have the magical ability to blame almost ANY recent bad thing on social media or modern technology

[dragon-tal3s]

is she a doctor or scientist? maybe both.

[tmmediaindia]

https://mymicrolab.com/indole-3-butyric-acid-iba-607.html

INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID (IBA)

Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) is a natural plant hormone that plays a crucial role in stimulating root development and growth in plants. It's commonly used in horticulture and agriculture to promote successful propagation through methods like rooting cuttings and grafting. IBA helps in the formation of new roots by encouraging cell division and differentiation in the plant's stem tissue. It's available in various formulations, including powders and gels, making it easy to apply during the rooting process. IBA is a valuable tool for enhancing the success rate of plant propagation and ensuring the establishment of healthy plants.

[girls-and-honey]

Botulism rly is crazy. One of nature’s funniest ways of saying “fuck you, please die”

for real!! I'm not exaggerating I used to be so so so afraid of botulism (now I'm only so afraid). the silent odorless colorless tasteless etc assassin that could be lurking in your pantry, fun!

also horrifying that it's pretty easy to produce and takes such a small amount to be lethal?? something around .1 micrograms if I remember correctly for inhaled botulism. something something one of nature's greatest pranks...

also in case I've worried anyone sorry lol but it's very rare and is mostly (at least at the household foodborne level) a result of improper home canning techniques so if you do can your own food please please use tested recipes and follow them exactly (that's recipe AND process!)

[canageek]

These days we do try and look at situations and add in safety measures before someone gets injured or does something stupid, but yes a lot of it does come from Reading accident reports and thinking about how can we avoid this happening in the future.

(I'm a chemist and I'm on my department safety committee)

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[aflockofseacows]

This guy made cigars at home and sold them. To shops, to restaurants etc. That was his job. Just at home making cigars at his cigar desk.

[manmishra]

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