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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

#grad school

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#dm

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Perpetual - Bart Slangen

Belgian , b. 1969 -

Oil on canvas , 60 x 50 cm.

#art

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Oil paintings by Boris Torres of Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos in PASSAGES (2023) dir. Ira Sachs.  

#art

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Saffron Playboy Moths (Xanthiris flaveolata), family Geometridae, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

photograph by Charles J. Sharp 

#playboy moths huh #bugs

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I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend

#it's my favorite for real

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers.

(No Pressure 🌻)

this has been sitting in my drafts for a little bit as i think about it ... now i'm gonna post it though.

my stinky lil cat, luna

media(tm) and games(tm)(tm) with my friends, loved ones

laying in bed cozy at like midnight with a book or podcast while a thunderstorm passes through and rattles my windows

cobalt blue glass and how it makes anything you put in it feel like Magic Potion

touching dirt (pottery)

ill send it to a few ask boxes, not sure about 10, but feel free to do this if you see it and tag me in it :-)

#axe meme #ty beloved mutual pngjpeg

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surprise! thursday jgmd (should be in podcast feeds as soon as they refresh)

#YAYYY

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had an au thought and ran with it o/

#dm #this is soo good

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The Complete History of Computational Physics

1950s Scientists:

"Gentlemen! In our quest to conquer God we want to simulate the atom! But to do it we'd need a computer capable of per-forming in excess of six calculations per second!"

"Impossible! The heat out-put alone would melt the Earth."

"What if we bombarded the computer laboratory with a steady plume of some thermally super-conductive yet safe gas, like a brominated asbestos aerosol?"

"How would we de-liver it to the machinery?"

"We could use super-magnets, nay, hyper-magnets of pure plutonium arsenide, activated by exposed 500 mega-volt leads right next to the intern's desk."

"Extraordinary, Bob! But where would get an intern?"

"You there, shoe shine boy! How would you like to earn 5 cents a year???"

"Golly gee, sir, would I ever!"

"Dick, put in another government grant re-quest for an additional 100 tons of plutonium. Dave, get down to the soda fountain and pick up a couple bricks of arsenic and one of those ice-cream novelties I like."

"Already on it!"

2010s Scientists:

"All right people, our grants are up next year and we need something to show for it."

"What don't we try to simulate an atom?"

"Didn't this laboratory already try something like that in the '50s?"

"Yeah, our predecessors spent a couple decades on it, but they failed. All they managed to do was create a Superfund site and build some kind of anti-gravity superweapon that nobody knows how to operate anymore."

"But! They didn't have the necessary processing power. We have supercomputers now! So let's get to simulating."

"Actually, we probably still don't have enough computing power for it."

"What?!"

"Yeah, um, atoms are tricky, especially the big ones past atomic number, oh, 2 or so."

"Well, can we maybe write a paper about how they're tricky?"

"I bet we could! We could even get our remote German postgraduate intern with the weird hair to make a really nice animation for the PowerPoint presentation."

"Brilliant!"

#grad school #yeah 👍

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Making He Xuan wearable merch!

#oh LOVE #tgcf

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this painting came to me in a dream

#cheer up

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a thursday of a tuesday

chag pesach sameach, i did So Much Judaism this week and it's not even over !!! so knocking out a real quick weekly roundup post just so i don't have to double dip again next week

listening: leah, bygones - seeing double glitter, i'm just another person - daisy the great my mind won't let my heart be - ellen winter art is for amateurs - jam mechanics high in brighton acoustic - fizz downside - i don't know how but they found me

reading: finished 'bunny'. aggressively mid. 4/10. started 'how to read poetry like a professor' because it was in my library's poetry month display and ive been thinking about poetry more.

watching: dunmesh, asobi asobase (this shit is so funny)

playing: continuing to run dnd

making: so i realized last-minute that there would be One More Glaze Run before passover, meaning i could get my seder plate done in time!! it looked so good before firing and now i hate it LOL

before:

aaaaaaaand after:

hateful. not the shade of red i wanted, the white on top did not come out cwispy enough, AND it cracked along the bottom. and not even really big enough to use as a proper seder plate. turbo bummer.

this mug came out cute though

a bunch of stuff came out of the kiln as well but technically that was on wednesday so i will save those for next week's post. mostly good tho so there's that. next week is last week of pottery class til july :(

eating: so much matzoh. so much borscht. (we made like THREE GALLONS for the temple seder and NO ONE ATE ANY --) but a lot of delicious brisket and other holiday foods :)

misc: NEARLY THERE ... DRAGGING MYSELF OVER THE FINISH LINE OF THE SEMESTER BY MY TEETH ... i have exactly 1 assignment left to submit, and then one takehome exam next week that should be mostly just hw problems if comments about the prof are to be trusted, and then i am DONE WITH CLASSWORK FOREVER ....

#tuesdayposting #Spotify

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gorgeous mold in a petri dish, Sporothrix schenckii

#fungi

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i still have much to learn…but i know lil me would be excited.

#comic

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Sabetai, son of the lampmakers

#art

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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for—so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

—Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices (2006)

#her <3 #quotes