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Most Spoken Indigenous Languages by Continent

#linguistics #cultural anthropology

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come closer i am a normal person with normal feelings about math

#mathematics #psychology

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Say your bedroom / apartment / house / workplace were suddenly perfectly preserved for future generations, a la Pompeii, King Tut's Tomb, or the Motel of the Mysteries. What would future archaeologists (from a different culture) draw from this discovery? (Wrong answers not required, but very welcome.)

#archaeology #history #what if #motel of the mysteries

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Some people don't have an internal monologue: they don't hear a voice in their head speaking their thoughts. Some people can't imagine living without one. Which best describes you? (More specific descriptions on reblogs would be great!)

#psychology

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quick question if I became a professor would I have to stop exlusively dressing like a west coast washington summer camp counselor or

it's not even my fault. i moved to alaska and everyone clowned on me for how "dressy" i was and then I got down to washington and my roommate was this cool girl mountain biker and I said I loved her look and I was like 5 pants sizes bigger than her so any time she went thrifting and found clothes SHE'D wear but were too big for her, she just GOT them for me like i had a personal stylist/shopper and now I look like i have a boyfriend named kyle from snohomish we're really into bouldering.

and you know what. i like that

#lol valid

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someone just called the science museum to complain that this eclipse wasn’t as good as the one in 1979.

he wasn’t even a visitor, he was just mad about the eclipse not being visible without special glasses and wanted to complain to me about the eclipse “not being dark enough” for ten solid minutes

#astronomy #museum science #museum studies #psychology #education

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Depends on the school and the program. Some areas of study - especially those that are associated less with the classroom and more with the field - can dress down more.

I studied literature, which is more of a classroom subject. Some places, like University of Delaware, where I did my MA, are dressier, and expect you to look nice when you're teaching, as a grad student or a professor. Other places, like Ohio University, where I did my PhD, are more casual, and as a grad student, I usually taught while wearing t-shirts and jeans.

I remember talking to somebody about the literature program at the University of Connecticut, and asking them if they expected grad students to dress up to teach, and the professor literally said, "Oh, no, the men don't wear jackets EVERY day."

So it really depends on the program and the local culture.

That said, once you've got tenure, you can get away with a lot...

quick question if I became a professor would I have to stop exlusively dressing like a west coast washington summer camp counselor or

it's not even my fault. i moved to alaska and everyone clowned on me for how "dressy" i was and then I got down to washington and my roommate was this cool girl mountain biker and I said I loved her look and I was like 5 pants sizes bigger than her so any time she went thrifting and found clothes SHE'D wear but were too big for her, she just GOT them for me like i had a personal stylist/shopper and now I look like i have a boyfriend named kyle from snohomish we're really into bouldering.

and you know what. i like that

#teaching #academia #grad school #anyone else want to chime in? #which fields allow more casual clothing?

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Saint Paul Public Library, I am begging you to make this real

#library science #vexillology

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#physics #mathematics #math is magic

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i know we all love that mary ruefle poem about how the sirens in the odyssey were singing the odyssey but i think they were singing the iliad, i think they were singing an iliad in which the war makes sense and was worth it, an iliad in which odysseus is the hero, not achilles, an iliad in which a hero is simply a hero and not a mourner

#jesus #literature #classics

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#physics #particle physics #linguistics #psychology

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#biology #SCIENCE #sentient glitterbomb

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The fact that you can boop @jstor

#jstor

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The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is holding two pieces of rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail and White Hat are in the background.] Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.] Cueball: Boop! Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!

#boop.

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Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.

Periodic Table Regions [Explained]

Transcript

[A periodic table with regions labeled.]

[Hydrogen:] Slightly fancy protons [Lithium and Beryllium:] Weird dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 3-4:] Regular dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 5-7:] Ends in a number, let it slumber ends in a letter, not much better [Left side of the transition metals group:] Boring alloy metals Probably critical to the spark plug industry or something (but one of them is radioactive so stay on your toes) [Most of the top row of the transition metals + aluminum:] Regular metals [Below the rightmost "regular metals" - the "ordinary metals" and some transition metals:] Weird metals [The platinum group:] $$$$ [Boron:] Boron (fool's carbon) [Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus:] You are here [The Halogens:] Safety goggles required [Noble Gases:] Lawful neutral [Iodine and Radon:] Very specific health problems [Ordinary metals and metalloids - Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium] Murder weapons [Astatine and Period 7 from Rutherfordium onwards:] Don't bother learning their names - they're not staying long [Lanthanides and Actinides:] Whoever figures out a better way to fit these up there gets the next Nobel Prize

#chemistry

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Would any evolutionary biologists care to comment on the increasing neoteny of TY stuffies over times?

Stripes the Tiger, 1995:

Clawdia the tiger, 2021:

#evolutionary biology #beanie babies #90s #90s kids

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#i have never heard the word orthogonal before this #but i love it and now i'm ride-or-die #geometry #linguistics