tuesday 30/01/2024
good class today! got some of a past paper done
♫ bank roll - nic D, conner price ♫
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A global effort to make genetic studies more diverse has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease, a common brain disorder that can impair a person's ability to move and speak.
A team that included scientists from Lagos, London and the U.S. found a previously unknown gene variant that can nearly quadruple the risk of Parkinson's for people of African ancestry.
The finding, published in August in The Lancet Neurology, suggests that Parkinson's may work differently in people of African, rather than European, descent. It could eventually help scientists develop a treatment specifically for people with this particular gene variant.
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God half of lesbians rlly be dogging on other lesbians and trying to tell thim “kys” without saying it outright.
like texted this to some of my friends, but this:
fat lesbian? “omg stop eating you fat fuck maybe you wouldn’t be such a whale”. bi lesbian? “i would punch them even if it killed them”. lesboy? “exterminate men from lesbian spaces”. poc/religious minority lesbians? “forgot about you.” butches and femme lesbians? “just gender roles, not real beings with feelings and three dimensional personalities”. futch lesbians? “stop trying to make futch happen, it will never happen”. multigender lesbians? “why don’t you just identify as straight or even queer?”
honestly the list goes on
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while i do appreciate the politics in academia that love theoretically throws light on as a poc woman in stem i do believe that the tropes are getting a little too repetitive for my liking. i liked the love hypothesis and love on the brain. i even have the paperbacks for both of them. but love theoretically just didn't hit the spot for me. i am getting tired of the repetitive enemies to lovers misunderstanding and miscommunication trope that hazelwood includes in all her books. i feel like there is so much that can be done with a female lead in stem that highlights how xenophobic, sexist and misogynistic academia can be without reusing the same trope over and over again.
i am not saying the book was bad, i just feel like her plots are stagnant and getting repetitive. there's nothing new to expect and honestly that breaks my heart a little bit. because i love the women in stem representation. we have been ostracized by the society in every way possible and i was really happy to find an author who would finally write from our perspective. but it's just not doing it for me anymore :/
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Which side do you like more ? 🤷♂️
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im sorry but i can't take another femme/femme couple on movie and tv shows
i want masc/masc, masc/stem, stem/stem
even nicer if they're poc as well
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..... but he knew he was right is a good show huh...
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After three weeks of one health issue after another (first pmdd, then withdrawal from not being able to get my meds, then med induced heat exhaustion and mental breakdown on top of....every other thing) I am finally coming out on the other side. This is the first day in almost a month that I feel like I can think clearly and get through basic tasks without shaking with exhaustion. And I finally met with my new psychiatrist yesterday who was such a breath of fresh air after the last one, and is actually taking my sleep issues seriously and said she might refer me to a specialist for pmdd. Angel on earth
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i just realized that i spent my first year of university as a stem student, my second year as an art student, and my third year will be as a humanities student-
y'all i'm genuinely concerned about how difficult it is for me to find something i enjoy long term.
like my brother changed majors every year too but at least he stayed in stem (and the same school) each time.
i'm changing majors and fields and schools rip
like i'm so concerned if i'll ever graduate and find a career that i like
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thursday 27/04/23
astrophysics! i wanna finish astro tomorrow then i’m done done done and all thats left are past papers!
♫ moonlight - kali uchis ♫
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turns out the right playlist romanticizes chemistry just enough so that I forget how much I would rather be doing anything else.
I should also note that it is 11:30 pm on December 30th, and I am doing this entirely voluntarily; this is not homework. I just really need to understand something before class starts again on Tuesday.
-spencer
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also just watched a video detailing a lot of the changes made in the regent’s park production of legally blonde and aside from their diverse casting none of the changes really seem necessary OR better. enid being a lesbian is not somehow lesser diversity than her being nonbinary. and also nonbinary lesbians exist, it’s not one or the other. a lot of the changes are superfluous so like. i don’t like them but it doesn’t really matter, but removing a characters identity as a lesbian IS a big change, and for a production that’s whole selling point is supposed to be diversity, it just seems like a really really shitty choice
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women in stem are so underrepresented that i will eat up anything and everything that features a woman in stem as the main character
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I love queer scientists so much. Seriously, if you are a queer scientist, then you are literally my idol, regardless of your field.
This, of course, includes POC scientists, disabled scientists, neurodivergent scientists, trans scientists, nb scientists, aro/ace scientists, bi/pan/poly scientists, and xenogender scientists.
I'm still a baby scientist. I'm barely treading water trying to get my B.S. and seeing all the work done by a huge diverse group of scientists, researchers, and engineers gives me a bit of hope for the future.
Thanks for being you
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