#failed science experiment

[krystal-prisms]

Again, this is not what you want to actually experience, just objectively the sexiest way for you to go out

#my bs #poll #polls #tumblr polls #death tw #death mention #sexiest way to die #burning tw #burning #shipwreck #lost at sea #murder #murder tw #assassination #science #science experiment #failed science experiment

[lilbluebastard]

Finally finished my au idea!

Just a lil something I wanted to do! And with two things I love! Analog horror and hellsing/Anderson!

He’s a a scary monster! I hope you all enjoy!

#inspired by cry ptidd #hellsing ultimate #alexander anderson #analog horror #horror au #analog horror au #hellsing au #spooky #gods monster #gods failed experiment #failed science experiment #regenerator project gone wrong

[acherow-art]

Day four: Failed science experiment

#my art #character design #day four #30 day character design challenge #failed science experiment

[best-wishes]

Why people think science is hard : lots of maths, learning complex knowledge, reading a lot...

Why science is hard : involves failing again and again at doing something, no one can help you fix it and you have no guarantee it can even be done.

#science #Research #phd life #Yes experiments failed today why do you ask?

[monosaccharide]

i don't want to do the extended essay

#studyblr #ibdp #international baccalaureate #x.txt #i already hate it and i havent even finalised my rq yet #i would consider english but it's seriously so much analysis #and sciences are much cooler but it's also so time consuming and id be so frustrated if i fail the experiments #so im doing geography but i dont want to do something generic but it IS the easier option #lord.

[realasslesbian]

Not to say comphet is entirely fake, bc I do believe it probably happens on some level, but I'm just sayin, I had that 'nice guy' best friend in school too, we grew up together, we had each other's backs, my parents loved him, he was so polite, he had a job, wowee, except I'd come out as bisexual (bc that was easier than coming out as a lesbian lol) and had specifically told him I was interested in one of our female friends, which that was cool, he didn't care, he even defended my 'bisexuality' against people that had an issue, and then he also told everyone we were dating, which we weren't, but everyone just went with that info because otherwise they couldn't understand why one of The Popular Girls would be pursuing another female if it weren't for some man's attention, so ofc I had to have a boyfriend, anything else would be gross and dykey, so at this point I had basically everyone in my small country town pressuring me into a relationship with this man, with the implicit (and occasionally explicit) threat that not being his girlfriend and instead being a lesbian would be A Bad Idea, I would lose all my friends, a lot of my family, my job (bc it was legal to fire ppl for being gay back then) and basically just be ostracised and probably in real physical danger, but all of this could be averted by just agreeing to fuck this man, so I guess at this point according to all the comphetters I should have just went along with it and fucked him? Lmao sorry to disappoint but I hooked up with that female friend, came out as %110 lesbian and just bore that fucking fallout with good homosexual grace. I ain't spoken to Nice Guy BFFs Since We Were Toddlers since bc he was one of the first to block me when he realised he'd been permanently friend-zoned. But yeah no, I'm so privileged to have never had to suck a dick over some comphet tho lmao

#i did lose my job fyi #and suddenly started 'failing' all my school work #except for science which was run by an awesome closet lesbian #everything else was F- tho lol #most my family stopped talking to me #definitely all my friends #got routinely tailed by the cops #(I still actually have a record with them but not sure if 'homosexual' is still listed as the reason why lmao) #but all that couldn't possibly compare to the hardship a girl who chooses to hide behind a man experiences #lmao #lesbian #lgbt #gold star lesbian #gold star lesbians do interact

[enashinonome]

yesterday my classmate asked me if i knew what i wanted to do in the future because i seemed like someone who had a plan, and when i told her i had no idea she was surprised and asked me if i wanted to go to art school @_@ hell of a loaded question there!

#bc she was like ‘ohh aya you’re so good you should apply to art school’ #and my sister says i should apply to art school as well #but i think i’m so out of shape artistically—does that make sense? #i don’t have the resources to be painting better things on bigger canvases #i can’t even draw digitally anymore because procreate crashes every time i open it #and i’m thinking about how much i drew when i was thirteen and how i’m failing chemistry and wasting all of my academic potential by #not taking any science class next year in favor of ap art history which i know my parents deem as worthless #and it’s not like i can DO anything in art history or conservation #so much of my school experience has been floundering about because i’m good at a lot of things but can’t decide what i want to do most. #and now im halfway through high school and i still don’t know what i want to do and it’s not like i have anything impressive to show either #UGHHHHH i hate how fast i’m supposed to figure these things out!!! i might as well become a nun and have my order pay for all my phds #so i can learn without any external pressures like i feel i was born to do!!!!! #🐰

[magical-awesome-kid]

hey so um. i just saw your replies on that mycology post with the terfs and how you can't say that humans only have two sexes 'cause of their sexual development and the chromosomes and also intersex people and i'd just like to say how your username fits (you're awesome!!!!) and you're so so cool and also i'm quite interested in the topic as a queer stem student and yeah.

anyways --- i admire you! and thank you!! <333

Holy shirt - thank you, but I'm really no one special. I'm just a nerd who is also queer :D

For anyone missing context:

A post I have on here was talking about how psychologists and scientists agree that gender and sex are WAY more complicated than just "are you a boy or a girl." Someone jokingly added a post where a type of fungus has thousands of 'sexes' (it's not the correct term because sex is not an exact thing in this specific fungi - I believe it was described as mating types - but it's the closest allegory to humans).

And the TERFs just. Went off.

So like, I'm a scientist. My degrees are in biochemistry and cell and developmental biology. I have so many years of studying biology, understanding how human sex may alter response to drugs, etc. I've almost exclusively been working on human-related research and in hospitals since I was a sophomore in college.

And I was just like "well, yeah! This fungus thing is cool! Because it shows that not all biological sex is binary!"

Then a TERF came after me. Which I then added "And humans don't actually have a black-and-white binary either! Because, even at birth, you can be intersex! And transition later in life also can mimic these intersex patterns!"

See, when one is born, as most of you will know, the doctor looks 'down there' and is like "Penis? Boy. No Penis? Girl." Except we have a lot more going on than just external organs. In fact, anywhere from 1-2% of the population, conservatively, qualifies as intersex based on the most recent research, meaning that they do not exclusively express sexual traits that would quantify as 'just girl' or 'just boy.' This is not new, either - intersex people have existed throughout history, and, depending on the era and place, it was either embraced as a sort of 'birth of a religious leader' thing or 'we need to get this kid in the binary fast' thing.

So I'm just. Nerding out. Because this is cool. Humans are weird. We - along with most animals - don't all fall into neat little categories. It's more of a spectrum - where 'male,' classically, is high testosterone, facial hair, testes, and penis while classical 'female' is breast development, vagina, ovaries, and estrogen. Again, please note that I am using 'male' and 'female' here to define ends of the spectrum (we don't have better descriptors at this time - English, get on that!), but most people fall in between - yes, even cis people. I myself have thick hair all over my body, and I regularly bleach a mustache even though I am cis female. A large portion of the AMAB population develops breast tissue.

But people keep trying to insist that it's one or the other. They want the neat little boxes where you are A or B, but science isn't like that. Genetics are weird. Enviromental factors come into play. And I haven't even touched transition for nonbinary and trans people. No, I'm just talking about people who are born and decide 'hey I agree with the letter on my birth certificate.' Humans are weird.

Someone was even like "uh, but we only look at what gametes you make!"

Well, person who is not cool and wants to ignore science, even if it came down to only 'what gametes do you produce,' then there are still four categories - those people that produce eggs, those people that produce sperm, those that produce both, and those that produce neither. There is no way to slice it that does not end up with more than two categories or can massively exclude members you would otherwise put into that category.

Like, if a 'man' is one who produces sperm, and a 'woman' is one who doesn't, this not only excludes infertile people completely - including bio males who have every other benchmark of classical male development - but it also then could bring people who may be considered female into this category if they had undiscovered internal testes or intersex people who have always expressed both classical male and female traits. How do you classify a guy who did produce sperm but may have lost his testes due to cancer or a physical accident? Is this person still male, or is this now not male? What about a person who is cis male but has a hormone deficiency and can't produce sperm until they are on hormone replacement?

As previously stated, sex is complicated. We consider factors aside from gametes - like primary and secondary sexual organs, hormone levels, etc - to all be part of biological sex.

Now, I'm not saying 'don't trust science because it's messy and always changing' - no, that's not the point of science. Science is using what we know as truth now to design treatments and care based around said facts, but a scientist is always looking to verify those facts, whether by examining the literature or performing their own experimentation. They control for the different factors that can alter the results as much as possible - think of if you go to the doctor and they ask about if you have a bleeding disorder before prescribing a medication because this med will thin your blood, causing further bleeding, or if you have gastrointestinal issues before giving you a medication that might make that worse even though it would treat the headache you came in for.

For some people, taking this medication for three days will fix all of their ailments. For others, this medication will fix one thing, but you'll need another. For even more people, you're basically prescribing sugar pills. Getting the flu for my 80-year-old grandma who has diabetes is a much more serious ailment than me, a relatively healthy twenty-something, getting the exact same virus. Humans are weird and messy creatures, and science is constantly updating to take that into account. Science is a series of 'yes' and 'no' down a diagram tree, where we get to a point that is the hopeful answer, and we keep adding new questions so that we can get the most exact answer. These branches cross and mix, where multiple branches may lead to the same answer while others may completely derail to another solution because one factor didn't quite fit.

Sorry, I'm getting off track.

ANYWAY yes, biological sex is complicated, more like a series of slider bars than two concrete containers, and, if a TERF wants to argue with me on that, I'd love to talk about gametes and sexual organs until the cows come home.

#Science is cool but it's also messy #Seriously I'd need a day and for you to come into lab with me just to see how the magic happens #I've had experiments fail because the AC in lab was down #I've had to exclude people from studies because they had comorbidities #Science #LGBTQIA

[itschr1spy]

I... Will not... BE. WEAK!!

Otto Octavious, AKA Doctor Octopus is finally here!

Fun fact: I was originally going to go with having Doctor Octopus be Olivia Octavious, inspired from Into the Spider-Verse, but fellow Spider-Man artist @hollowsart inspired me to go with the beloved Otto and honestly, I love how the man came out!

Hollow also helped me with designing the Actuators and I love the design that they came up with, however I took some liberty and made the ends the claws from TSSM

I definitely have some really sad lore in store for this man, JUST YOU WAIT.

:)

#lets make the multiverse weirder #spiderman #spiderman au #spidersona #otto octavius #Doc Ock #Doctor Octopus #The boi was ready to love but got smacked in the face with a failed science experiment #He protecc #he attacc #but most importantly #he best boi :D

[fallenbhaalspawn]

i do think it would be really funny if the dark urge (a quasi-deity in their own right) like a hundred years or so down the line suddenly became a god because oops! that kua-toa cult they stole from BOOOAL spread and now they have enough worship to qualify

#if i were bhaal and my failed science experiment of a child became a god later #bc they stole a cult from a guy who was already kind of pretending to be me i would be so mad lmao #bg #01 #dark urge

[pickleslice]

how was i supposed to know that was moira shes a CIA agent and not even scottish

#where is her science lab and failed child experiments

[froggybangbang]

The Weird & Dirty Social Experiment - The Acali Raft

This is literally the funniest failed experiment thought up by a man that thought he was right. He set everything up in order for his “experiment” (which has. Nothing scientific about it) to end up the way he theorized it would and at every corner the people in the experiment went the direct opposite of what he wanted to prove (because CHIMPS acted like this so obviously HUMANS would). The way he wrote his notes is hilarious.

#youtube #The Acali #the raft #the acali raft #science #anthropology #failed experiment

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Not to make light of how much your situation must fucking suck, because I have lung problems and be almost literally dying in your place, but that's actually a good prompt idea! So, something either to do with exhaust/exhausted/exhausting or smoke-inhalation/pollution/trouble breathing, can be any one of those words

(it's fine mostly i just have a sore throat now. this also may or may not be related to my ongoing several day headache streak come to think of it. BUT ANYWAY they're done now so it's fine)

(aaah fuck this prompt... fighting so hard not to do a rain world or dishonored thing... there are Too Many good options i'm indecisive. uh hm. ive been toying with the idea of doing a regular non crossover postapoc style au so maybe...? also maybe throw in a rei bc feel like i've been neglecting my failboy in aus, lol.)

You don't go out without a filter. This is one of the most basic facts the people of the aftermath learn. You learn it quickly, or you die. Ingo knows this.

Unfortuantely, he also knows he didn't have much of a choice. His own mask is long gone, a trophy decorating some creature's den most likely, and Rei's already injured and weak, and their last shelter had been compromised. And they were close. So close to their destination—the home Rei was fighting his way back to, a place that promised safety.

He keeps repeating all this to himself, with every forced step, every it can't be far now—but he wonders, too, if he's made a mistake. If there wasn't some other option he overlooked. If he's doomed both of them.

The air reeks of chemical fumes and smoke. The cloth he's pressing over his face is more of a joke than anything useful; his nose and throat feel like something's been raking its claws down them; his eyes are stinging and blurry and now it's getting hard to see anything at all. His thoughtless animal hindbrain begs him to take deeper breaths, to salvage whatever oxygen they can get as fuel, but he fights that because he knows it'll only make everything worse. Occasionally he's overwhelmed by hacking coughs that burn, that force more poisoned air to cycle through. Rei is dead weight against his shoulder, completely reliant on him to keep moving, which is the only reason he is moving.

And then Rei swats his shoulder, weakly trying to get his attention, and points insistently in the direction of something. It might be a door, although he's not sure he would have noticed it, if not for the label tacked up over it in letters that are too blurred to read.

He drags them both towards it, fights it open—gives up on shallow breaths in this home stretch, just focused on getting through—and somehow manages to pull both himself and Rei up the ledge and inside. He's vaguely aware that the shouts and clicking sounds are alarm and suspicion and something that should make him jump and raise his hands in surrender—but, no longer faced with a critical task to complete, his body decides now is an excellent time to shut down. So it does.

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #pokefic pitch #swift writes #is this a silly thing to build out of some truck fumes? a little. but they said fumes/exhaustion/trouble breathing #what do you want from me the whump enjoyer. huh. #anyway uh. misc other au thoughts? #cyllene is in the safety. rei got separated from her on some kind of scouting mission. like REALLY separated and has been trying to get bac #im also not sure yet but if this is some kind of Science Apocalypse i think ingo is maybe. a (secret) posthuman experiment #that was like accidentally woken up by a failing suspended animation system #which is both an explanation of amnesia and a fun reversal of his normal trip where he gets time traveled FORWARDS (kinda) #i dont think he knows it though. he just sort of woke up and existed and that was the end of the context for him #and this is all a little bit spun off from the vibes based rw au but not like. heavily or anything lol

[froshele]

today in the wild I came across a phrase to the effect "...And this [pair of ethical axioms about what constitutes quality of life for purposes of discussion about disability and coma prognosis, based on the opinion of one person who has not ever been in a coma or disabled thereafter] suggests that maybe, just maybe, [relevantly comatose or recovering or disabled] people may have quality of life sufficient to make them ethically relevant"

that's ... not, um, normally considered to be what makes people "ethically relevant" in the world where all the people are and there's sunshine and grass and things, but, you know what, ok jennifer, A for effort! :) gold star for you, philosopher extraordinaire, moral lodestar for people unsure what to do with granny, paragon of ethical conduct!

#they had to put me in a coma because i declined really fast after pediatric brain surgery #it was not a long coma by most standards but i had to get so so much physical and other therapy about it #like i was out here relearning to walk and speak it was a really long recovery #people like this are of an opinion that people like me are ~simply suffering too much~ to be ~ethically relevant~ #which i think is a particularly shit form of pseudobenevolent ableism #what degree of pain do i have to experience before the invisible hand of Ethics decides i shouldn't be resuscitated if I fail #how much does my life get to suck before jennifer here decides it isnt worth living and what will that décision mean #objectively of course i was doing all of this in ukraine so the opinion of this ethicist-panelist would not have been worth anything at all #but i was so close to like being euthanized like a little mop dog #not formally exactly but my mom told me once that she thought about smothering me a lot while i was in recovery #and it was entirely because she was terminally theorybrained about suffering and life-quality in the same type of way #and if it were a medical availability i probably would not be here because i was so absurdly difficult and expensive to raise #and its just like man. i am begging you to remember the humanity of the subjects when you put these things in science papers #im having an ok morning globally i just want to blog about this on the internet to get the thing it brought back to me out of my system #i grew up with meaningful and painful disabilities + the fact that my neurology miraculously knit together into something “more workable” i #totally coincidental actually. what if it didnt? if it didnt + i was still in pain from the sun and wobbled like an earsick kitten then??? #that was the thing here like there was a 70/30 chance I would have needed a talking board and power chair #i am glad i do not but i am also very sensitive about this type of covert desire to decide about their right to live for people who do #i dont remember a lot of my childhood but i remember a lot of that pity laced with something i can now identify as revulsion to my pain #and i remember that i didnt understand it and that all i wanted was to be like other kids who were wanted and hoped for and believed in #and i dont know like its an individual thing its a family thing whatever but yesterday i had a weird trauma memory moment #that was about being displaced a little bit #which is an awfully vulnerable thing to put here but i am not asking for your sympathy i am just saying i was tender and a bit insane #and then i stepped on this rake! good morning insane asylum 《sunshine》 #today will be a better day than this #im going to make the tags froshgriping and froshplaks for my bitching and personal sniveling feel free to blacklist them #froshgriping #froshsniveling #froshplaks

[peaceblank]

The med school primary application asking if my work and activities are meaningful, like by simply going out of my way to do anything doesn’t have some kind of impact on my life.

#are we not the sum total of all our memories and experiences #peace speaks #yeah I know it wants the most meaningful #but I think it's so dumb #like I volunteered in the respiratory ICU during the height of covid #I didn't really do much but it sure left an impact when family members kept desperately asking me if they could see their loved ones #and I had to tell them not yet because the doctors were doing something #like that didn't massively change me as a person or alter my viewpoint #it just made me highly uncomfortable and have the desire to go into a field where I never have to interact with patients #but I can't say that because med schools don't like you saying things like I want to go into forensic pathology #because they want you to be open to new experiences #which they can clearly tell from the fact that I have both a science and art degree #participated in college sports #and also shortly worked at a shipyard #not once has anyone said my life is boring when I have to do the rundown of why I'm currently doing anything #even explaining where I'm from takes at least a few minutes due to how often I've moved #meanwhile all the stupid example essays I've seen are just #I've wanted to be a doctor ever since I could remember #how does that make them a better applicant than me #they should just let everyone in and let them fail out like nature intended

[fangedtracks]

just got done for the day and i have a raging headache :/

#phd chatter #i have been in lab for the past six hours jesus christ #it was lab practical day so students had to run three experiments and obvi it didn't go well bc science rarely does #and i had to be like. LISTEN. science rarely ever goes how lab does!!! #ive been on a project since january ? and we are STILL confused #and one time i synthesized a molecule and i got a 0.97% yield (regular is like 40% lol) #and yeah! i failed! spectacularly! but it told me something about my system and i also worked to improve my method!! #anyway im gonna go home and make some dinner and pass the fuck out bc i am slowly becoming inhuman #oh! thé cool thing that happened tho is one of my students asked if we could take a pic #and also said that they recently came out as non-binary and thought it was cool seeing me kickass and succeed and also that i'm cool so!!! #like sorry bestie milo is like cool in theory but he thinks prime numbers are so cool and won't shut up about excel #hes actually such a fucking dweeb lmao #but it was really cool and it made me feel so much better about grad school!! #like this term has been absolute hell and i feel like i'm dying constantly but it was really cool that they said that to me :3 #also someone else was like thank you for an amazing term!! it was really nice getting to know u and ur so cool #AGAIN THANKS BUT ALSO AM I #do you think a cool person finds derivatives and integrals sexy. #anyway!! it made my heart feel so happy