The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

Without fail noses itch when these two situations are present.

1. You've got into a comfortable position for meditation.

2. In the lab after washing hands, donning gloves, and handling culture, or chemicals.

Some easy-to-care-for plant suggestions for beginners:

• Chlorophytum (spider plant)
• Dracaena (any species)
• Pothos vine (Epipremnum aureum)
• Heartleaf philodendron
• Rubber plant
• Pilea (Chinese money plant)
• Peperomia (any species)
• Bromeliad (most varieties, but Guzmania is probably the easiest)
• Peace lily
• Snake plant

(Made boostable at @Kiki's request! ☀️)

@bgcarlisle (Under 13 max 4 dozen eggs.)

Red delicious: when getting half of your product name to be accurate is good enough

Due to personal reasons I will be running a ponzi scheme to pay for grad school thank you for understanding

We watched The Cat From Outer Space (1978) last night

What stood out most to me was the way the military was depicted as sort of a bumbling comic villain

And it struck me that a movie like that could never get made today

Modern movies aren't allowed to make the military look even slightly bad or incompetent

The "RESPECT THE TROOPS" ideology is too deeply believed

Being able to point at something you love and admit it’s kinda garbage is really freeing? Like you don’t have to defend it to the death anymore you’re just like “yea it sucks but I love it”

How good something is and how much you enjoyed it can be two entirely separate things if you want them to be

It is now 1337, the hacking hour

Maybe the real "digital detox" was having the sort of privileges that allow one to take a "digital detox" in the first place, all along

It would be cool to have some kind of "careers advice" hashtag on scholar.social o:

This is a general reminder that it is perfectly okay to not see academia and the work associated with it as a source of emotional validation, and that it might in fact be a strategically correct move to withdraw those aspects of oneself from this area of life

I'd like to follow more plant biologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and environmental scientists. Searching hashtags isn't getting me anywhere. Recommendations?