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Finally starting some proper fieldwork for my PhD! Took us awhile to buy some hives for me to work on.
I’m starting by giving different types of stimulus to Australian native stingless bees (Tetragonula carbonaria) to see if there’s an innate preference for certain colours, patterns or texture.
#so far just testing out the flower designs#bees#entomology#zoology#buglr#insects#phdlife#my research#my studies#my PhD#my photography
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Congratulations on getting accepted into your Ph.D! What's your field of specialization?
Thank you!
I’m specialising in disability and literary studies, looking at representations in junior fiction (8-12 years) and young adult (13 and older) literature and the influence/impact it has on identities of disabled youth.
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Omgggg I just completed my FIRST testing session for my PhD! And honestly, doing research with human subjects is already challenging, but doing research with young children is something else. I am sooo worn out after only 2 hours. And plenty of things did not go as planned. Aaaaand I am now very much doubting the research design I spent 6 weeks crafting. 😅
#anyway#at least i can go to my supervisor for advice#i am still very thankful to the children of course!#they were very sweet#things are just naturally chaotic with so many kids in one place#phd#my phd#sophie's phd#developmental psychology
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going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:
There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’
like wow babe. good fucking point
#like you were on the ground biting the carpet and dry sobbing while you wrote that and still. good fucking point#not a shitpost#cptsd#and it's true. there's never a satisfying answer#the truth is i know why i wasn't loved#i analyzed my parent's traumas and abuse to death. i understand why i alienated and was alienated from my siblings#i know why my mom was too overwhelmed to be capable of nurturing#i know why my dad vanished into addiction and avoidance#the details of our cycles of trauma and cptsd and family history i have a phd in all of it#i understood perfectly. i spent years studying and now i knew the answer#and guess what? IT WAS NOT SATISFYING!!!#because they still didn't love me! and i still couldn't change that!#it was still a completely unsatisfying state of affairs!#so like. when the people who are supposed to love you...don't.#when the people who are supposed to take care of you...fail to#you can look for answers and reasons and explanations#but that's not actually going to FIX your situation.#and it's probably not within your ability TO fix the situation. (and definitely not your job)#because you don't need answers--you need a new situation#*inserts Just Walk Out. You Can Leave!!! (Running Skeleton) Meme*#and yes. walking out isn't always possible.#but for you i hope it will be one day soon. and i hope you build the courage to take that leap.#stepping away from the people who failed to love you...it feels like being untethered but also like being lighter than air#new and scary. immensely relieving. the future opens up. empty but empty like a canvas. blindingly bright until your eyes adjust#like climbing out of a pit you called home and for the first time realizing how bright the light of day can truly be#when you aren't just getting glimpses from the bottom of a hole
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We need more weird historian rep in Doctor Who. The companions are too normal when faced with the prospect of time travel. I want a companion who makes a list of super specific historical destinations related to their dissertation. I want somebody whose first reaction to finding out that the Doctor is a time travelling alien is to create a Microsoft Word document and ask, “What caused the Late Bronze Age collapse?”
#i know ian’s a history teacher but i want a little freak working on their phd. caffeinated and sleep deprived and broke#i haven’t seen a ton of old who though so please let me know if someone does match this description#and my memory of most of moffat’s era is fuzzy at best#edit: BARBARA’s the history teacher i’m sorry i wrote and queued this at 3 AM#doctor who#whoniverse#original post
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clearly trying to stop fixating on "productivity" has actually improved my focus
#gradblr#phdblr#phd life#phd#studyblr#study motivation#listen tumblr's new thing where you can copy paste previous tags and they paste as tags instead of a line of tags is impressive#omggg you can also edit the text in a tag?????!!!!#hello when did tumblr actually start listening to our suggestions and implementing them???#look i know those are fake flowers but hey my office is a little bleak and i needed some reminders of happiness and fresh flowers are#difficult because a) they dont sell them near campus and b) i go in pretty sporadic so they wilt and die so easily#even though the same flowers would last weeks when i get them for the house
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Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.
Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.
Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.
User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.
(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)
She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.
FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically
BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?
FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?
FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once
FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it
BG: […]
FT: … barbara?
BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”
Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.
[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]
#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol#and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials#picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy#also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more#also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers#dpxdc#dcxdp#barbara gordon#tucker foley#prompt#kipwrite
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Update on the current state of my PhD hoe life...
Sprinkles and iced tea for a topless/bottomless lunch sounds about right for the mental capacity I have right now 🤣🤣
#my brain hurts#me#sargasmicgoddess#my kitchen#work life school hoe parent research sexpot balance is a myth 🤣#hello random non-art quality smut 🤣#phd hoe chronicles
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Poor Sun
#sundrop#fnaf daycare attendant#moondrop#mad scientist au#my art#also fyi sun is most likely fully in his late 30s- 40s in this au#like it takes awhile to get ur phd and then get your own lab#Pfppft he truly is a full grown man asking for cuddles#moon is baby#it’s so funny if I were to make a scale of the ages of my sun and moons in different aus#mad scientist au sun and moon would be at the two opposite extremes
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26.3.24
it's time for one more big effort! I'm determined to get this all done now.
(and I'm in love with my vintage desk I bought second hand only last week; plus my gran's blanket is keeping me cosy. So I'm beginning to feel I'll be alright!)
37/100 days of productivity
#:') 💪🤞✨#wish me luck friends#hoping motivation strikes us all tonight!#my work#studyblr#100 days of productivity#dark academia#light academia#studyblr aesthetic#desk space#motivation#cosy#spring#gradblr#phdblr#phd life
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new copy ability: burnt out AP student kirby
#i am doig this instead of my homework#it was zooming in my head all day#i have a test tomorow#but its ok because kirby#he is studying for his phd for doctor ability#inhale a burnt out overachiever ap studrnt this is what you get#kirby series#kirby#copy abilities#meta knight#veves ultra cool art
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packing
#phd in overthinking#spy x family#sxf fanart#loid forger#spy x family loid#loid and anya#anya forger#forger family#spy x family fanart#sxf headcanon#spy x family headcanons#sxf anya#sxf loid#twilight#sxf twilight#spy x family manga#my artwork#night scribbles
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Congrats!! That's incredible! You got this!
Thank you! I’m really excited… and scared/stressed.
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so i’m re-reading homestuck. currently i’m near the beginning of act 5. assorted thoughts:
1. rose is so fucking funny. fanfic writers never remember this
2. speaking of rose — her classpect means that in fanart and fanfic, her mysterious seer-iness is highly emphasized. but in acts 1 through 4, the mysterious one is jade. DREAM VISIONS! ENIGMATIC HINTS AT PROPHECY! TIME LOOP BULLSHIT! jade is THE mysterious seer-adjacent character. meanwhile, rose acts like she knows what’s going on but she basically never does. as a result, fanfic especially gives the mysterious-seer attributes to rose and jade is just sort of… there. (i am kinda guilty of this myself.) my new 2024 slogan: let jade be enigmatic as fuck!
3. the first time vriska ever appears — unless you count her username appearing without being directly referenced, which happens pretty early — is at the very very edge of a panel, in which you can see one of her horns. that happens a few times pre-act-five, especially in panels that involve terezi. honestly most terezi conversations pre-act-five get funnier if you imagine vriska looking over her shoulder like ::::/ or like ::::D
4. the fandom image of karkat is highly positive. the idea of his character is kinda locked to karkat as he appears in act 6 (maybe late act 5?), and fan depictions of early karkat (pre-sgrub, or simply early act 5) seem to retrospectively plaster his later characterization onto his earlier self. his general assholery is interpreted as blunted grumpiness that no one really takes seriously. that interpretation more or less makes sense for later versions of his character, but it’s startling how genuinely mean he is in early act 5! he’s such a jerk that in a conversation with early act 5 vriska he comes off looking worse! that’s HARD. and a really interesting facet of his character!
#more to be added later. probably#i recently started grad school — i’m getting a phd in english which i’m not sure will surprise anyone who follows this blog#so i’m busy#but since when has that ever stopped me from making bad decisions about how to allocate my time!#homestuck
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you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question
#she sounded so remorseful & i just stood staring like an anthropologist watching their phd thesis spontaneously manifest before their eyes#apparently she would watch the pilot episode to get a feel for the characters#and then just read a bunch of recaps & episode reviews instead of watching future episodes. what fresh steaming hell#this conversation took place like a year and a half after we were roommates btw. i had seen her maybe twice in that time period#i thought she was a standard frat girl but then 18 months later she appears in the wild grass to reveal unhinged character background to me#and i'm just standing there nodding feeling like i missed a weird opportunity i did not want or ask for#honestly thought i was the weirdest person in that apartment situation but now i'm wondering what our other 2 roommates were hiding#not my strangest college experience at ALL but like. definitely top 20#this wasn't the same person as Aquarium Girl btw but oddly enough they were roommates actually#(not at the same time that Recaps Lady and i were roommates but at different intervals idk)#anyway i probably should have interviewed at more than one apartment before taking over a sublease but summer sess is a weird time u know#oh and this happened in Hong Kong btw
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a missing scene from the quest featuring grover parenting, percy drooling, and annabeth contemplating.
#HAPPY PJOTV#*wrestling announcer voice* SHEEEEES BAAAACCKKKK#i absolutely ADORE the adaption and its inspired my to put my phd in percabethology to use#*mitski voice* my babies myyy babiessssss#percabeth#pjotv#pjotv missing scene#percabeth fic#percy jackson#annabeth chase#grover underwood#percy jackson and the olympians#my writing
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