herunswithscissors

[herunswithscissors]

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

[herunswithscissors]

things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.

[herunswithscissors]

pitter patter putter patter *you look down and see this*

[herunswithscissors]

I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

[herunswithscissors]

[herunswithscissors]

The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

[herunswithscissors]

Iron Fountain Location: Gyumri, Armenia Completed: 1982 Architect: Artur Tarkhanyan

[herunswithscissors]

I think a lot of people's perception of bugs when it comes to sentience is entirely based around the fact that all the bugs they see/notice are scared out of their minds, usually because there's an enormous animal in their vicinity that is probably freaking out or attempting to kill them

Being startled by an unexpected small fast moving thing is normal, as is not wanting to lose track of the location of a small animal that may be crawling on you, but it's bizarre to me that those instinctive impulses are normalized and like... encouraged even, to the point of being a common phobia

Watching bugs go about their business interacting with stuff should be a universal experience because it becomes obvious really quickly that they're thinking about stuff and different individuals of the same species have different personalities and they're not just biological automatons

[herunswithscissors]

Is it worth making the effort to fix your life? Rolling over, giving up, and dying seems so much easier to do than putting in the work to change anything

If you're sick and don't want to move, is it worth the effort to get up from bed and go to the bathroom if it's so much easier to just piss the bed? The only reason to choose the easier option over a hard one is when they both lead to good results.

Fixing your life is hard, and it sucks, but living in misery is hard and it sucks, too. Dying also sucks, and I can assure you that finding a way that isn't hard is harder than you would think. When all of the options suck, you choose the one that sucks but yields results, over the ones that suck for nothing in return.

If you're so miserable that you want to die, you're already reached the maximum levels of misery you can be in. You're miserable and suffering already. It's not a trade where you're giving up something you have for something you want - it's trading suffering that gives you nothing in exchange for suffering that gives you something.

[herunswithscissors]

Elm Sawfly (Cimbex americanus), larva, feeding on River Birch, family Cimbicidae, Montgomery County, TX, USA

photograph by Paxon Kale CC

[herunswithscissors]

has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet

[herunswithscissors]

love this pic of a collection of votive body parts from the secret room in the archaeological museum of naples...like in my brain i know these are votive offerings but in my heart these are the wares of a humble penis merchant

[herunswithscissors]

Physarum florigerum by Gim Siew Tan

[herunswithscissors]

Andor Appreciation Day 2 - Everyone Has Their Own Rebellion

@andorappreciation

[herunswithscissors]

mistakes

I have made mistakes like stars in the sky

great flaming holes in the darkness of my life

too numerous to count, overwhelming in number;

they should show me a map, light my path -

if only I could learn to read navigation from them!

yet in my foolishness, i think: that one was pretty…

now show me another. Surely this one will guide me home

but that is only

another mistake…

I have made mistakes, infinite as stars in the sky

they fill my night with jeweled constellations

and I am lost beneath them

[herunswithscissors]

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks