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term ended yesterday but i have to read paradise lost and richardson’s pamela over the vac so here we go !!!!! | workspace 3:00 PM, oxford UK

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11.14.23 - Tuesday

I severely underestimated how much time and energy it would take to write 50+ individualized notes for each of my students 💀 today I finished them and visited the school just to give gifts.

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C o f f e e B r e a k

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looks at you

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Date: 24/1/23

𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒏𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔.

I know I did not post for some days here. I was tired and exhausted god knows why which kinda affected my study time too but I am back again

Got back to dancing today because of my dance class. These are my dance notes for the new piece my teacher started to teach.

Attempted a chem mock test and God the score was so low but it's okay with time i am sure it will improve

Also I feel pretty for no reason why though my skin is breaking out but it isn't like how it used to be back when I was in the sixth grade like that was pretty terrible this is nothing

And bannana, honey, haldi (turmeric) work well for the skin it seems. I tried it out, my feels soft and glowy

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a colorful, caffeinated, calm fall weekend spent in the company of research papers and friends 😌 🍂

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In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.

The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.

~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22

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A great campaign from the Xerces Society to remind us not to clean up our yards too much in the fall!

Our little invertebrate friends need winter homes :)

Make your yard a haven for local wildlife!

More information about how leaf litter benefits wildlife here.

Make a donation to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation here. They do great work, and I’ve been a monthly donor for a long while now.

Donate $57 and get this Leave the Leaves yard sign here!

Don’t feel obligated to donate, but spreading the word on tumblr or other social media using these graphics is super helpful!

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aesthetic for @soporificsedatives

a murder mystery show playing in the background

the excitement of learning something new

getting lost in your studies for hours at a time

the sound of rain on your window, lulling you to sleep

a room illuminated by the glow of your computer screen

the satisfaction of finally getting a tricky piece of code to work properly

feeling at home surrounded by books

neutral tones that blend into one another, a soothing evenness

approaching the world as a puzzle to be solved

using the written word as a way to express your emotions

exploring the darker sides of human nature

the color of an overcast sky

pushing yourself to create something you can be proud of

sheets of paper filled with your handwriting

dancing in a sudden downpour, wet hair and a wide grin

untangling the complicated themes of your favorite books

pouring your heart into your poetry

reading a book that hundreds of thousands of people have read before you, feeling the weight of the words

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Fungi photo dump!

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Instagram credit: l_reads

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things that feel illegal that aren't: eating fries and garlic bread with your friends on the steps of parliament house

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October 10, 2022

Today I:

Attended marine biodiversity lecture

Studied for upcoming environmental toxicology course

Practiced French and Spanish

Reviewed lecture on annelids

Submitted transcripts

Worked on Healing with the Arts project

I always feel more creative in fall! I’ve recently taken up knitting again, and I’m SO excited to have finished a fluffy blue-grey scarf for my aunt. The next knitting project: a blanket. We shall see how this goes.

🎧 Listening to: Marking by Sarah Beth Pfeifer

📖 Reading: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

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Some of my favourite photos from my first two weeks in Cambridge ✨

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summer in the life of a tired bio student

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journal // @wyyae // insta: artwyy

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