szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Yesterday evening I was playing with some new techniques ✏️

What do you think? Do pastel neurons have any future?

#sketching #procreatebrushes #neurons #neuroscience #sciart

found this on my hard drive and decided to render out a turnaround

it was my first ever attempt at photogrammetry, its a bit patchy in places as I was just using my phones camera

its pretty magical just being able to take an object from the real world into your 3d renderer

#mosstodon #nature #photogrammetry #3d #rocks

Today is National Barbie Day. Why don’t we have a funeral director Barbie yet?!?

Barbie has made great strides in the past decade, showing children that girls can grow into any number of career paths. Women in STEM? Yes please! We still don’t have a mortician option though. Since mortuary schools are now over 70% women, it’s high time we were represented as a valid profession to aspire to.

Want to sign a petition for Mattel to create Undertaker Barbie? Here ya go!

https://www.change.org/p/mattel-tell-mattel-to-create-a-funeral-director-barbie

#HisAndHearsePress #Barbie #Mattel #NationalBarbieDay #BarbieDay #BarbieDoll #Petition #WomenInStem #MortuaryScience #MortuarySchool #FuneralDirector #Mortician #DeathPositive #AIArt

✨NEW PAPER✨Imagine you’ve got a piece of plastic stuck in your stomach - stabbing, poking, and prodding constantly. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, what would that do to your delicate internal tissues?
One of our #AdriftLab Honours students (Hayley) has just published her first, first-author paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigating the effect that #PlasticIngestion has on the formation of scar tissue within the stomach of #seabirds from #LordHoweIsland. While scar tissue formation is a natural part of the healing process, excessive scarring can impact tissue function and cause disease, known as #fibrosis #OpenAccess paper here ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found plastic ingestion was significantly related to severe, organ-wide scar tissue formation in the stomach, with some birds exhibiting a near-complete loss of tissue structure (photo panel on LEFT: collagen/scar tissue has stained blue). This is the first time plastic-related scar tissue formation has been documented in wild animals, but what we could see was so severe that it also led us to propose a new disease, #Plasticosis – fibrosis as a result of plastic.
As >1200 species are already documented to ingest plastic across both aquatic and terrestrial environments (including us!), our findings have major implications.
#WomenInSTEM #seabirds #PlasticPollution #SubLethalEffects #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #silicosis @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

I'm pleased to report this got a pretty good laugh from my undergrads during the lecture on color theory.

#rodstewart #colortheory #color #humor #humour #funny #pun #puns

#Today
#BensonUpdate

Saw the most Berkeley interaction while on a dog walk:

Lady had her big robust Husky off leash meandering down a street.

Another lady had her Rottie off leash on the opposite side of the street.

They converged in a small park.

Benson (on a leash) and I approached the park from a distance & hung back. I just knew shenanigans would ensue. 1/

1836. When Texas declared independence from Mexico after Mexico outlawed slavery, the early government was so devoted to slavery and to white supremacy that they wrote it down, explicitly and at length, in the constitution of the new republic.

To teach students a race-blind history of Texas is simply to lie to them.

#Texas #WhiteSupremacy

Wir alle, Zug. Wir alle.

who called it “writing documentation” and not “manual labor”

People storming school board meetings are “concerned parents,” which implies that their motives are genuine and just, basically shielding their “concerns” from political scrutiny; but students protesting a racist speaker are always “activists,” never “concerned young people.”

Ten years ago, still true. https://anildash.com/2013/03/28/ten_tips_guaranteed_to_improve_your_startup_success/

Giant suspension cables...?
In a sense yes... These are the bass strings of a #Steinway Spirio R Grand Piano.
They're would so tight that they exert more than 20 tonnes of pressure on the frame.

Part of my Architecture In Music collection, exploring the insides of extraordinary instruments.

More at www.architectureinmusic.com

#photography #macro #classicalmusic #music #piano #laowa #lumix

Well this seems very cool! Will have to sniff around and see if this report has it right, and then if it'll turn out they just misplaced a digit somewhere or equivalent. But woot!

Astronomers Detect 6 Massive Galaxies So Old They Can't Be Explained by Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-detect-6-massive-galaxies-so-old-they-cant-be-explained-by-science

#astronomy #jwst #scientistsBaffled

If you put "business inquires only" in your bio then please do not get mad when I dm you and ask you to help me steal the Declaration of Independence.

Saw a post on a different platform saying states should vote on abortion.

My eyes rolled so hard I think they're stuck.

Full reproductive freedom should not depend on zip code.

Either people with a uterus are free like those without -- or we're not and that's a goddamn problem.