Nothing Quite Like Doubting Your Own Legitimacy As A Researcher Because Of One Brightly Coloured Noodle.

One thing I absolutely adore about research papers is when they’re named something really sharp and professional like ‘Pseudomonas sp. Strain 273 Incorporates Organofluorine into the Lipid Bilayer during Growth with Fluorinated Alkanes‘ and then they put a graphical abstract that looks like this

Apparently this is our current criteria for diagnosing lyme disease when y’aint a specialist type of doctor. Sorry I’m not quite that good at drawing people freehand

Expect more of these in the future. I just got this tiny whiteboard in and I love it.

I tried to make two oddly specific warning signs.

I’m trying to learn how to paint so I can make my own website banners and panel icon things.

Update: These are due for a repaint.

Catch me always apologizing for using technical words even when they’re needed because I used to be *that kid* at the doctor’s office

Sometimes I think "I am an expert in this field and all domains it spans over" then in comes Khan Academy to make me feel like it's asking "hey how did you even graduate, you have the math fluency of a 4th grader"

Khan Academy - Keeping our egos in check since 2008

Snatched a diagnostic chart for parathyroid disorders out of a textbook I couldn’t take home because I don’t trust private libraries and also here’s some possible causes of elevated basophils:

Finally logged back onto Tumblr, it’s a licorice candy and thyroid disease kind of night

Guess what? Mitochondrial disorder causing mutations of human twinkle helicase are now able to be mapped with the first 3D model made by researchers at the National Institute of Health! Here's my rendition of the heptamer!

This is the most simplified I could make it... Here’s a histology “slide” of a human adrenal gland for y’all who “don’t do cells.” (Placement may be a bit inaccurate, cause I stole this from a borrowed notebook.)

Fun fact: I once had someone try to argue with me that the adrenal gland is a “kidney warmer” that does not actually produce hormones, because “it doesn’t look like a real organ.”