sully-the-biochemist

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Thank you so much for running @peroxide-foam! I love your take on labcore so much. It's refreshingly clean and crisp, perfect for those who want to be morally-ambiguous scientists who want to be more subtle about it or just don't like things that glow green. Props!

I should be the one saying thanks to you, Anonymous! I'm really glad to know someone's got similar sentiments about how science feels to them too.

Initially, I got into making 'clean' labcore moodboards as a way to drown the insecurities I had about my own laboratory by saying that it's okay if your workspaces are sterile and boring because there can be a massive sense of comfort in being able to focus on your experiments in a calm, non-overwhelming environment!

Btw, your message inspired me to collect even more. Thanks beyond kindly :)

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

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

I know this probably sounds really mean but one of my favorite pastimes is watching New York and Massachusetts fight over who has the best library resources because every single time they try to best the other, it gifts the entire scientific community a new research tool for free

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!

An update - 2 June 2022

Where have I been? Why have I not posted in MONTHS? Despite feeling like it, I didn’t die!

Learning about library management so I can take better care of my own book collections and potentially get hired for it

Trying my absolute best to understand bioinformatics (It’s not going well, I feel like I’m too mentally worn down for this level of computer stuff.)

Writing out pages in the rough draft and background research phases for some of the open textbooks I want to publish

Sharpening my HTML/CSS skills to make a good website

Coming to terms with the fact I have kidney issues but being ignored by my doctor despite them being the one that tested me

Hoping to start learning Russian again when I have enough free time between studies and preparing experiments

Taking a break from data science for a bit (My understanding never got past pre-calc, technical math expects way too much from me)

...And last but not least, practicing my non-science related essays, because maybe I’d like to try my hand at cultural analysis (for fun)

Anyways, thanks for stopping by, I’ll keep posting art, but that's how my life is going at the moment. I wasn’t expecting to pass 500 followers, but here you guys are! Thank you!

Got some microorganisms that are soon to be examined 🐚🐟🔬

I know absolutely nothing about biochemistry but your blog gives off the Best of vibes and I hope you find yourself a very cool rock tomorrow.

Thank you kindly, Anonymous! I'm sorry I hadn't seen this sooner, but I will be on the lookout for collectible Earth formations in the future :)

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

I’m the only person on this floor who doesn’t like coffee, so I have to get my energy to function elsewhere.

Nothing quite like doubting your own legitimacy as a researcher because of one brightly coloured noodle.

Kinda hard to neglect my work when one part of me is guilty and the other is terrified.

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

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.

Sometimes I look at all these aesthetic pages and ask myself if I even belong on the studyblr tag. I say yes, but my desk says probably not.

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:

I tried to make two oddly specific warning signs.

May you all reach a point in your career where you can steal a chart off the internet and only draw it halfway then say almost nothing important about it and file it as an “important research note” for later use in a presentation

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.”

I MADE AN ASCORBIC ACID! LOOK AT IT!!!

The shape of this is so awkward to hold when you’re trying to show the whole thing.

Possible causes of calcinosis cutis that may be rare diseases or just something acute (not a complete list, there’s another page not shown)

Revision of some notes on the grapefruit juice effect on drugs, because pulling up a wikipedia page in a room of doctors would be a mistake

Look at that nasty grapefruit too

It is my first time using hex graph paper in a good while so I’m making it a new “chemicals of interest” notebook.

I think it looks passable so far, though sometimes I include the hydrogens because it’s fun to draw on this.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)

Please don’t mind the large sponge behind it

Metabolites of Caffeine (at least to the best of my referencing ability)

When I first got started with directing my own experiments, I had that “I don’t want to be seen with my fancy textbooks because I’ll look like I don’t know what I’m doing!” outlook going on almost constantly.

Now I’m here saying “Hold up, I forgot how this works, let me get the book that I remember learning it from.”

Page of some notes from a thing about vitamin C deficiency, including a print of a rocket that came with the book

Thyroid function panel (data stolen from my diagnostics ref) with the added bonus of some structures I’ll probably regret not being able to recognize without a guide