coralstudiies:

bio notes!

prettynotesmakesmehappy:

phoebe-does:

as a studyblr with high grades I feel the need to put it out there, I’ve never pulled an all-nighter. Yes I’ve stayed up late in an effort to get assessment done but never past 11:30pm. I can count on one hand the times I’ve sacrificed my sleep and long term health for school. As a studyblr with sleep apnea and anxiety, to me it is not worth pulling all-nighters. Instead use your time effectively. Start assignments straight away and aim to have them finished two days before the due date and just going over and editing until it’s due. The key to never having to sacrifice sleep is good planning and following through. Maybe it’s that you should stay at school for an extra hour or two to get work done, or maybe it’s that you need to wake up super early to work before school. Whatever it is, figure it out and carry through. Please don’t glorify bad sleeping habits, it hurts you more than you could know.

This is so true and important!

sunscreenstudies:

Thankfully this rarely ever happens because of my super-duper immune system, but when I do get sick, it hits me hard and fast and has no regard whatsoever for upcoming assignments or exams (like today) So! This is what I like to do step-by-step whenever I have to study while simultaneously feeling like death:

1.  Go for a shower. Seriously. I know you really don’t want to because you’re tired and achy and it’s so much effort, but you’re also kind of disgusting right now so it’ll pay off, I promise! Turn the water on hot. Pick out your favourite shampoo and soap and use copious amounts. Put conditioner in your hair and brush your teeth while you wait. Rinse away everything, make a mad dash for the fluffiest towel you can find, and dry off.

2.  Wear your warmest pyjamas. Yea, you heard me, pyjamas while studying, the sacred rule that everyone has sworn against breaking lest there be terrible consequences!!!!! Here’s the thing. You already feel like a zombie. You literally cannot feel any more exhausted. So put on those fluffy pj’s your grandmother bought you when you were 12, and find some fuzzy socks to match.

3.  Gather your study stuff and make tea. Or hot chocolate, or coffee, if you like, though I’d advise against too much milk since dairy tends to make sore throats even worse. Find all of the stuff you need for your study sesh, lay them out neat and tidy, and then have a hot drink to relax. No, I’m not being sarcastic, you genuinely should relax. Your body is already pretty against functioning at this point, and the thought of studying may just knock it over completely, so set up your stuff and then sit down for a few minutes to adjust. Bonus: Look up studyspo on tumblr to get yourself psyched up while you chill!

4.  Actually study. It doesn’t have to be for long, it doesn’t have to be a difficult subject, it doesn’t even have to involve notes or highlighters or colourful binders, just as long as you study. Even just reading one page from that biology book is a win! The fact that you’ve even gotten to this stage is a win!! Have a hot drink or water on standby, tissues and painkillers on hand, and wrap a nice soft blanket around your shoulders while you work. And remember: Even if you just study for 5 minutes, that’s still 5 minutes more than you had an hour ago.

5.  Congratulate yourself. Tidy up your supplies and put away the books. It doesn’t matter if you did 10 minutes, and hour, or more, the fact that you still survived while doing a remarkable impression of a corpse means you did well!! Have a snack, drink some water, and climb back into bed. You did it!!

varkarrus:

augustdementhe:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

bogleech:

thetinybutimportantthings:

aviculor:

thellamamongler:

aplpaca:

aplpaca:

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

@aviculor

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

these

are genetically closer than these

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

COOL. 

just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, “Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,” which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.