I Reorganized My Desk Today!

04-01-17 (Post 11)

Reviewing some Environmental Science I did yesterday because I fell asleep without reviewing anything (whoops) Going out later today to find some new frames (glasses) Don’t know how productive I’m going to be today as I’m some what behind schedule already. How’s your day going? ~

*click for better quality Tumblr is so annoying*

— currently reading + latest trip to my favorite bookshop // ig: thesmartspo

2018-01-01

Starting off the year with an iced latte and some essay-writing ft. @emmastudies ’s new desktop calendar 💫

Happy new year everyone!

TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT

1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.

2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.

3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.

4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.

Thank you for letting us know that our work is still valued. Sometimes it is hard to remember that with all of the beautiful notes. Here’s to all the messy and unorganized studyblrs!

Studyblrs with messy notes full of re-writes and crossings out.

Studyblrs with pens that only work half the time and cheap stationary and basic notebooks from Tescos. 

Studyblrs that don’t or can’t take aesthetic af photos with amazing lighting. 

Studyblrs that struggle to keep up with their work and aren’t super organised. 

Studyblrs that don’t keep or own beautifully hand-drawn bujo spreads full of art and quotes. 

Studyblrs that don’t have Tumblr friends/family, who don’t recieve 20,000 asks/messages everyday, who don’t actually talk to anyone.

Your work is valuable, your studies are valuable, you are valuable, and I love you being a part of the community.   

I am going to miss living here

Where Voice Recognition Occurs in the Brain

We regularly find ourselves in situations in which we talk to others. We talk to friends in a different way than we do to strangers. One important skill for this is not just understanding what the other person is saying but also recognising who is talking. Therefore, the voice of our conversation partner helps us. Until now, scientists could not agree on exactly which regions in the brain allow us to recognise voices.

Full open access research for “Obligatory and facultative brain regions for voice-identity recognition” by Claudia Roswandowitz, Claudia Kappes, Hellmuth Obrig, and Katharina von Kriegstein in Brain. Published online December 8 2017 doi:10.1093/brain/awx313

Especially persons with lesions in certain areas of the right posterior temporal lobe experienced difficulties recognizing voices. The MPI scientists assume that the posterior superior temporal gyrus, the STG, is crucial for voice recognition. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to MPI CBS.

02/01/2018

Early morning library session 📚

I’ve got some work for my BA thesis planned, some Esperanto, Irish and French! I hope I’ll manage to do everything as soon as possible so that I can go home and have an early lunch!