Today is one of those days when I realize how different my major is from everyone else’s: my professor cracked open sea urchins in the tide pools and we ate the gonads together as a class 🤷🏼♀️
Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.
This is @HaylieGrammer's story. She gave her blessing to share it. Take a moment & read this. You’ll be surprised.
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1. [Five] years ago, I gave birth to my daughter, Embree. She weighed 4lbs 4oz & was born with a tumor the size of a volleyball. Embree lived 25 minutes.
Just so we're clear: the pregnancy that ends up in the wrong spot, like the fallopian tube? The one that will NEVER turn into a baby and will rupture and kill your wife, daughter, or sister? Terminating that fetus is also an abortion, and they want to ban those, too.
*PAID* 10-week marine science research internships for underrepresented minority students. App deadline 2/15
Online info sessions:
Wednesday, January 12: 6-7pm
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Super offtheme #SundayFishSketch - but after an opah (also known as the moonfish) made headlines a little while ago, I had to try and recreate this wonderfully bizarre fish.
If you live near an ocean and want to help us document this event, get out at the next low tide and take pictures of the mussel beds in your area and upload them tohttps://www.inaturalist.org/ #HeatWave2021
Can we get @MISS_Elasmo to 10K followers by the end of the weekend? We’re so close! Support can show up in forms other than monetary donations. Helping us get the word out & become more visible is a huge way of supporting us. If you’re not already, give @MISS_Elasmo a follow. 🦈
Since we’re all worried about blood clots suddenly can someone please be outraged enough by the hormonal birth control that most of us take to please fix that commonly occurring side effect? :’) or are the blood clots fine as long as it’s just in women?
Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas.
I am approaching this with anthropological precision.
Here are a few observations.
I’ve been a graduate student for only a short time but so far it’s been fueled by Trader Joe’s wine and Annie’s mac n cheese and I just don’t see that changing #selfcare