No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

hajandrade

Some Self Portraits by Women Artists:

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1530-1625), Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel, 1556
Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660), Self Portrait, ca. 1630
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842), Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761-1818), Self Portrait, c. 1783
Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884-1967), At the Dressing Table - Self Portrait, 1909
Nasta Rojc (Croatian, 1883-1964), Self Portrait, 1912
Tamara de Lempika (Polish, 1898-1980), Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925
Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1908-1996), Self Portrait with Scorpion, 1938
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), Self Portrait, 1945
Yana Movchan (b. in Kiev, Ukraine, 1971), Beautiful Me (Self Portrait)

doyoubelieveinmonsters

@corsica1789

ddeeric

dont leave out my girl artemisia gentileschi

medievalpoc

Since this post is very dominated by self-portraits of white women, I feel it is imperative to share these as well:

[Black Artist Completing a Portrait of a White Female Aristocrat; Brazil. Early 1700s]

[S.B. Syed Dabhol; Adding Watercolor to a Photograph. India, c. 1920]

[FaTma WaGdi; RukaLiza!/The Egyptian Mona Lisa]

and in addition, to point out that Self Portraits of Color is another tumblr that no one should be missing out on!! Here’s a selection of self portraits from women of color on that blog:

Pan Yuliang / 潘玉良; My Family. China (1931-1932)

Samizu Matsuki; Self Portrait with Self Portrait. US (1970)

Wendy Red Star; The Four Seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, Indian Summer; US (2006)

Amrita Sher Gil; Self-Portrait. France/Hungary/India (1933)

Snehal Page; Summer Self-Portrait. India (2013)

Baljit Balrow; Self-Portrait with Union Jack. UK (2009)

Maya Christina Gonzalez; I Frame Myself. US (1997)

Also of note: Women in the Act of Painting (blogspot)

fun things to do in lab

cancerbiophd

accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand
dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples.
slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes
when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing
listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off
“uh… what’s that smell..”
going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box
16 hour time-points
srsly who invented 16 hr time-points
they’re inhumane
labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand
“we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”
listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves
getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine
“i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”
cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol
having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!
that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need
“one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”

adventuresinchemistry

#relatable

biochemprincess

- pipetting small amounts of different clear reagents into your samples and then forgetting if you added it to that sample yet
- trying to decipher the labeling on a tube from a lab member who is long gone
- “did you read the paper for journal club?”
- balancing a very sensitive centrifuge

adventuresinchemistry

calculating the amount of something you need to add only to realize that you did the math for the anhydrous not the hydrate you actually have
adjusting the pH of buffers for a solid half hour
“has anyone picked up packages for the last week and a half?”
trying to figure out which pipette aid actually works
finding a bottle of the reagent you need only to find that it’s like fifteen years old and hoping it’s still good