carson black, MSc

I’m taking a break from my PhD 🩷✨🫶🏼 I initially planned to keep quiet about this decision, but also feel like too many of us get lost in the shame and stigma of “quitting” academia and grad school. If you are having a hard time with your PhD, I see you and I am with you.

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

The decision to dismantle the US Forest Service will go down as one of the many massive blunders of this presidency. They are set to close all 10 regions offices and over 50 research labs. This agency manages 193 million acres of national forests, protects ecosystems, manages wildfires, conducts research, and more. This represents yet another step toward the destruction of our environment and shows a complete disregard for our future wellbeing.

This is what our species is capable of. You gotta hold this sort of thing in your heart during the other times.

It’s Venus’ day, and she’s currently at home in Taurus. A good day to tell your people that you love them. The world’s heavy right now and there’s no need to make it heavier by withholding your affection. Let love be something you give freely today.

My wish for you is that you will find a book series that grips you as much as your childhood favourites, that makes you want to stay up all night reading it as though you were a kid again, falling in love with the magic of stories for the first time.

this would’ve done NUMBERS on tumblr back in the day

working in wildlife conservation sounds really cool until you see the biblical levels of greed and hatred politicians have for the environment. but hey atleast the pay is bad and the job market is... also really bad

Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college and then told millions of American youth that higher education is a liberal scam. His banner should NOT be hanging from the Dept of Education right now. Holy fuck

It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.

i dunno man when they use my money to bomb people in other countries, and kidnap my neighbors into concentration camps, and i cant pay to see doctors or for groceries and it goes on for decades and then you wonder why three generations of young people have given up

Good fucking morning to everybody except the DHS social media guy who spent all day spreading lies about the blind man ICE killed. The agents were reckless and never should have kidnapped him in the first place. You’re complicit in his death and should be ashamed of yourself.

“I did not dedicate my life to advocating for women and girls just so that I could be lectured by a bunch of pedophile protectors.” ~Hillary Rodham Clinton

RFK Jr. touts “removing mercury” from vaccines, when in reality it wasn’t even elemental mercury, it was nontoxic, it was safety tested, and it had already been removed from every routine shot. Meanwhile, the same admin is clearing the way for ACTUALLY MERCURY IN ITS TOXIC FORM.

that figure skater lady is genuinely hopecore to me because wdym she quit skating at 16, fucked off for years, then came back and said "i'll do it again my way" and won gold. wdym she looks like the personification of joy while skating IN THE OLYMPICS. maybe we all have a chance

To put things into perspective, ICE and Border Patrol have killed more people this month than US citizens were killed by undocumented immigrants all of last year.

mRNA was the greatest medical advance of the century and then we're squandering it

People don't realize this but there's an extinction level event happening at US universities right now. My old department at Harvard cut the number of new PhD students by 75%, most of those were American trainees. American science is falling off a cliff.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Happy winter solstice! Never give up.

This has been the longest week of Elmo's life.

I will continue to try and love this stupid dying world anyway