The formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has stumped scientists. Could a tectonic event that took place tens of millions of years prior offer an explanation? eos.org/articles/the...

InvisibleForcePodcast.com, the podcast all about MRI accidents and the safety lessons we should learn from them, now includes full episode transcripts! #MRI #MRIsafety #radiology

In the Netherlands, the budget cuts on Social Sciences & Humanities will not be reversed cause the cabinet wants to invest in "innovation" (read AI factories). This is a political agenda and would be great if STEM colleagues recognise it and fight back.

oh god damnit

can't read about london forces without Ronald Jenkees' Magnetic Moment playing. That deep whomp-whomp noise does indeed sound just like what films like to use to let the audience know *something magnetic* is going on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0sj...

Something made me go look it up. I think I heard the neighbour go "Aroo" m.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBi...

I’ll note I can consult on most basic types of spectroscopy! I’m a magnetic resonance spectroscopist, but I’ve worked with infrared, UV, visible, and X-ray spectroscopy. 🤓 If you’re a SFF or romance author and you’d like me to check your chemistry or spectroscopy check out the auction below!

Why do instrument companies suck so much www.reddit.com/r/Chempros/c... #NMRchat 🧲

🚨I am obsessed with the sociology of GLP-1 drugs, to medicate outside medicine. These are effective & heavy drugs, most arent getting them via a GP, people figure it out on Reddit, together, for better or worse. I try to mine and expose that struggle in an interactive, ever updating dynamic article.

I know Huberman has some grift issues according to the health community, but I just heard a pretty decent podcast on alcohol from him. Only quibble: he defined hormesis as "getting benefit from regularly ingesting a poison." Just for the record, no.

How and Why Soap Works is now indexed on Google Books! The perfect text to explore science in the context of personal care products. Check out the 57 page preview with lots of background on how and why the book came to be. www.google.com/books/editio...

I do like some Asterisk mag pieces, in case the RCT one made it seem like that wasn't the case. This was quite thought provoking

I can't make heads or tails of this analysis (in the Guardian today). The methods section is one paragraph. Putting aside assumptions about health econ and NHS decision making, it doesn't seem to consider population growth, ageing, or mortality displacement... (1/7) www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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Which we've written about here. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

"You better not blow your fingers or hand off holding another damn firework, or I swear I'll hand-make you an oven mitt for your stump and present to you in front of aaaaall your friends."

Used to be I could just say "[googles critical point of water]" but now with a.i. I have to do all of the above to ensure I'm getting the correct answer (first post re-posted to correct a typo)

There is a summer sale over at Smashwords, and my books are included. Wouldn't you like to grab this opportunity to get them for half price? Got a horror/space opera and a sci-fi spy thriller there waiting for you to read them. 💙📚🪐 Link: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Or_M.Bialik8104​

"...and every year, student feedback includes the same demand: they want more." ah, yes. Crack!

Entering my author era!! Y'all !! My book is on goodreads! You can add it to your TBR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... I just submitted an application to "claim my goodreads author profile" so that feels very official! I also changed my profile pic to my author photo so that’s exciting!

fuck yeah I'd LUV my local library to have a SEM, damn. Thst would kick ass. We got plenty of retired old folks who'd love to repair/maintain one too.

"Dutch CDC" the RIVM says breastmilk has enough PFAS to adversely affect babies' immune systems. Go #TeamPFAS nos.nl/artikel/2621...

my last giant(ish) centipede had a clutch of babies a few months ago, here she is cuddling them right after they hatched

Obviously it’s amazing when lightning bugs light up but ALSO they are so CUTE??

Something I was asked a few times, and I think merits a bit of detail for people not in the research industry, is what goes into the pricing of an analysis. A thread 1/14 🧵🧪

mRNA not okay, peptide okay. I wish these people can just pick up a molecular biology text book and flip through it.

It’s been ✨ D E L I G H T F U L ✨ trying to forecast severe storms in Nebraska.

Trump's NOAA is cutting weather forecast models on 31 August 2026: www.weather.gov/media/notifi... "The [switchover] will occur on the same day." sounds like a recipe for disaster. I use their 12kmX12km x84 hour forecast every single day. www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/wea...

Episode 1 of the Invisible Force podcast’s 3-part reflection on this 25th anniversary of the infamous Colombini MRI accident. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... #MRI #MRIsafety #radiology

With the deadline for public feedback on Russell Vought's proposed new rule around grant funding just 2 weeks away, re-upping my @opinion.bloomberg.com piece about OMB's dangerous attempt to permanently politicize science in the US:

Een reekalfje met zijn moeder. 💚 Onze boswachter Mark kwam dit prachtige tafereel gisteren tegen. Helaas heeft het een verdrietig einde. Het reekalfje is vandaag overleden, nadat het werd gegrepen door een loslopende hond. 😔 HONDEN AAN DE LIJN!

I have a shortcut, I mark the AI-generated images in my slide decks by pressing the "delete" key

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill @markcooperjones.bsky.social and @jayforeman.bsky.social have a new Map Men video talking about the formation of chalk! (also, British geology and geological mapping) ⚒ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zq5...

We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Earth & Environmental Geosciences @colgate.edu is hiring a tenure-stream asst professor in paleoclimate! For additional info regarding the position & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/188708 . Please share broadly & contact us with your questions. Thank you!

Alt: npr news headline Ex-NOAA employees recreate a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump by Scott Neuman, 26 June 2026 bsky.app/profile/clim...

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

Yet another day of plans swatted away by the uncaring waves of reality and obligations.

had to whip up a quick berfdee card 🧪

Earthquake Early Warning in action. You don’t often get a camera isolated from the shaking, so that’s interesting. I’ve since read other comments about the video and alert being fake because we can’t predict earthquakes (💯 true) but it’s the effects that are being predicted, rapidly after the event.

The collective name for a group of squid should of course be a squad. Thank you for coming to my talk.

Really interesting footage from Galfa, southern Trinidad, after the Venezuelan earthquake doublet: youtu.be/4M8UpZYz4ss?... ⚒️ 1) significant uplift of a section of coast with lots of small faults 2) fascinating zone where boulders trapped sea life, now elevated

Oh this is interesting. You know that work you did when you spent ages trying an idea but it turned out it really didn't work, and who's going to trudge through publishing it, although it'd be good to tell others not to bother or what you did learn? This might be the publication vehicle you need.

First structure of functional [NiFe]-hydrogenase HoxEFUYH just DROPPED 💣

Folks posting images in order to convey some kind of meaning... use alt text. It is essential for blind/low viz folks BUT ALSO ORDINARY LIE-FI.

Goed stuk van de NOS over het toekomstige zomerklimaat. Belangrijkste: het wordt nog warmer. Oorzaak: fossiele brandstoffen. app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...

Another pro of 30+ days: I can drink my customary 1-2 pots of coffee in the morning and don't have to pee every 10 minutes for 2 hours afterwards. Woohoo