So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

if FDA labels start getting changed based on low-quality evidence like this, I legitimately think the entire process of how the pharmacy profession functions grinds to a halt like we all have the training to critically evaluate this shit but we don’t have the TIME!

Managed to squeak in a walk with the pup while the leaves are so pretty. We met a few bikers, runners, and walkers along the way, and I’m always heartened by how lovely everyone is. #TimelineCleanse #NationalForest

This large Swedish study found no association between acetaminophen & autism using matched sibling controls. Also no dose-response effect. Ppl who use acetaminophen while pregnant differ in many ways from those who do not, & using sibling controls was a great way to reduce unmeasured confounding

Do you remember? 🪩🕺🏻❤️ Happy 21st of September! youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

All you need to know about underdog #titanite is that it is valued "by extreme gamers as a way to upgrade weapons in Dark Souls." #MinCup25

While it may be associated with jadeite & hence be carved, it’s a challenge to find sculpture that’s definitely kosmochlor so I’m giving titanite, prized for it’s beauty & a source of the pigment titanium dioxide white since ~1910, the arts vote. On the physics front it boasts trichroism. #MinCup25

Gotta go with #titanite for all of the fun reasons, but also because it's a source of titanium dioxide, esp for use as a white pigment. (Not a primary source, but still an important source of TiO2.) #MinCup25

Sunday observation apropos of everything - America is better as a melting pot. Our immigrants make the US a better place. Even today. Especially today.

www.projectnightnight.org I‘m in. Anyone else joining me in donating to this cause?

Close up of the stunning Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. I just loved the swooping lines and interesting angles and colors. #BlueSkyArtShow #angles #abstract

My inner child is voting for #hematite this round. I remember thinking how cool the silvery black polished mineral was when a kid.

This wasn't available in my area when we got our shots, but it's a great option!

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Mmm hmm.

New Zealand #Scape #photography

Sounds to me like they're using actual scientific and medical concepts and changing what they mean. Personalized risk-benefit analyses refer to healthcare providers providing information to patients and helping them make a decision on doing/not doing something, like getting a vaccine.

the interaction of incompetent * evil

Sowing doubt with sciency sounding things like "placebo controlled trials" when they know how unnecessary and unethical (and outright amoral) they would be. (Or maybe they don't. I don't know which is scarier, to be honest.)

Great thread, as always.

Your moment of vaccine education and misinformation busting.

#MinCup25 So … Are you the rebellious punk goth? Or just going to accept resistance is futile and let yourself become assimilated? 😊 Vote #stibnite now.

I love both of these punk minerals, but today I have to go for #stibnite and its spiky magnificence. (Plus feeling very anti-Borg right now.) #MinCup25

This is who they fired.

Until there isn't any independent news to access...

The lines on this bit of hornet's nest paper from a shredded nest are amazing. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

Every once in a blue moon, hornets will build a nest in our trees or on our house, and if we wait long enough, a raptor (probably a great horned owl) will come along and take care of the nest for us. I didn't even know this nest was in our trees until I found it destroyed on the ground.

How in the world is it only Wednesday?

The biggest news for me: Kennedy reportedly said “the childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September.” Would be -- not might be, she clarified in the hearing. Kennedy said “he spoke to the President every day about changing the childhood vaccine schedule,” Monarez testified.

This is really good; however, important to note that there are some notable major insurers that are not part of AHIP - including United. But AHIP taking this line should put pressure on the others to also continue coverage. We'll see.

younger than 75 years old, you should get it before Friday. It is likely going to become FAR less accessible to anyone else.

Currently feeling

Space rock or space clay? (Ok, clay, but chemically complex and naturally found on earth...and Mars!) Still undecided... #MinCup25

I've been mourning the end of summer, but then fall starts showing itself, and I'm reminded how magnificent it is. I had to pull over after running errands to snap a pic. The clouds! The patchwork of color on the distant low mountains! The pasture! Welcome, fall. #MountainMonday

Home. ❤️ Never get tired of the views. #BlueskyArtShow #Home

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“It’s really hard for ordinary people who are very busy and not necessarily paying close attention to this to know what they’re supposed to do to keep themselves or their loved ones safe,” @jlynch13.bsky.social said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Kudos to the post for beating me to this. Finishing up a story on this today. Have been digging into the legality of situation & its scary that there aren't a lot of protections in place to stop presentation & actions on bad data like this that contradicts CDC info.

I once worked with a catalyst that used rhenium as a kind of stabilizer for the supported metal on a TiO2 support. So, in memory of old times and research past, gotta go Molybdenite. #MinCup25 #Molybdenite

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and take a look at this picture of a mama and two moose for a #TimelineCleanse. Taken by my husband out a window at his workplace today.

Let me say the same thing today, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, as I said when Brian Thompson was assassinated, when the CDC campus was shot & a police officer lost his life, and when school shootings happen: *Violence is never the answer.* Our rhetoric & actions need to make that clear. 💔

Remember when they clearly specified DEIA? And we repeatedly said "Including the A means disabilities too"? There is no bar too low for them.

Slightly diminish a book. Some of the Light We Cannot See

This unbelievably bad for our country. Once these lands are developed, or even prepped for development, we'll never get them back. The unmitigated greed is just appalling.

MOTHRA

Oh. My. Goodness. Look at this moth! LOOK AT THOSE WINGS!! Honestly didn't know that moth wings could be that frilly and lacy - like bird feathers - but apparently there is a whole family of "many plumed moths". This one is from the genus Alucita and found in China, and is just spectacular. (1/3)

FINALLY! A save feature! 🎉🎉🎉

“Absence of daylight during the long arctic winter causes tugtupite to naturally lose its color over weeks to months, returning to white or very light pink... tugtupite will again regain its red color when re-exposed to sunlight.” naturalhistory.si.edu/explore/coll... #MinCup25

Goodnight my #bluesky friends! This concludes another #stunday for me. I leave you with one of my favorite sunsets. Night✌️😊✨️💙❤️🧡💛💜 "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning" - Billy Wilder #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #westcoast #friends #silouette #sunset #color

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