Vaccines Have Protected the U.S. Military for 250 Years. We Keep Learning That the Hard Way. by @EpiRen medium.com/microbial-in...

Author update: Your Angry Pediatrician continues: yourangrypediatrician.substack.com Grendels (sci-fi novel) is on Substack and Medium: grendelsnovel.substack.com medium.com/grendels-the... Synderesis (sequel to Grendels) now in serialization on Substack: synderesisnovel.substack.com

What’s Actually in RFK’s Nutrition Plan for Doctors by Dr. Jess Steier medium.com/p/whats-actu... This is a very important article from a great source.

A sample of my current Work In Progress, the sequel to Grendels (robertwack.com/grendels/) titled Synderesis: robertwack.com/chapter-6-sy... You can start it at the beginning here: robertwack.com/synderesis/ #WIP

In the future fiction authors are gonna have some stiff competition with historians.

@editorialboard.bsky.social gave you a shout out today.

New social media rule: watch every Prince live clip. Always time well spent.

DAMN, SON! Reinventing how a thousand year old instrument is played!

"This is an important thing to think about."

Dune: Messiah (1969) by Frank Herbert #booksky #scifisky #ScienceFiction

The serialization of my sci-fi novel Grendels on Substack is complete. Michelle Shank enrolls her autistic brother Adam in a new school, entangling them in a secret genetic engineering project and the emergence of a new intelligent species. grendelsnovel.substack.com/p/grendels-p...

A microscopic tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, it can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space. [🔬 Tobin Sparling] Original post

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. #booksky #scifisky #ScienceFiction

🐙✨ Caribbean Reef Octopus 🎨 Sculpture, Clay & Paint #ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #Cephalopods #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife 🦑🐡

I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...

What a talented, beautiful child.

We Pointed an AI at Raw Binary Files From 1986. by @marcokotrotsos medium.com/p/we-pointed... Well, this is interesting....

A fish eater: Erenna is a genus of deep-sea siphonophores; these deep-sea hunters are pescatarians and eat only fish. They rely on bioluminescence to mimic the behavior of tiny copepods, luring fish into range for stinging and snacking. Filmed at 918 m during the 2024 #SEPacificSeamounts expedition.

open.substack.com/pub/grendels... It all comes together.

Octopus shows off its incredible camouflage. Original post