This seems more useful than impact factor

It's ironic that this article perpetuates fear about chemical sunscreens being unsafe. Plus the misconception that dermatologists are experts on product safety (that's toxicologists and safety assessors). Also the US blanket recommendation on sunscreen use that's not actually based on evidence...

Next is MUDCAPS from @labmuffin.com and @theecowell.bsky.social, more friends that are bigger deals on instagram so do follow them there if you use it. Here’s a frame from Michelle’s most recent vid which I really liked, even though I have no special interest in cosmetics, I still learnt loads

I want to share two handy mnemonics that can help you identify BS, BS peddlers, and ensure you give yourself the best chance to take in GOOD information The first is CRABS by Jessica Stokes-Parish. We are instagram friends but I don’t think she’s here. She’s great! www.instagram.com/j_stokespari...

This video from @labmuffin.com is really great at explaining how to tell whether supposed experts in a scientific field you're not familiar with are actually experts worth listening to. youtu.be/0bRpljNL7ro?...

My time to... shine? 🫠 It's a bizarre experience to have this much attention on my very niche area of expertise.

The avocado toast to luxury fragrance houseless millennial pipeline

Dear science communicators and scientists, Can we please be mindful of how we frame our videos? The vast majority of companies that employ hundreds/thousands of scientists are NOT lying about things you can easily test with household items. Views shouldn’t be the only metric we care about.

Wow it's almost like harm reduction works, like I was taught in both my pharmacology and criminal law classes back in 2006... who woulda thunk it

Is your scalp itchy and nothing seems to really work? I got you

Seeing a lot of people recommending sunscreen mists... unfortunately they're really not that effective for applying to your face, sorry! See the cloud lingering in the air? That's sunscreen NOT going on your skin - my experiments estimated that 80-95% of the sunscreen doesn't land.

New safeguards for Australian sunscreens, because specific ingredients "aren't safe"? Here's what that actually means!

Sigh... no. The commonly used chemical sunscreens are all approved in the EU as well, the differences are pretty minor. US sunscreens aren't much more "toxic" than elsewhere. But the newer filters give formulators more tools, so they can make much nicer sunscreens that you actually WANT to use.

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given how many people have replied "get a hat" seemingly in earnest despite the concern being my neck while i am biking, i'm stealing from a recent @labmuffin.com video because apparently not enough of you understand that lots of UV exposure is indirect on account of That's How We Can See Things.

My pet conspiracy theory is that the US uses Fahrenheit as part of a concerted effort to keep the population scientifically illiterate, so everyone is forced to hire experts to help them with tasks that shouldn't need it. See also their unnecessarily complex legal contracts and tax filings...

Did you see the Choice sunscreen testing results? Here's an SPF deep dive! Key points: Sunscreens are very effective, these results do not indicate you should lose faith in them SPF testing is imprecise - this is an inherent limitation of the test, lots of variation even if nothing's gone "wrong"

Baking matcha cookies right after everyone called matcha "propaganda" (It's ok, these are for my Asian friends who didn't need propaganda to like matcha... they're not too sweet)

Did this study show that removing parabens and phthalates from your products reverses breast cancer, like Dr Yvonne Burkart claimed on Diary of a CEO? No.

Unfortunately this is 21st century thinking: "Covid is usually very mild" "Only the vulnerable get severe symptoms" "But did they have pre-existing conditions" etc Individualism -> healthism -> eugenics -> fascism

This dermatologist has 1.8 million followers on TikTok. I suspect most dermatologists know the evidence doesn't support taking 2.5 mg biotin a day, or hypochlorous acid for acne... but this kind of thing is now the public face of dermatology 🙃 #dermsky

Just overheard my husband telling someone benzene wasn't a sunscreen ingredient, it was a byproduct of the manufacturing process 😮 Learning by osmosis works!

From 2022 - it’s still valid, and even more urgent. reneweconomy.com.au/labor-wont-a...

This is democracy manifest

I can't believe I made this?? With some string and two sticks??? 😍

This is very funny framing because Lenin was famously into lifting

Dear fellow scientists, Please stop doing these smug unhelpful dunks. Don't pretend you don't know what they mean. It's a lazy strawman argument, and this kind of thing confirms all the worst stereotypes of scientists. Keep it in the group chat! Sincerely, PhD chemist and science communicator

The problems with LLMs are massive, but I agree with Hank - I think they can be useful if you treat them like a 15 year old intern who doesn't know much, is massively overconfident, but is very eager to please...

There's a new video going around on sunscreens being toxic, from a toxicologist who's no longer board certified... Reminder: sunscreens are very safe products, but the research on any "unnatural" substance can look very scary when taken out of context.

How is One Nation my number 3 choice? Dire times #auspol

Has anyone worked out a fix for dizzy spells months after having covid? For me I think it's some sort of sinus-related swelling, makes me have to lie down in bed a few afternoons a week.

I'm begging science journalists to learn dose and concentration. "Detected" is useless information, there are atoms of heavy metals in everything. Dose = concentration x amount of toothpaste consumed The AAP recommends less than 1 ppb lead in drinking water. That means if you EAT a teaspoon...

Did you hear that there's enough microplastics in your brain to make a plastic spoon? Turns out... there isn't.

Almost none of this is true - the only phthalates found in cosmetics (outside of DEP which has a very different risk profile from other phthalates) are trace amounts leached from plastic packaging, which would be minimal exposure compared to every other plastic in your life

It's disturbing how mainstream the start of the MAHA wellness/conspiracy pipeline is. Epidemiologists aren't experts in toxicology or cosmetics, and the EWG are not a good source for anything scientific. Some of the statements in this article are buckwild...

She's the purrfect fur care guru

Just realised almost all of my politics stem from being obsessed with the Manic Street Preachers when I was 14 and I'm going to have to sit with this for a bit

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So, this benzene-related acne product recall... The full story behind it has made me go full red string conspiracy board meme, send help or join me?

Related: When I talk about an ingredient being safe, I always get comments saying: "But if it's in 6 different products it'll add up!" "But if you use it every single day for decades, it builds up!" Surprisingly, toxicologists know people can use multiple products, and will use it more than once!

Imagine having the confidence to give 20 hours of advice for ADHD, without knowing the most basic-ass information about it. Does Huberman have a protocol for developing this level of Dunning-Kruger?

The decline in US high school nicotine use: 1975-2002: zero progress for 3 decades... 2002-2012: 24% drop 2012-2024: 52% drop The decline in public health honesty: "Whole new generation addicted to nicotine" "Vaping reversed decades of declines in tobacco use" "Vaping is a gateway to smoking"

“I don’t know anyone with Long Covid!” I promise you that you do. Long Covid is an invisible illness. You won’t know someone is impacted unless they choose to tell you. Many folks hide their disabilities because the world is NOT kind to disabled people. Be an ally. Be someone we can confide in

The problem is that the people f*cking around are not the people finding out.

Replied to a post about people faking credentials on Threads, and half the replies are men getting upset about the term "woman of colour" JFC

Rich people need to stop making their anxiety everyone else's problem instead of going to therapy. You can't buy your way out of dying like the rest of us, and that's an essential part of being human! Stop wasting your time on "research" that doesn't help and touch grass, hang out with your friends

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

It's no accident that MAHA's "incompetent regulators are allowing toxins in our products" message was used as a smokescreen to usher in massive deregulation and dismantling of public health. And now the Environmental Working Group is all Shocked Pikachu about their followers cheering it on.

Every industry AI sets its evil eye lasers on says the same thing: we don't lack ideas, thanks, we lack time and money. It's almost like AI was cooked up by people with time and money, but lacking ideas.