“some anti-vaccine activists [claim] that insisting on blood from unvaccinated donors is ‘a benign or low-risk accommodation’” 🙄

I used to play Pandemic and Plague so much in 2020, but I don’t know if I have the stomach for them these days

😮 Video games as resistance: "The estimated 1 million gallons of sewage such a facility would need calculates to 150 poop trucks a day, the group estimates, & its launched a video game in which you can attempt to drive those poop trucks past deer & state DEP inspectors"

Me at opening day tomorrow

getting your boobs squished for a few moments is so much better than possibly undergoing years of treatment (same goes for colonoscopies - with the added bonus of napping during the procedure)

Because it's important to talk about this stuff: I got my first mammogram today and it was honestly a breeze! Everybody's got their own health care stuff, ymmv, but for me it was fast, only mildly uncomfortable for a few seconds at a time, & a big relief to know I can catch any problems early on.

Anyway, I'm not a scientist. I'm just a derp with a keyboard. But I have been in a bunch of labs. And I've been to the European Space agency. And I think people think labs are more high tech and cutting edge than they actually are. It's a lot of cobbling stuff together to make it work

once again, a lot of people really don't understand what "people with comorbidities" means a *lot* of people ≥50 years old have high blood pressure or cholesterol or other medical problems -- it's a very normal thing there is not a stark dichotomy with "healthy people" on one side

“Experts warned that requiring large new trials could delay or limit the availability of updated shots for lower-risk groups.” THANKS VINAY

Disheartening. Ages 50-64 "very difficult pop. to recruit." More than 80% fail pre-screening (FDA req's participants have 0 chronic conditions). -exec involved in the trial Currently, no COVID-19 vaccines have full FDA approval for healthy ppl 50-64 for which COVID causes an est'd 8k-12k deaths.😷🛟

AbbVie is hiring: Senior Scientist II, Analytical Chemistry - Predictive Stability, Mass Spectrometry careers.abbvie.com/en/job/senio... #chemjobs

I love how this story about pharmaceutical tariffs popped up while I was reading about how much more American consumers are going to pay for plastics. I guess we’re all going to die or go broke (or both)

Four astronauts on a ten day mission? That is not enough coffee

Is this fog? smoke? on the Twins @ Royals broadcast

What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

It’s interesting that this story doesn’t mention that orforglipron went through the commissioner’s national priority voucher review (CNPV) pathway Lilly wins approval of anti-obesity pill orforglipron, setting up new battle with Novo endpoints.news/lilly-wins-a...

I will definitely get the taiyaki but the other offerings are kinda meh Grading the 2026 Additions to Target Field’s New Food Lineup racketmn.com/grading-the-...

We were going to celebrate our anniversary with fire pit seats and s’mores for the Saint Paul Saints game tomorrow, but they changed the game time and now we can’t go 😭

Italy baseball > Italy football

I think we maybe just replaced the job of taxi driver with an even lower-paid drone pilot in a call center overseas, and tech companies pocketed the difference.

“‘It’s important to realize that pretty much no one in Birmingham has had any fluoride in their water for two years’… The removal occurred before a 2025 law that restructured the water board, the spokesperson explained, adding that there was no public notification of the change”

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Watching Dollander pitch reminded me of this

Are advertisements on the batter’s eye new this season? (I’m sure it’s just on the broadcast)

I know I am not the first person to complain about the MLB app getting worse, but I’m going to complain anyway. It’s annoying to click on each game to see who the starting pitchers are!

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

Thank you @cenmag.bsky.social editor and reporters for this story. I hope people feel seen by it. #chemsky #ACSSpring2026

Patents are a bad proxy metric for innovation.

This is a great interview with Jason Benetti on the Today show youtu.be/P8HzMj6x3bIa

I also love baseball

“Biehl said his gambling addiction fueled a burgeoning alcohol addiction. Findings in a new study published in the policy journal "Health Economics" suggest that Biehl isn't alone: Sports gambling could be driving some men under the age of 35 to engage in binge drinking, the research shows.”

@minorleaguer.ca are you going to ask Cease about his hair care routine

Nats what are you doin' baby

“Our best hope is that Trump takes RFK’s medical advice”

There’s more genetic diversity in the African continent than Europe and USA combined- that because it’s as a whole more ancient and had more time for genetic recombination bsky.app/profile/step...

I love this story about drug discovery "We don't treat Africa as a homogeneous population like the way it is with Caucasians," says Mwila Mulubwa, a drug scientist at the center who grew up in Zambia. "There are a lot of distinct subpopulations who can metabolize a drug differently."

See full article for NPR interview with H3D's Director Dr. Kelly Chibale below ⬇️ www.npr.org/2026/03/22/g...

That was a pretty good game. Every home opener should end with the home team winning on a walk off

The only “online debate” I’ve seen about this movie is about how he loaded the centrifuge, and it’s not much of a debate - we all agree that Ryan Gosling doesn’t know how to load a centrifuge www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Just finished talking to students about why the humanities are even more important in this age of AI. Efficiency isn't always the most important goal. Reading carefully and knowing how to think critically is valuable on its own--even if that takes longer.

Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID "into the wood chipper" which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & "Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help." Actively helping destroy govt agencies.

I don't think many people are clued into the long history of public libraries facilitating publishing and self-publishing. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/g...

Nice article on the D.C. punk collections at the University of Maryland via Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/d...

Pfft. ChatGPT is rubbish. Claude does it perfectly.

further proof that you should never trust AI

Two days of “you need to use AI more” seminars followed by an Earth Day planning committee meeting 🤪

“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” Dr. Marvel said. “What I was completely unprepared for was an attack on [all] science, because it is a means of finding out and telling the truth.”

It's Big Ball Chunky Time. I love baseball.