Ripped through my kid's kindergarten including him even after I got him the flu shot. Nasty season, stay safe!

My first @waymo.bsky.social ride on the highway! Very smooth. Awesome work, Waymo team!

Hey here’s a policy from Denmark we (and others) SHOULD be emulating:

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Um, right?

Important.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Important study that’s long overdue! Congrats @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social

Always know; never forget. youtu.be/-LwbSeZx990?...

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

This is the actual back cover for the “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” Blu-Ray. I haven’t stopped laughing all day.

President Trump is taking 325 mg of aspirin a day to prevent heart disease. His doctors advise him to take 81 mg. Both are wrong. Here’s why. New edition of Ground Truths, open-access erictopol.substack.com/p/the-lowdow...

People age 70+ should not be taking aspirin at any dose for prevention. Results of randomized trials show higher risk of all-cause mortality, major bleeding events and deaths from cancer. p 153, SUPER AGERS book

i don't have any plans for tonight. Lots of people thought I had a gig. I do not. But if I get 100 likes on this post, I'll stream a Daft Punk DJ session on Twitch for funsies at, let's say, 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET. Like early, because I'll have to set stuff up if this happens

We've now had 7 consecutive sequencing plates where we detected Measles somewhere, and they are all independent.

Very sad news. The world needs more people like Emma. Her death is a tragic loss for science, education, and society . I wish Emma’s family and friends peace at this time.

Made the mistake of interacting with a Facebook meme - Cover our parking lots not our farms! (with solar) - with, like, facts. Now, Facebook thinks it is all I want to see.

The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData

Christmas golabki :)

NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker. That's hilarious!

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When Denmark finds itself aligned with the administration that wants to take over Greenland, maybe it should rethink it's vaccine policy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Who said this so I know who not to take seriously anymore?

The last sentence is 🎯

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

A 25-year-old fisher may think stocks are huge—but they’re only ~5% of historic levels. #shiftingbaselines bit.ly/blog215sau

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Harry Litman’s essay is the best thing out there about what SCOTUS will do in Trump v. Slaughter, argued Dec 8. Sure to be shredded is the FDR-era decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. But Litman goes much deeper and lays out the broad range of implications: open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Covid mRNA vaccines have a rare link to myocarditis adverse events (~30 cases per million 2nd doses). Extensive work in mice shows two inflammation mediators that appear to be the mediators and a plant-derived anti-inflammatory (genistein) that blocks it www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Purdue Leads NSF-Funded Agrivoltaics Initiative, Institute for Sustainable Future News ->Purdue University | #sustainable | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

OK, “agrivoltaics” is necessarily a broad term, but there needs to be some kind of counterfactual analysis before a project gets to use it. For example, if this was active pastureland then, OK it’s agrivoltaic; otherwise, it’s a land use change project with some temporary grazing.

We call it Franco-German fusion

Excellent take that explains foolishness driving current US public health “policy” (fallacy). 🔥 “The idea that female bodies are made unclean by vaccines is all tied up in a larger sexist view that good women stay at home and avoid too much contact with the outside world.”

As for the #ACIP meeting today, this is the only thing you need to watch. And, to be clear, you do need to watch this.

Bragging about record LNG exports as we head into heating season is certainly a choice with affordability being the watch word of the day. h/t @athada.bsky.social

The most dangerous

[140 year old farmhouse with log joints in need of a new roof] Strong Floor, No Ceiling

✌️ youtu.be/jWNEr4eHL18?...

Not sure I've ever seen a 10-point emoji Likert scale before The 5 seems too sad

At a loss for words

It's funny to see the tech industry collectively decide, now that securing electricity is crucial to its business success, that it needed to find a more pretentious way of putting it. So now everyone's in a mad dash for "electrons."

horsing around timeline cleanse 💕🦄

Fun read about Fleming’s discovery of penicillin. I’ve had two serendipitous experiences during lab work. One turned out to be a critical step in purifying a natural compound. The other was an accidental side product that became the focus of my biofuel startup.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-c... Not exactly heralding the future here, AI guys. It would seem we might not be able to kill coal in a timely fashion w/o bursting the AI bubble.

In semirelated news, blind rage posting is up a whopping 850% YoY