Another great piece by Card Catalog -- most practicing scientists know this, but might be a useful primer for science undergraduate or even graduate students? 🧪 #philsci substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Apropos of nothing, $25 added to a barrel is a carbon tax of about $58/ton, but in the pocket of the producers left standing rather than the public.

One obnoxious thing is that if bad stuff is really bad, then it can be a better use of your time to try to stop (or reduce) the bad stuff rather than build good stuff. Even though building good stuff feels really good and trying to stop bad stuff is exhausting.

I have evolved into my final form: UN Sustainable Development Goal Jesus. Amen. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/ind...

Here's the Sierra Avalanche Center report on the Frog Hut/Castle Peak avalanche tragedy:

As the Trump administration creates chaos in Iran, Jon welcomes @camanpour.bsky.social and Wendy Sherman to make sense of the situation. New podcast drops tomorrow.

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Can this Canadian startup really deliver lightning suppression on demand? Possibly maybe ... but caveats abound. (In which I dig into the rich history of US agency efforts to control the weather.)

How am I **doing** rn?!?🧵 My boyfriend is a purple heart Afghan War vet who served with the SoDak Army Nat'l Guard's 221th Engineer Company @ FOB Sharana back in '09-'10, where he swept for landmines + IEDs in a Husky VMMD MRAP. He still has PTSD + tinnitus from the explosions & sleeps w/a box fan.

Kraftblock deploying not an electricity-to-heat battery, but a heat-to-heat battery at a steel plant in India, reusing heat from one part of the steel-making process in another step. www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

Correct. Or SNAP payments

“Ah, but she can't take you anyway You don't already know how to go”—Peaceful Easy Feeling, Eagles, 1972

The quotes and reposts are gold.

There’s a lot about this study rightly focused on CDC role, but that’s half the $. This report highlights another billionaire buying science that fits his views. Outrage of the Month: CDC Funding of a Troubling Guinea-Bissau Hepatitis B Vaccine Study - Public Citizen www.citizen.org/article/outr...

If anyone ever wondered how steep the slippery slope is, the answer is an Olympic ski jump ramp ffs.

The biggest problem with solar energy is not that it is intermittent, it is that greedy people cant make it scarce nor monopolize it. #greensky #nature #energysky

Share a tv show that raised you.

bsky.app/profile/ronf... 25. FBI director, whose competence has been called into question more than once, using public funds to travel the country, and now world, for personal amusement.

Fantasy/reality

Anyone have any suggestions for getting acrylic paint off the side of our temple? It’s not budging with what we have, and we got out our power washer and organic solvents to try to make a dent

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

FUCK ICE Act Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act Alt Text

By erasing Black history from public lands, the administration diminishes the national heritage all Americans are meant to share and disparages the contributions of Black Americans. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

An America confident in its future does not fear its past. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

This is a big deal, folks Sets up the path to prevention www.nature.com/articles/d41... erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting...

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

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Good review paper. Key insight from its Introduction: “These projections should be interpreted as scenario-dependent upper bounds rather than predictive forecasts, intended to illustrate the magnitude of agrivoltaics’ potential under favorable but non-universal conditions.”

lol, I attended this show and then drove nonstop to FLBS, Montana the next morning. youtu.be/pRGx3MgHwOQ?...

I grew up on the border so tejano, mariachi, and cumbia were everywhere. But most of the U.S. has imported Latin music for decades. The lead on “I Love Lucy” was a conga bandleader ffs.

Sign me up for that america

Is it time for a new standard of care when it comes to mammograms in the era of AI? erictopol.substack.com/p/why-all-ma...

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.

When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very much worth reading.

The real story about statin safety from >122,000 RCT participants with individual level data. They can cause new-onset diabetes and muscle pain/weakness, but other than that they are remarkably safe for 62 outcomes. Rare liver function test abnormalities thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Ok, someone needs to make a follow up highlighting his ICE atrocities Billions in grift Nationalizing elections Disregard for the constitution Political retribution And Epstein

Here's an idea. Maybe people like Reid Hoffman & Deepak Chopra & Bill Gates and others who say they "are so sorry" for hanging out with Epstein but swear they didn't do anything bad - how about rather than Tweeting/Posting/Commenting about it they FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

Important study highlighting the need for rigorous quality control during sequencing and the value of analyzing sequence read depth variation in assemblies.

A success story for a physician with Alzheimer's which, in spite of the obstacles outlined, is a precursor for our enhanced ability to prevent the disease in the future gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/i-ca...

Tragically infuriating. Please don’t drink raw milk—particularly if you’re pregnant! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" and "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"—Rust Never Sleeps, Neil Young

On top of everything else, this is a disaster for prosecuting any actual criminals

I googled it. Bean Dad was Jan 2021, a few days before Jan 6. Cinnamon Toast Hoax was March 2021. Now we are all Informed.

Tired: TOU induced demand spikes Wired: coordinated charging management Inspired: Employer sponsored charging at work

The US isn't Denmark when it comes to vaccines, written by a scientist from Denmark @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Who is the sender?! I don’t understand the redactions….I thought they are only suppose to protect the identity of victims.