Whoooaaaaa

Get out of my kitchen

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

AUTISM and TYLENOL A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared. “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…” Full article:

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You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

jimmy kimmels time slot replaced with reruns of jimmy fallon playfully ruffling trumps hair

Personally, I support classes going off the rails in manners such as this.

While you're not wrong,

I can't think of a better one than this. But another standout to me is Jean-Luc Picard saying "Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it."

This video shows how the seismic waves from the magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Russia were detected by seismometers across North America. (Animation from @earthscope.org) 🧪

Something that being a scientist, a skeptic, or hell even a progressive, teaches you is to embrace subtlety. Context. Not everything is black/white, left/right, binary. But media has hammered "it's either this or that" for so long I'm not sure they can even understand nuance any more.

You know what the Texas National Guard is gonna love? Midwestern winter.

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As for the Presidential race for ‘28 that’s like original Planet of the Apes distance in the future at the moment. Find a nice local special or off year election and invest your blood, sweat, and tears there. You’ll have a much bigger personal impact and it might give you some hope.

The red state im currently sitting in has a higher violent crime rate than Illinois, this is Not About Crime

Finder asks, "do you really want to open 27 files?" Yes. Yes I do.

Just wrapped up a big multicollector day . . . just in time for a quick late dinner before bed. Very interesting results too. These will be fun to fully reduce and figure out.

Curious about which fields poast the most? Medicine / Social science / Environmental science / Biochemistry Note that these aren't corrected for field size, so love the strong showing from earth science too ⚒️🧪

Revisions wrapped up for the (brief, knowing my main coauthor) time being . . . just in time for bed. Tomorrow: Multicollector.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Or lifesaving medical procedures. Or a good education. Or housing.

eyes on Jakarta. how to toss an authoritarian

If you’ve ever visited California’s Monterey Bay and looked out over the immensity of the Pacific - well, I hear it’s lovely. But how many of its roughly 4 million visitors per year know that beyond the surf, they’re also in the presence of the second Grand Canyon of the United States? 1/

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First day back at work, learned of a major lab issue the group has been dealing with for about a month now (and no one told me because I was away?), decided to call it early after a department function ended. Will inspect lab tomorrow when I have more mental bandwidth to deal with the absurdity.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

We're long past the Rubicon.

yeah I'll incorporate AI into my workflow. the workflow of my butt

The adjustment back to life on land involves a very attached tabby. Can't complain about that.

Distantly related schist somehow got transported east to within about a 100 km (60 miles) of Phoenix, Arizona. Meaning the North American plate's mantle between the coast and ~Phoenix below, say, 100 km depth was stripped away. Lots of strange things happening in the North American late Cretaceous

Good morning Honolulu

It's been real, Majuro. Hope to see you again someday.

people in the lower 48 don't usually think about how big alaska is. if you were to lay alaska flat over the lower 48 with the western aleutians in california, untold millions would die from the force of the impact and human civilization as we know it would surely be destroyed

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

DC statehood now

At this point Loeb's claims are well past embarrassing.

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Did the Carboniferous period just not entirely end in Australia? Because this is some Carboniferous level giant insect going on here.

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America. By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

Dropping by to say that I am at sea in the southwestern Pacific, but we are in open ocean and will be safe. We're closely monitoring things on the ship and keeping in touch with folks shoreside to make sure they're all safe.

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

How often do magnitude 8+ earthquakes occur? Not very often. While the last one occurred in 2021, on average, Earth experiences about one M8 earthquake per year. Today’s M8.7 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula is a powerful example of a megathrust earthquake along a subduction zone.

lol can't stress enough how clutch it is to have an advisor who actually cares about you. 10/10. Highly recommend. #phd