@scifri.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/scif... #slimemolds #fungifriends Vote for your favorite slime mold.

I’m a finalist in the Science Friday Nerdy Halloween costume contest. Mycomycetes rule! Vote me in when it’s time. 🧪 #fungifriends #slimemolds

I had to take my dog to the vet and missed the rally. I watched FB rallies around the world but was dismayed by MAGA laughs and snide comments. We were busy at the rally but can now love the rallies. If you love a few FB will show others. Share the love to all. Drown out the nay sayers.

RFK Jr’s attack on science has close parallels to Lysenko’s attack on genetic in Soviet Russia. Speak in populist press, not journals Make quick solution to problems Blame failures on internal enemies He needed a supporting anti-elitist government A good podcast 🧪 youtu.be/MuikGTW1LvQ

Need a costume for Halloween? Go Mycomycetes and see if anyone can guess. #slimemolds

Need a costume for Halloween? Go Mycomycetes and see if anyone can guess. #fungifriends

OK, a little diversion. www.facebook.com/reel/7306074...

Good podcast to introduce claims of link between autism and Tylenol (acetaminophen) and why studies claiming there is a link overlooked critical variables. 🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Banded Tussock moth caterpillar descending on a silk line. 🧪

Banded Tussock moth caterpillar descending on a silk line.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has a FB page but there is another hosted by Interstellar Inc. That is a Digital Content Creator’s site consistent with people who post. Most posts are benign and left leaning. Others are factually false. Anyone know if NDT approves this site? 🧪

Vaccine disinformation has a long history. RFK Jr followers have many ancestors. 🧪

A suggestion has been made that advanced AI should have a system that cares about humans - sort a maternal instinct. But I don’t trust a super intelligent agent to make decisions about what is in my best interest. Do you? Asimov wrote about this. 🧪 www.ndtv.com/feature/godf...

Saw this on CNN. Very interesting development but I’m not sure what the outcome of a conviction would be. #trumpfails. #stoptrump. #trumplegal www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Many parts of the world are short of fresh water. Desalinization of sea water works but uses a lot of energy and is expensive. Here’s a neat approach to reduce both energy use and cost. Being tested now. 🧪 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Here’s a T-shirt I had made for protest marches. Like Blue Sky it helps me connect with like-minded scientists. If you saw me wearing his T-shirt, would you know its meanings? Would you say hi? 🧪

Your tax dollars are going to be spent by Trump to incinerate contraceptives and other medical supplies that you paid for. Welcome to your New World. 🧪 thehill.com/policy/healt...

RFK Jr says we don’t need any new vaccines. 🧪 Cambodia announces 15th human H5N1 infection of the year Seven of the 15 cases from Cambodia this year have been fatal, resulting in a case-fatality rate of 46.6%. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe... Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

Trump continues to hide the truth. He has ordered the distraction of operating satellites that monitor CO2 on the earth. These are paid for and providing invaluable data. NASA employees ordered to destroy them are not allowed to talk about this. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/this-is-ille...

The NIH says that mRNA shows promise as a vaccine against multiple cancers. Is this part of the $500M research that RFK Jr canceled? 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/

Studies suggest that the universe is rotating because many galaxies have the same spin direction as do their SMBHs. Earlier the rotation would be much faster to maintain angular momentum. Might this have caused eddies, forming SM black holes prior to the formation of stars and not III stars? 🧪

I find rumors of this farm worker’s strike, but I don’t know if it is true. The links in this search are not convincing. Anyone have a better fix on this?

So will there be an investigation of why so many people died in the Texas flood? Who will lead it? Will it be fair?

I am retired after 40 years at Chevron and I am consulting in catalysis. Specifically renewable fuels. Is anyone else consulting in catalysis? If so, what area? youtu.be/X1lI7JSTPVc #catalysis

Trump said he wanted to deport dangerous felons. There was support for this but they’re hard to find. So they switched to easy targets of good people in jobs. They pay taxes, do key jobs and have community support. That’s what’s being protested. www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/p...

Bring out yer dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Band-tailed pigeons with a contented call? #bird. #birdcall #birdcam #environment

Visitor to our backyard in Grass Valley CA. #birds #birdcam #wildlife

I’m ready for tomorrow! Hope to see you there. 🧪. 🌎

My next poster: It can. It has.

I attended the March for Science in San Francisco in 2017. But I’ve lost my poster. I will attend the local Hands Off! event on Saturday. Here are some poster themes that I will show along with the T-shirt I will wear. Are you going? What sign will you show? #resist #Actup #ActBlue 🧪

In order for Trump to enact tariffs by presidential decree, he had to declare an economic emergency. The only economic emergency is the one Trump is creating. The Economist’s view of our economy at the end of the Biden administration. No emergency in sight. #Actup #Resist

OK s bit of fungi humor. #fungifriends

Brachycybe rosea feeding on an unidentified fungus. #Fungifriends #Fungi

Found something interesting in our backyard in Grass Valley CA. Brachycybe rosea. #nature

Tesla will benefit on tariffs on China, but not in cars. In rapidly growing utility scale battery storage systems - BESS - Critical for renewables. The players are Tesla, Sungrow, BYD, and Huawei. The last two are Chinese. Sungrow gets its batteries from China. Only Tesla has US plants. Hmmm… 🌎

In addition to making cars and a notoriously horrible truck, Tesla also makes large battery storage systems for utilities. These are called BESS. Solar plus battery storage is critical to clean power. Who else makes utility scale battery systems? 🧪. 🌎 www.tesla.com/megapack

After recent rains, my favorite pair just re-emerged. Golden ear (Naematelia aurantia) is parasitizing hairy curtain crust (Stereum hirsutum). Rollins Lake California 2300’. #fungifriends

Easy to spot insect egg slime mold. Leocarpus fragilis. Dries out in a few hours. Close-ups with an inexpensive portable microscope. Grass Valley, California 2300 feet. #slimemold #fungifriends

Nissans are fast, BMWs are faster, but Teslas are definitely the fascist.

After canceling initial meetings to design the flu vaccine, the FDA approved the vaccine for this fall. This is quite a relief. 🧪 www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

I just listened to an interesting podcast about The US tax code. There are myths and opinions on both the right and the left. This podcast describes the myths and suggest ways to approach the subject. It’s politically challenging to even approach the topic. freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-...

Is this real? 🧪 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Several NOAA offices are slated to be closed. This includes the office in Hilo HI that has tracked the rise in CO2 since 1958. The instruments on Mount Loa will still be there but people to record it? Closure of other NOAA articles are also destructive. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

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Ice plant is an invasive species. Many places along the CA coast try to remove it. It’s very difficult because it’s such a heavy mass But it’s edible. Has anyone tried eating or cooking with this plant? I found some oriental recipes. Eat our problem? 🌎 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpobr...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cause terrific hardships for the Ukrainian people. I was indirectly impacted. From 1992-2002 I led groups in catalysts at Akademgorodok, Moscow, and Kazan. I’ve lost all my contacts. This is Prof Kazimira Ione of the Institute of Catalysis #Catalysis 🧪

I volunteered at the Northbay Science Discovery Day. Many exhibits and kids. I loved talking to scientists and youngsters. Tesla had an exhibit but their booth was blocked by an enormous cybertruck. A nearby UCSF booth described the catastrophic impact of limiting external costs to 15%. 🧪

I wish I could have gone to the SUFS rally in San Francisco but I had some time ago volunteered for this event. Here’s the t-shirt I would have worn with a matching sign. Get it? I was at a similar event eight years ago. 🧪 #SUFS