While writing in the @asimovpress.bsky.social about how amazing flagella are, @nikomccarty.bsky.social adds interesting detail to the long tail that drives cell movement... #FootnotesFromTheMargins www.asimov.press/p/flagella

Back in the 1950s, at the dawn of the jet age, congestion around airports became a significant issue. But this wasn't the only place where risk was high... #FootnotesFromTheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/when-plane...

Courage is learned

I love footnotes, so I’ll share my favourites. @metacognishane.bsky.social writes you’re worse at spotting bullshit than you think — noting what discovering Scotty from Star Trek wasn’t actually Scottish did/didn't do to him. #FootnotesFromTheMargins bullshitology.substack.com/p/how-bullsh...

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favourites. While explaining the paradox of hankering for freedom, yet being repulsed by actual freedom, Rose shares a very astute thought from Omar Najjarine... #FootnotesFromTheMargins rosetyler.substack.com/p/what-does-...

I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favs While writing about moth's amazing antennae, I somehow ended up talking about smog filled exoplanets, and what that mean for our insatiable quest to discover alien life... #FootnotesFromTheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/psyverse-1...

When life gives you lemons, be glad they aren't stones. psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/the-benefi...

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing some of my favs Before reflecting on the cultural inkblot of Christmas, Skye reassures readers that there is beauty in the repeated monotony of hearing similar themes from clients... #FootnotesFromTheMargins paintingwithlightning.substack.com/p/rorschachs...

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favourites. While @suzitravis.bsky.social explains that a representation, like a stop sign, universally means stop - she ends up at the following tangent... #FootnotesFromTheMargins suzitravis.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favourites. Moths are not, in fact, attracted to light. Though as this footnote shows, the reality is a rather sad story... #FootnotesFromTheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/psyverse-1...

I love footnotes, so I’ll share my favs. Interestingly, as Lauren Cortis writes, only the simple act of penetrating the skin is needed to trigger an immune response, resulting in curiosities abound... #FootnotesFromTheMargins lessonsondrugs.substack.com/p/bee-tox-an...

I start most palliative care consultations with "what's bothering you the most" NHS critics should know that the answer for my American colleagues is often "money". Since health insurance doesn't pay for all chemo, bankruptcy (eg mortgaging own home to pay for chemo) is common ("financial toxicity")

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favourites. While arguing for creative breadth, curiosity and joyful chaos, Daniel Puzzo settles a long-running debate, once and for all... #FootnotesFromTheMargins danielpuzzo.substack.com/p/an-anti-ni...

"Most of the public doesn’t know that the wealthiest Americans are able to avoid taxes by paying taxable income. If they knew, they wouldn’t want that system." Ray Madoff on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

I remember using the kit bag at club cricket no problem too. Gosh how times have changed Really enjoyed this episode

I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favs To understand the history of aviation incident reporting, I had to learn aviation rules. I think it is safe to say that in the early 1950s, some rules were out of date... #FootnotesFromTheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/when-plane...

I love footnotes, so I’ll share some favourites. After Trump’s narrow 2024 win, hot takes flooded in. Amy cuts through the noise — including the surreal $215m spent on anti-trans ads. Here, Amy highlights this absurdity... #FootnotesfromtheMargins sillymagic8ball.substack.com/p/if-only-sh...

"Psychiatry does not lack intelligence. It does not lack compassion. It lacks operational imagination." "And until that changes, patients will continue to be harmed – not because we failed to debate, but because we failed to build." psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/we-debate-...

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favs @davidepstein.bsky.social interviews @dkthomp.bsky.social about his book Abundance he wrote with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. While on zoning laws, Epstein drops this interesting nugget... #FootnotesfromtheMargins davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-and-wh...

I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favs. While arguing for more effective reporting systems, I borrow a quote from @carlmacrae.bsky.social, who vividly describes the current state of patient safety progress... #FootnotesfromtheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/the-error-...

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I’ll share my favourites. Åsmund Folkestad in @theseedsofscience.skystack.xyz likens hidden electrons to an enemy’s vault: measure the field outside and get the total charge — unless your enemy is tricksy www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/equations-...

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favs While advocating for eating more slowly and savouring food, Tim sets up a poll asking how fast people eat. The first choice is a joke option for non-eaters - a breatharian... www.time2thrive.ca/p/how-to-not...

I'm serious.

Meet the sperm whale... termite? A newly decribed termite species, Cryptotermes mobydicki, is "unique ... for its very narrow, elongate head capsule terminating with an extended frontal process." (Study: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1660...) #science #biology #animals 🧪

I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favs At the end of explaining how human error happens (using Swiss cheese and a lawnmower) I explain that some complexity in error report form design is generally a good idea... #FootnotesfromtheMargins psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/explaining...

Want your job application to stand out? Don’t use AI. For me, real writing is a differentiator for recruitment. When a panel are assessing applications, they want to hear a voice, they want to get an idea of what you would bring, real experiences rather than the generic. They want to feel a 1/

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I’ll share my favourites. @mastroianni.bsky.social argues people today behave more conventionally and alike. One sign: the decline of cults — which have a much stricter definition than most assume. www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

Just discovered Garett Graff (I'm a Brit - fully out of the loop of good American writers!). I found this speech by @vermontgmg.bsky.social vivid, poignant and oddly hopeful - that despite everything, there is a chance to once again see great American leaders www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-leade...

Yep 💯. Don't worry though, they will all soon be up in space. Nice empty, inhospitable, notoriously difficult/expensive to get to, hard to dissipate heat from stuff space. What could possibly go wrong?

What Do We Owe the Mystics? Thoughts on Richard Saville-Smith’s ( @dranamorphosis.bsky.social ) “How is it possible to persuade a psychiatrist that one is sane when in the midst of an overwhelming and ineffable experience of god?” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favourites. While advocating a return to past passions, Livvie decides life is too short to look up what the side-of-waist muscles are... livviebennet.substack.com/p/i-glew-mys...

"I could show you a graph of how the research literature on patient safety tripled.... Or I could note [that] patient safety research awards increased by over 2800%. But it still wouldn’t convey how the conversation about patient safety changed at the turn of the century."

Nurses have a deeply underappreciated influence throughout the history of patient safety… psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/surprising...

#FootnotesFromTheMargins I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favs While exploring the remarkable abilities of a moth to "see" through smell, couldn't help but tell the reader about the extraordinary eyes of a bird... psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/psyverse-1...

I love footnotes, so occasionally I'll share my favs During their exploration of gender, Malmesbury presents an interesting thought about the utility of gender pronouns. #FootnotesFromTheMargins malmesbury.substack.com/p/grammar-as...

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I'm sharing my favs In his witty, vocabulary-laced invitation to join a reading challenge, Daniel Puzzo sneaks in a short story about an interesting name for a cat... danielpuzzo.substack.com/p/lets-be-re...

One of the more obscure problems caused by the Iran war. English county cricket might not have enough balls...

Museum study

The problem of paper mills is worse than I thought - if anything, a good reason for journals to pay editors and peer reviewers. Well-produced video by Christophe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwi...

Christophe Haubursin reports on the problem of paper mills. I usually only see this topic discussed among publishers or academics, so this was a fresh take. It shows the kind of niche topics independent journalists can tackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwi...

This is sooo cool! Ripple bugs propel themselves using collapsible fans that extend only when their legs touch water (in an ingenious way) - So glad I landed on this post. Amazing (and talented) way to communicate research

Without too much of a spoiler, I think it is wild that something so early on could have that much of an effect later. Great episode - and truly heart-achingly brutal listening to the stories of these young adults... Well worth a listen.

I have a quantum physics joke, but you only get it when you observe me.

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I’m sharing my favs I write that sometimes healthy people can be inadaptable. Though, under the technical definition of healthy, no one is actually healthy. No one mortal, anyway... psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

Even #Mordor is going green for #StPatricksDay

So true, Shirley. Growing up with an older disabled sister, one becomes accustomed to just how poorly our environment is built for wheelchair users. Tragic+funny instances occur surprisingly frequently...

Footnotes from the Margins I love footnotes, so I'll occasionally share my favs. Before Skye goes into an insightful commentary about celebrating adaptations instead of diagnoses, she give helpful advice to the extra-spicy inclined paintingwithlightning.substack.com/p/the-madnes...

Awww. Baby magpies learn to vocalize much like how human toddlers learn to speak. Also, never underestimate a corvid. #science #biology #animals #corvid 🧪

As heartbreaking a thread as it is important, keep going, Helen