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Compton Scatterbrained

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Bad hearing, bad sight, scattered brain. Full of PFAS, but a true believer in radiation hormesis. Why isn't rutile rutilant? I like valence electrons (but K shell too) & deep time.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · Jul 1

Me. Every day.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

Seagrasses are great but this is false. Most carbon in the ocean is dissolved inorganic carbon and seagrass carbon is a tiny fraction of that. The mixing of stock and flux is also unhelpful. The only way to stop climate change is not burning fossil fuels.

reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...

Despite covering just Q.2 percent of the sea floor, seagrasses account for an estimated 10 percent of all the carbon stored by the world's oceans. They are also able to capture carbon from the atmosphere up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests such as the Amazon.

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

Back to Germany to do final sampling of the 3.22 Ga Moodies Group. I'll also be presenting for the first time most of the vast palaeontological data set I've collected over the last 2 years to the project Group. 1/n #geology #paleontology

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 19h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 14h

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣

#invertober2025

symmetrical blocky art of a dark fishing spider with stylized patterning, colored like black on red greek pottery. there is a black border on the image with a greek-esque choppy line pattern

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

Here (NL) they just reshuffled the schedule, but my oldest fell between the changes. MMR2 was age 9 I believe and now age 3, but my 4-yr-old now gets the 2nd next year—they focussed on getting the newly-3s on the new schedule and strung out the older kids for catchup.

Polio got mostly removed.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 1d

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A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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$The image shows a circumhorizon arc (or circumhorizontal arc), an optical phenomenon resembling a fiery rainbow. It forms in a clear sky with cirrus clouds made of flat, hexagonal ice crystals aligned horizontally. These crystals refract sunlight, creating a colorful arc parallel to the horizon. Vibrant colors shine brightly against the blue sky, captured near North Fork Mountain, West Virginia.$

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

Betcha there's a difference in unemployment benefits between being Reduced in Force and getting fired.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

thank you

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Dr. Dharma Bum @drdharmabum.bsky.social · 1d

That's crazy talk. But here we are in crazy land. I deleted all government apps on my phone and never check email from home. We have a sense that we are being surveilled.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us oldies would've been thinkin more the lycos-type web spider, using links to connect the world wide web

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

spoons=the ability to do an amount of work, as from a spoon can scoop an amount of water (can't remember if the original post was water or something else. It was a disabled person explaining fatigue from disability).

More spoons=more energy

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

...aaaand their baby siblings.

My biggest discontent was when our youngest had his older sibling attending school in our low-vax-level town and measles was going around another region of the country.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

Awful, it keeps sending me mails "we're looking for our next PHP programmer" and "see what Barack Obama is saying" and I may have to delete my account.

And lots of Facebook-worthy AI hype.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

I miss @manenbu.bsky.social 's thin sections and oven weirdness

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

cc @simonhammann.bsky.social

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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 2d

Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript?
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

I take issue with ownership. According to the judge, the mom owns the uterus and the baby owns the placenta. That allows for amicable divorce when necessary.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

oh look they used a photo of that Wall Street Einstein!

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

"In a wild rant during a Trump cabinet meeting on Thursday, the controversial Health Secretary also suggested some pregnant women were taking the pain relief drug just to spite the president, and accused them of having pathological levels of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
- Daily Beast

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

ermagerd

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

my god I hear peter's voice

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 2d

een journalistisch kunst

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Patrick Bogaart @pwbogaart.bsky.social · 2d

Toch knap om zo’n stuk te schrijven zonder het woord ‘klimaatverandering’ te gebruiken. nos.nl/l/2585838

FIFA overweegt WK vanwege klimaat niet meer in zomer te houden

De zomermaanden zijn wegens het klimaat niet altijd geschikt om toernooien te laten plaatsvinden, zegt FIFA-baas Gianni Infantino.

nos.nl

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