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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 6h

This is a complex graph that I will explain how to look at it in the text accompanying the graph. Click ALT to see more. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

The most likely response upon seeing this is "What the hell?". Each line of the same dots displays that years death rates as a percent of 1999. The middle dark blue diamonds is for the next year so it is very close to the 100% line in the middle of the graph.

The most important thing is look at the changes in the general pattern by age. First not that the vertical arrangement of the different lines of dots are the same for the age 0-16 and 65-84. If the United States had the same general changes for all ages like the rest of the economically developed countries that general pattern would have ran very consistently all the way across the graph. In the United States the young are primarily covered by private health insurance but in almost all the states have some back up socialized health care to provide care for our uninsured young. Then as we age into the middle aged, we have health care dominated by capitalist health insurance that has a highly varied prior approval requirement before health care is administered. Then the age group 55 through 64 provides optional Medicare coverage for many of the people in this group that are in serious need of health care that capitalist insurance does not adequately cover. Then for age 65+ Medicare and the private health insurance policy called Medicaid provides treatment.

In general the most consistent declining death rates are among the 65+ followed by the age 0-16 with a complex pattern of death rates that increase in different amount and different time periods in that messy middle of the graph. This pattern in death rate changes among our middle aged has several consequences:

One is that our CIA says people who live in 48 other countries live longer than we do even though we pay the most for health care.

A second is we pay more for health care than any other country. For example Canada pays a little over half as much as we do for health care and their life expectancy is 3.3 years longer.

Enough said.

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 5h

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 6h

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 6h

🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in the branching coral Acropora cervicornis

BackgroundAs coral reefs continue to decline across the globe there has been a rise in coral restoration efforts where a diversity of genets of different coral species are outplanted from nursery-grow...

www.researchsquare.com

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, I didn’t expect this kind of reaction, tbh. Studying species response to global warming is my job, actually.

Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating. Just want to point out that finding a first-generation hybrid does not necessarily mean the two species are going to merge - often, backcrosses and late-generation hybrids are still unviable, e.g. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 🧪🌎

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 2d

Warming temperatures aren’t just melting ice, they’re merging ecosystems. 🪶🐳🧪

As habitats shift, species that evolved thousands to millions of years apart are coming into contact again, creating wild hybrid offspring like the “pizzly bear” and the newly spotted “grue jay”.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 3d

Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 3d

Best-presented argument I ever read on this subject: why USA must stop gerrymandering, and how open.substack.com/pub/jaimehar...

The Cancer Eating at Democracy

I’ve long believed that the singular cancer in our democracy is political gerrymandering. It’s the reason Congress doesn’t work the way it should.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 7d

This may be the best response to much of the junk science being pushed by the trumpies in the US. 🧪🌎🐟⚒️ #TeamFish

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 7d

UCalgary is awesome! Check out these opportunities, Geo Sky! ⚒️ 🧪

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 9d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 14d

🦋 Colours that protect

A global experiment with 15,000 paper 'moths' showed camouflage works best in darker places or when rare, while bright warning colours help more where predators are fewer.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#SciComm 🧪 #Evolution

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

doi.org

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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 19d

The papers that HHS cites to bolster their claim appear to have convinced many people that this is a legit scientific observation. But the citations actually show no correlation between Tylenol use and autism. PSA: Don't believe something because someone provides a citation. Go read the cited paper🧪

David Nauen @mengdie.bsky.social · 19d

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>77 million votes. Today the big reveal on autism: Tylenol. "I'm making these statements from me, I'm not making them from these doctors." youtu.be/esKFMCb_hYU?...
The viewer comments below the video are the only glimmer of hope.

LIVE: Trump makes an announcement on autism

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 22d

OMG it is really happening en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(2...

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 23d

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 23d

Intense ivory poaching has led to the evolution of tusklessness in some African elephant populations, which might reduce poaching, but also happens to be an X-chromosome–linked dominant trait that is lethal to males #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow 💫 🧪 🐘

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants

Intensive ivory poaching during a period of civil conflict caused the rapid evolution of tusklessness in an African elephant population.

www.science.org

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 23d

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here??
Hope the answer is YES…
Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 23d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23d

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

go.nature.com

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 23d

Booze is in our genes, since before primates were primates www.science.org/content/arti...

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 23d

The Ig Nobel awards for science that makes you laugh then think are back. Highlights this year include the preferred pizza of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort, the physics of perfect pasta dish and a man who documented the growth of a fingernail for 35 years! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

www.nature.com

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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 26d

A clean energy source I did not have on my bingo card. 🧪
newatlas.com/energy/elect...

Electricity through osmosis: Japan opens landmark osmotic power plant

Imagine generating power not from sunlight or wind, but from the simple mixing of fresh and salt water. This is the quiet promise of osmotic energy, a renewable energy source generated where river mee...

newatlas.com

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 25d

Cannot recommend 2bRAD enough. Mega robust, less than $10/sample (incl library and seq) linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/art...

A 2b-RAD parentage analysis pipeline for complex and mixed DNA samples

Next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized genotyping in many fields of study, yet parentage analysis often still relies on microsatellite markers that are costly to generate and are cur...

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Angela Marusiak @planetaryquakes.bsky.social · 25d

The OWWG has a new home at workforce.psi.edu/owwg/ ! We also have a new mailing list hosted by PSI. You can subscribe by sending a message to [email protected]. Thank you to PSI for hosting our new webpage and mailing list!
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Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) - Workforce

The 2023 Decadal Survey [Origins, Worlds, and Life, p. 568] recommended that “NASA should develop scientific exploration strategies, as it has for Mars,...

workforce.psi.edu

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 25d

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Mars Curiosity Rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver. Including the hidden Morse code message 😎

🔭🧪🐡🎨

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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 28d

Sounds like mosquitos evolved to go for a typical human.

Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 28d

What do mosquitoes like?

People who recently drank beer were 44 percent more attractive to mosquitoes than people who abstained..

Mosquitoes also liked people who used cannabis and people who had slept near another person the previous night…

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www.sciencenews.org/article/avoi...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

www.sciencenews.org