Compton Scatterbrained
@comptonscatter.bsky.social
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.
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.
Pinned
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
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And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
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#AIslop being presented in an #ecology conference about #conservation
Come on people, there's plenty of talented photographers you can showcase (& credit) in your slides instead of wasting water and CO2 making this crap, practice what you preach #esa2025
Come on people, there's plenty of talented photographers you can showcase (& credit) in your slides instead of wasting water and CO2 making this crap, practice what you preach #esa2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
#AIslop being presented in an #ecology conference about #conservation
Come on people, there's plenty of talented photographers you can showcase (& credit) in your slides instead of wasting water and CO2 making this crap, practice what you preach #esa2025
Come on people, there's plenty of talented photographers you can showcase (& credit) in your slides instead of wasting water and CO2 making this crap, practice what you preach #esa2025
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Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.
what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.
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This is the perennial Republican governance playbook - make a public entity so terrible that it fails, then shout "SEE LOOK Government is inefficient!" then they will give it away to their oligarch buddies to strip it for parts while making enormous profits.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is the perennial Republican governance playbook - make a public entity so terrible that it fails, then shout "SEE LOOK Government is inefficient!" then they will give it away to their oligarch buddies to strip it for parts while making enormous profits.
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I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
Symmetry groups wrapping paper
You may have heard mathematicians say that there are only 17 types of wallpaper. Which is a shorthand way of saying, if you print a repeating pattern, it will definitely have 1 of only 17 possible sym...
mathsgear.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
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Exactly. This is one of the main focuses of my fellowship research.
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Exactly. This is one of the main focuses of my fellowship research.
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Ew.
So what he actually eats is worse, but I'll still post the RFK Jr Thanksgiving cartoon.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMG...
So what he actually eats is worse, but I'll still post the RFK Jr Thanksgiving cartoon.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMG...
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ew.
So what he actually eats is worse, but I'll still post the RFK Jr Thanksgiving cartoon.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMG...
So what he actually eats is worse, but I'll still post the RFK Jr Thanksgiving cartoon.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMG...
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Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
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Want to visit Siccar Point but can’t get out or it’s too far away?
@callanbentley.bsky.social has made this amazing online field-guide, including gigapan images and some fantastic virtual outcrops that you can explore in 3D. Check it out!
opengeology.org/historicalge...
@callanbentley.bsky.social has made this amazing online field-guide, including gigapan images and some fantastic virtual outcrops that you can explore in 3D. Check it out!
opengeology.org/historicalge...
VFE: Siccar Point, Scotland – Historical Geology
opengeology.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Want to visit Siccar Point but can’t get out or it’s too far away?
@callanbentley.bsky.social has made this amazing online field-guide, including gigapan images and some fantastic virtual outcrops that you can explore in 3D. Check it out!
opengeology.org/historicalge...
@callanbentley.bsky.social has made this amazing online field-guide, including gigapan images and some fantastic virtual outcrops that you can explore in 3D. Check it out!
opengeology.org/historicalge...
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The structure of the bat-octopus genome shares many characteristics with squid, indicating that octopuses and bat-octopuses derived from a squid-like ancestor (not the other way around). This supports fossil evidence that squiddy things evolved first, and then octopoddish things branched off.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The structure of the bat-octopus genome shares many characteristics with squid, indicating that octopuses and bat-octopuses derived from a squid-like ancestor (not the other way around). This supports fossil evidence that squiddy things evolved first, and then octopoddish things branched off.
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I would say leave them be. There are better alternatives these days: marimo.io/features/vs-...
marimo as a Jupyter alternative
marimo feels like a reactive notebook, but is stored as git-friendly Python that can be pushed to production or easily deployed as an app. It’s the Jupyter alternative you’ve been looking for.
marimo.io
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I would say leave them be. There are better alternatives these days: marimo.io/features/vs-...
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Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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with Stargate coming back this seems like a good time to show off the Destiny I made in SolidWorks (of all things) many years ago during a summer internship
I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts
I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
with Stargate coming back this seems like a good time to show off the Destiny I made in SolidWorks (of all things) many years ago during a summer internship
I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts
I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts
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Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
Autotomy, the voluntary shedding of a body part, is common among animals. Mitoh and
Yusa report an extreme case of autotomy with the shedding of the main body, including
the whole heart, and subsequen...
www.cell.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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These AI videos of MRI accidents are grossly irresponsible, pretending to be ‘real life’ and playing on people’s fears. Yes, there are real safety concerns but these are worse than House or Final Destination depictions of MRI hazards. 🤬
Fact Check: 'MRI Disaster' Video Does NOT Show Real Accident Caused By MRI Magnetic Fields -- It Is One Of Dozens Of AI Hoaxes Gaining Social Media Clout
#CheckTok #FactCheck #OpenAI #Sora #MRI #AIHoaxes
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
#CheckTok #FactCheck #OpenAI #Sora #MRI #AIHoaxes
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
These AI videos of MRI accidents are grossly irresponsible, pretending to be ‘real life’ and playing on people’s fears. Yes, there are real safety concerns but these are worse than House or Final Destination depictions of MRI hazards. 🤬
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A M5.5 earthquake killed at least ten people in Bangladesh today. What made this moderate event so deadly? And what do we know about seismic hazards in the country?
⚒️ 🧪
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
⚒️ 🧪
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
Bangladesh shaken by deadly M5.5 earthquake
A moderate magnitude earthquake near a dense, vulnerable megacity
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A M5.5 earthquake killed at least ten people in Bangladesh today. What made this moderate event so deadly? And what do we know about seismic hazards in the country?
⚒️ 🧪
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
⚒️ 🧪
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
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#30DayMapChallenge · Day 22 · Natural Earth. Many spinning globes. Honestly, I don't know how to use this amazing resource because I'm—no surprises here—not a cartographer. Am just a one-note guy who likes R.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#30DayMapChallenge · Day 22 · Natural Earth. Many spinning globes. Honestly, I don't know how to use this amazing resource because I'm—no surprises here—not a cartographer. Am just a one-note guy who likes R.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
The Public Health Agency of Canada is where hcw's should go for recommendations for the foreseeable future.
ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is).
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to undermine vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Public Health Agency of Canada is where hcw's should go for recommendations for the foreseeable future.
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I. Don't. Want. an AI. Laundry. Machine.
a picture of a raccoon with its mouth open and the words aa aa aa aa aa
ALT: a picture of a raccoon with its mouth open and the words aa aa aa aa aa
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I. Don't. Want. an AI. Laundry. Machine.
As we saw from close-by at our local fire department, governments let companies bid and the lowest bidder usually gets the job.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys;
Goedkoop is duurkoop.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
Pay peanuts, get monkeys;
Goedkoop is duurkoop.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
3000 medewerkers Openbaar Ministerie sturen brandbrief over ICT-problemen
De medewerkers hebben een brandbrief gestuurd naar de leiding van het OM. Volgens hen komen de kwaliteit en continuïteit van het werk in het geding, "en daarmee ook de staat van de rechtsstaat".
nos.nl
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
As we saw from close-by at our local fire department, governments let companies bid and the lowest bidder usually gets the job.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys;
Goedkoop is duurkoop.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
Pay peanuts, get monkeys;
Goedkoop is duurkoop.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...