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Compton Scatterbrained

@comptonscatter.bsky.social

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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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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 13h

🧵
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 · 1h

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

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1h

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 1h

thank you

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Dr. Dharma Bum @drdharmabum.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

...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 · 5h

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 · 20h

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

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

cc @simonhammann.bsky.social

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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

ermagerd

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

my god I hear peter's voice

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

een journalistisch kunst

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Patrick Bogaart @pwbogaart.bsky.social · 1d

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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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Alright MOF-mavens and Nobel fans ... This might be one of my favorite things to ever come out of my collaborations with NIST. They put together a hilarious video on MOFs and their potential use in environmental sensors.

ChemSky 🧪

www.nist.gov/video/shark-...

Shark vs Bunny: Sensor Showdown

NIST sensor scientists demonstrate metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their ability to selectivelycapture specific substances ... using puppets

www.nist.gov

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely.

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Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social · 1d

This is a new one for me #chemsky 🧪

My name has appeared on a published paper that I've had nothing to do with (even using an incorrect version of my email address)!

Has this happened to others? If so, what did you do?

Website image of a paper with my name on - that's not mine!

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a story from a GP/fam doc where a baby who was just about to get a vaccine had a seizure, and she thought "imagine I had been a few minutes faster."

It woulda scared me if *I* had been that parent and the doc had been a bit faster.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

They also had to change the pertussis vaccine a while back because the disease had changed and immunity was dropping.
The second-to-last version of the smallpox vax was not entirely safe for adults with no prev exposure (the most recent one has none of those side effects).

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