Mark Dowhy
@empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social
❤️ Science; physics, biology, philosophy and cooking.
Retired ped ICU research; acute pulmonary disease. Now small farm n B&B owner.
I am a quantum of humanity, a momentary byproduct of physics. A quark guy, full of charm from top to bottom.
Retired ped ICU research; acute pulmonary disease. Now small farm n B&B owner.
I am a quantum of humanity, a momentary byproduct of physics. A quark guy, full of charm from top to bottom.
Pinned
We see the shadows on the wall and think we have the world figured out. Until we leave the cave does our perspective become realized.
Good morning from our farm. ❄️
Can’t do barn chores without my flock of supervisors 😁🐓
Can’t do barn chores without my flock of supervisors 😁🐓
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good morning from our farm. ❄️
Can’t do barn chores without my flock of supervisors 😁🐓
Can’t do barn chores without my flock of supervisors 😁🐓
Protect science! 🧪
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Sharing a bit of 2025 life about our farm. 😃☀️ 🐴🐐🐷 🦆🐔
My phone decided all on its own to make this compilation. Is it becoming
sentient? 🤔
My phone decided all on its own to make this compilation. Is it becoming
sentient? 🤔
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Sharing a bit of 2025 life about our farm. 😃☀️ 🐴🐐🐷 🦆🐔
My phone decided all on its own to make this compilation. Is it becoming
sentient? 🤔
My phone decided all on its own to make this compilation. Is it becoming
sentient? 🤔
Wonderful and informative presentation at the Royal Institution by @mattbothwell.com Matt Bothwell, University of Cambridge.
youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
The quest for dark matter with Matt Bothwell
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wonderful and informative presentation at the Royal Institution by @mattbothwell.com Matt Bothwell, University of Cambridge.
youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
youtube.com/watch?v=bLa3...
Reposted by Mark Dowhy
Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh. Yes
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November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh. Yes
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Great Unfuckening
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November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Great Unfuckening
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Reposted by Mark Dowhy
"Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Mass. officials rebuke ‘dangerous’ vaccine misinformation added to CDC website
Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines ...
www.wbur.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM !
VACCINES SAVE LIVES !
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VACCINES SAVE LIVES !
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The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is the very definition of an evidence-based claim. Over a million children have been studied in every valid, ethical experimental design scientists can think of. More evidence-based claims: infections can kill people & we have vaccines that keep people alive.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM !
VACCINES SAVE LIVES !
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VACCINES SAVE LIVES !
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Good morning from our farm ☀️🐓
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Good morning from our farm ☀️🐓
Good morning from our farm 😃
Getting ready to start their day 🐴 🫏
Getting ready to start their day 🐴 🫏
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Good morning from our farm 😃
Getting ready to start their day 🐴 🫏
Getting ready to start their day 🐴 🫏
Good Morning from our farm. ❄️
A dusting of lake effect snow overnight. Nothing big. Just a sign winter is coming. 🙂
A dusting of lake effect snow overnight. Nothing big. Just a sign winter is coming. 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Good Morning from our farm. ❄️
A dusting of lake effect snow overnight. Nothing big. Just a sign winter is coming. 🙂
A dusting of lake effect snow overnight. Nothing big. Just a sign winter is coming. 🙂
“Well, we have the rule of law”
Brilliant and insightful answer. 🧐And a great shot. Funny as hell also. 🤣
Brilliant and insightful answer. 🧐And a great shot. Funny as hell also. 🤣
AMBER: The US is doing that too though, so what is the extra thing that Canada [offers foreign investors]...
CARNEY: Well, we have rule of law.
CARNEY: Well, we have rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“Well, we have the rule of law”
Brilliant and insightful answer. 🧐And a great shot. Funny as hell also. 🤣
Brilliant and insightful answer. 🧐And a great shot. Funny as hell also. 🤣
400,000 children, that’s 400,000 children so far, just say it.
So horrendous and inhuman. 😡😔
So horrendous and inhuman. 😡😔
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
400,000 children, that’s 400,000 children so far, just say it.
So horrendous and inhuman. 😡😔
So horrendous and inhuman. 😡😔
This. Education is not solely about career and job training. The humanities have value that makes our lives. It makes us human, it transcends.
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No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This. Education is not solely about career and job training. The humanities have value that makes our lives. It makes us human, it transcends.
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Reposted by Mark Dowhy
I will translate from NPRese
Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I will translate from NPRese
Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Humbling,… I am but a quantum of humanity. 😁😉
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics 🧵
How many people do you know by name?
One study found that the average American knows 611.
In a world of 8 billion, that’s less than 0.00001%. A 100,000th of a percent.
We can’t see much of the world through our direct experience
How many people do you know by name?
One study found that the average American knows 611.
In a world of 8 billion, that’s less than 0.00001%. A 100,000th of a percent.
We can’t see much of the world through our direct experience
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Humbling,… I am but a quantum of humanity. 😁😉
Good morning from our farm 🐐 🫏 😃
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good morning from our farm 🐐 🫏 😃
This whole clock/time change debate is BS. The universe doesn’t care what arbitrary time we assign to a moment.
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe we just change when we start n end our days? Adjust our life/work schedules? Adjust to how the earth revolves, not try n make it revolve around us. 🤔
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe we just change when we start n end our days? Adjust our life/work schedules? Adjust to how the earth revolves, not try n make it revolve around us. 🤔
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This whole clock/time change debate is BS. The universe doesn’t care what arbitrary time we assign to a moment.
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe we just change when we start n end our days? Adjust our life/work schedules? Adjust to how the earth revolves, not try n make it revolve around us. 🤔
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe we just change when we start n end our days? Adjust our life/work schedules? Adjust to how the earth revolves, not try n make it revolve around us. 🤔
Agreed. Wording, framing n context matter.
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Your science is sound
Your press release says “Reef recovery”
The internet hears “Crisis over”
A study shows how well-intended optimism can fuel climate misinformation.
Context matters...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Your press release says “Reef recovery”
The internet hears “Crisis over”
A study shows how well-intended optimism can fuel climate misinformation.
Context matters...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Steering Great Barrier Reef climate science narratives through the mediasphere in a time of misinformation - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Steering Great Barrier Reef climate science narratives through the mediasphere in a time of misinformation
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Agreed. Wording, framing n context matter.
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Say it has it is 👍
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Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Say it has it is 👍
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What is your passion? What stirs you? What drives your curiosity? What brings you joy? What makes you ponder?
Simple questions that do require a bit of reflection to answer, to realize who you are.
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What is your passion? What stirs you? What drives your curiosity? What brings you joy? What makes you ponder?
Simple questions that do require a bit of reflection to answer, to realize who you are.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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What is your passion? What stirs you? What drives your curiosity? What brings you joy? What makes you ponder?
Simple questions that do require a bit of reflection to answer, to realize who you are.
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What is your passion? What stirs you? What drives your curiosity? What brings you joy? What makes you ponder?
Simple questions that do require a bit of reflection to answer, to realize who you are.
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“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.” - David Hume
Such a beautiful thought 😊
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Such a beautiful thought 😊
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In the stillness of the night, the world seems to breathe more slowly, and everything that preoccupies us shrinks and is lost in the infinite. The stars shine like old friends, reminding us that we are part of a vast, sparkling universe—far greater and more mysterious than we could ever comprehend.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.” - David Hume
Such a beautiful thought 😊
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Such a beautiful thought 😊
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“I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!”
- Grandpa Simpson
- Grandpa Simpson
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!”
- Grandpa Simpson
- Grandpa Simpson
Reposted by Mark Dowhy
I think it's time to reshare this post debunking an anti-vaccine trope overstating the difference between injection and ingestion.
scientistabe.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/s...
scientistabe.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/s...
[Sciences/Pharmacology] Ingestion versus injection explained to my cat
In the recent weeks, I have seen on several groups in which vaccines are discussed how people confuse injection and ingestion and use this term to explain the difference between getting exposed to …
scientistabe.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think it's time to reshare this post debunking an anti-vaccine trope overstating the difference between injection and ingestion.
scientistabe.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/s...
scientistabe.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/s...