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Rian Nejar 🦋

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Entrepreneur, educator, author of nonfiction H&H at https://goo.gl/FKUnCM Blogs at https://riannejar.wordpress.com/ and at Substack Gilbert, AZ, Southwest US Narcissists and porn bots - instantly blocked. All my posts: https://tinyurl.com/2evxfd9r

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · Dec 12

New class of Magnetism, #altermagnetism, imaged for the first time [via Uni of Nottingham] 🧪🧲🆕

"Scientists ... have shown that this new third class of magnetism exists and can be controlled in microscopic devices."

www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/researc...

#magnetism #new #class #memory #device

News - Researchers discover new third class of magnetism that could transform digital devices - University of Nottingham

A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices with the potential to increa...

www.nottingham.ac.uk

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 17h

No.

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 19h

If we do not die, we sleep.
#TFTD

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 19h

Flowering plants that have given up on photosynthesis [via Science.org] 🧪👨‍🔬🥀❌🌞🔋

"they don’t rely on photosynthesis to survive, instead drawing carbon and nutrients from fungi buried in the soil."

www.science.org/content/arti...

#mycoheterotrophy #symbiotic #life #fungi

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi David Malakoff 12:43 PM :heavy_check_mark:

www.science.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 1d

Something similar caught my eye over east Phoenix, AZ, a few minutes ago.

Beautiful indeed.

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Astropus @astropus.bsky.social · 2d

Does he use the words and phrases in that birthday letter to his pal Jeffrey? You decide.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

HUGE NEWS Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms using nanoparticles that clear brain plaque & restore memory

In a massive breakthrough, researchers from Spain & China developed nanoparticles that remove toxic Alzheimer’s plaques from the brain AND repair the brain’s natural defense system.

Scientists achieve "striking reversal of Alzheimer’s" in mice

“Our results point to a new path: fix the barrier that keeps the brain healthy," researcher Giuseppe Battaglia told Newsweek.

www.newsweek.com

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 1d

Green Tea improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance [via Agência FAPESP] 🧪⚗️💚🍵⚕️🩺

"Treatment with green tea increased the #expression of Insr, Irs1, Glut4, Hk1, and Pi3k – #genes [] important for glucose uptake and use in muscles."

agencia.fapesp.br/green-tea-im...

#green #tea #benefits

Green tea improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in obese mice

A study in an animal model analyzed the muscle metabolism of guinea pigs on a high-calorie diet. Ultimately, consumption of the plant extract increased the expression of genes associated with glucose ...

agencia.fapesp.br

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 2d

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 1d

An intelligent cat!

Release the #epstein #files and the #pedophile #clients #list, #republicans, #conservatives

RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 2d

Easily Amused 🥰😂
💙❤️🐱🐾

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 2d

Sunshine is now cheaper than Coal, Nat. Gas, and Wind [vi Uni of Surrey]

Installed cost in 2010 matches with mine (~27K for a 5-kW system), while the leveraged cost-of-electricity, at ~0.04/kWh, now matches what my utility pays me 😃

www.authorea.com/users/960972...

#solar #cheaper #energy

Solar installed cost, capacity factor, and installed capacity by nation from 2010 to 2024, a study by the University of Surrey

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 2d

She is a hostile witness, a deflector, engaging in whataboutism, and brazen evasion. She is unworthy of the office.

#PamBondi #AG

Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 2d

Release the Epstein files. All of them. This is ridiculous.

Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 2d

DOJ head Pam Bondi refuses to answer if the FBI found photos of Donald Trump with "half-naked young women"( trafficked children and adult victims ) during its #Epstein investigation. She proceeds to try to deflect from the question, when asked again she remains silent. #OpDeathEaters

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 2d

A Quantum Lie Detector [via Uni of Leiden] 🧪⚛️🤥🔍🕵️

"test shows whether a machine, like a quantum computer, is truly using quantum effects or just mimics them."

Quantum #computers are getting bigger (# of #qubits and better.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

#quantum #nature #test #machine

How quantum is your quantum computer?

Can you prove whether a large quantum system truly behaves according to the weird and wonderful rules of quantum mechanics — or if it just looks like it does? In a groundbreaking study, physicists fro...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

Release the #epstein #files and the #pedophile #clients #list, #republicans, #conservatives

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 3d

I’m cheering China on this one over the retro, #climate denying, globe cooking Trump agenda … you? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

Dear @bsky.app, this is largely false advertising.

Most 'followers' are BOTs. Very few (2) conversations I've had on your CHAT have been 'real,' most are sex/scam/phish BOTs. Visit my CHAT folder and you'll see a good few.

Get rid of the banner.

#BlueSky #fake #people #chat #conversations

BlueSky banner on login page: "Real people. Real conversations. Social media you control."

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

Here's her [ response. Long story short (LSS), this girl posted an utterly useless piece - her putting on eyeliner and streetwalking - which prompted my response.

Much a-do 'bout nothing.

#inane #poster

Replies from a BlueSky member blocking me for commenting on her abject, inane post.

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

The OP, bsky.app/profile/did:..., and a couple of others blocked me for this... perhaps I deserve it, but INANE, narcissistic posts repel.

#inane #content #floods @bsky.app

bsky.app

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

The Science of Cats [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👨‍🔬🐱🐈

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stun...

#cats #Feline #BookSky 💙📚

See Stunning Feline Photography Revealing the Science of Cats

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

www.scientificamerican.com

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

Much needed information. Muted.

Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d

Chronic risks from single-use plastic water bottles [via Concordia Uni] 🧪⚗️⚕️🩺🍼❌

"individuals on avg. ingest between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles per year, and bottled water users consume 90,000 more"

www.concordia.ca/news/stories...

#bottled #water #risks #plastic #particles #health

The chronic risks from single-use plastic water bottles are dangerously understudied, new Concordia research shows | Media Relations - Concordia University

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www.concordia.ca

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Herr Carroll Elmer-Henry-David Reimer-Schmidt @vaygar-el1954.bsky.social · 4d

I AM Dem. I AM lib.

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