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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 12h

🧪 MOFs win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We managed to get this out on the day of the announcement in spite of mixing up two photos while shooting and having to do some quick & heavy roto work—can you spot it? MOFs are the future of a staggering amount of tech, here's a quick intro:

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 7d

Our Fellow Americans,

This shutdown is the fault of YOUR legislators in Congress, not ours. We don’t have any.

Sincerely,

700k Falsely Accused People in DC

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re upset with the government shutting down or dissatisfied with government in general, don’t blame “Washington, DC.” The people of DC, all 700k of us, have no voting representation in Congress. This falls on the 535 chuckleheads the American voters sent to Congress. #DCStatehood #FreeDC

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 8d

They're deliberately going after immigrants who are following the rules because they don't care about the rules

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 10d

would

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 12d

*Miers

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 12d

There are so many easy answers to this question, but the first one that jumps to mind is Harriet Meyers

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 12d

he doesn't need to appeal to young people, more profitable to appeal to old rich people who think he appeals to young people

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CASA @casaforall.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for sharing our lawsuit, Kyle. ICE took one CASA member on his way to a life-saving dialysis appointment, one mile from the hospital. They ignored his U.S. driver’s license and left him without critical treatment that day, putting his health in immediate danger.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13d

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 15d

In case you're interested in a large, peer reviewed, and recent study on the effect of acetaminophen use during pregnancy on children's autism & ADHD outcomes, here's one.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Key points from linked paper.
Question Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase children’s risk of neurodevelopmental disorders?

Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.

Meaning Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding.

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 16d

Ever hear someone say that the chlorine smell at a pool is actually from pee mixing with chlorine? Well, the good news is that's not entirely correct. The bad news is, that's not entirely correct. We set the record straight about what you're actually swimming in. 🧪

@MarkRober gets only partial credit

YouTube video by Reactions

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 20d

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 20d

love to have an "Environmental Protection Agency" working to protect us from, uhh, lower levels of toxic PFAS in drinking water
cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...

EPA pursues new tactic to undo PFAS drinking-water limits

Agency seeks to omit public input so it can eliminate limits faster

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 21d

A bold agenda: we will do everything our opponents do, but to a slightly lesser extent.

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 22d

I made an experimental astrophotography timelapse dance film mainly just to see if it was possible. We had two dancers doing an all night shoot in the eastern slopes of the Cascades, holding poses for 15 seconds, moving a tiny bit for the next frame, and holding again for 15 seconds.

night shift

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 23d

Will it explode or will it levitate and disappear? With Leidenfrost droplets, we're only beginning to understand what happens and why. 🧪

trying to make water levitate but it keeps exploding

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 25d

just explained what "groyper" means to a balcony full of people at a party and hated myself through the whole process

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 25d

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*.

bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health

Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...

bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 26d

wait someone shot Russel Brand?

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 26d

Huh. Sure didn't sound like a big transport jet to me, but what do I know.

Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 26d

Well that was a pretty loud fighter jet flyover in Petworth just now

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28d

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · 28d

why are you criticizing how much money I spend on my sword collection when we're spending almost twice as much on health insurance?

Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 28d

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.

Start:

1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

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Andrew Sobey @andrewsobey.com · Sep 8

Feels great: Fox News picking up our story & video about a new chemistry breakthrough on edible fat absorbing beads
Feels... weird: hearing my own voice come back to me via Fox News

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