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Compton Scatterbrained

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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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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 37m

een journalistisch kunst

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Patrick Bogaart @pwbogaart.bsky.social · 38m

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 · 7h

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 · 1h

Definitely.

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Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

Oh have you seen the Natural Foods folks? Raw milk?

They'll do a homemade lollipop, lol.

Yeah these are different groups, there's not one big Church of the Antivax.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

It's all psychological with me, and causes problems whenever I actually do need to take a pill. I've tried a few things recommended, but the lizard brain is mighty.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

Is that a thing yet, or just an announcement?

But I'll be interested if more parents go for it. One of the biggest things I hear from parents who *do* vax their kids, but late, is this idea that "we're throwing too much on their lil immune systems too fast."

Maybe less delay? No idea.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

We definitely need to hear their reasoning, if we ever want to change vaccination rates.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

Mostly agreed, that tracks with the kinds of concerns I hear from the folks around me.

It's why hesitancy melds so well with back-to-nature wellness trends on socials for example (and it's not new. Lookin' at you, Kellogg)

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 7d

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

Can't believe I missed this one!

...wait Sigmund Freud did what?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN1...

SARGASSO // EELS (Sabrina Carpenter Parody) | A Capella Science

YouTube video by acapellascience

m.youtube.com

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

same, unless it was a horse pill. I just can't do those.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4h

The whole story of trying to get polio vaccines out to the farthest reaches of the planet is pretty amazing.

I have an accout by Roel Coutinho on how it was to be chasing the last outbreaks if smallpox in Bangladesh in the 70s or 80s (I forget the decade). Tedious, delicate work.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

Yo that's been the dream for decades!

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

(I've been dealing with a church community where folks'll tell me with a straight face that Noah's ark had all the animals etc—some even claim dinosaurs were there as eggs—and they're. not. stupid. A lot of them are smarter than I am. It's a slow process and lots of decisions on where to spend time)

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

...good ones whose conclusions actually differ from what the influencer is saying. I've seen this happen right in front of my face, on the topic of what coronavirus proteins do to immune systems!).

The conspiracy theory stuff comes way, way after all that.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

The FacebookYogaMomFluencers push things that verge on possible believability: vitamins, diet, orthomolecular blah blah. If you've become a regular follower and trust the person, you're more likely to believe them when they say the med. establishment is lying to you (and point to BS studies or...

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

Drug companies, who make most of the vaccines, are corporations which focus most on profit. It's very easy to suggest they are not on your side re vaccines when you can point to how they'll repackage a generic or push an iffy cancer drug to rip people off. Or hell, insulin! Little trust there.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 5h

Lots of reasons.
In the US, African Americans have been lied to and mistreated by doctors and medical researchers several times—trust is esp. low for them as a group.

People aren't taught the basics of immunity nor what these diseases were—nobody today has seen a toddler asphyxiate from diphtheria.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah that info going around pisses me off. When I read a dad of one of the (now dead) kids in TX was pissed that the hospital "didn't treat her measles" I wanted to slap the guy. And cry for him. He didn't want his kid dead and thru misinfo thought she was abandoned by med. establishment.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 6h

Some of them are dumb. Many of them aren't, but they're both horribly misinformed and now are, as adults tend to do, set on their beliefs.

I'm angrier at every "health" facebook-yoga-mom account and snakeoil seller spreading shit to scared parents who don't trust the medical world (many reasons).

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 6h

*what was then a sugarcube