One of my fave things is when people completely go for it with nerdy car stickers 👏
Blythe Terrell
@blytheterrell.bsky.social
Science journalist & audio instructor Joyfully editing Science Vs since 2017 (?!) Fan of bad shark movies, horror & long or short walks in the woods She/her
This one broke my brain a bit, tbh — and it's super fun
Science Vs@sciencevs.bsky.social · 6d agoToday on Science Vs: Free Will! We're diving into the weird world of the neuroscience experiments that have tried to figure out: Are we really consciously in control of the decisions we make?? 🧪 Listen anywhere 👂 ... watch 👀 on Spotify or YouTube! open.spotify.com/episode/7bs0...
Christopher Nolan is so wealthy, he doesn’t use email! That’s how you do it. The Dolly Parton method. My eyes shan’t land upon a screen! Print that shit off!
Say what you will about the Cyclospora outbreak, but it's allowed us to explore the full range of upset tummy stock photos This one via the latest article from @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/cyclospora/f...
Pumped to talk CO2 and ROCKS with Peter on Sunday! Upstate NY folks, come to Left Bank in Catskill at 4 p.m. Also nbd but this will be your first chance to get the paperback copy of this delightful book 💅 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Ambitious, absorbing… Brannen is an effusive, maximalist writer, a mind vividly alive on the page… and h...
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Peter Brannen@peterbrannen.bsky.social · 2w agoUpstate NY, I'm doing 2 events this weekend: I'll be talking ancient mass extinctions at the delightful Gilboa Museum Saturday at 1 (where first fossil forests in Earth history were discovered!) and all things carbon on Sunday at 4 at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill, NY with @blytheterrell.bsky.social!
A U.S. FDA committee is meeting today & tomorrow to talk about changing the rules for substances including PEPTIDES. People claim these can heal our bodies & make us look great. Does the science track?? We dig in 👇🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/6rgo... FDA meeting details: www.fda.gov/advisory-com...
Peptides: The Ultimate Body Hack?
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You guysss PBS is doing a wHOLE SERIES ABOUT THE PERMIAN PANGAEA TIME LET'S GOOOOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWri...
An Important Announcement
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Man, I met a lot of children with HIV when I lived in eSwatini. The programs that helped with HIV treatment didn't save everyone & weren't perfect, but they got meds to so many people (& prevented so much HIV transmission during pregnancy/birth/breastfeeding). Gutting.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w agoAround 77,000 fewer children worldwide received HIV treatment supported by the U.S. in the year to October 2025 than in the previous fiscal year, according to a study that found declines after the Trump administration's cuts and changes to foreign aid.
"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
An appeals court has revived lawsuits alleging that Tylenol during pregnancy is linked to autism and ADHD in kids. When we looked into the research on this at Science Vs, here's what we found 🧪🧪🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/0afn...
Does Tylenol Cause Autism?
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Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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tbh just reading this article made my ovaries stiffen right up
New Scientist@newscientist.com · 4w agoA drug that softens the ovaries helped mice and rats conceive more easily at an older age, and produce more pups
Oh god, the ivermectin people can't stop won't stop
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 4w agoCancer patients are desperate for hope, making them vulnerable to misinformation about unproven treatments like ivermectin. A health communication researcher explains why a flawed study about the deworming drug went viral and what you should know about evaluating new research: #healthsky
US Cyclospora cases mount as CDC lags on tracking Surveillance of the parasite has been optional for a year; meanwhile, cases in Michigan top 1,200 www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The bird flu in dairy cows was in the back of my mind the whole time I made our ep about raw milk. When scientists find bird flu in dairy cows, they often find SO MUCH VIRUS in the milk. So much. open.spotify.com/episode/3VgP...
Raw Milk: Secret Superfood??
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CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 4w agoCattle, egg-laying poultry in Utah hit with H5N1 avian flu So far this year there have been 72 H5N1 detections in dairy cows www.cidrap.umn.edu/a... Photo: CAFNR / Flickr cc
Also regarding cyclospora, some useful information here. Vinegar is not the magic cure many people think. And Cooked produce (minimum of 158 degrees F) is safer than raw. This includes berries. (gift article)
How to Stay Safe From the Severe Stomach Bug That’s Going Around
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The Supreme Court just upheld state laws banning trans girls and women from sports teams aligned with their gender. A while back, we did an episode on both healthcare for trans kids and their sports participation. A lot of families talked to us about it 🧪👂👇 open.spotify.com/episode/39ih...
Trans Kids: The Misinformation Battle
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You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Big day over here! (Also yes, WARNING — very high pun count in this ep, sorry not sorry)
AltFDA@altfda.altgov.info · last mo.Boom! @sciencevs.bsky.social just dropping the bomb on MAHA and théir stupid obsession with raw milk. Get your knowledge and some puns, so you can tell those fuckers to shut up properly. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
I've been working on this raw milk ep for longer than I care to admit, and it is finally LIVE. 🎉 Wendy actually bought some raw milk before I told her the science — tune in to find out if she ends up drinking it 😳
Science Vs@sciencevs.bsky.social · last mo.Some folks swear by raw milk, saying that it's great for your gut microbiome and that it could prevent allergies and asthma. But others are like, wait a sec — going raw is a terrible idea. It can kill you! Who's right? We take a big ol' swig of the science 🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/3VgP...
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow chats with Ars about his new book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.
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A new retraction for an influential evolutionary biologist is raising the question of whether scientific misconduct more than 20 years ago was just a blip in his impressive publication record or further proof, as some claim, that much of his work rests on a shaky foundation.
A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction
A study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev…
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Ooooh more good news about the HPV vaccine, y'all! 🧪 Data + modeling suggest that the vaccine has prevented about 200 cervical cancer DEATHS in England through 2024. You love to see it ... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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