Compton Scatterbrained
@comptonscatter.bsky.social
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.
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
I don’t know how to explain to people under 30 how scary AIDS was for a long time.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Do you know how many STEM grads are working retail right now because there are no jobs in their field?
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Similarly heparin was discovered by a second-year medical student, in a project originally designed to isolate pro-coagulation factors (the opposite activity of heparin) www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d agoTFW you realize the heat-stable version of the smallpox vaccine, used for global smallpox eradication, was invented by a graduate student as part of his MD thesis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social someone should test the output if this tool in win SRs. How slow to wait for rendering on a basic box? How is user alerted content is available? Can users navigate the content & does the original semantic markup remain? If authors edit, is the sr-text updated as well?
This makes me hate scrapers even more—HEY LET'S BREAK THE WEB SO BOTS CAN'T SCRAPE! This breaks copy-and-paste (ever take a screenshot and then use copy-paste to add alt text? This fucks that up) and claims it adds "screen-reader-only" text via Javascript. In the past these hacks have ALWAYS sucked
Effie Seiberg@effies.bsky.social · 6d agoFool AI scrapers with this poisoned font: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
❔ a friend and I swapped bugs recently and now I’ve got a small colony of Therea olegrandjeani, the question mark cockroach! truly a charming blattodean
What is even happening anymore One of my first science communication projects (three full decades ago) was a brief about how we know what we know about Lyme disease origins and spread from long term ecological research
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Okay, this suuuux. ⚒️🧪 Can anyone get through RG and get me this paper please? I feel dumb for not downloading all gazillion of the papers I've ever wanted to just glance at that are on ResearchGate, now that I know it's just gonna block me indefinitely. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Reflection salt proximity
PDF | On Oct 1, 2016, Yingpin Li and others published Reflection salt proximity | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter.bsky.social · 4d agoAAAAAAAAAARGG! Fucking bots. 🧪 #chemsky ⚒️ #geosky "RESEARCH GATE Access is temporarily restricted We detected unusual activity from your device or network." I can't access papers! Anyone else getting this today?? I've got like 5 tabs where each got a seperate verification from Cloudflare...
reposting this just for the killer soundtrack
Prof. Shuo Huang@Nanjing University@huang-nanopore.bsky.social · 4d agoI can finally get this video posted on bluesky. This cartoon illustration should be more clear describing the newly developped transient Pore Analyte Looping (tPAL) platform and the "chop and measure" mode for nanopore protein sequencing. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mads100tist.bsky.social her graduate student Harriet Creighton did quit science because she saw how challenging McClintock found it to get funding geneticsunzipped.com/transcripts/...
The budding lady botanist - Harriet Creighton — Genetics Unzipped
Many people - although not enough - know about Barbara McClintock’s work on maize genetics. But how many know about her first graduate student, Harriet Creighton?
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As someone with zero knowledge of stats, this whole amazing thread reads like "the latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar vaneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented" AND I LOVE IT (also corrections on bad science rock)
Daniel de Kadt@dandekadt.bsky.social · 4d agoI have read this Response to my Comment and have written a Rejoinder, showing three things: 1. The multiverse is many correlated tests. 2. The randomization inference is wrong. 3. The trichotomous moderator reaffirms my point. I also enumerate 7 misleading claims, now in print in the APSR.
Every graph by law must contain a "bro what the fuck are you doing?" data point.
This video (on the difference between azimuth and bearings, in mapping/navigation) shows how not just AI but knowledge on the internet in general is kinda precarious, because they are all using each other as input, and spewing out sometimes (often?) incorrect output. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92r...
Nota bene: Bsky is filled with great images but I don't "love" or repost any that don't include alt-text. It's easy to add alt-text—just click on ALT in the corner before you post—and it takes less time than adding a copyright notice or details about the camera body, lens, and exposure!
The absolute best topic to talk about in a bar—OXYGEN FUGACITY!!!
Michael Anenburg@manenbu.bsky.social · 5d agoAnd it's out! doi.org/10.1029/2026...
Ever notice how men are much more likely to fall for it? My hypothesis is that women (due to experiences of being women) are more likely to see flattery as manipulation & condescension while men are more likely to assume it is truth.
Chemist Stephanie Kwolek was born #OTD in 1923. She invented Kevlar, used in high-strength / low-weight applications like body armor and airplane parts. She also invented the Nylon Rope Trick demo! 🧪 👩🔬 Images: DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek
A facility housing large tanks of methyl methacrylate, the monomer form of polymethyl methacrylate was overheating this May. @chemjobber.bsky.social explores the lessons learned & how risky runaway polymerisation can be prevented in the future: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/earl...
Early lessons from the Garden Grove chemical incident
A runaway polymerisation raises questions about safety measures and their backups
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Is it just me or am I really getting a lot of CUPS patches recently?
Who's going to #IUCr2026 in Calgary? As the world's crystallographers 'assemble' in Canada - can we post some #BraggYourPattern pictures that we find on our journeys?
scientias.nl/ik-kan-niet-... Heb een soortgelijk gevoel in mijn baan waar het (ondersteunen van het) aanjagen van de verkoop voorop staat oftewel meewerken aan slopende economische groei.
"Ik kan niet langer meewerken aan deze klucht": waarom Antarctica-gidsen hun droombaan opgeven
Pinguïns, orka's en gletsjers zo ver het oog reikt: het is de ideale baan van menig natuurliefhebber. Maar een groeiende groep Antarctica-gidsen kan er
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The dumbest people are using the dumbest tool to try to pretend to be smart. And we will all suffer that
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
I just don’t even know where to start with this one … seriously how do they come up with BlueSky’s best satire week after week…
In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 6d ago
Not sure how many of yall keep up with the latest Ruby goss but DHH is having a meltdown bc Claude wouldn't translate his racist blog post about Roma people into Italian. ::chefs-kiss::
After 8 years as an editor for Communications Chemistry @commschem.nature.com, I am retiring today. It's been great seeing the journal grow and evolve since its launch in 2018, and I absolutely recommend it as a venue for publishing your work! Serious journal, serious team, loved working with them.
8th Birthday Eighth Birthday
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