Steve Munger
@stevenmunger.bsky.social
Smell and taste scientist, EIC of Chemical Senses, repatriated Virginian, possessor of countless useless facts. Opinions belong to my friend who lives in another state…you’ll probably never meet them even though they are definitely real.
They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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I can’t believe the guy from A-Ha has scored on us twice.
I had been enjoying the studio team these last days of the World Cup. But now *he’s* back. It’s like someone added too much salt to a perfect dish…unbalanced and inedible.
I’m excited to announce the UVA Center for Smell and Taste Disorders will be leading (in partnership w/ JHU and MUSC) a new NIH-supported clinical trial to investigate the ability of olfactory training to restore post-viral smell loss (anosmia). Enrollment begins later this year; details to come.
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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Hard to beat seeing Pochettino belting out some John Denver.
Discovery of a 14-protein biomarker that predicts lung cancer 5.6 years before it is diagnosed, even in non-smokers, and an anti-inflammatory medicine that prevents its progression. And, challenging dogma, the proteins are not coming from cancerous cells!
Well worth thee read, if only for the writing and the insights into being a paramedic. But there is more than just that.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo agoA New York paramedic tells what they see in Trump’s health. Hint: it’s not good. For Trump. An informed view from someone at the sharp end.
“Peer review, open competition, and institutional autonomy were the pillars of that system. This proposed rule dismantles all three”
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
@karenattiah.bsky.social latest is so good. If you grew up in church, you didn't think "golden calf", you thought "'Rack, Shack and Benny" 😂 It's a relief to read a journalist who actually understands what's going on in a religious and cultural context. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...
Trump Is Not the Golden Calf. He’s King Nebuchadnezzar.
Trump’s Golden 'Don Colossus' is a yet another warning sign of America's imperial decline.
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Cat Holding Bottle and Container - Vintage Matchbox Label
8675309 is now terrorism. Sorry, that’s the new rule.
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
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GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...
Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96
The puppeteer and his late brother Marty partnered on 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,' 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' 'Land of the Lost' and much more.
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The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)
#TwoForTuesday: #Crab & #Fish by pioneering Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura (杉浦 非水, Sugiura Hisui; 1876-1965) from Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu, 1926, a collection of designs created after his studies in Europe. National Diet Library Japan: www.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank... #JapaneseArt #GraphicDesign
Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.
No. 10 Virginia takes down No. 2 Iowa in a 2OT thriller 🔥 It is the Cavaliers' first trip to the Sweet Sixteen since 2000.
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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