Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Look, bro… if you want to increase federal research funding so that more researchers can earn a livable wage in our country. I think we’re all good with that. Oh, what’s that? You’re cutting research funding at the same time? (Cue the hot dog suit meme) 0142
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Prisoner execution has no place in our society. It is immoral, unjust, and ineffective at any objective of criminal justice or public safety. It is state-sponsored revenge policy, it has killed innocent people, and it should be outlawed in every state, for every case www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.com‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injectionsChrista Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the failed execution “a mess.... 03712
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is great because Newton lifted that quote without attribution from 12th century scholars. He was always playing 4D chess I guess 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standin... 061
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is BlueSky so I give it a week before the horde comes after the Nobel Prizes for being funded by a dynamite baron 0142
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Last time I checked we have freedom of religion in this country 061
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Anyway, adult autism diagnoses went up 450% between 2011 and 2022 RFK continues to erode American science and the average IQ of humanity every time he opens his mouth jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comAutism Diagnosis Among US Children and Adults, 2011-2022This cross-sectional study examines relative increases in autism diagnosis rates in US health and insurance claims records from 2011 to 2022 by age, gender, race, and ethnicity. 0172
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026By this logic, no one ever got a bacterial infection before Robert Koch developed germ theory in 1884. 1123
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026For no particular reason or having anything to do with current events, here is a video I made last year detailing everything that *actual qualified scientists and doctors* know about what causes autism, what doesn't, and what we still don't know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ya...youtube.comWhy Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (It’s Not What You Think)YouTube video by Be Smart 0197
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026In 1925, Sidney Pressey built his “teaching machine”. Printed questions were put on it and it would spit candy out when you got a certain number of questions right. The point is, for all the potential of AI has in education, people have been promising this for a while. 192
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026AlphaFold, RNA structures, automated endangered species field monitoring, material design, small molecule drug design, novel chemistry, atmospheric simulation and weather forecasting, medical diagnosis, robotics, analyzing giant astronomy datasets, brain connectomics It's more than chatbots 230
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026All of these companies were so afraid of being last to the party that they peeled out right into a brick wall. This is causing a societal and democratic blowback that I'm afraid is going to hold back or harm genuinely revolutionary science that is being enabled by AI 271
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Small correction: Mike does not wear a lot of hats. He only wears small, black, hip, bike messenger caps 040
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Amazing to see just how much the richest people in the world are absolutely fucking winging it 060
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." Someone please send Andy Weir a copy of Meditations 0100
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026On one hand, this is exactly the sort of answer you’d expect from an evangelical Christian. On the other hand, it’s not great that someone with a circa-19th century idea that UFOs are literal demons is one heartbeat away from being president. 3215
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I think that this list could have been much, much worse. But it also could be much better. Renewables? EVs? Biotech? Health? That's unfortunate, since the countries that lead in science today will lead the future. And I sure would like my country and my children's country to be one of those! 0101
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026What these people do: CEOs/execs: 9 Engineers: 3 Research scientists: 2 VCs: 2 What industries: AI & Chips: 4 Computing: 3 Nuclear energy: 2 Consumer internet: 2 VCs: 2 Crypto: 1 Agriculture: 1 1111
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I don't think there's much sense in overanalyzing this list, This admin is so anti-science that I'd be surprised if this council affects much actual policy. But this roster gives us a perfect look at what science and technology this admin thinks is important… 2104
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026And have you seen their skin? Fractally pointy, it's pointy all the way down 070
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Sharks are the bouba/kiki of fish. I firmly believe if they weren't so pointy, we wouldn't be afraid of them and treat them so badly. 1191
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026xAI running unpermitted and massively polluting gas turbine generators at one of their new data centers? Elon Musk's xAI? Flouting EPA rules?! Noooo… that can't be. Color me shocked! youtu.be/KitUtjFllbgyoutu.beWe Caught Elon Musk's AI Company Flouting EPA Rules Using a Thermal DroneYouTube video by Floodlight News 2152
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026It certainly is quite a time to do this science communication thing, isn’t it? Listen to us talk about it! 1160
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026media.tenor.coma man with a beard is talking into a microphone while another man in a suit stands behind him .ALT: a man with a beard is talking into a microphone while another man in a suit stands behind him . 010
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026SPOILER: Their overriding priority is not actually "securing the future of civilization." You'll never guess what it really is! 1180
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026If the overriding priority really is "securing the future of civilization" then I thought of 20 things billionaires can do NOW right here on Earth instead of far-fetched Moon/Mars dreams Folks, if we can't reach prosperity within our own planet's boundaries, we'll never do it anywhere else either 3242
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Look how hard it is for him to say no. He looks like he's sucking on a lemon just to get that word salad answer out When it is this hard for the people in charge of our national health research infrastructure to tell the truth about easy and obvious things, we are in deep doo-doo 2243
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Journalists arrested. Protestors murdered by the state. Religious nationalists at every level. This administration has been stunningly bold in their assault on our rights. Not even trampling on one of the deep cut amendments that no one remembers, they’re just coming right after number 1 1272
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026So many incredible applications of AI are being overlooked by the world because a few companies are obsessed with building slop meme machines and chatbot tamagotchis 0210
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/01/20261.24 The 1st, 2nd, 4th are not hypothetical. They are inalienable. Today will not be forgotten. 0313
Reposted by Joe HansonMolly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026@pbs.org has had my whole heart since I was little little, so it is very surreal to be writing for a PBS Digital Studios show! Here is my first episode of Be Smart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX... Thank you @drjoehanson.bsky.social & team! My nose knowledge now knows no bounds 👃youtube.comEverything I Thought I Knew About Flavor Was WrongYouTube video by Be Smart 1192
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this 9941961512
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If the hollow souls on the authoritarian right are so certain that agents are acting within their rights when detaining or killing US citizens, they should have no problem with this 0288
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025So… every single word of this is now true. We are now in that world. Sorry, Carl 3399
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes wrote and produced Christina Aguilera’s hits “Candyman” and “Beautiful” I feel like more people should know this 072
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025"Let me read/watch that for you" content is so tiresome and destructive to actual journalism I think people sharing their connection and reaction to events can really help news penetrate society's numbed attention, but barfing up someone else's work and saying "look what I found" is C- mindset 1121
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I WANT TO BELIEVE (that people were making nuanced distinctions between little grays and slime-covered exoplanets, but I can't) 040
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In 1996 only 48% of Americans thought aliens were real so things are going great 🫠 www.newsweek.com/alien-invasi...newsweek.comAlien Invasion!A MAN WHO ONCE worked for NASA is lecturing a couple of hundred normal-looking Americans in the exceedingly normal-looking ballroom of the Asheville, N.C., Radisson. 050
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In 1996, only 48% of Americans believed aliens were probably real. Things are not moving in the right direction! 🫠 www.newsweek.com/alien-invasi... 262
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In the sense that “unhealed emotional and spiritual trauma” means multiple mutations in genes involved in cell proliferation, DNA repair, and immune system evasion, this is true 0162
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Here's another: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgpy... These channels are tiny nothingburgers when it comes to traffic, but this is a critical invasion of privacy. If these companies aren't going to protect creator identities from AI theft, we're doomed y'allyoutube.comMi-6 Helicopter | The Cold War Monster That Shocked the West!YouTube video by ShadowStrike Tech 291
Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Numerous videos are using an unauthorized model of my voice to narrate AI slop. And YouTube just told me this doesn't violate any privacy rules! This is unquestionably me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4N... Apparently YouTube doesn't care about protecting our identities from AI theft. Infuriating.youtube.comWhat Samsung's Phone Letters REALLY Mean (A, M, S, Z, FE)YouTube video by Droid Sage 3236
