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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Non-scientist translation: Strokes are when blood & oxygen are blocked in parts of the brain. Recovery means we need to restore those blood pathways. We found special cells that help re-make those pathways. This is good! It helps us make treatments to encourage those cells to work faster & better.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Non-scientist translation: Crocs depend on the environment to control their body temperature. Since everything is getting hotter, they're having to change their habits to adapt, but eventually they're going to reach a limit they can't handle. This is bad because they are important to the ecosystem.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Non-scientist translation: we studied lots of fossils to see when spiders evolved their web-maker parts. This gives us an idea of what order spiders evolved in and what pressured them to make webs. It helps us understand history but also gives us ideas about how to use spiders in modern day.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: It's better to switch how we make energy than to try to capture pollution. Capturing the pollution costs more and takes more energy, which causes more pollution! Better to switch to energy that doesn't make pollution in the first place.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I think most non-scientists can understand this summary, but will ask, "why does this matter?" This is not actually about the egg, but about using computers to model heating/cooking something with two phases- in this case, egg and yolk. Lots and lots of things have two phases, not just food.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

whoops! reskeeting twice for non-scientist translation: We have a new cancer therapy that teaches your cells to fight cancer! This girl took the therapy and it has kept her cancer-free for a long time, meaning we can start to be confident your cells will remember and continue to fight cancer!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here is the pig butt study, where you can not only learn more about the worm, but also how to say pig butt in Latin: core.ac.uk/reader/21626... 🧪🦑🐙🌊🪼

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Birds-of-Paradise are nuts. We know this. They dance. They build stages. They have bonkers plumage, some of which is "ultra-black". And now, scientists have just shown that they also GLOW, via biofluorescence. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! Gift link 🧪 #birds www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

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Birds of Paradise Glow on Their Mating Parade (Gift Article)

The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: if a cow gets bird flu, it can get passed into its milk. If the milk is treated with reeeaaallly high heat really fast (pasteurization) then it kills the virus and you won't get sick. But 'raw milk', which doesn't have that process, will still have the virus.

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Jay W Schwartz, PhD @jwschwartz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hey world! My lab is studying how humans perceive cat vocalizations. Are you willing to take about 10-20 minutes to help us out? All you need is a computer and headphones! Click this link to take our survey - FOR SCIENCE! tinyurl.com/yrmaa3dn Please share! :)

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: we studied hospitals that make money vs hospitals that are government funded. Patients say the hospitals that make money are way worse to be at, and it seems it only gets worse, not better, with time. Healthcare shouldn't be for profit.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: These guys turned microscopic special-soap bubbles into solar-powered chemical factories that can just hang out in water. Which is *wild*. And also really good, since water and light are pretty sustainable for projects like this!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: You know that whole "every action makes an equal and opposite reaction" rule? It works with molecules! But they were able to prove it with some cool moving molecules that go up and down but always balance. Knowing how molecules work helps us with medication and tech!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: We need chemicals for medication, but it's picky. Like shoes. You can't use the right one for the left, or the other way round. So they're hard to make. One spin and it's made wrong. These folks are using proteins to keep stuff from spinning, so they can make what we need!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: sometimes doctors are wrong. This is not new, but now we're finding new ways to diagnose the tough stuff! It's also good to have studies like this, because it's important to acknowledge even experts get things wrong sometimes, and we can always try new things to improve!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: it is really important to figure out how animals socialize. But it's hard, cause they fly and move around and sometimes all look alike. These folks used math and cool computer chips, as well as some awesome birds, to test some new ways we can track animal friendships!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: The ocean used to be kind of acid-poison, so life couldn't grow. After a bunch of things like earthquakes and volcanoes, the ocean got mixed up with earth chemicals and now it's actually really good at not being poisonous. Which is awesome for beach days this summer.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Translation for scientists and non-scientists alike: a machine can't think like a person when it comes to figuring out which patterns matter and which patterns don't. Always remember your brain is the most important computer you have and use it!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: Some trees grow less tall and make more babies when they notice climate change. This means trees change behavior based on the climate. Very cool, but it also means we can't expect plants to act like they did before we started messing with the weather.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: we made a gene that was really, really big, in a lab instead of in a person or animal or plant. Proving technology can do this is awesome for things like gene therapy where we need to understand and change genes to get rid of disease!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: Whooping cough is killing people. Vaccines help you not get it. They also help your kids not get it. That may be something you want to do, if you don't want to die. Or have your kids die.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: even the coolest scientists (I'm a chemist and I stand by this) are complete dorks when they *like*-like somebody. More news at 10.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: COVID isn't like chicken pox where you get it once and never get it again. Instead your body forgets about it over time and you'll probably get it again! Regular vaccinations will help your body remember.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: we can make hydrogen from sticking electricity in water. It's basically doing the opposite of what that guy in the Martian was trying to do when he blew himself up. Anyway, this is good cause we can use hydrogen as fuel instead of oil!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The implied urgency of "I HAVE TO GET THIS OPEN RIGHT NOW" is killing me. Respect the planet. Keep your cock covers off the concrete!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: your balcony could lower your electricity bill soon with sneaky sneaky solar panels. This is good for everyone!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: we got cool new rice. It is better for the environment and grows way more rice in less land, which makes it easier to feed more people! This is good!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: sometimes people with diabetes might have the right stuff but it can't get to the right places. We're gonna try a new hormone in studies and see if we can open the door to get it there. This could help diabetic people!

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: This fly baby makes its butt look like a termite head. This buttface is such a super spy that the fly baby can just walk into the termite house and eat all their stuff. Termites just assume their buddy is hungry. Badass if you are a fly baby and bad if you are a termite.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: Oil companies don't care about your homeowner insurance prices. This is not new information, but the oil companies are now being extra assholey about it.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist Translation: These baby germs in the ocean are making tiny magnets. Figuring out how they do this is super helpful cause it tells us about the germs and what's going on in the ocean. Also the germs made the magnets bullet-shaped, which is badass.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: Lemurs be boppin'. Writer's complaint: there is no audio of the boppin' in the article. How dare. I've now got to look up the lemur songs.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-Scientist Translation: some people think if we put lots of tiny dust clouds in the sky, we could block some light and radiation and calm down some of the global warming. Other people say putting this idea is too risky, and assholes might poison the sky instead. Argument is ongoing.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-Scientist Translation: we should actually have more wildfires, but tiny little ones. Instead we have giant ones that threaten homes and entire forests. This is bad. We may need to learn better ways to take care of our forests.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-Scientist translation: we may have global warming at a point where even if humans stopped all their activity, it could keep getting worse. This is bad. Remember that even if you don't believe in climate change, your homeowners insurance probably does.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here’s some amazing NIH-funded research: it aims to figure out how particulates in the air affect our lungs. That’s very important in an era of increasing smoke from forest fires. 🧪 #scicomm

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

H5N1 U.S. Tracker Lots of H5N1 about. Source: www.ginkgobiosecurity.com/h5n1-us-trac...

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: We're working on windows that are also solar panels. They're getting better and closer to consumer use. This is awesome.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-scientist translation: The bird flu moved to cows. When it moved to cows it mutated in a way that means it can move to humans and spread fast. We found a human with the spread-fast version. Take precautions.

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Translating as best I can @itssciencebitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Non-science translation: Flu is possibly mutating. More incidents of it giving your kids an illness that can lead to brain damage and death. Take precautions and get vaccinated.

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