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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The list of companies with whom I will never do business because of abysmal customer service gets one longer any time I have to interact with a company.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Noticed some good in my dog's eye. 12 hrs later I'm still awake in the veterinary emergency waiting room. Last week she had a spindle cell tumor removed. Wish Sadie good luck, and hope she keeps both eyes. If you make it to 16 in December I am buying you a car.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that I teach at a veterinary school, I finally have a use for all of my animal themed bowties

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Before everyone studied to lofi beats, they over-extrapolated from not-very reproducible results in a study of 36 college students to insist that everyone study while listening to Mozart. This is the true reason Millenials killed classical music

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Due to inflation, today the 6 million dollar man would cost 45 million. The contract would be granted in a no-bid contract to a start-up affiliated with Kushner that had never done bionics before, and he would die on the table because they used a MAHA grifter surgeon

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Dissolved in water based ink at low cx it wont precipitate out at RT. It's there as a biocide. Surfactants are there to control surface tension which controls flow.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Every time I get asked about trust in higher ed, I will now be obligated to bring this up. Wheen we talk about impunity from consequences, it includes things like this.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Rfk jr is weird in that it's hard to predict exactly the cognitive biases and thinking mistakes that will lead to his bad decisions other than "he will always make the wrong decision"

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It feels about the same to have defended and to be about to defend. Takes a while to process and decompress. No sudden feeling like a PhD.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Still traumatized by the project hail Mary centrifuge loading

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is the same as the weird false 1950s nostalgia people have. If you weren't an adult then it's an easy trap to fall into. As a 90s kid even more tempting

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I know an "I told you so" isn't helpful during the dismantling of American science, but this outcome was very obvious 11 years ago.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

He has met the Spectre, and also various Greek gods, and is aware of various metaphysical domains such as heaven hell and purgatory being places you can go to. He's probably pretty open minded

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Remember: if you see someone grieving a pet online, it's your feelings that matter and that's too much of a bummer. ONLY GOOD VIBES, OR ELSE

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In 1972 members of Nixon's reelection campaign burglarized DNC headquarters. Nixon attempted to conceal his administration's involvement.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"Sphere," "Cube," "The Ring" For a while there American cinema was trying to make us afraid of shapes

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19/04/2026

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The biggest shift in the US had been coal to natural gas. That drove most of the emissions reduction from 2005 peak. Eventually the economics of solar +storage will supplant most of that. Off-season storage remains a technology challenge though.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is one I visited in Arkansas. One fact that makes me happy is that they often have flocks of sheep that graze the land-- ends up cheaper then lawnmower blades

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

www.eia.gov/electricity/... In 2025 295,671 thousand mega watt hours of energy were generated at utility scale solar in the US. (Up from 36,054 in 2016). Small scale solar (incl rooftop) 93,148 in 2025 up from 18,182 in 2016. 8.4 fold growth vs 5.1 fold growth

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Electric Power Monthly - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

RFK Jr came to Sacramento twice to debate me and oppose my school vaccination legislation. He even incited his extremist followers to physically assault me, but I did not back down. Beat RFK Jr both times. Running for Congress to beat him again in Washington. #DrPanForCongress #CA06 #publichealth

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's obviously better if everyone can make their own electricity without depending on external utilities. However, even if every house and medium/large building had solar panels you'd be generating about 40% of energy needs. Still need utility scale in the mix.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It isn't really a counter. Germany has a larger fraction of small scale/rooftop solar to utility scale than for example the US does. But if you got rid of their solar plants that would be like half their solar capacity.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It would cost 3x as much to install and thus it would take longer to decarbonize.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Us has been building out utility scale solar. It's a bigger part of our solar mix than Germany's. The biggest bottleneck, I think is permitting for transmission lines

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I've been discovering that a shocking fraction of people don't really have a concept of the scale of solar projects that are needed to generate the energy we need. Utility scale solar is a good thing in addition to local panels.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

15.5, but no one tell her she's almost old enough to drive, I'm sure the insurance would be crazy

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Clearly there are benefits to parking canopies, but I'm answering the question why every charge station doesn't have this: The costs are comparatively high, and it isn't going to power the chargers on its own.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Suppose you invest 1M in a 1 MW solar farm, vs 3.5 M in 1 MW of canopies. It would take more than panel lifetime for a 7% transmission loss to make up the 2.5M difference. Plus advantages of putting panels where there's high solar resource, land availability, better capacity factor, etc.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The lowest estimate I can find for a solar parking canopy of any kind is above $3 per watt. Even at $2.5 /watt that wouldn't be as cost effective. By all means find an estimate that puts it at less than double the cost of utility scale solar.

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The area where utility scale solar becomes bottlenecked often is permitting for transmission lines. France is actually a bit better off there. Delays seem to be closer to 2-4 years vs 10-15 years in the US

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

That's useful if you want to know how many cars you could charge in a day, or how many energy you could add to the grid. Feel free to do that arithmetic

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In both cases the investment will pay for itself eventually through electricity production, and be good for the environment through reduced need for carbon fueld, so building these out is a good thing, just not the most efficient way to add capacity

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