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MarianaTrench

@marianatrench-88.bsky.social
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Frightened disabled mom who keeps getting up every morning to see what I can do to help. #Parkinsons #Science #disabled

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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I’m voting for the candidate that promises to destroy the ballroom
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 26/11/2025
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox. you’re welcome to call. i hope you do. 216-361-6772.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
How exciting! CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers. CRISPR has so many applications. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer
Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...
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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here is another way of looking at state percent Southern Baptist and death rates, measured here as state total population life expectancy. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
First here is a context to understand what  the  predicted state life expectancy for hypothetical states with 0% and 100%f it in our CIA's ranking of countries in the CIA World Fact Book life expectancy table:			
Predicted life expectancy at zero percent Southern Baptist is 80.3.
Here is the CIA data line :

Rank.     Country.   Life Exp.  Data source.			
55		Chile	80.3	2024 est.

The predicted  life expectancy at 100% percent Southern Baptist is 72.2, halfway between:

Rank.      Country	Life Exp. Data source	
164		Russia	72.3	2024 est.
165		Togo	72.1	        2024 est.
 
If you look at the dot for Mississippi, you will see that it is not all the way to the predicted 100%, it is right at 70% and has a life expectancy of 75.

Anyway the scatter plot gives you a sense of where each state stands. The important thing to see is that the states with small  Southern Baptist populations are generally clustered up at. the high life expectancy end while. the increase. in percent Southern Baptist flows right. along. the line showing a lower and flower life expectancy as percent Southern Baptist increases. 

Here are the regression statistics:
r	-0.89
b 	-0.08
a	80.30

Here is a general description of what I think is the root cause this relationship between percent Southern Baptist and death rates:

Back when Obama Care was passed, it included a provision to allow religious groups to offer their own health care.  I can find no data the level they substitute prayer for health  care.  However,  I live in rural Alabama, see that AL dot on the graph, and I find relying on prayer for health care is not rare around here. That is why I put together the data to produce the. above graph.

The limitation is that this includes no control variables. I don't have room to include a total multivariate analysis but when I started with several variables and whittled the down with multiple regression, percent smoking cigarettes was strongest, this was second and percent uninsured was third.
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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 21/11/2025
Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth
Lee: What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources. Table 6 Primary Subsistence Source by Latitude. The table shows that less than 50 degrees from the equator, most hunter-gatherer societies rely mainly on gathering plant foods.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/11/2025
happy World Toilet Day to all who celebrate.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/11/2025
would still clog if you flush wipes.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m more interested in whether they’ve also figured out a way for it to stop growing
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is like saying the rooster died so the sun won’t come up Those numbers are out there somewhere. They just need someone brave enough to publish them
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I give you: literal figurative timeline cleanse For the most profound thoughtful content on Bluesky, nothing makes me more content than NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So they’re actually going to release job numbers? I’ll believe it when I see it. www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
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Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It’s not working. I have all the lights in the house on but it’s still undeniably winterish outside. How do we do this every year?!?
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Good day to wear my antifa pin
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Neicardina Cherry Shrimp Like tiny little red shuttle crafts flying through space. youtu.be/12NfL6LKo1I?...
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Shuttle crafts
YouTube video by Liza Brings
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My shrimp are cute.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It’s fascinating for me to look over a sea of mobile homes or poorly kept homesteads with ratty fixtures and wonder what keeps these voters red. Here are some insights. • pathological fear of social issues • completely wrong information • xenophobia and fear mongering How do they even function?
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We used to feign sunstroke at Disneyworld to gain entrance to quiet secret medical facilities with soft cots and orange juice.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One anthropomorphic evolutionary event I didn’t see coming was the rise of the public utility and service sector into metaphorical powerhouses on social media, and I’m here for it 💯%!
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Just two @ucalgary.bsky.social environmental science students saving a baby horse. No biggie. 🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Baby horse gets 'second chance at life' after being rescued by paddlers in Kananaskis River | CBC News
A foal that found itself stuck in the Kananaskis River would have been in big trouble, had paddlers Anna Gleig and Ava Haddad not come by and rescued it from drowning. After pulling it out of the wate...
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This kitty is a master of disguise….Blending in perfectly with its surroundings….. 🐱 🥰
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
People still watch TV?
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18/07/2025
🍔 Obesity rise not due to laziness A global study found people in wealthier countries actually burn more energy but still gain more weight. The main culprit? What they eat, not how active they are. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #SciComm #Obesity #PublicHealth 🧪
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
they should invent clouds that cover the sun when i mow
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🅽oah Scape 🎃 @noahk.bio · 17/07/2025
Welp, the company I've been working for is closing down and I was laid off this morning. I'm not really upset because I've known it was coming for a while, and I'd rather have time to work on more worthwhile endeavors. If you're doing business in the agriculture🌱 science🧪 sector I'd love to chat.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
On a hot day last July, I sat by the River Meavy #Dartmoor
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The West Dart, Hexworthy #Dartmoor
Peaty brown-orange river fringed by summer greenery & winding under a stone bridge
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 17/07/2025
🧠 Could a virus be linked to mental illness? Researchers found traces of hepatitis C virus in brain tissue more often in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This may hint at a deeper biological link. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #MentalHealth 🧪
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Association of viral RNAs in the choroid plexus with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and evidence for the hepatitis C virus involvement in neuropathology - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Association of viral RNAs in the choroid plexus with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and evidence for the hepatitis C virus involvement in neuropathology
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The 'world-first' plan to grow food above landfill. Just like to mention the name of the company in this article is real. Not a joke or mistyping. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The 'world-first' plan to grow food above a Wiltshire landfill
A company plans to use greenhouses above pits filled with waste to grow low-cost food for locals.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A wordy way of saying AI will never generate an original thought.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I just learned these this elephant-trunked-shaped cells, known as ciliate, put their sexy DNA into a special pocket (called a generative nucleus), and the rest of their DNA in a normal get-shit-done nucleus. It has functional specialization nuclei. Respectfully: holy shit 🧵🧪
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🧪The NIH announced they will be prioritizing research on humans over animal systems (plants will likely be at the bottom of the priority list). If you think this is a wretched idea, help program officers and leave a comment at this government site by 7/14! Repost! sdb.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
💥 🧪
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is quite astonishing - Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Read this to find out how much you can fit into a single space after a full stop (if you use a very small font) 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review
Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 10/07/2025
Ban congressional stock and crypto trading. Ban congressional stock and crypto trading. Ban congressional stock and crypto trading.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🧪 If you want a break from politics and disasters, you could try @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social's piece on cucumbers going ballistic 😊 arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Watch this cucumber squirt out its seeds at ballistic speeds
Many factors must interact perfectly to disperse the seeds efficiently without destroying the plant too early.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
May you be deer licked today
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/07/2025
the Kerrville mayor seems like a real peach
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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Can anyone recommend a good survey app that works offline and only stores data locally? Ideally with the same/similar functionality to Microsoft forms or Google forms🧪
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Aidan Reynolds (Chemistry Lego Guy) @aidan-reynolds.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
WORM EMERGENCY!!! Our -80 compressor is failing and we’re not sure what will happen to our worm stocks at the current temp (-45C). They’ve been at this temp for 16 hours and we’re contemplating reviving all strains not currently in use to save them, or move them to a new -80. Anyone have advice??
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 09/07/2025
Scientists have discovered a new potential cancer treatment derived from a fungus. That's not cool enough, though, so instead we have to talk about how this relates to King Tut's curse. 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/07/the-...
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The Fungus behind King Tut’s Curse is a LIE
Transcript: In a perfect world, scientists could do their research based upon what topics interest them, and if they find something cool, they should be recognized–celebrated, even!–for their…
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
On July 8, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology will host an event titled, "The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants". Researchers will present their work canceled by the Trump administration. 🧪 nasawatch.com/congress/con...
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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants
The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Ocean Ramsey followers are attacking me with some version of “she helped change a state law to save sharks and you didn’t, why should I listen to you?” I’d encourage you to read my paper about how we changed Florida law to save sharks using my research and my strategic communications plan. 🧪🌎🦑🦈
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Recreational shark fishing in Florida: How research and strategic science communication helped to change policy
Sharks are taxa of significant conservation concern, and while commercial overfishing is the leading cause of population declines, recreational angling poses an increasing threat to some coastal shar...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/07/2025
Research published in Nature Machine Intelligence reveals that deep neural networks prioritize visual properties over semantic ones when processing images, contrasting with human representation strategies. 🧪
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Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual properties than semantic ones, highlighting divergent representational strategies.
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Grazin’ in the Gravel Cherry shrimp , neon tetras, Nerite snail #Fish youtube.com/shorts/MgD9l...
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Grazin’ in the Gravel
YouTube video by Liza Brings
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Dinner and a Dance #Fish youtube.com/shorts/E8xj7...
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Dinner dance
YouTube video by Liza Brings
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