iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An experimental collaboration has reported what may be the first detection of a dark matter particle. I have a brief summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLM...

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Dark Matter Finally Detected?

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Actual reply from Claude: Step 1: Call Oman 📞 (the Gulf state everyone likes) Step 2: give 5th Fleet a vacation in a Gulf ports (the US has done versions of this before) Step 3: Hope Iran is having a chill day 🙏 Step 4: Explain to Congress why oil is $150/barrel

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There is no strategy that opens the Strait quickly, durably, and keeps American ships safe. You're picking two of three. That's the actual staff problem, and why "quickest possible, no mistakes" is a question that has no clean answer.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Useful reminder for drivers (please look back!) And cyclists (don't stay close to parked cars - you have a right to cycle in the middle of the road, be seen and safe!)

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...

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The Remarkable Science of Sound | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics | BBC Earth Science

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Some thoughts on why I think it's important to remember that the natural and physical world provide joy and curiosity, even though global geopolitics is very mean and horrible right now. Appreciating the world around us gives us joy & agency. Don't forget the bad, but hold on to the good too.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

PLEASE DON'T SHARE THIS - it creates fear and is just not correct We have kidneys which protect us from this! Ask a decent LLM what rheumatologists and bone doctors think of the paper. What the paper DOES do is unnecessarily scare young people (who have enough to worry about!)

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"The word 'evil' is derived from an old English word 'yfel' ... which means to “exceed proper boundaries.” (approx!)

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Bononbos Theory of Mind From www.pnas.org/post/update/... 🧪

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Good advice from NASA: ... on keeping projects going, despite cuts

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

EU, Canada and UK have 20 icebreakers and tens of thousands of winter troops. USA has 2 icebreakers, and few full time winter troops, winterised vehicles etc and little training. Remember Ukraine invasion? Be careful about military optimism!

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I have never before felt so patriotic about Greenland!

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"Wealth cannot be enjoyed under slavery" Boudicca, a queen of England who rebelled against Rome and Seneca the moneylender and philosopher (who I now like less!)

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Haven’t seen a politician this likeable since Obama

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Large and intricate naturally occurring structures composed exclusively of RNA... ROOL! More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

OLE RNA from Clostridium botulinum (pdb_00009lcr) is shown in pink on the left. ROOL RNAs can form cages built from 6 (right, top, pdb_00009j6y) or 8 (right, bottom, pdb_00009mds) subunits.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Recalling nearly 30 career diplomats serving as ambassadors is not standard practice for new US administrations

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Unintentionally, he speaks the truth:

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's easy to be negative about humans ... ... but I love that humans are working to prevent viruses from whales affect dolphins!

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18/11/2025

Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Exposing children to peanut products earlier in life has resulted in a significant drop in the number of children with peanut allergies in the past decade.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This is astonishing, remarkable! The intro is great, well worth a read. "greater [microbiome] diversity in infancy has been concurrently linked to increased fronto-parietal connectivity... implicated in cognitive control, which in turn was associated with increased infant negative emotionality"

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#Tylenol doesn't cause #autism, but recent studies and cohort analyses associate prolonged or frequent exposure to #acetaminophen in pregnancy with language delay, which could easily be confused with autism at age 2-3. Sources: www.perplexity.ai/search/does-...

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Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The hemiparasitic nature of Rhinanthus minor (yellow rattle) is exploited by horticulturists wanting to create wildflower meadows. This annual species is a parasite of grasses and slows their too-vigorous growth, allowing wildflowers to thrive. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of an upright shoot bearing a terminal, bracteate inflorescence. The small, tubular flowers are yellow. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

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Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🧪Is Richard Dawkins wrong about the nature of life? And is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"? That's what's in my new article. It's free to read and subscribe, and it features audio narration (read by me) for those who prefer it. #science #philsky #evolution #biology #philosophy

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Is Richard Dawkins wrong about the nature of life?

Is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"?

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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 09/10/2025

Don't forget your flu shot this year! Vaccines are safe and effective - talk to your doctor for answers to questions. #vaccinate #vaccine #noflu 🧪🧬🍎🥽👩‍🔬

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“Less than a week after her symptoms began, Suza was dead. Congolese government data shows that in Suza’s province, [malaria] deaths nearly tripled in the first half of this year.” Suza was five years old. Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Elon Musk killed her.

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Nataša Pirc Musar @predsednica-slo.si · 24/09/2025

… the UN Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security. The Security Council must be prepared to respond to the impact of AI on global peace. Therefore, Slovenia joins the call on the UN Secretary-General to provide regular reports on the development of artificial intelligence,

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This from a folate researchers is excellent for ASD parents who want to understand the cerebral folate hypothesis, and what studies are underway, and why they should NOT buy the supplements or get a MTHFR test this week: kcklatt.substack.com/p/folate-and...

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Folate & Autism, Unpacked

Prep for the upcoming HHS report

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I actually did: Too much Tylenol in 2nd/3rd trimester may cause auditory delay, which could appear like autism at age 2. This heals naturally. Perfect for a treatment scam!

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/09/2025

A study in Communications Psychology shows that people tend to give more additive advice than subtractive when supporting those with mental health issues. This bias contributes to a feeling of being overwhelmed in self-management. go.nature.com/4gqyGqm 🧪

Fig. 1: Amount of additive versus subtractive advice.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The World Wants More Vaccines. An Anti-Vaccine America Isn’t Helping www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

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The World Wants More Vaccines. An Anti-Vaccine America Isn’t Helping.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I was taking interesting posts from here to FB / X Now I'll swop

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The hug of the Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Luxembourg. That's probably one of the nicest things you'll see today.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Bio-meteorology is becoming a thing (Dr Cindy Morris in INRA, Avignon and Prof David Sands in USA) and this gives a cool intro. For monsoon/semi arid regions, as well as CCN, also important is IN ice nucleation at the top of towering anvil clouds, seeded by aerobacter from ground level, inc coffee

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 22/05/2025

i need some help with GAPIT in R using info from TASSEL. Can someone please help meeee 🧪

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Important topic for health and income: child stunting. The worst kinds of stunting begin in utero and cause brain damage.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

PLEASE WATCH THIS report on nurse in Sudan youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fz-vOeyu4 Nuba is one of few places in Sudan where a robust aid response could be scaled: An opportunity that cannot be missed. List of orgs working there: perplexity.ai/search/is-any-ngo-or-fao-or-ifad-deli-VlWbauzKT_CPOchq9SfbyA

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Life inside Sudan’s refugee camps | Unreported World

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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Life inside Sudan’s refugee camps | Unreported World

YouTube video by Unreported World

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Why do so many people put "No DM" on BlueSky ? Is it simply because they don't have time for yet another inbox? Or is there something else going on? (eg women not wanting romantic approaches? or MAGA hassles?)

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Kevin Marville @techandstream.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

into adulthood, eroding potential income by a staggering 20%, chipping away at economic productivity by 1.4%, and imposing an economic burden of $176.8 million per birth, stunting propagates a relentless cycle of poverty and malnutrition, casting a long shadow across generations flip.it/obSyBI

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Scientists discover height’s unexpected role in brain function

A new study has uncovered a striking link between an infant’s physical growth and early cognitive abilities, shedding light on brain function

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

#ncbi #blast doesn’t work either - i’ve been super concerned this was going to disappear - this database is crucial for genomic/transcriptomic research has anyone thought about how we can archive all of this information?? all the genomes, tools, data, we really cannot afford to lose it 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I was wondering how we oppose authoritarianism. Suddenly, it's obvious: .... with kindness!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🏺🦣🧪 A cool skull but I'm going to add nuance. Toothlessness alone doesn't imply food provision. 100% gummy bonobos, our closest primate relations, cope OK. But in hominins, esp. from 500 ka, systematic butchery & transport of prey points to group food sharing, making such care more likely.

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