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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Please: Recommendations for science and math communicators doing videos 6th through 8th graders can follow. #science #STEAM #Communication #youth

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Life may have had a bizarre start, with bits & pieces strewn on metal surfaces on the Earth's sea floor near or on smokers. A big evolutionary step might have been getting assembled & free of the need for metal surfaces. Speculation: What if ALH 84001 fossils were big enough for part of life? 🧪🧬

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🧪🧬 About 45 years ago, I signed up for a graduate class I didn't have the prerequisites for. Quite possibly only the professors teaching it did. I couldn't drop out after the first class because it was so fascinating. We were studying how pores in membranes worked. I probably should have.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@clbergpowers.bsky.social It was Washington University in St. Louis. I don't want cause problems for anyone. Rich, powerful, a lot from New York, known for Pre-Med. A number of profs were Jewish, many in the sciences worked on the Manhattan project. Tests were scheduled around Jewish observances.

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

hi. i hate hate HATE doing this, but i’m not gonna be able to make rent this month and i need groceries as well. please help me out if you can and are able, or simply share. help a grad student please. v e n m o: astrojaz p a y p a l: www.paypal.me/Spacequeenjaz

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Pay Jasmine Singh using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/Spacequeenjaz and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Jung Choi "not going back!" @jung-gt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Two weeks ago we visited an Andean condor rescue and captive breeding program in Zuleta, Ecuador. Reminded us of the California condor captive breeding program that revived the population from 27 to over 600 over several decades. Can populations thrive after such severe genetic pinholing? TBD

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 24/06/2026

Amazon Prime Day who? Support an awesome small business instead (me) stellerarts.com/pages/spectr...

Small print of my cat’s paw nebula painting

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Dottie Number We were one of the first high school chemistry classes to have multi-function calculators. (Yes, we learned to use slide rules.) We had a guessing game: someone would pick a number and someone else would pick a function. We'd guess the answer and then check to see the result. 1/n

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/06/2026

I personally think New York City should not bend to Trump's bigoted bullshit in any way. I'm gonna tell @mayor.nyc.gov (AGAIN) that he should protect the right of trans kids to get the healthcare they need - and open this city clinic to them. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

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Contact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's Office

Send a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Someone asked if the Science Feed was only for people in the natural sciences. Is there a feed for someone in the unnatural sciences? I think I'm joking but I'd at least check the feed out if there is one for the unnatural sciences. Wondering what constitutes unnatural sciences.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Long Covid research takes some major steps forward:

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The Causes of Long Covid

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

OAOAHH HHAOAO Anyone else know what this means? I can't be the only one, right? 😆

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Per my calculation, I have to sell about 1100 shirts to fund our insect mural series. Which sounds nuts, ok? I know. That sounds nuts. However... We already sold 132 so... I dunno, maybe we CAN make good things happen with silliness joy and art? I kinda think we can.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@astrohelena.bsky.social A friend saw your presentation at Allegheny Observatory last night. You went way beyond his training and he was very impressed I hope to see you here among the astronomers. I used this book for Earthbound things, but the number of citations in astrophysics are amazing!

A very worn copy of Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot's (BSL) red Transport Phenomena book.

I learned this for Earthbound chemical engineering.

It shocks me how many times BSL shows up in astrophysics papers and the like. We joked about relativistic fluid flow.

It's apparently not a joke. If you study the book, you'll figure out how to adapt it for Special Relativity. I would have no hope of adapting it for General Relativity.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

@dykanite.bsky.social I went to a gem show with my wife. I loved rocks as a kid, but the science was all about digging the stones up, not chemistry and geology. I had no idea there were so many different gems and rocks. I asked one of the workers if a book they had went into the chemistry

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Piratenpartei Saarland @piratensaarland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Das war kein #Signal Hack, das war #Phishing. Bundestagsabgeordnete & Regierungsmitglieder von CDU & SPD sind darauf reingefallen. Der nigerianische Prinz lässt grüßen. 😄 Und Menschen mit dieser Digitalkompetenz wollen Vorratsdaten- bzw. IP-Speicherung ? #PIRATEN

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Repost with your first crush. Joan of Arc Just a teenager, in a world where women meant little. Horrified at what the war had done to the common people. Chosen by God to do what the men around her would not and could not do. Brilliant strategist. Held an English soldier and cried while he died.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

There are things adults & parents say to people with (Au & A)DHD that they think will encourage us but are traumatizing. There are things nurses & doctors say to people with diabetes that they think will encourage us but are traumatizing. Um, anyone notice an overlap? #adhd #audhd #diabetes #T2D

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

@astronomy.bsky.social Strange question: What is the farthest anyone has been from the sun? I used to have an astronomy program that gave distances from the sun. Assuming the orbital height, I went through the Apollo missions and found the record. I forget the answer. Is Artemis 2 the new record?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 15/11/2025

"It's ok if I post disinformation because it could be true" "It's ok if I misrepresent a thing as happening now even if the article is 5 yo, because it's probably worse now" It's ok if I mislead people, because I'm on YOUR side. Rings a bell? Unfollow and block them. Poison to your community.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As Fran was nice enough to highlight this, I thought I'd put up a brief thread. 3 in 10 proteins that our cells make are either embedded in membranes (ion channels, adhesion molecules, etc.) or secreted (insulin, antibodies). They move through the secretory pathway. 1/

simple diagram of the secretory pathway.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

How many were dead when he wrote the song?

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Found at: www.thetakeout.com/2057732/90s-...

Article about Shark Bites Fruit Snacks, molded out of some kind of fruit slurry and gum and solidified into shark shapes

Continuation of article about Shark Bites Fruit Snacks, molded out of some kind of fruit slurry and gum and solidified into shark shapes

End of article about Shark Bites Fruit Snacks, molded out of some kind of fruit slurry and gum and solidified into shark shapes

I woke up to check my blood glucose and saw this while doom scrolling. I'm doing a lousy job on the alt descriptions. I'm sorry. I'm half asleep. Ask me tomorrow and I'll look up the entire text and paste it up if anyone cares. Tell me I sent pictures to David about Shark Fruit Snacks. I probably won't remember this when I wake up, or I'd offer to do it.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I wonder if anyone wears the "Dear person behind me" shirt inside out?

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Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

Ariel photograph of the AIDS Memorial Quilt stretched out on park in front of the US Capitol. Late 1980s.

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Kunterbunt Leben @kunterbuntleben.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🐨 schmeißt aus Versehen die Brille vom Mann herunter 🐨: Nichts passiert 🧔: Und was ist das? 🐨: Da ist nur das Glas raus gefallen, die kann man noch tragen 😆

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In a P. Chemistry🧪 test, I was asked if a deck of cards could be unshuffled without increasing the entropy of the universe. I answered "No." It was marked wrong. I went to the Prof. He wouldn't budge. I could have won with two words but didn't think of it: Maxwell's Demon 🧵 1/2

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Help: Iron Precipitated from cereal with milk added A long time ago, I heard a story (on the news, I think. I don't think it was a FOAF, I hope) about a new cereal or new formula of cereal that, when milk was added, produced tiny flecks of iron. I swear I remember this. Anyone else?

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Someone asked me why I like Taylor Swift. That's a hard question. It might be easier to just list my favorite songs...You Belong with Me, Love Story, Style.... When you have trouble solving something, try expanding it as a Taylor Series.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2025

"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?" A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro -> www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

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AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.

I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration.

And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it.

Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it…

a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

December, 2025: Hold my eggnog!

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social Check out Dr. Aliza on Facebook. AI "videos" of female human reproductive anatomy that are more like H. Bosch might have painted on Psilocybin. I'm stupider for having watched.

A still from a psychotic computer AI about human reproduction that includes air for the baby to breathe.

I don't know how to describe how wrong it is. I think my brain is horrified. It's absurd, ridiculous, and the human associated with it should be ashamed.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

When you have to put something where you won't lose it, add the item and the location to the "Were I Put It" list. I am not sure where to put the list.

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social has launched a fundraising campaign to cover some of the legal fees accrued in taking a case against her employer, the University of Auckland. She explains why. thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...

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Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle

'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'

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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#idsky #medsky I have always been impressed with the host-pathogen wars over iron, and all the amazing ways bacteria steal it from us.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Glad they were caught and punished. I hope no grad students were harmed by this scam, but I suspect some were. The pressure to finish a degree quickly and/or with the desired results may have made some of them victims. www.the-scientist.com/scientist-fi...

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Scientist Fired for Defrauding Scholars in Huge Publishing Scam

From forged acceptance letters to fake DOIs, a publishing scam put Iraqi students and their degrees at risk. The fraudster? A university professor.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Last evening, I watched the Scripps Front Row Lecture "How microbes are rewriting the rules of immunity" with Howard Hang, PhD. Unsurprisingly, the microbiota humans carry affects our health, including our immune system. The effect of the genes those organisms carry (microbiome)... 🧵🧪🦠🚀 1/n

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Richard Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne Susumu Kitagwa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Kyoto University Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign They won it for organometallic frameworks.

Blue sky search showing no articles on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at 7:18 am EST.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina about "One mystery of Long COVID - why immune cells get stuck in a harmful, inflammatory mode..." "A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵" Full thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19712...

One mystery of Long COVID - why immune cells get stuck in a harmful, inflammatory mode.
A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I've got Temu ADHD. I overpaid for this crap and it won't do the fun stuff in the ad. #ADHD

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm old enough that I get a "repeat 3 words later" schtick from a nurse about every year. The nurse, reading from a script, said three words. I complained those were the same three words as last year. That felt good! I forgot this year's new three words. Maybe if I hear them I'll recognize them.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I was trying to write that I could not remember if a particle was a boson or a fermion. Autoincorrect changed boson to bison. Picture two bison colliding at near c in the Supercollider. I'm not cleaning it up.

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Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This thread is an interlude to the series about "How Common is Life in the Universe?" There's a concept rattling around in my brain that I need to use in this discussion that needs some explanation. 🧪🧬🚀🦠 🧵 1/n Interlude

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