Alex Dainis PhD 🧬

I've been telling everyone I know. I have decided I need to go opening night because I just need to be a fly on the wall for whatever is going to happen. Maybe it's actually the best marketing ever.

I know EXACTLY which restaurant you're talking about and I have felt like they are trolling me specifically. Pictures of the stairs! The parking lot! An interior that looks like it was designed in the Sims. But the food? Not even a whiff of a hint. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

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See how to get green flags from the start...There's HiFi for That: bit.ly/3JminPa

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I just received three separate AI notetaker summaries of a call I was in and y’all I do not want or need three different sets of badly taken notes.

I have been dying to see it on my few trips up there!!

Just screaming into the void.

What looks like a spinning window might just be your brain filling in the blanks. 🧠😵‍💫

In the Ames window illusion, @alexdainis.bsky.social builds a trapezoid “window” with shading that tricks your brain into seeing motion that’s not really there.

There’s still time for us.

Sometimes I really feel like I’ve messed up my “influencer” journey.

I’m out here trying to convince people to use science for good in their lives when I’ve missed my true passion and calling of being a collab cookie reviewer.

Update: Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social was found alive this morning!

He is in good health with some injuries to his leg/foot. He is at a hospital in Bergen now. Thank you to the Norwegian helicopter team who found him and all the volunteers who searched in bad conditions. ❤️

The best news!!! 😍

Search Underway for Alec Luhn, American Journalist Missing in Norway A search was underway Tuesday for Alec Luhn, 38, who was last heard from five days ago at the start of a solo hike.

Alec Luhn, an American journalist, has been missing for days in Folgefonna National Park in Norway. He was last heard from on Thursday at the start of a solo hike.

American climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

I wish I could work on my book after work but unfortunately my brain only functions for five hours a day and my job takes seven of those

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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A clip from this week's episode of SciComm Summer, featuring @alexdainis.bsky.social. Check out Opinion Science for the full episode. (
opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/alex...)

We're hiring!

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The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!

Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

Check out @andyluttrell.bsky.social's interview with fellow #scicomm awardee @alexdainis.bsky.social for his SciComm Summer series of the Opinion Science podcast!

Booms and plumes over LA tonight. (Don’t be alarmed if a sonic boom wakes you up.)

Today is a #BostonFamilyDay with free museum, zoo, and aquarium access for all school-age children and two guests! Here’s a list of our partners opening their doors to families today! 🧵

Museum of Fine Arts
Institute of Contemporary Art
Museum of Science
Boston Children's Museum
New England Aquarium

I thought this was Paul Rust.

YouTube video by Reactions Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13

@alexdainis.bsky.social wanted to make a video about stable isotope testing and wound up uncovering what looks like honey fraud at her local grocery store. Our latest Reactions episode at ACS 🧪

Thanks for including our video!

Hahaha, um yes, but only if you promise to send it to me when it’s done!!

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.

In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.

And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

A YouTube thumbnail of Alex disappointedly pointing at a jar of honey with text that says “Jar of Lies”

Very proud of this video on honey fraud that I worked on with the @acs.org Reactions team! I really really wanted to write a video about stable isotopes, and along the way we found honey that might not really be what it claims to be… youtu.be/rKvNp0fAaZ8