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Collin O’C

@skepticksci.bsky.social

Geography Ph.D., science nerd, skeptic, tick-borne disease researcher and epidemiologist.

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The DAG to end all DAGs

16.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@psavary.bsky.social Is it possible to parallelize the graphab_metric R function in graph4lg with an argument inside the function? I've tried with foreach, but it seems that the workers step on each other when accessing the java file.

16.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I dare someone to try to find a Lyme literate physician who will give a negative diagnosis. Same goes for finding a chiropractor who doesn’t want to adjust you, or a homeopath who doesn’t prescribe, etc.

Biggest red flag is that there is always something wrong.

06.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Madagascar and Sri Lanka missing from the map

06.09.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah but he has raw milk

05.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains.
Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.

27.08.2025 05:54 — 👍 6878    🔁 950    💬 249    📌 51
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Predatory journal invite or ransom note?

25.08.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, wait 16 hours to be seen in the emergency room.

22.08.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For what it’s worth, it would be hard to tell if you’ve ever had a nymphal I. scapularis on you.

11.08.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course, but the question is, what about the category is generative for the phenomenon?

09.08.2025 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I also think ultra processed is an arbitrary cut point

09.08.2025 01:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think the question is what makes something ultra palatable. Common sense says high levels of salt, sugars, etc. High levels of sugar are also highly collinear with calories so I dont know. Eat fewer calories seems to be a good heuristic

08.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I would think that’s pretty important no?

06.08.2025 01:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did they control for calorie intake?

06.08.2025 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

05.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 2623    🔁 443    💬 18    📌 38

How could this possibly be true given the plethora of white academics?

01.08.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It doesn’t look like a great circle path on the animation? Is it just me?

30.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

26.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 5188    🔁 1774    💬 117    📌 109

Savage.

26.07.2025 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would love to know where you find it all haha

25.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Neat! I’m from Buffalo and do field work all around the finger lakes! I’m sure you’ve got some cool maps of the finger lakes available?

25.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Andrew! Where are you from upstate originally??

25.07.2025 01:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You don’t need ChatGPT for that, just a phone call to a local Lyme-literate physician

22.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Special pleading

22.07.2025 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Germany - Energy This is a best prospect industry sector for this country. Includes a market overview and trade data.

“Germany has maintained a high degree of oil and natural gas to maintain electricity supply security with oil and gas being almost exclusively imported.”

and

“more than 75% coming from fossil sources, as well as 17.2% from renewables and 3.2% from nuclear energy.”

There’s more in there too

21.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So you actually don’t know what it means

21.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No like I actually don’t understand and I don’t think you do either

21.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course not. But still not as bad as the fossil fuels that had to be purchased at an increased rate after phasing out nuclear.

21.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Clean is used colloquially to indicate whether or not energy use has climate change inducing emissions. Obviously radioactive waste is a concern, just not one related to climate change.

21.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How does Occam’s razor apply?

21.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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