Scary (they/them)

Mayonnaise is disgusting, and science agrees A lot of Americans can’t stand mayonnaise, here’s a look at why.

I am a professional scientist. I learnt at work most days.
Today I learnt 20% of people hate mayonnaise. www.popsci.com/mayonnaise-d... #science #TiL

Halloween dress up at work today and my colleague came as a pH meter.

Yes we are big nerds, why do you ask.

#science
#halloweenScience

Like all sentient life, I am sustained by a loose assemblage of comforting delusions.

Chief among them is the quiet belief that, eventually, ‘These Cunts’ will just fuck off of their own accord.

However, you find me now, at 1:17am, having what can only be called a crises of faith.

Transcended to a new level of physicist last night when I couldn't sleep until I wrote down the answer to the equation which was bothering me

Physicists say 'by inspection' because saying 'by playing spot the difference' would make us sound silly.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Well, that's an uninformed and uncaring take. But if you're bored, there's a really easy solution. There's a whole world out there. Go do something else.

I'm a graduate of Bristol - indeed, of the department she's speaking in, for some reason - and this is extremely disappointing to me. It makes me less inclined to engage with future Bristol initiatives.
Do better.

TERF out Transphobia: The IOE and "Academic Freedom" – The Cheese Grater Magazine This article was awarded Best Media Piece at the 2024 Students’ Union UCL Arts Awards. Mads Brown Students have finally […]

Hey @bristoluni.bsky.social , why are you hosting a talk by noted transphobe Alice Sullivan? She promoted UCL dropping Stonewall as an independent voice to help them with queer inclusion, and made UCL less trans friendly. You want more of that?
cheesegratermagazine.org/2024/01/19/t...
#trans

WHAT

'AWS outage' is modern desk worker 'snow day!!!'

The hellscape that is battle-ravaged Portland.

Labour + Streeting launching review into "over diagnosis" of mental health/neurodiverse conditions.

Simon Wessely been given vice chair position for it.

Excited for Cass 3.0 🫠🫠🫠

This feels absolutely not ominous, particularly given recent US events

Great find!

Please note I retained the correct dimensionality in my literature joke

I keep wanting to define the Bingham number as the ratio of time spent courting in the country to time spent in the city being self-consciously fancy with posh friends.

#physics #physicsJoke

a man in a suit is standing next to a mascot on a stage with the words veed.io below it ALT: a man in a suit is standing next to a mascot on a stage with the words veed.io below it

I loved Mr Blobby as a child, a fact I now cannot explain without positing a disconnect in the continuity of self.

The first listed 'capability' in a 'researcher' is to have a significant relevant and declared bias.

**Melts down in scientist**

Another new feeling to add to the bank:
Me: 'This is humiliation. Segregation. Risks safety. For me, my friends, people you know and care about.'
Them: 'well. Some people don't think so, and some people think you're all harassers, and anyway it doesn't matter'.

.....

Today in 'being trans in 2025'.

When someone tell you they are worried about incoming trans segregation legislation, and asks you for support, do you:
A) say 'fuck, that is worrying' and help
B) say 'fuck, that is worrying but I can't help'
C) say 'there are strongly held views on all sides', call it a 'technicality' and not help

@tom-mcnally.bsky.social you have the best username

The Oklahoma Schools Superintendent, a religious extremist, is in hot water after having porn on a screen during a meeting.

I know 'separation of church and state' was never gonna happen with this guy, but I guess I assumed we'd at least get 'separation of school meetings and Pornhub.'

Temps gonna hit 34°C in the UK. It's really hard for me and others in these temps. Maybe try and cut people some slack today, if you're not finding it hard?

Thanks.

Elon Musk: That was how I felt when asking Grok 4 questions about materials science that are not in any books or on the Internet Tim Sweeney: Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn't seen before, in ways I haven't seen elsewhere. Here's an example: grok.com/share/bG...

What do you think is more likely, that Musk’s Nazi robot has made new discoveries in materials science or that Musk can’t tell when he’s being told scientific-sounding gibberish?

'i-can't-believe-it's-a-science-term' of the day: the Nose-Hoover thermostat

A white friendly beautiful husky with dark eyes and a pink nose lying on the ground and looking at the camera through a gate, soppily

#TIL dogs can see in UV. this is relevant because my hair is currently UV reactive green and dogs can't see green, or even particularly well.k

pictured: a cute dog I have befriended , possibly aided by my hair.

Tom Araya - Wikipedia

#TIL Tom Araya, the lead singer of thrash metal band slayer ( lots of satanic imagery and an album called 'god hates us all') is a practising Catholic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Araya

“Abrego is the first person who has been freed and given his testimony about the conditions inside” CECOT.