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Your fav biomedical engineer. When I'm not doing science, I'm advocating on policies and working to make STEM more inclusive. Once upon a time, "warrior diplomat" for the US Army. links — https://projectbiotech.co/tom

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Latest posts by smootasaurus.bsky.social on Bluesky

Death knocked on the wrong door last night and we all know it.

17.02.2026 13:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get this chat. I live across the street from a bougie pet spa. Just spent half hour in the window watching all the dogs we'll be making friends with in the near future... I HAVE REAL FUCKING WINDOWS NOW!

16.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Python plot of magnetic field lines

Python plot of magnetic field lines

Thesis watch: today my advisor committee gets their first update. Sadly it's not as productive as I planned. My first sensor design was... NOT great. But I've written some code to model the sensor's magnetic field, which will help me define some other parameters.

13.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Forgive me for being offline a bit more this week but WTF is going on in El Paso and what felony is our commander in chief committing today?

11.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Biomedical engineering thesis watch:
Any other supernerds ready to study silanization with me? Apparently I need a crash course on cleaving covalent bonds and adding hydroxyls to the cleaved molecule's open charge.

09.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fun fact I started with a supplement for my LLC but discontinued it because I couldn't do the aggressive borderline fictional claims. I was giving it away to veterans trying to lure them away from the manosphere BS but took a loss when I couldn't stomach the misleading claims. Happier now tho...

08.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fall of Longevity Experts: Cellular Health Primer From a Biomedical Engineer Why the "Autophagy" in Your Supplement Bottle Won't Prevent Sarcopenia

Good morning. Now that we know what Peter Attia's really like, I took some time this week to gather some recent research that might keep us from falling for the next supplement grifter to take his place.

07.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pedometer & Step Counter - Apps on Google Play Privacy first step counter and pedometer. Your data stays on your phone.

Sharing the link to my 1st app in the play store, mostly to see the link preview. No plans to make any money off this, I wanted to make sure I knew how to access the health data our phones collect about us.

Use it if it's helpful. Once it hits 10k users I'll open source it.

06.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of contact info for the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command.

Screenshot of contact info for the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command.

Let me help y'all out. Go ask for a statement on Tulsi Gabbard.

06.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

About this Tulsi Gabbard situation. Everyone should Google —USACAPOC PAO— and ask them for a statement please.

06.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

$$$BILLIONS$$$ to hire ICE goons was REALLY about:

“ICE is going to surround polling places” — Steve Bannon

#StealingDemocracy

05.02.2026 13:19 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Advances in cartilage imaging techniques - Nature Reviews Rheumatology Non-invasive imaging of articular cartilage has evolved markedly and can be used to monitor response to treatment and predict disease outcomes. This Review provides rheumatologists with a comprehensiv...

Every time a physics research headline grabs my attention it turns out the conclusion is some AI epiphany. The tech bro fandom in STEM is going to kill us all as they insist on forcing it into our health care.

04.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE employees on Reddit complain about late salaries and missing insurance, despite promises made upon hiring ICE employees have reported delayed pay and missing health insurance on Reddit, while critics question how staff tolerate dangerous duties for little or no compensation.

Best evidence so far that karma is real. Now we just need to prove God is Alanis Morissette.

04.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hanna barbera dog laughing.

Hanna barbera dog laughing.

Y'all still think Epstein k!llêd himself?

03.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm sure there's a name for it but the right is wired directly to the hustle culture component that's forever seeking an unfair advantage, whether that be access to power (political or physical, ie. guns etc) or biohacking themselves to be "better" than everyone else. It's a mental health disorder.

02.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Republican plan for labor in this country is mainly indentured servitude from the absolute moment you are able to work until you die.

02.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 22    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

Chat I just passed the "clown doctors" on their way to cheer up the pediatrics dept. Not quite as uplifting as our canine team in my opinion but we could do worse for sure.

02.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a red shirt is sitting on a couch eating noodles while looking at a tablet . Alt: a man in a red shirt is sitting on a couch eating noodles while looking at a tablet .
02.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Girl mansplaining to a dude who isn't thrilled

Girl mansplaining to a dude who isn't thrilled

PHIL WE CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS FOR ANOTHER SIX WEEKS!!

02.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sleep stats screenshot showing a whopping 4hrs last night.

Sleep stats screenshot showing a whopping 4hrs last night.

I people-ed way too much yesterday. New things are never as easy after a PTSD diagnosis. It’s not that I’m stressed out, but people tax my nervous system.

Be more intentional, patient, and self aware when you navigate new chapters, friends.

01.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If anybody else isn't going to sleep today, want to share book recommendations?

01.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

31.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 44581    🔁 11023    💬 1108    📌 452
Peter Attia is in the Epstein files.

Peter Attia is in the Epstein files.

Looking like Peter Attia isn't one of the good guys.

31.01.2026 13:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

👀 OMG this might fix me.

30.01.2026 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Elon deflection tweets

Elon deflection tweets

If anybody's paid any attention to me whatsoever, you know I detest Elon musk.

He's not even a real engineer. He just buys them, and the Epstein files released today confirm he's a piece of shit.

ATTN-Elon shareholders at Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, etc. all he does is lie and you're enablers:

30.01.2026 21:21 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Text message screenshot showing someone is terrified of having Alex Bores in office.

Text message screenshot showing someone is terrified of having Alex Bores in office.

Yes yes journalists arrested today and that's bad.

Meanwhile in late stage capitalism my inbox is blowing up with @alexbores.nyc hate and I honestly can't tell if it's coming from the right or the left.

All I know is he's doing something right.

30.01.2026 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Don Lemon's arrest is a good point in the timeline to quote a book I burned through last year.

People should support, read, and share high quality investigative print journalism. People are only free and independent because they can tell the truth from falsehoods. — Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

30.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey gang my last grad school class, Biomedical Device Infections, is super so far. Today was all case studies on joint replacement and osseointegration presented by the chief of infectious disease at HSS.

29.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are y'all just as tired of the massive influx of spammy techbro cold emails? Like... if you're so great Kevin why are you cold emailing a starving grad student? I'm once again thinking about building a "super inbox filter" app. Any appetite for that if I build it?

28.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path CBS News chief Bari Weiss told her staff that “we're toast” if the network continues with its current business strategy and invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking.

Weird way to say her work, direction, and leadership is cooking an American institution.
apnews.com/article/cbs-...

28.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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