Compton Scatterbrained

Bezetting Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen voorbij, 23 aanhoudingen Pro-Palestijnse studenten bezetten sinds gistermiddag het magnetenlaboratorium op de campus in Nijmegen.

Students occupy magnet lab in Nijmegen. Dean says if they break stuff in the lab they could blow themselves up. Students say they know what they're doing.

The news reporting here really sucks.

nos.nl/artikel/2585...

Screenshot of the link once it's opened. It's msn.com with "Ontdekken" at the top and Ditch news headlines.

All I get is this garbage. Looks like they're geo-iping me and deciding I don't want to read an article in English.

I wish I could read it :(

They think autism is worse than being weeks in hospital and coming out with encephalitis-induced brain damage, thanks measles.

I don't know why but the link just takes me to an MSN honepage with lots of celebrity stories :(

Skeleton, muscles, and surface of a red eared slider

Some turtle anatomy I did back in the day

A long one.

Luckily the Dutch can keep up with longass dumb words.

I thought it was 95% bleach

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ooooooh, creation(/existence) vs presetvation is such a big one in paleo

there's a reason the first words out of damn near every angel's mouth was "be not afraid!"

a Map of the Northeastern subarctic Pacific (NESAP) showing BGC-Argo float trajectories (colored dots; float IDs in legend), approximate float positions during the marine heatwave (MHW) peaks in 2015 and 2019 (black dots), and Line P stations sampled for pigments and genetics (magenta triangles, stations P20-P26). b, c Mean monthly chlorophyll-a to carbon ratio (Chl:C, dimensionless) integrated over 0-100 m. d, e Mean monthly particulate organic carbon (POC, mg m-2) for 0-100 m. f, g Mean monthly POC (mg m-2) for 100-300 m (upper mesopelagic). In each panel, lines are colored by year (see panel legends); MHW years (2014, 2015, 2019, 2020) are red. “Small particles” denotes the bbp-derived fraction <100 µm.

Warm oceans are oceans that remove less carbon from the atmosphere. During marine heatwaves, more organic material might be produced, but it doesn't get to the seafloor; it sort of gets stuck in the water, and all that carbon gets respired. 🧪🌊

Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does Rogan keep a straight face

Snow Trail (1947) is rightfully remembered as the debut film of world's sexiest man ever Toshiro Mifune but I really don't think it can be underscored enough how insanely good Takashi Shimura is in it as well

Elderly Trumbo in the tub with his smokes and his mug of whisky, writing.

damn that looks like Evil Trumbo

"muuuuu"

Opinionated science Nature Chemistry - When the facts can’t speak for themselves, scientists can give them a voice, argues Michelle Francl.

Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3

@carmenloup.com hey are you doing a novelember this year? I really liked last year's!

pepe's original claim to fame was when he peed with his pants all the way down to the floor and just went with it when his roomie saw it

so this checks out

Hell my passport photo can't have a smile, closed eye or covered ear or the recognition fails, so I'mma just be smiling and winking and wearing a hat

it looks like a Floof of Agony

This is incredibly beautiful, and the fact that the resolution is sufficient to follow the path of DNA spooling inside the virion head and through the tail is amazing

ModelAngelo is a fucking brilliant name.

Correlation is not causation.

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

*whispers* your employer has many fellows, unfortunately

I am in Berlin near the Max planck(s?) for a conference till thursday, LMK if any of you in the bluesky science-o-sphere want to meet (very limited availability, not cos I am cool and all booked up but just tired and old).

only *reading* this and feeling that conference fatigue, lol

sheesh I was only walking and while crossing the highway nearly got blown over

sucks :(

hoping it turns soon.