Grumpy Scientist

Too bad not a single reporter has the balls to ask the GOP and DOJ about this.

The article calls a 6-8 year old child a woman?!!!
Groomers language.

No wonder Meghan redid the cottage, no amount of sage could clear the evil perpetrated there.

No women in first second or third grade other than a teacher. Children!!!!!

This is the woman demanding a pardon to lie about Trump's innocence?

Crescent moon setting over the quarter, Ursulines at Burgundy, New Orleans

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

Night at City Park, New Orleans

HORROR FILM SAFETY 1. It's not "the wind." 2. Never split up. 3. Listen to the "crazy" guy. 4. Authorities are useless. 5. Avoid bathroom mirrors. 6. Refuse sewer-clown gifts. 7. Don't assume! Kill twice. 8. Children are evil.

Horror Film Safety

I’ll just tell everyone that a “co-worker” (hey, same institution counts!) was the tree that distracted Bad Bunny when he was talking about believing in yourself.

A person dressed as sugar cane from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show stands in front of St. Louis Cathedral on Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Happy Mardi Gras, y’all. 💜💛💚

Portrait of Samuel Johnson, by Joshua Reynolds, 1775 (flipped)

Photo of an opened sketchbook with pens around it. The sketch is a landscape of a body of water with mountains in the background. In the sky is a red orb that shines on the lamdscape. On the foreground is an island with a tree on it and sitting under the tree is a little samurai silhouette. Sleeping on the samurai's head is a cat. Ink on paper

A quick one before going to sleep 🥷🐈‍⬛️

I wish you all to sleep like cats 🩵

#art #sketch #ink #artsky

Another night encounter in the theater of New Orleans

Black-and-white historical photograph of renowned Chinese-American physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu. She stands confidently in a white lab coat, facing the camera with a calm, poised expression and direct gaze. Her dark hair is elegantly styled. Behind her is a large, complex rack of mid-20th-century electronic equipment, including tangled cables, multiple control panels, dials, switches, and connectors. Prominently visible is a device labeled "CU1721" (a linear amplifier), with additional markings such as "GUIDANCE CONTROL," "FOR AC ANALYSIS," "TIME CONTROL," input/output ports, and other technical labels typical of nuclear physics instrumentation from that era. The setting captures the intensity and precision of experimental nuclear research in the post-WWII period.

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu died #OTD in 1997.

She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect

My next book? 😆

Rain puddle reflection with books, Chartres street, New Orleans

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

Royal and Bourbon between Esplanade and Canal, New Orleans

Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

Rain puddle reflection, Garden District, New Orleans

Arsonist: what about all the houses that I didn't set on fire?

Serial Killer: but what about all the people I didn't murder?

🙄

Anecdotical stuff: in the last 3 days, I've been to 4 different places. In 3/4 places I had Americans trying their best to speak Spanish to me (however little or much they could, even if it was the only 3 words they knew).

❤️

Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained “Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 

It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

Fascinating and deeply satisfying resolution to why adenovirus-based vaccines produced blood clots in 1 out of 200,000 people.

Two factors interacted:
a mutation in an antibody gene + weak similarities between a viral protein & a human blood-clotting protein = induced clotting cascade.

Nooooo!!!

The quiet side of Bourbon street, New Orleans

This is why I don't believe it when people here celebrate rumors of agents quitting in droves or being unhappy about work conditions.

Esther before Ahasuerus, by Paolo Veronese, 1585-88, 📸 by Nell Redmond

The New England Journal of Medicine Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer A Research Summary based on Tolaney SM et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2508668 | Published on October 29, 2025 Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned. Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

Phase 3 DESTINY-Breast09 trial: In untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, trastuzumab deruxtecan + pertuzumab extended progression-free survival to 40.7 months, vs. 26.9 months with standard first-line therapy, with a similar incidence of high-grade adverse events. nej.md/3JrVYjC

Is not weird, is just racist.