Im declaring the space race over with a total and complete Chinese Victory
#Academia
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so true
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.70043
The restraint to not name this "When 'When Prophecy Fails' Fails"
No embed tldr "When Prophecy Fails" is fraudulent
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it is a little known fact, that Ms. Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics
apparently not an expert in comma usage though 
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frankly if she used proper grammar id be less inclined to believe this is the real britney spears
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Lecturer: "this process allows you to achieve rather thin wall sections, as low as 1.25mm or 1/20 of an inch"
Am I going fucking mad?
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https://fxtwitter.com/tqbf/status/1991635031845155265
Incredible scenes
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you think there's another explanation for the gamma rays?
It's less that specifically and more that this is a very difficult signal to fit - there could be a lot of different explanations. One of our collaboration scientists summed it up nicely:
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It's less that specifically and more that this is a very difficult signal to fit...
Will also note that the astrophysicist who posted this on our Slack does specialise in Dark Matter searches using LAT data, exactly what this is
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https://vxtwitter.com/maharshii/status/1998351066417775005?s=20
I hate when I'm talking to my friend and they suddenly go reduced row echelon on me.
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I added these racing stripes
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I took a picture of a great quote they had of Priestley on this at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science:
nor was it at all inconvenient to a mouse which I put into it
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fun fact about oxygen is that the word oxygen literally means "thing that makes fire"
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That makes sense!
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and hydrogen is the thing that makes water (hydro)
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so uh are the yt embeds just broken for everyone else too
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Works for me
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just shows me this every time
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Well are you a bot?
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that video certainly went places I wasn't expecting 
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for instance ||caveman cock||
ok the ||brother/sister twist kinda blew that out of the water||
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is it just me or does this guy kinda sound like mark s
Have you seen his "How It's Actually Made" series?
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ok the ||brother/sister twist kinda blew that out of the water||
||Unfortunately I knew this was coming because every reply to the original tweet is "wait where's the incest" ||
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one of my most replied-to youtube comments is one where a diver jumped off a platform and dropped a camera at the same time and I was like "this is a great demonstration of the fact that everything falls at the same rate"
and I've gotten like a million replies of WHAT ABOUT A FEATHER??? HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVES????????
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and I've gotten like a million replies of WHAT ABOUT A FEATHER??? HAVE YOU THOUG...
Bastards out here ignoring air resistance smh
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the best comment was one like "how dare you imply that she weighs more than a gopro"
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Is that person really light, or do they own an extremely heavy go pro?
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt
Never a good day when your corner of the sciences (bioanalytical assay validation, in this case) is having a crisis in the spotlight
Although I suppose the problem in this case is my corner of the sciences not being involved in this
Not a mass spec guy, and haven't poured through every paper, but there isn't a word in the brain paper about the validation of their assay, even in the supplements
Fats mess us up all the time, and our analyte doesn't even look like fat, which plastics definitely do moreso (in our case the problem is lipemia causing underrecovery)
The claim of the brain paper is that dementia patients' brains on average are 3% plastic by mass. Imo this is a "faster than light neutrinos"-level extraordinary claim. CERN did everything they could to check their result before coming forward. Not even making a basic assessment of selectivity (ie. adding 1 ug/mL of plastic and checking the result goes up by 1), lipid interference, etc is like if CERN didn't check if the stopwatch was turned on.
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Also, to be an industry shill here for a moment, it's easy to just dismiss the Dow Chemical guy in this article out of hand because he worked at Dow. However, bioanalysis is a field where 100% of the expertise is in industry. You cannot get a bachelor's in bioanalysis; you cannot get a PhD in bioanalysis. It's a nearly entirely applied field where even PI and higher level scientists learned on the job, especially when it comes to validation, Quality, GxP, etc. I don't think you need to be a biochemist to know that the average academic lab isn't exactly some ISO certified cleanroom. If there's any company that's earned distrust it's Dow, but if there's any company that would actually employ the world's foremost expert in quantifying plastics in biological matrices, it is also Dow.
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Also, to be an industry shill here for a moment, it's easy to just dismiss the D...
I feel like dismissing plastics researchers for working at Dow these days would be like dismissing electronics researchers for working at Bell Labs in the 60s/70s
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It's fucked up that Bell Labs is owned by Nokia now. Damned Finns stealing our mad scientist jobs
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The claim of the brain paper is that dementia patients' brains on average are 3%...
I'm glad you said this as 3% of the brain's mass always struck me as a huge percentage
But I don't know enough about the subject to comment on it
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I'm glad you said this as 3% of the brain's mass always struck me as a _huge_ pe...
It's worth noting that the original paper presents histology evidence ("Of course there are microplastics, we took a picture of it"), that the critique paper raises no issues with. I can't possibly comment on that.
However the novelty of the paper is the quantification assay. Checking for lipid interference in such a lipid-rich part of the body is frankly rudimentary and fatal to the conclusion if present. If your assay is picking up fat, then your conclusion is actually just "people are fatter than they were 20 years ago and dementia patients have lipid buildup in their brain" — not exactly worthy of Nature.
This is doubly true since their standard curve seems to be a plain solution of plastics, and not plastic-free brain (imo even labrat brain would be sufficient) with plastic spiked in. I've done this, but it's an absolute last resort the paper makes no attempt to justify.
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My favorite thing about ideograms is that sometimes it makes so much sense and sometimes it's just complete nonsense
Like the second one down is "tree"
You add another tree and what do you think that means? It means forest, duh
But then sometimes there's random shit like field + grass = cat
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CONGRATS DOCTOR!! @worldly crest
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that's a slippery slope
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https://x.com/rat_angel_/status/2014323839862247525?s=20
I'm not always saying this, but henceforth I shall be always saying this
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https://x.com/rat_angel_/status/2014323839862247525?s=20
Memristors getting off easy here
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I don't even know 'er
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Talks about a new paper that argues that Prototaxites (a 400 myo fossil that was up to 8 meters tall) is unlikely to be fungi, plant, animal... basically can't be anything else either, so looks increasingly likely to be its own kingdom
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https://bsky.app/profile/raphaelwimmer.bsky.social/post/3mdgugousec2s
This is hell! We live in hell!
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https://x.com/abakcus/status/2018191938625605645?s=20
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LMAO yeah I used this in an Analysis of Algorithms assignment
I didn't know how to complete a problem so I used a coffee stain to obscure my pseudocode and wrote in my assignment that unfortunately I had spolled coffee on my pseudocode making it impossible to grade
I got full points for the problem
This was right as COVID started so it was a PDF
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it was so good
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whats yalls favourite research paper?
mines phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce
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opening up my youtube subscriptions feed and saying out loud to myself, "fuck yeah, echinoderms"
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Time to revise calculus bitches
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Heyyy I remember ole Jimmy Stew's book!
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Rogawski gang
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The supplementary materials includes videos 
If youve ever wanted to see a slug or a frog run in a wheel nows your chance
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