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Compton Scatterbrained

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Bad hearing, bad sight, scattered brain. Full of PFAS, but a true believer in radiation hormesis. Why isn't rutile rutilant? I like valence electrons (but K shell too) & deep time.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · Jul 1

Me. Every day.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 9h

No idea why the Chachulskis became Chulskis when they came to West Michigan (via Chicago, as did all the Catholic sides of my family for some reason).

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 9h

small typo if you want to adjust it:
he -> the right before Fritz Haber

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 9h

wow, cool.

I would have picked bone health or something.

You may have gifted me a rabbithole, thanks

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 10h

"CONTINUALLY PRESENT"

we gotta repeat what endemic means for all those people (journalists, coughcough) in the back writing about (big example) covid as if it means "most people have immunity" or "mild"

grinds my teeth to nubs

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12h

Measles has not been endemic, or continuously present, in the United States since 2000. With vaccination rates dropping for MMR shots as well as for other childhood vaccines, outbreaks of preventable infectious diseases are increasing. This should NOT be happening.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 13h

we did offload memory to text and yeah now we* can't recite hours' worth of shit like the ancestors did but... I'm totally okay with that.

*specialised weirdos still do this, but not most adults today for gov't or economic purposes as in illiterate societies

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 13h

I've never thought of my cardiovascular health regarding lead ingestion (grew up near lakes where the good fishing spots all have "preggers, don't eat these fish!"). Is that a particular thang besides the neuro stuff?

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 13h

Nice thread, because of the work going through all this. I love breakdowns like this.

hallowren @lathrys.at · 2d

not a food scientist but i can read and do arithmetic

hallowren @lathrys.at · 2d

more context for people on the consumer reports lead/protein thing, from:

Flannery B, Middleton K, Updated interim reference levels for dietary lead to support FDA's Closer to Zero action plan, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 133, 2022, 105202, ISSN 0273-2300, doi.org/10.1016/j.yr...

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 14h

they told me having kids was lots of hard work and frustration and wailing and gnashing of teeth punctuated by moments of joy.

It's been 4 long years and none of those joy moments.

Just keep powering through

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 15h

Looks like our invasive friend, the Asian hornet.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 15h

small hornet with black head and thorax, yellow legs, striped butt (yellow, black, orange at the end)

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 15h

omg who is this beauty

small hornet with bkack head, red face, yellow legs.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 17h

dayum that thing looks to be about... my age 😂

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Erin @ghosttrainphoto.bsky.social · 18h

Went on another "applying for PhDs and/or research positions" spree. Knocked out 13 applications in <3 hours...I think the grand total is up to ~60 total applications since July.

BTW, if anyone is looking for a neuroimaging analyst, let me know!!

Here's some lightning from earlier today

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 17h

For this reason (r arm is "perfect" and L arm perfect except they roll!) I have been the practice-pincushion for many students back in the day.

Yeah one did stab all the way through so my whole arm was a big hematoma but... felt like I was volunteering to help med students get better!

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah seems that way (so far with the evidence we have)

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 21h

oh shit that sounds cool

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 21h

Someone (possibly a geochemist, I'd have to look her up again) said "sometimes geology is trying to learn about wheat by studying bread."
(I tend to swap wheat for barley and bread for beer, lol)

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 23h

We swapped ozone-destroying refrigerants to forever-chemical greenhouse gasses (yay PFAS!) so actually I guess it *was* hard because we aren't done finding a good refrigerant yet.

I like seeing promotion and reminders of when we fix things but this particular example always grinds my teeth.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 1d

Ugh some students i walked past on campus today were petting a field mouse and while its suuuuper unlikely to get rabies from a mouse DONT PET WILD MAMMALS Y’ALL

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 23h

...Or their bodies.

Not a mammal but I also try to keep my kids from petting dead or dying bumblebees. They look sooooo soft but usually crawling with mites that I'd rather my kids didn't spread all over the neighbourhood.

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

when you get around to making shirts again I *neeeeed* one that's something like "I ♥️ BIFs" and a rustaculous stripe on it or something.

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

The big skepticality seems to stem from the idea that life is difficult to form, only did it once, by crazy chance, after we had a cushy planet.

The fossil/geochem record seems to keep saying it was early, possibly easy, happened multiple times and did "big leaps" often, on a harsh world—I love it!

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

free radicals FTW

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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

...possibly multiple times!

*squeeee*

Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 1d

It was via Bsky fer sure so you may havr seen it... or even posted it