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Jim Smoot, PhD
@jcsmoot.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, aquatic microbiologist, farm owner at the nexus of climate change and sustainable resource recovery. “This machine kills fascists”—Woody Guthrie
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Seems like they should go after billionaires. There is a high correlation between the increase of billionaires from 1982 to 2020 and autism.
A scatter plot comparing the number of billionaires in the US and incidence of autism per 100,000 for 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. Linear regression line is shown with equation and R^2 (0.88). It’s a sarcastic response to antivaxers who confuse causation and correlation.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Wonk alert🚨 Economists taken behind the proverbial woodshed!
Conclusion from Searchinger et al. reply to a correspondence criticizing their prior publication.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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If you’re not dropping off your ballot and getting a deli sandwich from your local Nugget, are you even voting?😁

Seriously, every state should have early voting with drop boxes in secure locations.
Text confirmation from my local election office confirming receipt and counting of my Prop 50 election ballot.
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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They questioned this?
Screenshot of Betaine HCl product page at Millipore Sigma
May 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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100%
Image of Bruce Springsteen playing a guitar during his concert in San Francisco (March 28, 2024)
May 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Have a great weekend all!
Pomegranate blossoms and buds amongst new Spring foliage
May 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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If you see this post a beach photo from your phone
Lake Tahoe beach with openwater swimmers and Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance
April 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
Mandarin orange blossom with foliage and buds
January 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The hunt for TNBT led to so much waste.
Screenshot of Google AI search result that correctly states year of Aretha Franklin’s death as 2018 and its “deduction” that thus she was not alive in 2015…
January 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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You rang?😁
Stock pot filled with mandarina (clementine oranges).
December 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Ripening mandarin oranges with foliage. One leaf is heart shaped 💚
November 16, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,490,817!

And evidently, our timelines will experience everyone’s announcement of their individual user number spam. Enjoy!
September 18, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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There’s a lot of talk about twitter these days, and rightly so; but wow, crazy things on FB too!

Full article by @noupside.bsky.social is here: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/how-...
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AI generated image of “crab Jesus” with followers at the beach. Crab Jesus is in the water and followers are at the surf’s edge
August 16, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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They include it under infectious diseases. This is from chapter 6 of the report.
Paragraph from chapter 6 of WEF “The Global Risks Report 2020”. The paragraph highlights global health security risks and international lack of pandemic preparedness.
November 12, 2023 at 9:55 PM