Jon Ramirez
@jram899.bsky.social
South Texas College Undergrad Biomed student 🧫🧬
Thinker of thoughts
Sayer of words
Tex/Mex
Pseudo-intellectual 🤓
Thinker of thoughts
Sayer of words
Tex/Mex
Pseudo-intellectual 🤓
Pinned
Apparently wax paper IS flammable in an electric oven. Who knew? 🤷🏻♂️
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Apparently wax paper IS flammable in an electric oven. Who knew? 🤷🏻♂️
I have recently made friends with a very philosophically informed Anglican… Apparently I am now contractually obligated to read Richard Swinburne.
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I have recently made friends with a very philosophically informed Anglican… Apparently I am now contractually obligated to read Richard Swinburne.
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Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
Whoever came up with the idea for a three day weekend at my college deserves a medal
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Whoever came up with the idea for a three day weekend at my college deserves a medal
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons
August 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons
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The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
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If you are present in the United States without valid immigration status, the government can deport you. But it doesn’t have to. This is an important distinction, because it means that “the law made me do it” is not an excuse.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...
You Could Just Not Deport People
The right says that they have no choice but to “enforce the law” and round up those here illegally. False: just give people a way to legalize their status.
www.currentaffairs.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you are present in the United States without valid immigration status, the government can deport you. But it doesn’t have to. This is an important distinction, because it means that “the law made me do it” is not an excuse.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...
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"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."
muckrack.com/research/loc...
muckrack.com/research/loc...
Local Journalist Index 2025 | Muck Rack
Where are the journalists? For the first time, we’ve mapped how many local journalists cover each U.S. county, revealing in stark detail the stunning coll…
muckrack.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."
muckrack.com/research/loc...
muckrack.com/research/loc...
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It might sound counterintuitive when those who reject human-caused climate change believe we’re intensifying weather extremes via secret expts—but here’s the difference.
A: We’re responsible, so we all have to fix it
B: We’re not, so it’s not our fault
99% of climate denial is solution aversion!
A: We’re responsible, so we all have to fix it
B: We’re not, so it’s not our fault
99% of climate denial is solution aversion!
people who think the gvt controls the weather are a faction that is quickly gaining power on the right — and MTG says she's planning to introduce legislation on this soon
@davidgilbert.bsky.social & i looked at how these conspiracy theories got supercharged after the tx floods this weekend:
@davidgilbert.bsky.social & i looked at how these conspiracy theories got supercharged after the tx floods this weekend:
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.
www.wired.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It might sound counterintuitive when those who reject human-caused climate change believe we’re intensifying weather extremes via secret expts—but here’s the difference.
A: We’re responsible, so we all have to fix it
B: We’re not, so it’s not our fault
99% of climate denial is solution aversion!
A: We’re responsible, so we all have to fix it
B: We’re not, so it’s not our fault
99% of climate denial is solution aversion!
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Lots of notification changes people have been asking for in this release
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July 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Lots of notification changes people have been asking for in this release
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the fact that someone who is a father could make a joke like this is just disgusting.
very wild that the DNC has worked with this dude in an official capacity.
very wild that the DNC has worked with this dude in an official capacity.
July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
the fact that someone who is a father could make a joke like this is just disgusting.
very wild that the DNC has worked with this dude in an official capacity.
very wild that the DNC has worked with this dude in an official capacity.
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So we're trying this again?
June 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So we're trying this again?
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Really excellent news. For journalists, access to peer review reports can clarify expert opinion, help us highlight excellent research, and—crucially—lead to accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
www.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Really excellent news. For journalists, access to peer review reports can clarify expert opinion, help us highlight excellent research, and—crucially—lead to accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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a very good idea
usa and new zealand the only high-income countries permitting unrestricted direct-to-consumer drug advertising
usa and new zealand the only high-income countries permitting unrestricted direct-to-consumer drug advertising
Exclusive | Senators Propose Ban on Drug Advertising to Consumers
Bernie Sanders and Angus King introduced a bill that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers from using direct-to-consumer advertising, including social media, to promote their products.
www.wsj.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
a very good idea
usa and new zealand the only high-income countries permitting unrestricted direct-to-consumer drug advertising
usa and new zealand the only high-income countries permitting unrestricted direct-to-consumer drug advertising
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When two surgeons marry each other (troubling, but it happens), how do you figure out which one is the better operator? These things are important, we must know!! Thank goodness we have numbers to look at, because numbers never lie. Right?
🚨NEW VIDEO🚨
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🚨NEW VIDEO🚨
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How Do You Tell How Good Your Doctor Is?
YouTube video by Medlife Crisis
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June 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When two surgeons marry each other (troubling, but it happens), how do you figure out which one is the better operator? These things are important, we must know!! Thank goodness we have numbers to look at, because numbers never lie. Right?
🚨NEW VIDEO🚨
youtu.be/F6Y_bpE3r5c?...
🚨NEW VIDEO🚨
youtu.be/F6Y_bpE3r5c?...
Currently binging The Cross and the Lunching Tree by James Cone. Thanks to @kevin-carnahan.bsky.social for recommending this on TikTok. 1/
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Currently binging The Cross and the Lunching Tree by James Cone. Thanks to @kevin-carnahan.bsky.social for recommending this on TikTok. 1/
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So when a guy waves a Confederate flag to celebrate heritage it's ok but when a guy waves a Mexican flag to celebrate his heritage he's an "insurrectionist?"
I'm going to start waving a Mexican flag to troll the snowflakes offended by it.
I'm going to start waving a Mexican flag to troll the snowflakes offended by it.
June 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So when a guy waves a Confederate flag to celebrate heritage it's ok but when a guy waves a Mexican flag to celebrate his heritage he's an "insurrectionist?"
I'm going to start waving a Mexican flag to troll the snowflakes offended by it.
I'm going to start waving a Mexican flag to troll the snowflakes offended by it.
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This was excellent and I’ll be checking daily for the full review of Macedo and Lee “In COVID Wake” revisionist history.
This month's bonus episode is about the rise of the lab leak theory from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by prominent liberal journalists.
The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream | If Books Could Kill
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May 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This was excellent and I’ll be checking daily for the full review of Macedo and Lee “In COVID Wake” revisionist history.
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No money was actually saved, but at the same time we had truly devastating cuts to scientific research, medicine, and foreign aid. Just reinforces what a tiny fraction of spending those areas always were, with an outsized positive impact.
Of course it was.
DOGE fired a bunch of people while managing to save almost no money at all because Musk et al were primarily interested in performative cuts to fight the culture war. So taxpayers got a less efficient govt for the same price. But at least the libs were owned.
DOGE fired a bunch of people while managing to save almost no money at all because Musk et al were primarily interested in performative cuts to fight the culture war. So taxpayers got a less efficient govt for the same price. But at least the libs were owned.
May 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
No money was actually saved, but at the same time we had truly devastating cuts to scientific research, medicine, and foreign aid. Just reinforces what a tiny fraction of spending those areas always were, with an outsized positive impact.
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Anyone claiming history is "just the facts" knows nothing of historiography. We must interpret the past through new evidence and novel argumentation. History is the story of us, so narrative requires analysis.
May 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Anyone claiming history is "just the facts" knows nothing of historiography. We must interpret the past through new evidence and novel argumentation. History is the story of us, so narrative requires analysis.
The RGV is just getting aid for a disaster that happened two months ago.
This is too little too late
riograndeguardian.com/gonzalez-ann...
This is too little too late
riograndeguardian.com/gonzalez-ann...
Gonzalez announces South Texas federal disaster declaration – Rio Grande Guardian
FEMA is now in the Rio Grande Valley to help out, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez said, at a press conference with Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda.
riograndeguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The RGV is just getting aid for a disaster that happened two months ago.
This is too little too late
riograndeguardian.com/gonzalez-ann...
This is too little too late
riograndeguardian.com/gonzalez-ann...
“If scientists believe—as I do—that our research… is responsible for our high standard of living and our sophisticated understanding of the world around us, then we must do a much better job at explaining ourselves to our tax-paying, non-scientist friends”
thedispatch.com/article/scie...
thedispatch.com/article/scie...
Scientists Need to Explain Themselves
Making research more accessible might give science a much-needed PR boost.
thedispatch.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“If scientists believe—as I do—that our research… is responsible for our high standard of living and our sophisticated understanding of the world around us, then we must do a much better job at explaining ourselves to our tax-paying, non-scientist friends”
thedispatch.com/article/scie...
thedispatch.com/article/scie...