I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

There’s a local measles outbreak 🙄 Community Health Service is running a free MMR vax clinic so I’ve just got a booster after fourtymumble years 💉☺️

@stephenturton.bsky.social recently saw your Wired bit on YT that included a comment on linguistic determinism, where you referred to a paper that claimed to have used German and Spanish oppositely-gendered words for objects & found cultural gender stereotypes in the adjectives used to describe them

This is bleak reading

@pineboards.bsky.social are you alive?

@firefly-aerospace.bsky.social neat diamond ring shots from Blue Ghost - but where is the total eclipse shot showing the illuminated atmosphere???!?

Taken from Kahurangi National Park