Rob Carr
@robcarr.bsky.social
Former runner, former paramedic, former biochemist, former Director of Communications, former instructor, former young person. Still he/him/nerd.
Working on a hard but fun SF novel about the science involved in the search for life.
Working on a hard but fun SF novel about the science involved in the search for life.
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)
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I wonder if anyone wears the "Dear person behind me" shirt inside out?
December 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I wonder if anyone wears the "Dear person behind me" shirt inside out?
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These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
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🐨 schmeißt aus Versehen die Brille vom Mann herunter
🐨: Nichts passiert
🧔: Und was ist das?
🐨: Da ist nur das Glas raus gefallen, die kann man noch tragen
😆
🐨: Nichts passiert
🧔: Und was ist das?
🐨: Da ist nur das Glas raus gefallen, die kann man noch tragen
😆
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🐨 schmeißt aus Versehen die Brille vom Mann herunter
🐨: Nichts passiert
🧔: Und was ist das?
🐨: Da ist nur das Glas raus gefallen, die kann man noch tragen
😆
🐨: Nichts passiert
🧔: Und was ist das?
🐨: Da ist nur das Glas raus gefallen, die kann man noch tragen
😆
In a P. Chemistry🧪 test, I was asked if a deck of cards could be unshuffled without increasing the entropy of the universe.
I answered "No." It was marked wrong.
I went to the Prof. He wouldn't budge.
I could have won with two words but didn't think of it:
Maxwell's Demon
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I answered "No." It was marked wrong.
I went to the Prof. He wouldn't budge.
I could have won with two words but didn't think of it:
Maxwell's Demon
🧵 1/2
December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In a P. Chemistry🧪 test, I was asked if a deck of cards could be unshuffled without increasing the entropy of the universe.
I answered "No." It was marked wrong.
I went to the Prof. He wouldn't budge.
I could have won with two words but didn't think of it:
Maxwell's Demon
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I answered "No." It was marked wrong.
I went to the Prof. He wouldn't budge.
I could have won with two words but didn't think of it:
Maxwell's Demon
🧵 1/2
Help: Iron Precipitated from cereal with milk added
A long time ago, I heard a story (on the news, I think. I don't think it was a FOAF, I hope) about a new cereal or new formula of cereal that, when milk was added, produced tiny flecks of iron.
I swear I remember this.
Anyone else?
A long time ago, I heard a story (on the news, I think. I don't think it was a FOAF, I hope) about a new cereal or new formula of cereal that, when milk was added, produced tiny flecks of iron.
I swear I remember this.
Anyone else?
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Help: Iron Precipitated from cereal with milk added
A long time ago, I heard a story (on the news, I think. I don't think it was a FOAF, I hope) about a new cereal or new formula of cereal that, when milk was added, produced tiny flecks of iron.
I swear I remember this.
Anyone else?
A long time ago, I heard a story (on the news, I think. I don't think it was a FOAF, I hope) about a new cereal or new formula of cereal that, when milk was added, produced tiny flecks of iron.
I swear I remember this.
Anyone else?
Reposted by Rob Carr
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Someone asked me why I like Taylor Swift.
That's a hard question. It might be easier to just list my favorite songs...You Belong with Me, Love Story, Style....
When you have trouble solving something, try expanding it as a Taylor Series.
That's a hard question. It might be easier to just list my favorite songs...You Belong with Me, Love Story, Style....
When you have trouble solving something, try expanding it as a Taylor Series.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Someone asked me why I like Taylor Swift.
That's a hard question. It might be easier to just list my favorite songs...You Belong with Me, Love Story, Style....
When you have trouble solving something, try expanding it as a Taylor Series.
That's a hard question. It might be easier to just list my favorite songs...You Belong with Me, Love Story, Style....
When you have trouble solving something, try expanding it as a Taylor Series.
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"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
December, 2025:
Hold my eggnog!
Hold my eggnog!
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is generously praised by Trump in the Oval Office on the same day Majorie Taylor Greene announces a bizarre resignation from Congress.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
December, 2025:
Hold my eggnog!
Hold my eggnog!
@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social Check out Dr. Aliza on Facebook. AI "videos" of female human reproductive anatomy that are more like H. Bosch might have painted on Psilocybin.
I'm stupider for having watched.
I'm stupider for having watched.
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social Check out Dr. Aliza on Facebook. AI "videos" of female human reproductive anatomy that are more like H. Bosch might have painted on Psilocybin.
I'm stupider for having watched.
I'm stupider for having watched.
When you have to put something where you won't lose it, add the item and the location to the "Were I Put It" list.
I am not sure where to put the list.
I am not sure where to put the list.
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When you have to put something where you won't lose it, add the item and the location to the "Were I Put It" list.
I am not sure where to put the list.
I am not sure where to put the list.
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Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social has launched a fundraising campaign to cover some of the legal fees accrued in taking a case against her employer, the University of Auckland. She explains why.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle
'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'
thespinoff.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social has launched a fundraising campaign to cover some of the legal fees accrued in taking a case against her employer, the University of Auckland. She explains why.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
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#idsky #medsky I have always been impressed with the host-pathogen wars over iron, and all the amazing ways bacteria steal it from us.
Here's a comic about a new approach to antibiotic-resitant bacteria I made for Louisiana State University with @fromthelabbench.bsky.social and @jpjordan.bsky.social #sciart
Read the full comic and learn more about the research on the LSU website: www.lsu.edu/winning-team...
Read the full comic and learn more about the research on the LSU website: www.lsu.edu/winning-team...
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Glad they were caught and punished. I hope no grad students were harmed by this scam, but I suspect some were.
The pressure to finish a degree quickly and/or with the desired results may have made some of them victims.
www.the-scientist.com/scientist-fi...
The pressure to finish a degree quickly and/or with the desired results may have made some of them victims.
www.the-scientist.com/scientist-fi...
Scientist Fired for Defrauding Scholars in Huge Publishing Scam
From forged acceptance letters to fake DOIs, a publishing scam put Iraqi students and their degrees at risk. The fraudster? A university professor.
www.the-scientist.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Glad they were caught and punished. I hope no grad students were harmed by this scam, but I suspect some were.
The pressure to finish a degree quickly and/or with the desired results may have made some of them victims.
www.the-scientist.com/scientist-fi...
The pressure to finish a degree quickly and/or with the desired results may have made some of them victims.
www.the-scientist.com/scientist-fi...
Last evening, I watched the Scripps Front Row Lecture "How microbes are rewriting the rules of immunity" with Howard Hang, PhD.
Unsurprisingly, the microbiota humans carry affects our health, including our immune system. The effect of the genes those organisms carry (microbiome)...
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Unsurprisingly, the microbiota humans carry affects our health, including our immune system. The effect of the genes those organisms carry (microbiome)...
🧵🧪🦠🚀 1/n
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Last evening, I watched the Scripps Front Row Lecture "How microbes are rewriting the rules of immunity" with Howard Hang, PhD.
Unsurprisingly, the microbiota humans carry affects our health, including our immune system. The effect of the genes those organisms carry (microbiome)...
🧵🧪🦠🚀 1/n
Unsurprisingly, the microbiota humans carry affects our health, including our immune system. The effect of the genes those organisms carry (microbiome)...
🧵🧪🦠🚀 1/n
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne
Susumu Kitagwa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
They won it for organometallic frameworks.
Richard Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne
Susumu Kitagwa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
They won it for organometallic frameworks.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne
Susumu Kitagwa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
They won it for organometallic frameworks.
Richard Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne
Susumu Kitagwa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
They won it for organometallic frameworks.
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🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina about "One mystery of Long COVID - why immune cells get stuck in a harmful, inflammatory mode..."
"A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵"
Full thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19712...
"A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵"
Full thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19712...
September 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina about "One mystery of Long COVID - why immune cells get stuck in a harmful, inflammatory mode..."
"A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵"
Full thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19712...
"A new study shows the switch is metabolic - and a single checkpoint can decide whether Th17 cells protect or drive disease.🧵"
Full thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19712...
September 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'm old enough that I get a "repeat 3 words later" schtick from a nurse about every year. The nurse, reading from a script, said three words. I complained those were the same three words as last year.
That felt good!
I forgot this year's new three words. Maybe if I hear them I'll recognize them.
That felt good!
I forgot this year's new three words. Maybe if I hear them I'll recognize them.
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I'm old enough that I get a "repeat 3 words later" schtick from a nurse about every year. The nurse, reading from a script, said three words. I complained those were the same three words as last year.
That felt good!
I forgot this year's new three words. Maybe if I hear them I'll recognize them.
That felt good!
I forgot this year's new three words. Maybe if I hear them I'll recognize them.
I was trying to write that I could not remember if a particle was a boson or a fermion.
Autoincorrect changed boson to bison.
Picture two bison colliding at near c in the Supercollider.
I'm not cleaning it up.
Autoincorrect changed boson to bison.
Picture two bison colliding at near c in the Supercollider.
I'm not cleaning it up.
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I was trying to write that I could not remember if a particle was a boson or a fermion.
Autoincorrect changed boson to bison.
Picture two bison colliding at near c in the Supercollider.
I'm not cleaning it up.
Autoincorrect changed boson to bison.
Picture two bison colliding at near c in the Supercollider.
I'm not cleaning it up.
This thread is an interlude to the series about "How Common is Life in the Universe?"
There's a concept rattling around in my brain that I need to use in this discussion that needs some explanation.
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There's a concept rattling around in my brain that I need to use in this discussion that needs some explanation.
🧪🧬🚀🦠 🧵 1/n Interlude
How Common Is Life in the Universe?
NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
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NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
🧪🧬🚀🚀🦠 🧵 1/n
September 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This thread is an interlude to the series about "How Common is Life in the Universe?"
There's a concept rattling around in my brain that I need to use in this discussion that needs some explanation.
🧪🧬🚀🦠 🧵 1/n Interlude
There's a concept rattling around in my brain that I need to use in this discussion that needs some explanation.
🧪🧬🚀🦠 🧵 1/n Interlude
How Common Is Life in the Universe?
NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
🧪🧬🚀🚀🦠 🧵 1/n
NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
🧪🧬🚀🚀🦠 🧵 1/n
September 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
How Common Is Life in the Universe?
NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
🧪🧬🚀🚀🦠 🧵 1/n
NASA recently announced that:
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
They are called "potential biosignatures."
🧪🧬🚀🚀🦠 🧵 1/n