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Witch Doctor
@witchdoctor.bsky.social
Socialist. Scientist.

Professional drug expert.

Amateur macabre medical historian.
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Header image by George Wylesol.

Nothing I do on here represents or is on behalf of my employer.
Thanks, I hate it. 🧪 #Neuroskyence
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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New from me: We have entered an age of polio denialism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Tonight, I got it off the needles, and I wove in all the ends, but I still need to wash it and block the ever loving bejesus out of it. But it's almost 10 pm so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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This is a hip joint prosthesis. It has been specifically designed to withstand compression stress.

#TriviaTuesday
For #TriviaTuesday this week we have this object from the 1970s. It is 11 cm long. Do you know what it is?
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections

https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Another little Mycena species emerging from lichen - the local peat bog is now alive with smaller fungi fruiting bodies #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It's slime mold and jelly fungus time! This might be witch's butter or Dacrymyces chrysospermus. It's from a park down the street that I took my dog to today. 🌱
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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how cool and scary is our planet
The 'Finger of Death' that Freezes Everything it Touches | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth
YouTube video by BBC Earth
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!

In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Fun fact: By the 1880s, people were so worried about how rundown & shabby the White House bathrooms were, when President Garfield died (from an infection from assassin’s bullet 2 months earlier), rumors circulated that the true cause was poisoning by sewer gas from the White House's faulty toilets
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#Caturday goals.
c. 1890 Special Collections Dept. Univ. of Delaware Library
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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My daughter, who runs Sewn Company, is a hand-sewing instructor and historic sewing/clothing consultant. She tells the story of my haunted vintage clothing store as she sews in this video.
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
Telling a Ghost Story and Handsewing
YouTube video by Sewn Company
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October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This #Halloween, Madeleine Vionnet is offering all of the witchy stitches with her 1927 Araignée gown, a pale and ethereal design dripping with a beaded cobweb #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Mild plant horror 🌱🌿
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Common Raven #birds 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Wishing everyone a happy Halloween! The scariest thing about today is that it’s the deadliest day for child pedestrians, so please stay safe, and stay off the road if possible 🖤

If you’re like to see all of my black- (or very dark red or purple) themed #13DaysOfHalloween 🧪 posts, click here! 👇🏽
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Skelly and Moulder wish you a happy #Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#PhantomsFriday An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption
"Even in the broad day the shuffling, unsteady steps would come down the stair, accompanied by the odour of death..."
A malodorous and malign ghost at Holly Cottage.
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/an-over...
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Carstian Luyckx, Memento Mori with musical instruments, books, sheet music, skeleton, skulls, and armor, Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm (Private collection)
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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An iPSC heart muscle cell forming sarcomeres videoed through a microscope by Emma Koory for 20 h before it dies most dramatically. This was our first try on a new microscope, and Emma now has the imaging parameters dialed in so her cells do not go POP! Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM