Rectus Abdominus
@decypher.bsky.social
Well-rounded, fair, with a photographic memory. Interested in physics, materials science. From NYC, now in Central Europe
Your image paints Rosalind Franklin as a victim more than it frames her as a contributor that should be celebrated more. She is an under-appreciated part of this discovery.
Perhaps you should take how she felt into account instead of further muddying history
newsroom.lmu.edu/administrati...
Perhaps you should take how she felt into account instead of further muddying history
newsroom.lmu.edu/administrati...
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Your image paints Rosalind Franklin as a victim more than it frames her as a contributor that should be celebrated more. She is an under-appreciated part of this discovery.
Perhaps you should take how she felt into account instead of further muddying history
newsroom.lmu.edu/administrati...
Perhaps you should take how she felt into account instead of further muddying history
newsroom.lmu.edu/administrati...
Straw-man article: "the simple failure of wind or solar power to show up has never yet been found to be the primary cause."
"After the blackout, a clear pattern emerges: higher conventional generation (noon levels at 26–44%) and increased curtailment of renewables (averaging 12% vs. <5% before)"
"After the blackout, a clear pattern emerges: higher conventional generation (noon levels at 26–44%) and increased curtailment of renewables (averaging 12% vs. <5% before)"
May 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Straw-man article: "the simple failure of wind or solar power to show up has never yet been found to be the primary cause."
"After the blackout, a clear pattern emerges: higher conventional generation (noon levels at 26–44%) and increased curtailment of renewables (averaging 12% vs. <5% before)"
"After the blackout, a clear pattern emerges: higher conventional generation (noon levels at 26–44%) and increased curtailment of renewables (averaging 12% vs. <5% before)"
There are a couple of wind turbines along the bike paths here in Vienna along the Danube, this one is the largest. There's also a 172MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant a bit farther down in the opposite direction that this photo is taken.
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
There are a couple of wind turbines along the bike paths here in Vienna along the Danube, this one is the largest. There's also a 172MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant a bit farther down in the opposite direction that this photo is taken.
"5. The Fall of Lysenkoism.
📉 By the 1960s, Lysenko’s influence faded, but the damage had already been done.
🚨 The Soviet Union lost decades of progress in biology and agriculture.
All because it prioritized ideology over evidence."
📉 By the 1960s, Lysenko’s influence faded, but the damage had already been done.
🚨 The Soviet Union lost decades of progress in biology and agriculture.
All because it prioritized ideology over evidence."
May 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"5. The Fall of Lysenkoism.
📉 By the 1960s, Lysenko’s influence faded, but the damage had already been done.
🚨 The Soviet Union lost decades of progress in biology and agriculture.
All because it prioritized ideology over evidence."
📉 By the 1960s, Lysenko’s influence faded, but the damage had already been done.
🚨 The Soviet Union lost decades of progress in biology and agriculture.
All because it prioritized ideology over evidence."
"4. The War on Genetics.
🚨 Lysenko didn’t just push fake science. He destroyed real scientists.
🔬 Soviet geneticists were fired, jailed, or executed for opposing him.
His greatest crime wasn’t just being wrong.
It was making truth illegal."
🚨 Lysenko didn’t just push fake science. He destroyed real scientists.
🔬 Soviet geneticists were fired, jailed, or executed for opposing him.
His greatest crime wasn’t just being wrong.
It was making truth illegal."
![Black and white photo showing Trofim Lysenko giving a lecture in front of microphones. In the background over Lysenko's left shoulder three men are seated and Stalin stands, all are listening attentively.
The text below the image reads in Russian translated to English:
"The teachers of some grain yield tractor drivers and olive growers are busy with the leaders of the virtual [sic] and friendly Comrades Stalin, Andreev, (illegible text) Mikova, Koskotu are listening to the academic speech of T. D. Lysenko"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cayv27pjftgvuyqpwfyf7m7/bafkreial3iqsyp2btgsbo63tt2gcpg6lbrnpunjgy55gtuezdb5dprcqtm@jpeg)
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"4. The War on Genetics.
🚨 Lysenko didn’t just push fake science. He destroyed real scientists.
🔬 Soviet geneticists were fired, jailed, or executed for opposing him.
His greatest crime wasn’t just being wrong.
It was making truth illegal."
🚨 Lysenko didn’t just push fake science. He destroyed real scientists.
🔬 Soviet geneticists were fired, jailed, or executed for opposing him.
His greatest crime wasn’t just being wrong.
It was making truth illegal."
"3. The Human Cost: Famine and Starvation.
Because of Lysenko’s influence:
It wasn’t just bad science. It was enforced by the state.
🔥 Crop yields collapsed, his methods didn’t work.
🥔 The Soviet Union faced food shortages.
💀 Millions died in famines."
Because of Lysenko’s influence:
It wasn’t just bad science. It was enforced by the state.
🔥 Crop yields collapsed, his methods didn’t work.
🥔 The Soviet Union faced food shortages.
💀 Millions died in famines."
May 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"3. The Human Cost: Famine and Starvation.
Because of Lysenko’s influence:
It wasn’t just bad science. It was enforced by the state.
🔥 Crop yields collapsed, his methods didn’t work.
🥔 The Soviet Union faced food shortages.
💀 Millions died in famines."
Because of Lysenko’s influence:
It wasn’t just bad science. It was enforced by the state.
🔥 Crop yields collapsed, his methods didn’t work.
🥔 The Soviet Union faced food shortages.
💀 Millions died in famines."
"2. Lysenko’s “Science” Was Pure Nonsense.
❌ He denied Mendelian genetics, calling it “bourgeois pseudoscience.”
❌ He claimed plants could inherit traits through exposure (called Lamarckism).
❌ He forced Soviet scientists to abandon real genetics for his fake theories."
❌ He denied Mendelian genetics, calling it “bourgeois pseudoscience.”
❌ He claimed plants could inherit traits through exposure (called Lamarckism).
❌ He forced Soviet scientists to abandon real genetics for his fake theories."
May 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"2. Lysenko’s “Science” Was Pure Nonsense.
❌ He denied Mendelian genetics, calling it “bourgeois pseudoscience.”
❌ He claimed plants could inherit traits through exposure (called Lamarckism).
❌ He forced Soviet scientists to abandon real genetics for his fake theories."
❌ He denied Mendelian genetics, calling it “bourgeois pseudoscience.”
❌ He claimed plants could inherit traits through exposure (called Lamarckism).
❌ He forced Soviet scientists to abandon real genetics for his fake theories."
"1. Who was Trofim Lysenko?
🚜 A Soviet agronomist who rejected genetics and evolutionary biology.
🚨 He claimed crops could be “trained” to grow better - without needing selective breeding or genetics.
📢 Stalin loved it.
The problem? Lysenko was completely wrong."
🚜 A Soviet agronomist who rejected genetics and evolutionary biology.
🚨 He claimed crops could be “trained” to grow better - without needing selective breeding or genetics.
📢 Stalin loved it.
The problem? Lysenko was completely wrong."
May 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"1. Who was Trofim Lysenko?
🚜 A Soviet agronomist who rejected genetics and evolutionary biology.
🚨 He claimed crops could be “trained” to grow better - without needing selective breeding or genetics.
📢 Stalin loved it.
The problem? Lysenko was completely wrong."
🚜 A Soviet agronomist who rejected genetics and evolutionary biology.
🚨 He claimed crops could be “trained” to grow better - without needing selective breeding or genetics.
📢 Stalin loved it.
The problem? Lysenko was completely wrong."
Under Stalin/ Mao:
"One of the most dangerous things in history?
When politics replaces science.
That’s exactly what happened in the Soviet Union under Trofim Lysenko.
A man whose pseudoscience led to famine, ruined careers, and millions of deaths.
His ideology destroyed Soviet agriculture 🧵:"
"One of the most dangerous things in history?
When politics replaces science.
That’s exactly what happened in the Soviet Union under Trofim Lysenko.
A man whose pseudoscience led to famine, ruined careers, and millions of deaths.
His ideology destroyed Soviet agriculture 🧵:"
May 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Under Stalin/ Mao:
"One of the most dangerous things in history?
When politics replaces science.
That’s exactly what happened in the Soviet Union under Trofim Lysenko.
A man whose pseudoscience led to famine, ruined careers, and millions of deaths.
His ideology destroyed Soviet agriculture 🧵:"
"One of the most dangerous things in history?
When politics replaces science.
That’s exactly what happened in the Soviet Union under Trofim Lysenko.
A man whose pseudoscience led to famine, ruined careers, and millions of deaths.
His ideology destroyed Soviet agriculture 🧵:"
This is incorrect according to Spanish Grid operator REE at a press conference that the person below attended.
May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is incorrect according to Spanish Grid operator REE at a press conference that the person below attended.
Occams Razor: The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
The system was down on April 25th, and she was given another date to come back.
The system was down on April 25th, and she was given another date to come back.
April 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Occams Razor: The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
The system was down on April 25th, and she was given another date to come back.
The system was down on April 25th, and she was given another date to come back.
It doesn't seem like storage costs have been falling. Do you have another link with historical data to show that the installed costs have gone down?
www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batter...
www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batter...
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It doesn't seem like storage costs have been falling. Do you have another link with historical data to show that the installed costs have gone down?
www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batter...
www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batter...
Salient point, but that's a renewables subsidy, not nuclear
"In 2021, the Province introduced the Renewable Cost Shift, which moves approximately 85% of the cost of electricity generation from 33,000 renewable energy contracts from ratepayers to the Province."
fao-on.org/en/report/en...
"In 2021, the Province introduced the Renewable Cost Shift, which moves approximately 85% of the cost of electricity generation from 33,000 renewable energy contracts from ratepayers to the Province."
fao-on.org/en/report/en...
January 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Salient point, but that's a renewables subsidy, not nuclear
"In 2021, the Province introduced the Renewable Cost Shift, which moves approximately 85% of the cost of electricity generation from 33,000 renewable energy contracts from ratepayers to the Province."
fao-on.org/en/report/en...
"In 2021, the Province introduced the Renewable Cost Shift, which moves approximately 85% of the cost of electricity generation from 33,000 renewable energy contracts from ratepayers to the Province."
fao-on.org/en/report/en...
These are not "full system costs" but are Lazard's LCOE+, mainly useful for investors.
If you are concerned about stability, and reliability of the grid these are the levelized full system costs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you are concerned about stability, and reliability of the grid these are the levelized full system costs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 8, 2024 at 6:26 PM
These are not "full system costs" but are Lazard's LCOE+, mainly useful for investors.
If you are concerned about stability, and reliability of the grid these are the levelized full system costs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you are concerned about stability, and reliability of the grid these are the levelized full system costs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Indeed week 45 of November 2024 is more representative of a dunkelflaute.
The CEO of Germany's largest utility said on LinkedIn that the grid would have collapsed had this weather pattern happened 2 months into the future when demand is historically 10GW higher. www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...
The CEO of Germany's largest utility said on LinkedIn that the grid would have collapsed had this weather pattern happened 2 months into the future when demand is historically 10GW higher. www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...
December 1, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Indeed week 45 of November 2024 is more representative of a dunkelflaute.
The CEO of Germany's largest utility said on LinkedIn that the grid would have collapsed had this weather pattern happened 2 months into the future when demand is historically 10GW higher. www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...
The CEO of Germany's largest utility said on LinkedIn that the grid would have collapsed had this weather pattern happened 2 months into the future when demand is historically 10GW higher. www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...
November 21, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Oh I see, that's a good bit of context. 4.4GW is a lot of reactors to be reaching full criticality since the nuclear/AI hype started the lesser part of a year ago.
One would guess they have nothing to do with each other since it takes on average 7.5 years to build a reactor, not including planning.
One would guess they have nothing to do with each other since it takes on average 7.5 years to build a reactor, not including planning.
November 20, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Oh I see, that's a good bit of context. 4.4GW is a lot of reactors to be reaching full criticality since the nuclear/AI hype started the lesser part of a year ago.
One would guess they have nothing to do with each other since it takes on average 7.5 years to build a reactor, not including planning.
One would guess they have nothing to do with each other since it takes on average 7.5 years to build a reactor, not including planning.
Pretty cool, thanks for the link and commentary.
It looks to be the correct number for planned nuclear power is somewhere between your number (~4.4GW) and the number at this link (~299GW): globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
It looks to be the correct number for planned nuclear power is somewhere between your number (~4.4GW) and the number at this link (~299GW): globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
November 20, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Pretty cool, thanks for the link and commentary.
It looks to be the correct number for planned nuclear power is somewhere between your number (~4.4GW) and the number at this link (~299GW): globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
It looks to be the correct number for planned nuclear power is somewhere between your number (~4.4GW) and the number at this link (~299GW): globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
I am a bit confused with this after looking at your sources at the link you provided: Why does it look like nuclear power is more on track than renewable power capacity?
November 20, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I am a bit confused with this after looking at your sources at the link you provided: Why does it look like nuclear power is more on track than renewable power capacity?
