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Mark Hubbard
@forestrydiva.bsky.social
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Teacher, trees, bass, guitar, beer brewing, grandpa
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Mark Hubbard @forestrydiva.bsky.social · Nov 12
Fyi, I am a plant scientist, bass and guitar player, beer brewer, and grandpa
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I’m convinced that the antivax movement will look like an absolute act of stupidity to historians. The US willingly reintroducing measles is just baffling…
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Vaccines offer a pathway to immunity—without the suffering. They’re carefully designed to activate your immune system in a controlled way.

Author: Aimee Pugh-Bernard, PhD
Vaccine Immunity vs. Infection Out in the Wild
What’s the real difference between immunity from vaccines and immunity from infection?
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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compoundchem.com
It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃

Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of pumpkins. The colour of pumpkins is due to carotenoid compounds such as beta-carotene, the same compound that gives carrots their orange colour. The vegetal aroma of pumpkins is mainly due to cis-3-hexen-1-ol, along with other six-carbon alcohols and aldehydes. Canned pumpkin is often not the same type of pumpkin as those used for carving, and consequently, the aroma compounds differ, including burnt-smelling 2-methylbutanal, coffee furanone, and furfural. Pumpkin spice flavour has little to do with pumpkin and more to do with the spices added, including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava kenyanwallstreet.com?p=156236 via @kenyanwalstreet delays in biotech adoption have cost Kenya KSh 20.3 billion (US $157 m) over the past 5 years.
Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava
NEMA) has invited public comments on a proposal by KALRO to commercialise genetically modified (GM) cassava.
kenyanwallstreet.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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We need a lot more Dr. Jessica Steiers to pull a body of evidence together like this
@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social 👏
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/how-a-gove...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
August 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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August 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...
RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science
Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.
quillette.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Play music tonight!!
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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What a day! What a view! #MtRainier
August 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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August 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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July 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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July 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
forestrydiva.bsky.social
Hop crop looks pretty good this year
July 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
Vaccines save 2-3 million lives every year.
They are incredibly safe.

The risk of a serious adverse event after vaccination is ~1 in 1,000,000.

Context:
The risk of dying in a car crash: 1 in 100.
The risk of peanut allergy: 1 in 200,000.
The risk of dying from choking on food is 1 in 2500.

1/
July 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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July 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation' geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/07/07/v...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation'
t’s springtime in the US, which means the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their annual Dirty Dozen list, the bane of everyone who understands
geneticliteracyproject.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
forestrydiva.bsky.social
Had to go for a sanity hike
July 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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compoundchem.com
With temperatures soaring in Europe right now, here’s a look at how the sun affects our skin in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on how the sun affects our skin. The graphic highlights the different ranges of UV light and how it can both cause skin damage and lead to the synthesis of vitamin D. It goes on to highlight how melanin absorbs and dissipates the energy from UV light and how UV light can damage DNA.
June 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Roan Mountain, NC
June 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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June 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM