Nicholaus Nelson-Goedert, PhD
@nelsongoedert.bsky.social
Futurist, AI exponent, environmental sociology professor, behavioral economics zealot
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Empathy + Action = A Better World
Thank you, Jane Goodall
Thank you, Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Empathy + Action = A Better World
Thank you, Jane Goodall
Thank you, Jane Goodall
Just spoke with Sanofi, and they expect nuvaxovid shipments between Oct 1st and Oct 6th at Walgreens across the US.
#novavax #nuvaxovid #covid19
#novavax #nuvaxovid #covid19
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just spoke with Sanofi, and they expect nuvaxovid shipments between Oct 1st and Oct 6th at Walgreens across the US.
#novavax #nuvaxovid #covid19
#novavax #nuvaxovid #covid19
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4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science
Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
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Do you all know how many amazing things you can do for free with a library card?
This week alone I: Got my whole family free tickets to the LA Zoo, took a free drawing class, finally created a LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT because the card also gets you free legal services!! Take advantage if you can! 🥰
This week alone I: Got my whole family free tickets to the LA Zoo, took a free drawing class, finally created a LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT because the card also gets you free legal services!! Take advantage if you can! 🥰
March 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Do you all know how many amazing things you can do for free with a library card?
This week alone I: Got my whole family free tickets to the LA Zoo, took a free drawing class, finally created a LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT because the card also gets you free legal services!! Take advantage if you can! 🥰
This week alone I: Got my whole family free tickets to the LA Zoo, took a free drawing class, finally created a LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT because the card also gets you free legal services!! Take advantage if you can! 🥰
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Pope Francis is making progress toward recovering from his life-threatening pneumonia, the Vatican said
Pope’s Condition Is Improving, Vatican Says
Francis has been hospitalized with pneumonia since mid-February.
www.wsj.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pope Francis is making progress toward recovering from his life-threatening pneumonia, the Vatican said
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism.
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism.
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism.
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism.
Glad to see this program is still up!
Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org
NSURP.org
National Summer Undergraduate Research Project
nsurp.org
February 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Glad to see this program is still up!
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Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history.
The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean).
I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊
The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean).
I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊
January 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history.
The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean).
I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊
The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean).
I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊
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"When burned, trees generate more CO2 emissions per unit of energy generated than fossil fuels..There is a carbon sequestration opportunity cost..The re-sequestration of the released carbon back into biomass is not instantaneous."
www.wri.org/insights/ins...
www.wri.org/insights/ins...
INSIDER: Why Burning Trees for Energy Harms the Climate
Trees are renewable, so why not let them count under the proposed revisions to the EU renewable energy target? Here we answer this and other questions to demonstrate why burning trees for energy is no...
www.wri.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"When burned, trees generate more CO2 emissions per unit of energy generated than fossil fuels..There is a carbon sequestration opportunity cost..The re-sequestration of the released carbon back into biomass is not instantaneous."
www.wri.org/insights/ins...
www.wri.org/insights/ins...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Here’s how fish farms could double as a climate solution.
A new study analyzes a potential win-win solution for fish health and carbon capture. The critical ingredient is something you might not expect.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/here...
🦑
A new study analyzes a potential win-win solution for fish health and carbon capture. The critical ingredient is something you might not expect.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/here...
🦑
Here’s how fish farms could double as a climate solution
A new study analyzes a potential win-win solution for fish health and carbon capture. The critical ingredient is something you might not expect.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here’s how fish farms could double as a climate solution.
A new study analyzes a potential win-win solution for fish health and carbon capture. The critical ingredient is something you might not expect.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/here...
🦑
A new study analyzes a potential win-win solution for fish health and carbon capture. The critical ingredient is something you might not expect.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/here...
🦑
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‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
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Have you ever wondered how Deepseek compares to OpenAi and Anthropic? I put a business test case to it to find out!
#databs
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-c...
#databs
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-c...
John Campbell on LinkedIn: Over the weekend I was having a bit of a think about how AI can be used in…
Over the weekend I was having a bit of a think about how AI can be used in Business intelligence contexts, and as is typical, the first thought I had was 'how…
www.linkedin.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Have you ever wondered how Deepseek compares to OpenAi and Anthropic? I put a business test case to it to find out!
#databs
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-c...
#databs
www.linkedin.com/posts/john-c...
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I feel like what R1 really shows is that there are no moats. Cost and difficulty to train frontier models will continue to drop and become more attainable. Inference is already commoditized. Intelligence will also become commoditized.
The only moat left is YOUR data.
The only moat left is YOUR data.
January 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I feel like what R1 really shows is that there are no moats. Cost and difficulty to train frontier models will continue to drop and become more attainable. Inference is already commoditized. Intelligence will also become commoditized.
The only moat left is YOUR data.
The only moat left is YOUR data.
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"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares"
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
ourworldindata.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares"
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
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Using wastewater for population colorectal cancer screening and future research needs https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.25320996v1
January 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Using wastewater for population colorectal cancer screening and future research needs https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.25320996v1
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2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
January 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
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HPV vaccines prevent cancer and save lives. As an oncologist in training, I regularly see the burden and suffering that HPV related cancers cause for my patients. It will involve continuing to build trust, but addressing vaccine hesitancy is vital. #radonc #gyncsm academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
January 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
HPV vaccines prevent cancer and save lives. As an oncologist in training, I regularly see the burden and suffering that HPV related cancers cause for my patients. It will involve continuing to build trust, but addressing vaccine hesitancy is vital. #radonc #gyncsm academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
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The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal government.
U.S. pays $590 million to Moderna to speed up development of bird flu vaccine
The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal government.
www.npr.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The public health risk remains low, but bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal government.
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It seems as if we are reaching a real inflection point in quantum computing.
"MIT researchers...developed two new control techniques to achieve a world-record single-qubit fidelity of 99.998 percent."
#quantum #quantumcomputing
news.mit.edu/2025/fast-co...
"MIT researchers...developed two new control techniques to achieve a world-record single-qubit fidelity of 99.998 percent."
#quantum #quantumcomputing
news.mit.edu/2025/fast-co...
Fast control methods enable record-setting fidelity in superconducting qubit
Using a superconducting qubit called fluxonium, MIT researchers in the departments of Physics and EECS, and in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, developed two new control techniques to achieve a...
news.mit.edu
January 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It seems as if we are reaching a real inflection point in quantum computing.
"MIT researchers...developed two new control techniques to achieve a world-record single-qubit fidelity of 99.998 percent."
#quantum #quantumcomputing
news.mit.edu/2025/fast-co...
"MIT researchers...developed two new control techniques to achieve a world-record single-qubit fidelity of 99.998 percent."
#quantum #quantumcomputing
news.mit.edu/2025/fast-co...