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.
@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.
Das war zu Kompliziert für mein schwaches Deutsch. Ihr habe Android Übersetzer benutzt.
Ich habe mich für ein paar Minuten gefragt, was OBJ meint.
Ich habe mich für ein paar Minuten gefragt, was OBJ meint.
October 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Das war zu Kompliziert für mein schwaches Deutsch. Ihr habe Android Übersetzer benutzt.
Ich habe mich für ein paar Minuten gefragt, was OBJ meint.
Ich habe mich für ein paar Minuten gefragt, was OBJ meint.
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.
Blood Moon Total Eclipse. It's Pittsburgh, which usually means horrid seeing for astronomical events. There's a haze & some acrid pollution. I can only see a handful of stars. Around here, that's amazing.
Cataract surgery: I can see this without glasses, for the first time in probably 58 years.
🧪🌌🥮
Cataract surgery: I can see this without glasses, for the first time in probably 58 years.
🧪🌌🥮
March 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Blood Moon Total Eclipse. It's Pittsburgh, which usually means horrid seeing for astronomical events. There's a haze & some acrid pollution. I can only see a handful of stars. Around here, that's amazing.
Cataract surgery: I can see this without glasses, for the first time in probably 58 years.
🧪🌌🥮
Cataract surgery: I can see this without glasses, for the first time in probably 58 years.
🧪🌌🥮
I can't find my memes! Will this do?
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can't find my memes! Will this do?
It's January 20th, the celebration of MLK Jr., and something else I'm pretending to forget about.
And this came along:
And this came along:
January 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's January 20th, the celebration of MLK Jr., and something else I'm pretending to forget about.
And this came along:
And this came along:
Tobor, the 8th Man (8 Man in Japanese translated directly into English) is an android that received the mind of a murdered detective. He smoked to get energy.
Yes, this was an actual cartoon children watched, including me.
Personally, as a child, I hated adults smoking.
Yes, this was an actual cartoon children watched, including me.
Personally, as a child, I hated adults smoking.
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tobor, the 8th Man (8 Man in Japanese translated directly into English) is an android that received the mind of a murdered detective. He smoked to get energy.
Yes, this was an actual cartoon children watched, including me.
Personally, as a child, I hated adults smoking.
Yes, this was an actual cartoon children watched, including me.
Personally, as a child, I hated adults smoking.
This is why I have sleep problems.
The alt text for the image contains the intro from "Pavlov Trains Pea Plants." Yes, it's 5 am and I'm a bit silly. But it gets the point across sussinctly.
🧪🫛
The alt text for the image contains the intro from "Pavlov Trains Pea Plants." Yes, it's 5 am and I'm a bit silly. But it gets the point across sussinctly.
🧪🫛
January 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is why I have sleep problems.
The alt text for the image contains the intro from "Pavlov Trains Pea Plants." Yes, it's 5 am and I'm a bit silly. But it gets the point across sussinctly.
🧪🫛
The alt text for the image contains the intro from "Pavlov Trains Pea Plants." Yes, it's 5 am and I'm a bit silly. But it gets the point across sussinctly.
🧪🫛
January 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social I got my 6 y/o niece a small trilobite fossil for Christmas. She's a dinosaur fan. When I explained to her what it was and how old, relative to the dinosaurs she was amazed. The rest of the night, she went around showing people her fossil.
December 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social I got my 6 y/o niece a small trilobite fossil for Christmas. She's a dinosaur fan. When I explained to her what it was and how old, relative to the dinosaurs she was amazed. The rest of the night, she went around showing people her fossil.
My 6 y/o grandniece was so thrilled with her trilobite fossil she was going around showing it to everyone at the party.
She doesn't have to become a scientist. But I'll give her all the opportunities I can.
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She doesn't have to become a scientist. But I'll give her all the opportunities I can.
🧪🦴
December 25, 2024 at 7:32 PM
My 6 y/o grandniece was so thrilled with her trilobite fossil she was going around showing it to everyone at the party.
She doesn't have to become a scientist. But I'll give her all the opportunities I can.
🧪🦴
She doesn't have to become a scientist. But I'll give her all the opportunities I can.
🧪🦴
Look, we all know that I like birds.
And somehow no one ever got around to making the Bald Eagle the official National Bird™.
But this is what they're working on? Really?
Even Cirrus the CAG is annoyed.
And somehow no one ever got around to making the Bald Eagle the official National Bird™.
But this is what they're working on? Really?
Even Cirrus the CAG is annoyed.
December 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Look, we all know that I like birds.
And somehow no one ever got around to making the Bald Eagle the official National Bird™.
But this is what they're working on? Really?
Even Cirrus the CAG is annoyed.
And somehow no one ever got around to making the Bald Eagle the official National Bird™.
But this is what they're working on? Really?
Even Cirrus the CAG is annoyed.
The oven runs low. I cranked it up and it browned!
December 10, 2024 at 11:11 PM
The oven runs low. I cranked it up and it browned!
There's a certain irony about a biochemist cook failing to get his focaccia bread to brown.
Tastes amazing, though!
🧪🍞⚗️
Tastes amazing, though!
🧪🍞⚗️
December 8, 2024 at 8:54 PM
There's a certain irony about a biochemist cook failing to get his focaccia bread to brown.
Tastes amazing, though!
🧪🍞⚗️
Tastes amazing, though!
🧪🍞⚗️
I'm a biochemist. I saw this article. It looked interesting and I started reading it. The more I read, the more I started thinking this was nonsense.
I wanted to rip it apart, but I thought "What do I know?" I left the tab open to take another look later on.
I looked at it again today.
🧵⚛️🌌
I wanted to rip it apart, but I thought "What do I know?" I left the tab open to take another look later on.
I looked at it again today.
🧵⚛️🌌
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I'm a biochemist. I saw this article. It looked interesting and I started reading it. The more I read, the more I started thinking this was nonsense.
I wanted to rip it apart, but I thought "What do I know?" I left the tab open to take another look later on.
I looked at it again today.
🧵⚛️🌌
I wanted to rip it apart, but I thought "What do I know?" I left the tab open to take another look later on.
I looked at it again today.
🧵⚛️🌌
I love how the sous vide London broil turns out: flavorful and tender.
I got into sous vide mostly because it was using biochemistry and information about bacterial growth to cook my food in a strange way.
Cooking something in only 56.7 C (134 °F) for 22 hours is different!
🧪🧑🍳 🧵
I got into sous vide mostly because it was using biochemistry and information about bacterial growth to cook my food in a strange way.
Cooking something in only 56.7 C (134 °F) for 22 hours is different!
🧪🧑🍳 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 11:19 AM
I love how the sous vide London broil turns out: flavorful and tender.
I got into sous vide mostly because it was using biochemistry and information about bacterial growth to cook my food in a strange way.
Cooking something in only 56.7 C (134 °F) for 22 hours is different!
🧪🧑🍳 🧵
I got into sous vide mostly because it was using biochemistry and information about bacterial growth to cook my food in a strange way.
Cooking something in only 56.7 C (134 °F) for 22 hours is different!
🧪🧑🍳 🧵
I like birds and live with several parrots, including Cirrus in the attached picture.
You say "I do NOT like segregation in any way."
I oppose segregation, yet I participate in a group on BlueSky that focuses on birds.
🧵 1/n
You say "I do NOT like segregation in any way."
I oppose segregation, yet I participate in a group on BlueSky that focuses on birds.
🧵 1/n
November 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
I like birds and live with several parrots, including Cirrus in the attached picture.
You say "I do NOT like segregation in any way."
I oppose segregation, yet I participate in a group on BlueSky that focuses on birds.
🧵 1/n
You say "I do NOT like segregation in any way."
I oppose segregation, yet I participate in a group on BlueSky that focuses on birds.
🧵 1/n
Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo snuggling up to me. 🪶
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo snuggling up to me. 🪶
Let's face it, I'm weird.
I do believe Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo could remove one of my fingers if he wanted to. So I stay on his good side.
I do believe Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo could remove one of my fingers if he wanted to. So I stay on his good side.
November 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Let's face it, I'm weird.
I do believe Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo could remove one of my fingers if he wanted to. So I stay on his good side.
I do believe Chauncey the Moluccan Cockatoo could remove one of my fingers if he wanted to. So I stay on his good side.
My wife carves bird pumpkins every year. 🦉
November 1, 2024 at 3:28 AM
My wife carves bird pumpkins every year. 🦉
I'm assuming I don't have to explain how bad this New York Post headline is to the people of BlueSky.
PS: The AP does not appear to have suggested the headline used by the New York Post.
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PS: The AP does not appear to have suggested the headline used by the New York Post.
🧪🌌
October 14, 2024 at 11:46 PM
I'm assuming I don't have to explain how bad this New York Post headline is to the people of BlueSky.
PS: The AP does not appear to have suggested the headline used by the New York Post.
🧪🌌
PS: The AP does not appear to have suggested the headline used by the New York Post.
🧪🌌
One Pot French Onion Pasta with Gruyer Cheese and Rigatoni.
At one point, the rigatoni looked like the drawings of one of the nuclear pastas from a Neutron Star.
Except what I thought were drawings of rigatoni were drawings of nuclear spaghetti.
I don't know neutron stars or pasta very well.
🧪🌌
At one point, the rigatoni looked like the drawings of one of the nuclear pastas from a Neutron Star.
Except what I thought were drawings of rigatoni were drawings of nuclear spaghetti.
I don't know neutron stars or pasta very well.
🧪🌌
October 6, 2024 at 11:05 PM
One Pot French Onion Pasta with Gruyer Cheese and Rigatoni.
At one point, the rigatoni looked like the drawings of one of the nuclear pastas from a Neutron Star.
Except what I thought were drawings of rigatoni were drawings of nuclear spaghetti.
I don't know neutron stars or pasta very well.
🧪🌌
At one point, the rigatoni looked like the drawings of one of the nuclear pastas from a Neutron Star.
Except what I thought were drawings of rigatoni were drawings of nuclear spaghetti.
I don't know neutron stars or pasta very well.
🧪🌌
There's a picture claiming to be the first picture of a sunset on Mars.
It's not.
The first picture of a sunset on Mars was taken by a Viking lander. The one I've posted was taken 8/20/1976 by Viking 1. I don't know if it was the first or not.
I loved this picture when it was released.
It's not.
The first picture of a sunset on Mars was taken by a Viking lander. The one I've posted was taken 8/20/1976 by Viking 1. I don't know if it was the first or not.
I loved this picture when it was released.
September 21, 2024 at 11:13 PM
There's a picture claiming to be the first picture of a sunset on Mars.
It's not.
The first picture of a sunset on Mars was taken by a Viking lander. The one I've posted was taken 8/20/1976 by Viking 1. I don't know if it was the first or not.
I loved this picture when it was released.
It's not.
The first picture of a sunset on Mars was taken by a Viking lander. The one I've posted was taken 8/20/1976 by Viking 1. I don't know if it was the first or not.
I loved this picture when it was released.
Einen Arzt hat gesagt dass Sie "tote Politikern mit Gras ausstopfen, um CPR Puppen (?) zu benutzen."
Ich erinnere das!
Ich erinnere das!
September 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Einen Arzt hat gesagt dass Sie "tote Politikern mit Gras ausstopfen, um CPR Puppen (?) zu benutzen."
Ich erinnere das!
Ich erinnere das!
This is the result of the second die.
It's still a 37% probability of happening, so it's not significant. I thought 5 and 6 would be over-represented. 5 occurred 108 times, one less time than 3, and 6 occurred 94 times, less than 100 times. More analysis later.
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It's still a 37% probability of happening, so it's not significant. I thought 5 and 6 would be over-represented. 5 occurred 108 times, one less time than 3, and 6 occurred 94 times, less than 100 times. More analysis later.
🧪🎲
September 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
This is the result of the second die.
It's still a 37% probability of happening, so it's not significant. I thought 5 and 6 would be over-represented. 5 occurred 108 times, one less time than 3, and 6 occurred 94 times, less than 100 times. More analysis later.
🧪🎲
It's still a 37% probability of happening, so it's not significant. I thought 5 and 6 would be over-represented. 5 occurred 108 times, one less time than 3, and 6 occurred 94 times, less than 100 times. More analysis later.
🧪🎲