Tom Maynard
@tmaynard.bsky.social
5% science, 95% dad jokes.
Day job: developmental neuroscience researcher
(but I'm really just here for the cat and dog pix)
Day job: developmental neuroscience researcher
(but I'm really just here for the cat and dog pix)
Rectum? Hell, damn near killed him!
October 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Rectum? Hell, damn near killed him!
Even worse: Watch a video, with the sound on? What kind of madness is this!
August 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Even worse: Watch a video, with the sound on? What kind of madness is this!
The enshittification of America. We can't have good things because some crayon eating "consultant" will figure out how to destroy it to make a quick buck.
April 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The enshittification of America. We can't have good things because some crayon eating "consultant" will figure out how to destroy it to make a quick buck.
It's not like you can predict how a new pandemic disease is going to hit the population. The 1918 "spanish flu" was particularly lethal to segments that are generally the healthiest (e.g. healthy 20-40 year olds) because it often caused a lethal immune response (cytokine storm).
February 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's not like you can predict how a new pandemic disease is going to hit the population. The 1918 "spanish flu" was particularly lethal to segments that are generally the healthiest (e.g. healthy 20-40 year olds) because it often caused a lethal immune response (cytokine storm).
Just like the movie "Airplane!"
a man in a suit and tie is holding a hose and says just kidding
Alt: Scene from the movie "Airplane!", where a man in a suit and tie unplugs a cord that powers the runway lights, then says "just kidding!"
media.tenor.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just like the movie "Airplane!"
Reposted by Tom Maynard
Three reasons why the National Institutes of Health budget cuts matter
#1: This will hurt medical & scientific research, the hospitals that people use, and private industry that relies on medical innovations created on campus. Other countries can't believe why the US would give up its status here.
#1: This will hurt medical & scientific research, the hospitals that people use, and private industry that relies on medical innovations created on campus. Other countries can't believe why the US would give up its status here.
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Three reasons why the National Institutes of Health budget cuts matter
#1: This will hurt medical & scientific research, the hospitals that people use, and private industry that relies on medical innovations created on campus. Other countries can't believe why the US would give up its status here.
#1: This will hurt medical & scientific research, the hospitals that people use, and private industry that relies on medical innovations created on campus. Other countries can't believe why the US would give up its status here.
But the rest of LA has plenty of water. Nobody's complaining about the taps running dry in Long Beach. The CA reservoir system is in great shape (above normal levels) and the water is flowing into SoCal. Bringing more water over the mountains into lake Castaic isn't the issue.
January 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
But the rest of LA has plenty of water. Nobody's complaining about the taps running dry in Long Beach. The CA reservoir system is in great shape (above normal levels) and the water is flowing into SoCal. Bringing more water over the mountains into lake Castaic isn't the issue.
The tanks in the area where the fire is have run dry. When the fire hit, the hydrants were pumping water at many times normal demand, and the system couldn't sustain it. Then the fire damaged the pumps and pipes and power needed to bring the water there, making things worse.
January 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The tanks in the area where the fire is have run dry. When the fire hit, the hydrants were pumping water at many times normal demand, and the system couldn't sustain it. Then the fire damaged the pumps and pipes and power needed to bring the water there, making things worse.
That's an important issue, and Trump has the ear of the farmers in the south. The farmers in Stockton feel differently. But it's not related to the Santa Ana wind driven fires in LA right now.
January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
That's an important issue, and Trump has the ear of the farmers in the south. The farmers in Stockton feel differently. But it's not related to the Santa Ana wind driven fires in LA right now.
Because there's no shortage of water to LA now. There's debates about how to allocate water 3 or 4 years into a drought. Do we allow the delta to die (and its billions in high value crops) so farmers in Kern County can grow low value water intensive crops? Do we completely kill salmon fisheries?
January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Because there's no shortage of water to LA now. There's debates about how to allocate water 3 or 4 years into a drought. Do we allow the delta to die (and its billions in high value crops) so farmers in Kern County can grow low value water intensive crops? Do we completely kill salmon fisheries?
And, yes, water is being pumped right now from northern CA into Castaic for use in LA. It's currently full. There is no water shortage in LA. The water system couldn't handle the massive demand of the fire (which was also damaging tanks, pumps, etc. as it burned).
January 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And, yes, water is being pumped right now from northern CA into Castaic for use in LA. It's currently full. There is no water shortage in LA. The water system couldn't handle the massive demand of the fire (which was also damaging tanks, pumps, etc. as it burned).
The delta smelt is a fish that would go extinct if seawater is allowed to flow upstream into the delta. It would also decimate farms in Sacramento Stockton Lodi, etc. that grow billions of dollars of tomatoes, grapes, etc., but benefit alfalfa farmers in Kern County. Water politics is complicated.
January 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The delta smelt is a fish that would go extinct if seawater is allowed to flow upstream into the delta. It would also decimate farms in Sacramento Stockton Lodi, etc. that grow billions of dollars of tomatoes, grapes, etc., but benefit alfalfa farmers in Kern County. Water politics is complicated.
The CA aqueduct pumps water over the grapevine into lake Castaic for use in LA. You can see the giant pipes running up the side of the mountain as you drive down interstate 5.
January 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The CA aqueduct pumps water over the grapevine into lake Castaic for use in LA. You can see the giant pipes running up the side of the mountain as you drive down interstate 5.
whoops, correction-- lake Castaic is the end of the CA aqueduct for LA... Got my southern CA coastal reservoir C's mixed up there. (castaic cachuma casitas )
January 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
whoops, correction-- lake Castaic is the end of the CA aqueduct for LA... Got my southern CA coastal reservoir C's mixed up there. (castaic cachuma casitas )