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James Davenport
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| Hydrogen by day
| Science educator; graphs, figures, & pubs. to better understand the universe and our place in it
| Pop culture know-it-all and Overall Big Nerd
| he / him
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erictopol.bsky.social
We need better ways to prevent atrial fibrillation, a major risk factor for stroke. A new study demonstrates the importance of an inflammatory mediator (interleukin-1β) that can be blocked. Results from an experimental model but worthy of clinical assesement
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
IL-1β enhances susceptibility to atrial fibrillation in mice by acting through resident macrophages and promoting caspase-1 expression - Nature Cardiovascular Research
Moreno-Loaiza et al. found that interleukin-1β, acting upon cardiac resident macrophages, promotes atrial fibrillation in mice, and this mechanism may represent a common pathway connecting various ris...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
twesq.bsky.social TW @twesq.bsky.social · Jan 30
This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
De-Nazify shit.
January 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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amybrown.xyz
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
enceladus over saturn’s rings 🪐
Following a successful close flyby of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this artful composition of the icy moon with Saturn's rings beyond. This view looks towards the trailing/anti-Saturn side of Enceladus. North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 28, 2015.
January 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
National Fossil Day 🧪
The Cambrian fossil Opabinia was thought to be a weird wonder unrelated to any species. New data shows it was cousin to arthropods! We described 2 new species last year & they survived 40 mill yrs! 😍
Art @franzanth.bsky.social
Papers tinyurl.com/mr2c73kd &
tinyurl.com/yvar544a
Utaurora comosa reconstruction by Franz Anthony. It is a soft bodied but arthropod like creature, with lateral flaps instead of legs, dorsal furrows instead of segments, and big tail fan. It has a proboscis and (speculative based on Opabinia) 5 eyes Mieridduryn bonniae reconstruction by Franz Anthony. It is a tiny (under 13 mm) soft bodied but arthropod like creature, with lateral flaps and spiny lobopodian legs, dorsal furrows instead of segments. It has a spiny proboscis and "hat" which may be some kind of head carapace. 2nd individual shown is 3 mm and may be a larva
October 11, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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npr.org
"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot," O'Brien said in a release from The Kennedy Center.
Conan O'Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for comedy
"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot," O'Brien said in a release from The Kennedy Center.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Dirty air, dementia, and other adverse brain effects
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
new Feature @nature.com open-access
January 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Getting rid of toxic chemicals from plastics
On the annual 100,000+ lives saved, trillion+ dollars benefit and ~10+ million IQ points lost to maternal exposure
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... @pnas.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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docworldexplore.bsky.social
First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope
December 16, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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annaroseiovine.bsky.social
Constantly thinking of this Marilyn Frye quote

From @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s newsletter www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-is-...
Headline: Do men know what an actual woman looks like? Candid, paparazzi photos of actor Sydney Sweeney in a purple bikini Text: After candid photos of Sydney Sweeney in a bikini leaked online, thousands of men on X have been having a full on mental breakdown because she doesn't look exactly the same as when she's glammed up for an award show or airbrushed in a magazine. They've been tearing her apart for her body, her face, and basically calling her an ugly hag and a catfish. The entire "controversy" reminds me of the famous quote from philosopher Marilyn Frye, who wrote in her book, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."
December 16, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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kakape.bsky.social
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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viewerlikeyou.bsky.social
Two different atmospheres, same states of matter.
Image of layered clouds in Earth's atmosphere resembling stacked shelves in hues of deep orange and red.
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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ontopunk.bsky.social
Detailed map of our galaxy, from Carlos David Budassi:
December 11, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
once you hit your 30's and you're still pursuing a dream people start talking to you like you're their dying grandma
December 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Categorization of #LongCovid into 4 subtypes based on symptoms, with further evidence of the increased risk from multiple infections and reduced risk by vaccination and boosters.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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scrapegoatt.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
If you like my work please buy a subscription to User Mag 🙏. I’m a 100% reader funded independent journalist and there’s no way that I could say any of this shit if I went back to MSM www.usermag.co/p/yes-we-wan...
Why "we" want insurance executives dead
No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.
www.usermag.co
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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frogs4girls.bsky.social
star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like “you don’t understand it was a different time…”
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
[trying to talk to a server while going out socially for the first time in several months] Hrm, methinks I’m feeling a bit peckish indeed … and mayhaps I shall partake in an, ahem, shall we say, “adult beverage?” Squee!!!
December 4, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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universal-sci.bsky.social
Intriguing: A selection of the multi-planet systems discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by the Kepler Space Telescope!

(Credit: Ethan Kruse/NASA Goddard)
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says everyone is laughing at him. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great rapper Kendrick Lamar is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Drake.'
November 27, 2024 at 11:52 PM
viewerlikeyou.bsky.social
Two different atmospheres, same states of matter.
Image of layered clouds in Earth's atmosphere resembling stacked shelves in hues of deep orange and red.
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 AM