Ray Taylor

A father's pride and a child's trust, caught in one look. Psychologists say moments like this build a kid's lifelong sense of security.

An experimental collaboration has reported what may be the first detection of a dark matter particle. I have a brief summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLM...

Actual reply from Claude: Step 1: Call Oman 📞 (the Gulf state everyone likes) Step 2: give 5th Fleet a vacation in a Gulf ports (the US has done versions of this before) Step 3: Hope Iran is having a chill day 🙏 Step 4: Explain to Congress why oil is $150/barrel

There is no strategy that opens the Strait quickly, durably, and keeps American ships safe. You're picking two of three. That's the actual staff problem, and why "quickest possible, no mistakes" is a question that has no clean answer.

Useful reminder for drivers (please look back!) And cyclists (don't stay close to parked cars - you have a right to cycle in the middle of the road, be seen and safe!)

Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...

Some thoughts on why I think it's important to remember that the natural and physical world provide joy and curiosity, even though global geopolitics is very mean and horrible right now. Appreciating the world around us gives us joy & agency. Don't forget the bad, but hold on to the good too.

PLEASE DON'T SHARE THIS - it creates fear and is just not correct We have kidneys which protect us from this! Ask a decent LLM what rheumatologists and bone doctors think of the paper. What the paper DOES do is unnecessarily scare young people (who have enough to worry about!)

This is amazing.

so sweet!

"The word 'evil' is derived from an old English word 'yfel' ... which means to “exceed proper boundaries.” (approx!)

Bononbos Theory of Mind From www.pnas.org/post/update/... 🧪

www.cidrap.umn.edu/cholera/nove...

Good advice from NASA: ... on keeping projects going, despite cuts

EU, Canada and UK have 20 icebreakers and tens of thousands of winter troops. USA has 2 icebreakers, and few full time winter troops, winterised vehicles etc and little training. Remember Ukraine invasion? Be careful about military optimism!

I have never before felt so patriotic about Greenland!

"Wealth cannot be enjoyed under slavery" Boudicca, a queen of England who rebelled against Rome and Seneca the moneylender and philosopher (who I now like less!)

Haven’t seen a politician this likeable since Obama

Large and intricate naturally occurring structures composed exclusively of RNA... ROOL! More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

Recalling nearly 30 career diplomats serving as ambassadors is not standard practice for new US administrations

Unintentionally, he speaks the truth:

#solar #environment #agriculture #energy 🧪 “ … scientists have discovered that, by placing solar panels at least eight meters (about 26 feet) apart, they can optimize both crop production and electricity generation”

It's easy to be negative about humans ... ... but I love that humans are working to prevent viruses from whales affect dolphins!

Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

This is astonishing, remarkable! The intro is great, well worth a read. "greater [microbiome] diversity in infancy has been concurrently linked to increased fronto-parietal connectivity... implicated in cognitive control, which in turn was associated with increased infant negative emotionality"

#Tylenol doesn't cause #autism, but recent studies and cohort analyses associate prolonged or frequent exposure to #acetaminophen in pregnancy with language delay, which could easily be confused with autism at age 2-3. Sources: www.perplexity.ai/search/does-...

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

🧪Is Richard Dawkins wrong about the nature of life? And is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"? That's what's in my new article. It's free to read and subscribe, and it features audio narration (read by me) for those who prefer it. #science #philsky #evolution #biology #philosophy

Don't forget your flu shot this year! Vaccines are safe and effective - talk to your doctor for answers to questions. #vaccinate #vaccine #noflu 🧪🧬🍎🥽👩‍🔬

“Less than a week after her symptoms began, Suza was dead. Congolese government data shows that in Suza’s province, [malaria] deaths nearly tripled in the first half of this year.” Suza was five years old. Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Elon Musk killed her.

… the UN Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security. The Security Council must be prepared to respond to the impact of AI on global peace. Therefore, Slovenia joins the call on the UN Secretary-General to provide regular reports on the development of artificial intelligence,

This from a folate researchers is excellent for ASD parents who want to understand the cerebral folate hypothesis, and what studies are underway, and why they should NOT buy the supplements or get a MTHFR test this week: kcklatt.substack.com/p/folate-and...

A study in Communications Psychology shows that people tend to give more additive advice than subtractive when supporting those with mental health issues. This bias contributes to a feeling of being overwhelmed in self-management. go.nature.com/4gqyGqm 🧪

The World Wants More Vaccines. An Anti-Vaccine America Isn’t Helping www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

I was taking interesting posts from here to FB / X Now I'll swop

The hug of the Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Luxembourg. That's probably one of the nicest things you'll see today.

Bio-meteorology is becoming a thing (Dr Cindy Morris in INRA, Avignon and Prof David Sands in USA) and this gives a cool intro. For monsoon/semi arid regions, as well as CCN, also important is IN ice nucleation at the top of towering anvil clouds, seeded by aerobacter from ground level, inc coffee

i need some help with GAPIT in R using info from TASSEL. Can someone please help meeee 🧪

Important topic for health and income: child stunting. The worst kinds of stunting begin in utero and cause brain damage.

PLEASE WATCH THIS report on nurse in Sudan youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fz-vOeyu4 Nuba is one of few places in Sudan where a robust aid response could be scaled: An opportunity that cannot be missed. List of orgs working there: perplexity.ai/search/is-any-ngo-or-fao-or-ifad-deli-VlWbauzKT_CPOchq9SfbyA

PLEASE WATCH THIS report on nurse in Sudan youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fz-vOeyu4 Nuba is one of few places in Sudan where a robust aid response could be scaled: An opportunity that cannot be missed. List of orgs working there: perplexity.ai/search/is-any-ngo-or-fao-or-ifad-deli-VlWbauzKT_CPOchq9SfbyA

Why do so many people put "No DM" on BlueSky ? Is it simply because they don't have time for yet another inbox? Or is there something else going on? (eg women not wanting romantic approaches? or MAGA hassles?)

into adulthood, eroding potential income by a staggering 20%, chipping away at economic productivity by 1.4%, and imposing an economic burden of $176.8 million per birth, stunting propagates a relentless cycle of poverty and malnutrition, casting a long shadow across generations flip.it/obSyBI

#ncbi #blast doesn’t work either - i’ve been super concerned this was going to disappear - this database is crucial for genomic/transcriptomic research has anyone thought about how we can archive all of this information?? all the genomes, tools, data, we really cannot afford to lose it 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬