💧 Ian "Engaging and Scary Lecturer" 🍩 🐀Musgrave
@ianfmusgrave
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Biologist, Amateur Astronomer, Bushwalker, Murderbot fan (Tohu/Vohu).
Adelaide, Australia
Joined July 2009
Hello and welcome to all my new followers 👋 I post/retweet about 40% biomedical science, 40% astronomy. The rest is made up of Cathy Wilcox, XKCD and Tom Gault cartoons, the Museum of English Rural Life and Surprised Eels. Enjoy!
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More pelicans at the Wrecks this morning.
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Thin crescent Moon and Mercury. In the smaller scale image Mars can be dimly seen through cloud.
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Astroblog: What's up in the Southern Sky this week? The thin crescent Moon forms a triangle with Mars and Mercury in the twilight. Jupiter forms a battered line with Castor, Pollux and Procyon. Orionid meteor shower, Comet C/2025 R2 visible in binoculars. https://t.co/RhPE85nbCi
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Astroblog: Comet C/2025 R2 9Swan) is now at its brightest, visible in binoculars relatively high in dark skies in the north west after astronomical twilight. Here is my guide to seeing it from Australia, with printable charts and star hopping guides. https://t.co/qNHgTFlp1B
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If people think the attack on scientific advances is going to stop with #mRNA vaccines, they should think again, a co-founder of Moderna warned last week at the #STATSummit. This is going to make it harder to treat a raft of common diseases, Noubar Afeyan warned.
statnews.com
Noubar Afeyan tells the STAT Summit that political moves to replace facts with opinions won't stop with mRNA vaccines. "It’s going to go to every medicine."
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Astroblog: My guide to seeing the Orionid meteor Shower from Australia. https://t.co/CK905v3poP
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Why Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe—And Often Essential | Scientific American My interview with @HumbertoBasilio @sciam
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The FDA wants to reevaluate the use of aluminum adjuvants despite a long record of safe use in vaccines
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Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine - and why it's a bad idea to undermine immunization against measles in the middle of a large and serious outbreak. https://t.co/aWLE3FjIyO via @CIDRAP
cidrap.umn.edu
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Last week, news stories reported that @SecKennedy had convened an “aluminum working group.” Among the “scientists” there are antivax scientists about whom I’ve been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing...
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I've put a few new drawings up at https://t.co/xsFdrBOEWc There are also badges, prints and a zine at https://t.co/tB7EWfN1FU
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Do you know what 'assembloids' are? If not, you should start reading about them, as they will likely be important to the future of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and neurodegeneration. 'Assembloids' are one of the most exciting frontiers in neuroscience. Think of them as tiny,
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✅✅ A reminder by Dr. Rahaf Ajaj: She wasn’t on the Stanford list… but she made it to the Nobel stage. 🏅 Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. She never appeared in Stanford’s ranking of the
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at https://t.co/IJW2wqyVfg
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Upside down moon once more, as we head south, the moon rises higher, in Kirkness, above the polar circle, it barely scraped the https://t.co/7zW9vxS5V9 in Modrel. It is a decent height ( not as high as in Australia at this time.
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