Mycotropic

Now with less personal identification due to babka.social doxxing

#Epidemiologist interested #pulmonary and #RespiratoryHealth and disease in humans. Working in #AdrenalInsufficiency and #Diabetes as well.

#Science
#PublicHealth
#COPD
#ScheduleNicotine
#OrphanDiseases

#Authors
#MarthaWells #Murderbot
#NaomiNovik #JulesVerne #TimPratt #ShaunHutson #ChristopherRowley #JohnDeChancie #KurtVonnegut

#Archery #HorseBow
#Tiki #Cats #Motorcycle #Triumph #Antifa
He/Him if anyone cares

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2024-06-29 02:01:23

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@npub1y7x…jrl4
Welcome to where you are!

2024-04-12 21:18:48

Anybody know whether this guy is acting rabid or not? It's 72 degrees out, he's in the shade clutching the wall breathing really rapidly and he doesn't appear scared of me.
#Rabies #squirrels
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/259/852/511/756/933/original/c9dcf7d9664272f1.mp4

2024-03-26 21:42:03

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@npub14rw…w066
I love that, where do you work?

2024-03-25 20:01:19

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@npub178r…qekt
Maybe I'll rent one of those lenses for a week to get a feel for it. Thanks for your help!

2024-03-24 20:18:26

First crocus of the year!
#Photography #Crocus #Springstodon
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/152/265/314/827/991/original/e78ae9cc9e8714fc.jpg

2024-03-20 22:42:31

Okay fine, I don't NEED an EF 180mm 1:3.5 L but it does take pretty pictures of tiny flowers!
#Photostodon #Camerastodon #Photography #MacroPhotography
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/130/176/998/230/497/original/64c87721f1c36561.jpg
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/130/177/112/197/540/original/624f742359129b7f.jpg

2024-03-14 15:13:17

It snowed.
#Denver #Photography #Snow
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/094/445/468/179/239/original/241ba53080cb600d.jpg
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/094/445/583/209/401/original/b426d13722f6d69b.jpg

2024-03-10 00:59:39

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Kitin required a nap.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/068/442/289/312/049/original/f8d9c99b76c4b178.jpg

2024-02-29 20:16:18

Does anyone else use the "smash them in their skin" approach to preparing their garlic cloves?
I remove the cloves, cut off the hard part, smash them with a knife and then slide the skin off. I used to do the "moist hands, rub the cloves together as hard as you can" method but I like this approach better.
#Garlic #Cooking #Cookstodon
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/016/357/930/557/994/original/7cb37083a1eeee8c.jpg

2024-02-13 20:47:03

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Thanks for that! Five mutes from one thread is a record for me! Conspiracy theories are fun to play around with but when they become an attack on Public Health writ large then that shifts things for me. I'm an epidemiologist and I work in and teach public health; you are wrong. The CDC is not "culling the herd", that is silly and suggesting it is insulting to a lot of solid scientists that I know personally.
Thanks for playing #WhackATroll

2024-01-31 15:14:39

How have I managed to miss knowing anything about #AdaLovelace? Come on, I have a newspaper discussing #Tamboro hanging on my wall and Ada is Lord Byron's kid so I should have picked up on her at some point because of Frankenstein right? I am remiss my studies.
#Science #ComputerScience
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_program
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/111/850/949/492/629/508/original/7bc15a7859212602.jpg

2024-01-29 14:56:56

The earth creaks and groans and lurches its way through another sunrise.
#Denver
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/111/839/576/859/027/117/original/904e4e8cce0cf58d.jpg

2024-01-21 22:23:02

This is the most dramatic screw driver holder I've ever encountered!
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/111/796/037/157/872/994/original/003567d2fb9f4dbc.mp4

2024-01-11 04:22:05

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@npub1xsy…cevg
Nah, me and the other lickspittle public health practitioners will continue on stumbling around randomly, thanks.

2024-01-11 02:08:59

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@npub1xsy…cevg
I've never been called a "lickspittle" before but now I have! Osequetious you think? Perhaps you haven't the vaguest idea what those of us who work full time in public health do but I'll be sure to pass your odd opinion on to my lab, colleagues and students.
"Lickspittle", fascinating!

2024-01-10 22:31:22

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@npub1uuv…zpxv @npub19fc…ay3c
I love that song, also Africa Bambaataa and John Lydon, "World Destruction";
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f195_F4dDVI
It doesn't make me sad it makes me really, really angry about this stupid human predisposition to blow each other up. I put a bumper sticker on my motorcycle in 2001 that says "I'm already against the next war" and I stand by it to this damn day.

2024-01-05 18:03:05

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@npub19fc…ay3c
And I'd add, be careful of absolutes and secrets. I've driven my kids to school their whole lives and NPR played the whole time. I've turned it off a few times when really bad news was on but we still talked about stressful topics like guns in schools and stuff like that. If you keep that stuff secret they'll find out anyway and you won't have a chance to help them cope so lead those conversations!
Also the power of words, especially "BAD" words. I never filtered my language with my kids but I told them what the words meant in terms of the dictionary as well as as a curse. Cursing is a skill and doing it well has power so it should be used judiciously, properly and with a targeted outcome. My kids can shred your flesh with words but not one of the three has ever, in all these years gotten a referral from the school that involved cursing and or language use. Judicious folks, judicious!

2024-01-05 17:30:34

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I remember bringing my daughter home a day after she was born. We opened the door and my wife said something like "now what? Is someone going to check on us or follow up or something?"
This event is why multi-generational homes were a good thing. Her mom flew out for a while after the birth but she had to go home at some point! My mom was a bit of a mess but I think she visited for a bit as well so we had a little drop in help from more experienced folks, not a lot though.
We got help from friends but we had no idea what help we needed! I went back to work because Zita slept all the time and so did my wife. We chose to use cloth diapers and we both did overnight changes and all that but we made it up as we went along. I mean, we read the books so we had knowledge and expectations but those books didn't talk about the long term results of the tiniest actions you take as a parent.
Parenting is just bizarre.

2024-01-05 17:13:03

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@npub19fc…ay3c
And they observe, learn from and remember every damn thing you do. 14 years later my daughter said that when I'm in the bedroom and she needs me that she comes to the door and says name quietly and waits for an answer. Apparently 14 years ago she knocked on the door and I opened it angrily or something. The lesson she's carried with her since she was 5 is to never knock on my bedroom door.
Jesus Christ that's terrible and I'm completely to blame for her decade of stress, it's so ingrained in her that now at 19 when she's home from college for the weekend she still won't knock on my bedroom door! She just told me this LAST NIGHT!
We never spanked our kids and always tried to negotiate, explain, engage and be completely empathetic with them but still, one event from 14 years ago changed my daughter's behavior as a grown ass adult. Imagine all the other "inconsequential" things we did that modified how our kids see and interact with the world!
#Parenting #Kids #Psychology

2024-01-05 16:52:04

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@npub19fc…ay3c
Include the Book of Mary Madeleine or, hell, any book written by a woman! Friggin Hampton Court Conference.

2024-01-04 19:48:13

A student just commented on an hour long discussion we had in my lab on adjustment of statistical models;
"My experience in these meetings is asking for a cup of water and somehow learning how to build a desalinization plant."
Which I will take as a complement coming from a doctoral student in mathematics!
#Epidemiology #Statistics #Biostatistics

2023-12-30 04:09:17

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@npub1qfg…f8mt @npub1mmf…eknq
At the film screening for #Testimonies people were yelling at each other in various languages and someone turned to me and said; "I'm sorry, you don't look Jewish and if you're not I want to apologize for all of this, all my people, we're not LIKE this!".

2023-12-29 16:28:55

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@npub1qfg…f8mt @npub1mmf…eknq
I wonder when Ido Sella will do his next documentary;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrWXDMGXLI
That's his first one where he shows IDF soldiers brutalizing Palestinians film of themselves doing it and then asks them about doing it. They're also brutalized and now it's happening again. Perhaps if more people had watched #Testimonies the first time this wouldn't be happening now.

2023-12-24 17:41:43

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@npub18g5…q6tf @npub1ccn…czwu
Also doesn't Philemon work just as well as a "get out of jail free" as it does a "christians support slavery" card?