Franko Restović

Trained scientist and saxophone student. Beside science and music, also interested in bioeconomy and gaming. Melómano. ¡Me carga la palta!

[Marcelo Mena-Carrasco 🚲♻️ 🇨🇱 @marcelomena]

En Chile han importado casi 3 millones de aires acondicionados desde 2020 a la fecha. Más ingresos, más disponibilidad para pagar por energía y bienestar. Y sirve para calefaccionar sin contaminar por leña. Es virtuoso pues coincide con mayor sol de verano. Promover uso de aire acondicionado permite bajar contaminación de invierno y capear el calor de verano. Sin moralizar, mejor calidad de vida. Y sacando la cuenta por lo menos un 50% de los hogares tiene AC hoy. Ese es el mensaje y la propuesta de descarbonizacion y descontaminación. Que no te engañen los que niegan el cambio climático y luego hacen creer que se está en contra del aire acondicionado.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Lots of talk about glyphosate, so I want to add some context to the noise.

Glyphosate is a molecule.
It has been studied for 50 years.
Hundreds of regulatory reviews.
Tens of thousands of pages of data.

Toxicology, residue studies, epidemiology, environmental fate.

You don’t have to “trust Monsanto.”
You can read assessments from:

🇺🇸 EPA
🇪🇺 EFSA
🇯🇵 PMDA
🇨🇦 Health Canada

Here’s what gets lost in the shouting:

Hazard ≠ Risk.
Risk = Hazard × Exposure.

Real‑world dietary exposure?
Measured in micrograms.

Hundreds of times below conservative safety limits.
That’s risk assessment.

And no- IARC saying “probably carcinogenic” does not mean “causes cancer at real‑world exposure.”

It means same category as:
– Red meat
– Night shift work
– Very hot beverages

Context matters.

If you think farmers spray poison because they enjoy it, you’ve never met a farmer.

They use tools.
Tools are evaluated.

If they don’t work, they’re dropped.
If they aren’t safe under regulation, they’re not approved.

The claim that we are all being secretly poisoned? That collapses under dose‑response curves and biomonitoring data.

Emotion spreads faster than toxicology. But toxicology still wins.

If you care about food, health, and the environment, learn the difference between hazard and risk.

It will change how you see almost every chemical debate online.

And yesterday, SCOTUS (7–2) made something else clear:
You don’t get to turn fear into a label.

If regulators didn’t require a warning,
you don’t get to invent one through litigation.

[Antonio Ortiz @antonello]

Leyendo sobre como Google "predijo" segundos antes el terremoto de Venezuela, realmente lo que hace es detectar que ya ha empezado en otro punto.

Los acelerómetros de móviles Android (los mismos que notan si giramos la pantalla) quietos pueden notar las onbdas sísmicas P (previas y menos destructivas).

Es la suma de miles de móviles lo que usa Google para estimae epicentro, magnitud probable y zona en que se va a sentir la sacudida.

El aviso viaja por internet más rápido que el terremoto por la tierra. Las ondas destructivas viajan mucho más despacio. Cada terremoto el sistema mejora, lo más difícil es distinguir entre temblores leves y potencialmente dañinos.

Un abrazo a todos los amigos de Venezuela.

https://t.co/1sE2WsNpdU

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

This might be the best take I’ve heard on the Iran war….

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Spend 20 years studying Chemistry.
Collect data. Publish papers. Pass peer review.

Earn a PhD. Go online. Get told you're wrong - by an electric screwdriver salesman.

That's the internet.
Expertise vs confidence.

Science isn't broken.
Our respect for it is.

[Franko Restović @frankorestovic]

So proud haha

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Countries where the overall average life expectancy is over 80.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Everyone attending my funeral will be given one of these.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Sin lugar a dudas esta es la mejor presentación de unos Juegos Olímpicos!

Mr. Bean dio muestra de que es un artista de nivel mundial y ya todo un clásico!

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Barbara is all of us

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

After 8 billion doses (yes 8 BILLION, not a typo) Covid vaccines are at this point one of the most tested medical interventions in history and one of the safest ever

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

If only there were a safe process for removing pathogens from milk.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

[Franko Restović @frankorestovic]

Genio

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Franko Restović @frankorestovic]

Been there LOL

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

Trying to give love to an avoidant be like

📸 adrien_missika | IG

[Franko Restović @frankorestovic]

@hicasamadim 72.