Natmccoy

Biogerontologist. We 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 cure aging, but when? I'm also @ScientificWords.

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

"Upwards to the vanguard
Where the pressure is too high
Under the microscope
Hope against hope
Forging for the future"

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

Their minds would explode, but there are people alive now who were children then. That is how quickly we have advanced.

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Imagine travelling back to 1919 & giving modern textbooks (virology, genetics, microbiology, etc) to top experts in the related field.

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

We'll round the numbers to make it simple:

The universe is 14 billion years old

Earth is 4.5 billion years old

We are 30 trillion cells

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

Values nearly all high school graduates should know by heart:

Age of the universe

Age of the Earth

Approximate # of cells in their body

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

Props to everyone learning science in their second language.

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"I got my skin to sing a song, I gotta sing a super swell song son. I got my bones to make a beat I gotta make a mighty good beat son."

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@tthec24 It doesn't presume much in that regard. A cheetah & panda would probably have ratios similar to this, though the composition of microorganisms in their digestive tract would be significantly different.

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

We are ~30 trillion human cells of ~200 different types, living with ~39 trillion bacterial cells.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

"When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realize what it looks like," says photographer Paul Nicklen

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

When I manage to speak 4 sentences in a 1-on-1 convo without being interrupted I find myself thinking, "Wow this person's a good listener!"

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To a scientist in 1917 we have fully elucidated molecular & cellular biology. It's astounding how much we know & we learn more every day.

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@KathleenFz Maybe you should knit a harf!

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I assumed that much of it consisted of various environmental debris. Dryer lint would be interesting to inspect under a dissecting scope.

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I'm weirdly fascinated every time I remove dryer lint, w/ so much every load it seems like our clothes would quickly whittle down to nothing

[Natmccoy @natmcmolecule]

I give retractions and corrections for casual one-on-one statements with friends and research proper hyphen usage for tweets.

[Bryan Ford @brynosaurus]

Sci-Hub now has around 85% of all paywalled journal content, and its crowdsourced search can produce 99% on demand. https://t.co/FpDjHOwPzY

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@SaulTheGiant @BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 enough of a food advantage to reproduce much more effectively. Though I'm not an evolutionary biologist & it's probably not always so direct

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@SaulTheGiant @BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 No sarcasm, that'd probably require 100s of generations of hominids standing in nipple-deep water until the wrinkliest-fingered tribes had

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@BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 Ya... I don't think our ancestors spent enough time underwater grasping fish for this to develop & offer a significant advantage.

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The only question I have from this paper is who the hell was in charge of feeding the finches @EdinburghUni between 1959 & 1965?