Dan Mielcarz

@mielcarz

Immunology, flow cytometry, music, beer. Opinions 100% my own. He/him. ⭕️ Director of @dartlab.bsky.social “To science, I felt that I could help” Also on mastodon: @mielcarz@shakedown.social

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Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· 22d

In honor of them playing Wrecking Ball, here’s a meme I made many years ago:

Drake meme with Miley Cyrus’ and Gillian Welch’s Wrecking Ball

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· 22d

First time seeing these two absolute American treasures tonight. Exceeding my extremely high expectations.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· 24d

When the Argonath first appeared on screen in The Fellowship of the Ring a woman in the theater yelled "Would you look at that!" I still say it every time I watch.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Jul 2

Great show last night for my first Goose experience! Very fun with extremely solid jamming. I'm no expert in their eras but being a four-piece band seems to be working out great. Looking forward to seeing them again!

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Jun 16

In case anyone was wondering where this fun table of "highest percentage of ancestry of World Cup nations by US city" came from, I tracked it down. I for one would love it if @sidkhurana3607.bsky.social could post his cool maps and demographic trivia here in addition to Twitter!

The image shows a structured spreadsheet mapping international soccer teams to specific US cities, representing regions with high concentrations of immigrant or diaspora communities from those nations.Here is the fully extracted and parsed data from the table for your reference:Left ColumnsAlgeria: Olathe, KansasArgentina: Hollywood, FloridaAustralia: Fort Lauderdale, FloridaAustria: Boca Raton, FloridaBelgium: Green Bay, WisconsinBosnia: Manchester, New HampshireBrazil: Newark, New JerseyCanada: Manchester, New HampshireCape Verde: Brockton, MassachusettsColombia: Elizabeth, New JerseyCroatia: Joliet, IllinoisCuracao: Brandon CDP, FloridaCzechia: Cedar Rapids, IowaDR Congo: Cedar Rapids, IowaEcuador: Newark, New JerseyEgypt: Bayonne, New JerseyEngland: St. George, UtahFrance: Lafayette, LouisianaGermany: Fargo, North DakotaGhana: Worcester, MassachusettsHaiti: Pompano Beach, FloridaIran: Irvine, CaliforniaIraq: El Cajon, CaliforniaIvory Coast: Newark, New JerseyRight ColumnsJapan: Honolulu, HawaiiJordan: Dearborn, MichiganMexico: Laredo, TexasMorocco: Alexandria, VirginiaNetherlands: Grand Rapids, MichiganNew Zealand: Vancouver, WashingtonNorway: Grand Forks, North DakotaPanama: Riverview CDP, FloridaParaguay: Newark, New JerseyPortugal: Fall River, MassachusettsQatar: Houston, TexasSaudi Arabia: Tempe, ArizonaScotland: St. George, UtahSenegal: Albany, New YorkSouth Africa: Carlsbad, CaliforniaSouth Korea: Fullerton, CaliforniaSpain: Albuquerque, New MexicoSweden: Minneapolis, MinnesotaSwitzerland: Madison, WisconsinTunisia: Jersey City, New JerseyTurkey: Boca Raton, FloridaUruguay: Elizabeth, New JerseyUSA: N/AUzbekistan: Elgin, Illinois

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Jun 13

Great minds etc. I literally just sent this text:

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Jun 11

The great baseball writer Roger Angell explained it better than anyone ever could in his article on Ted Williams final game ("Agincourt and After." The New Yorker, 10 Nov 1975).

From “Agincourt and After” by Roger Angell

It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look—I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring—caring deeply and passionately, really caring—which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté—the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball—seems a small price to pay for such a gift.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Jun 11

I'm sure someone headier than me made this already, but in case not…

Trump asleep at Game 3 with the caption DOZIN AT THE KNICKS

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 29

If you want to go to the Anne Frank House, reserve it ASAP. Resistance Museum is great. Drink in a centuries-old brown cafe. Take the train to Zaanse Schans to see windmills. Apple Pie at Winkel 43. Nighttime canal cruise with mulled wine. Don't skip the library if you go to the Rijksmuseum.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 28

Add in some more niche sports and you start to see some more interesting results:

Graph showing educational attainment of fans of different sports in the Northeastern United States. Source: SBRnet Study of Sports Fandom, 2025
https://sportsmarketanalytics.com/Premium/Fan-Studies.aspx

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 28

Was a bit tricky to find, but surveys of sports fans show very little difference in educational attainment among the five major team sports in the Northeastern US census region. There is of course a ton of overlap in fans of these sports, so it is probably to be expected.

Graph showing educational attainment of fans of the 5 major team sports leagues in the United States. Source: SBRnet Study of Sports Fandom, 2025
https://sportsmarketanalytics.com/Premium/Fan-Studies.aspx

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 21

FYI: The best maple creemee sold in Vermont is actually in New Hampshire at Mac's Maple in Plainfield.

Waffle cone filled to overflowing with maple creemee.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 21

Jeez, I spend 15 minutes making a graph and this is the thanks I get:

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 21

I plotted the results from the crosstabs where people give their personal views on where the Democratic party should move, not where the respondants are playing pundit. They are pretty similar but a bit more to the left in every category:

Graph of results from a NYT poll located here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/21/polls/times-siena-poll-democrats-crosstabs.html

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 17

If you see this, post a Star Trek. (Yes, that's Padma Lakshmi!)

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 8

“Enjoy it while you can, while you’re light enough for that glass to hold you.” Seriously.

Vineland excerpt: HIGHLIGHT (YELLOW) • PAGE 314
Zoyd put Prairie on top of a pinball machine with a psychedelic motif, called Hip Trip, and was able to keep winning free games till the Vineland bus got in from L.A. This baby was a great fan of the game, liked to lie face down on the glass, kick her feet, and squeal at the full sensuous effect, especially when bumpers got into prolonged cycling or when her father got manic with the flippers, plus the gongs and lights and colors always going off.
"Enjoy it while you can," he muttered at his innocent child,
"while you're light enough for that glass to hold you."

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 6

100% agree.

Excerpt from Vineland:

"So the bad Ninjamobile swept along on the great Ventura, among Olympic visitors from everywhere who teemed all over the freeway system in midday densities till far into the night, shined-up, screaming black motorcades that could have carried any of several office seekers, cruisers heading for treed and more gently roaring boulevards, huge double and triple trailer rigs that loved to find Volkswagens laboring up grades and go sashaying around them gracefully and at gnat's-ass tolerances, plus flirters, deserters, wimps and pimps, speeding like bullets, grinning like chimps, above the heads of TV watchers, lovers under the overpasses, movies at malls letting out, bright gas-station oases in pure fluorescent spill, canopied beneath the palm trees, soon wrapped, down the corridors of the surface streets, in nocturnal smog,
the adobe air, the smell of distant fireworks, the spilled, the broken world."

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 4

Bromancing the Stoned. (Pretend I wasn’t too lazy to photoshop this)

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 3

Derrick White’s phone number revealed:

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 1

Incredible bumper sticker. I have no affiliation, but it's for sale here: www.smileworldwide.biz/product/preo...

Bumper sticker that reads "The Best Elliott Smith Song is "baby bitch" by ween

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· May 1

The Celtics are like the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead: when they are good they are very good indeed, but when they are bad they are HORRID. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44650/...

There was a little girl
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 30

Her books seem bad!

Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
by Nicole Saphier
3.87 avg rating — 325 ratings — 7 editions
Want to Read

Panic Attack: Playing Polit... Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19
by Nicole Saphier
4.03 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 28

The US contribution to the WHO in 2024 was $751 million. This was 0.01% of the federal budget that year. In the grand scheme it was nothing to the US to contribute that much money, and everything to the WHO to receive it.

John, 62, Md., white, Republican, packaging specialist
He did initiate the ending of the penny, silly as that is. And he initiated getting us out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement. Two positive things, I guess, if you really look at it on the whole. I mean, that was accounting for a lot of our budget money.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 27

Screenshot from Clickhole saying "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 27

I'm sure there is some technicality where she wasn't "fired" from the Washington Post but she literally lied about the war criminal Instagram story, as seen in this NPR article about the incident ("You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes"): www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g...

Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist’s private story on social media, which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo.

The Post’s Taylor Lorenz attended a White House event for digital influencers on Wednesday. In the photo she shared with a circle of friends on Instagram, Biden appears over her shoulder; the damning caption rests just below him, accompanied by a text frowny face.

After the New York Post’s Jon Levine — a frequent critic of hers — revealed the Instagram photo caption yesterday in a tweet, Lorenz wrote back at him: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 24

Here’s an even better picture from last May.

Speedy Ortiz at the Thing in the Spring in Keene, NH, 5/17/25

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 21

More US soldiers died of the flu in World War I than due to battle. This is an idiotic policy by someone with no knowledge of military history.

Ridiculous and idiotic post to X by Pete Hegseth reminding the military’s flu vaccine mandate.

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Apr 19

Joe Walsh was at the Sphere and really impressed with Phish's take on Walk Away last night:

Screenshot of a Facebook post from Joe Walsh:

Joe Walsh is with Phish and Trey
Anastasio at Sphere.
• Follow 5h •

• @phish played the hell out of my song. I wasn't expecting that. A serious honor. What great jobs we have. What great guys.
X

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Mar 24

Fascinating Jerry Garcia quote in Cameron Crowe's memoir "The Uncool":

He was immediately gregarious
and delightfully prickly.

"Fuck people's music, man," Garcia said, and laughed. "That kind
of thing really irks me."

This was decades before Napster or Spotify, but Garcia could see it coming in the summer of 1973. The people's hippie, the guru of the Summer of Love, was already militant about not giving music away for free. "To get so you can play music," he continued, "you have to sacrifice a lot of what would have been your normal life. You know what I mean?
For lack of a better phrase, you have to pay the dues to get so you can play music. It's not a thing you just do. If that were so, everybody'd be making their own music and there wouldn't be professional musicians.
There'd be no need for them. For someone to deny the fact that you spent a certain amount of your life working on some sort of discipline and learning how to play... that's the rip-off. That's the state versus the individual. Anytime someone comes down on artists and claims their work on any level, I think that's pure bullshit. There's been too many great musicians who died poor. People's music? It just ain't so."

Scully wandered into the room, catching the tail end of Garci's statement. "That's the confusion that's created a lot by the press," he said,
"who identified the Dead with a sociological movement that happened in the Haight-Ashbury, right? So by the time the Grateful Dead got to New York for the first time, nobody would cover them as a music story.
Instead, the band got treated as some artifact from the decadence of the West Coast culture .... something from Babylon."

Garcia, then just thirty-one, agreed. "That's all gone now," he added with a wave of his hand. "They don't ask or talk about that much any-more, It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is in reality just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."

Dan Mielcarz@mielcarz· Mar 22

Congratulations to the Dartmouth Big Green on their first-ever ECAC Hockey Championship!