Jim Smoot, PhD

@jcsmoot

Dad, husband, aquatic microbiologist, farm owner at the nexus of climate change and sustainable resource recovery. “This machine kills fascists”—Woody Guthrie

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Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· 20d

lol, get one of these. It will change your life forever!😁

Screenshot of an apple slicer and corer available at Ace Hardware

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Mar 28

From 1913: books.google.com/books/about/...

Picture cropped from Disease in Milk the Remedy Pasteurization a book published in 1913. It shows a skeleton holding a glass standing behind a bowl of impure milk with the caption “I drink to the general death of the whole table”

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Nov 20

Seems like they should go after billionaires. There is a high correlation between the increase of billionaires from 1982 to 2020 and autism.

A scatter plot comparing the number of billionaires in the US and incidence of autism per 100,000 for 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. Linear regression line is shown with equation and R^2 (0.88). It’s a sarcastic response to antivaxers who confuse causation and correlation.

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Oct 30

Wonk alert🚨 Economists taken behind the proverbial woodshed!

Conclusion from Searchinger et al. reply to a correspondence criticizing their prior publication.

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Oct 24

If you’re not dropping off your ballot and getting a deli sandwich from your local Nugget, are you even voting?😁 Seriously, every state should have early voting with drop boxes in secure locations.

Text confirmation from my local election office confirming receipt and counting of my Prop 50 election ballot.

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· May 30

They questioned this?

Screenshot of Betaine HCl product page at Millipore Sigma

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· May 18

100%

Image of Bruce Springsteen playing a guitar during his concert in San Francisco (March 28, 2024)

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· May 10

Have a great weekend all!

Pomegranate blossoms and buds amongst new Spring foliage

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Apr 8

If you see this post a beach photo from your phone

Lake Tahoe beach with openwater swimmers and Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Jan 26

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery

Mandarin orange blossom with foliage and buds

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Jan 11

The hunt for TNBT led to so much waste.

Screenshot of Google AI search result that correctly states year of Aretha Franklin’s death as 2018 and its “deduction” that thus she was not alive in 2015…

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Dec 19

You rang?😁

Stock pot filled with mandarina (clementine oranges).

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Nov 16

Ripening mandarin oranges with foliage. One leaf is heart shaped 💚

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Sep 18

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,490,817! And evidently, our timelines will experience everyone’s announcement of their individual user number spam. Enjoy!

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Aug 16

There’s a lot of talk about twitter these days, and rightly so; but wow, crazy things on FB too! Full article by @noupside.bsky.social is here: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/how-... misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

AI generated image of “crab Jesus” with followers at the beach. Crab Jesus is in the water and followers are at the surf’s edge

Jim Smoot, PhD@jcsmoot· Nov 12

They include it under infectious diseases. This is from chapter 6 of the report.