Some fine looking crop being harvested on newly seeded fields with a fire lit sky to close out the day. More Fall rye along with some beautiful looking straw bales #nlagriculture Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture NL Premier of NL Gudie Hutchings

Ukraine's got grandmas throwing Molotov cocktails in Kyiv, and America's got Q-a-moms throwing hissy fits in Starbucks. If you call everything "tyranny" then the word becomes meaningless.

Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves.

Asking Scientists Questions xkcd.com/2655/ m.xkcd.com/2655/

#softballgirls. #trytokeepup

Be kind - even if no one is looking.

If you can't agree in advance to accept the result of a democratic election, you have no business running for office anywhere in that democracy.

New research authored by Graham Brookes of PG Economics, found that since 1996, GM crops have increased global food, feed, and fiber production by nearly 1 billion tonnes. Read more details in Science Speaks: bit.ly/3gsJ0DC #GMcrops #cropbiotech

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RFK Jr. claims vaccines contain peanut oil, citing a 1961 patent. Fact: no vaccine uses peanut oil as an excipient. A patent doesn’t mean a product exists. Repeat after me: there is no peanut oil in any vaccine formulation. Andrea C. Love, PhD buff.ly/49wMGvn

Vaccines using aluminum salts contain up to 72x less aluminum than what you ingest daily from food and water. Aluminum is the 3rd most abundant element on Earth, naturally present in your body. RFK Jr.’s ‘pumped full of aluminum’ claim is unscientific fearmongering.

Table salt is a chemical compound consisting of sodium & chloride ions. Sodium: a metal that explodes when put in water. Chlorine: a gas that is toxic if inhaled at low concentrations. The sum of the parts don’t equal the whole. Use this logic with ALL chemicals. Facts matter.

Having to explain (again) that the MMR vaccine does NOT cause autism is so 1998.

Formaldehyde is a target of fear-mongering about vaccines. 12,000 micrograms (ug) of formaldehyde in a pear. A baby produces 1,100 ug daily. Adults? 1.5 ounces daily. A vaccine? Less than 100 ug. You produce 425,000X MORE formaldehyde EVERY DAY than what might be in a vaccine.

I'm European. Our continent has a serious problem: We fear chemicals so much that it's costing us innovation, sustainability, and public trust in science. This is the story of Europe's irrational war on chemistry: 🧵

Europe made a colossal mistake: They banned genetically modified organisms (GMOs) while the rest of the world embraced them. Now we rely on imports, pay more for food, and miss out on sustainable agriculture. Here’s the story of Europe’s GMO debacle 🧵:

I care about the environment. Do you know one of the biggest obstacles to real progress? Greenpeace. What started as an activist group fighting pollution and whaling has turned into an anti-science, anti-innovation machine. Here’s how Greenpeace lost its way 🧵: 1/12

Simon Maechling Before farmers ever learned about using science to modify our foods, selective breeding achieved something similar.

We'll be watching this with keen interest. Given the high amount of spatial variability within many farm fields, it's commonly considered that it takes about 10 years to detect changes in SOM, regardless of measurement technique.

5 Things you won't regret knowing. 1. Vaccines save lives. 2. Nuclear is low-carbon. 3. Everything is chemistry. 4. Correlation is not causation. 5. It’s the dose that makes the poison.