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In April 2018, an image of a purported tweet from Bill Nye — an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer popularly known as the Science Guy — was widely shared online. That tweet appeared to be a retort to some other unidentified Twitter user, asking if that person was made of copper, nitrogen, terbium, and silver — a combination that spelled out an offensive acronym: The displayed tweet image of course lacked any information common to genuine tweets, such as a timestamp documenting when it was posted, or counters tracking the number of retweets, likes, and comments it generated. And a search of Bill Nye's verified Twitter account for any tweets containing the word terbium (which is in fact a real element) turned up no matches. The substance of this faux tweet is in fact an old science-themed joke which, as commonly happens, has become attributed to a famous science person in order to give it more potency.
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