iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

High school in 2026: I get an automated email alert that my daughter's grade has dropped. This happened because there was an assignment sitting in a 3rd party app with no notification feature that requires 2FA to login that can only be done on personal email that can't be accessed on school devices.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not a Taco Town triumphal arch until we roll it up in a blueberry pancake, dip it in batter and deep-fry it until it’s golden brown

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I went to the SF Silent Movie Festival screening last night and my review is the sound of one hand clapping enthusiastically

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fiddlehead of fiddleheads on Blechnum orientale #sarawak #fernfriday

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most science stories focus on impact not process, but this story unfolds like a Poirot mystery: a secret code, a stolen weapon, and the little grey cells that pieced the mystery together

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Blue Oyster Yakult

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pumpkin bread as aromatherapy. In this essay, I will…

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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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brushy kb @brushy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this crop art at the minneapolis airport

a rendition of a speed movie poster made entirely of crop seeds except the movie is called "seed" and the actors names are beanu reeves, sandra burdock, dennis popcorn (this one is a stretch), and chaff daniels. the tagline on it says "crop quiz, hot shot"

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In which I somehow decided to use the sentence: "A spoon and a Slinky are both made of steel, but only one can climb down a set of stairs by itself, and you certainly wouldn’t use that one to eat soup."

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is so misleading. Why might plant-based meats contain mycotoxins? Perhaps because ALMOST EVERYTHING WE EAT DOES. Does it include grains, seeds, something grown in soil? Guess what.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lots of things going wrong at the USPS these days, but at least we get Bruce Lee stamps

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Coral only spawn once a year, synchronized with a full moon, and this is what it looks like ⬇️

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/08/2026

this fish is going to change the world

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“One might wonder if social change were possible if people who waited in lines for viral baked goods organized for a cause. SHRUG EMOJI!”

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s great that Marine Layer released a Wesley Crusher line for Fall

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Say a journal that advertises that they have a <30-day time to review takes A FULL YEAR to review and accept your paper. Then A FULL YEAR LATER, the paper is still not published and nobody will tell you its status. Do you withdraw the paper? I'm deep into sunk-cost land.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Use your brain or lose your brain, part 442. (Though my god do I want to redo this graph in a way that makes more sense.)

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A friend gave me two small passion fruits. Not knowing what to do with them, I added them to oatmeal. And now I know what to do with them - so surprisingly good.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis invites applications and nominations for a 9-month, tenure-track position in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level. The Department of Evolution and Ecology is seeking a plant evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of plants at any taxonomic, geographic, organizational, or evolutionary scale. Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in the biological sciences, evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, or a related field, and will be expected to complement and build upon existing faculty strengths in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and across UC Davis.

We welcome applicants working on any group of plants and using empirical, computational, experimental, and/or theoretical approaches. Possible areas of study are broad, and include macroevolutionary research on plant diversification, trait evolution in a phylogenetic context, major evolutionary innovations, comparative genomics, and evolutionary developmental biology, as well as research focusing at or below the species level including population biology, quantitative genetics, adaptive evolution, speciation, biogeography, and the evolution of life histories or species interactions.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is apparently a real product available in real stores that real humans are meant to consume

Peanut Butter Cup flavored Liquid Death sparkling water co-branded with Mr. Beast’s Feastables. Tag line: “You won’t believe it’s not candy”. Photo features a skull with flesh melting off its face and a man with a mustache and teeth so white that they nearly blind you if you look too long. In fact this may be why the flesh is melting off the other guy. $8.99 and you can find out for yourself.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Important dinner conversation just now about why it’s pronounced Bob’s BIG-boy not Bob’s Big BOY

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Shasta fern, Polystichum lemmonii, on the Pacific Crest Trail near Mt. Eddy. #fernfriday

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

California pitcher plant, Darlingtonia californica, at Kangaroo Lake, Siskiyou County 🌿

California pitcher plant in a serpentine bog surrounded by orange leaves of neighboring plants

California pitcher plant in a serpentine bog overlooking Kangaroo Lake in the distance

Closeup on a California pitcher plant's pitcher with translucent window cells

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bread options: Hole Wheat Marble Rai Prompternickel

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 05/08/2026

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The best thing about my daughter becoming a soccer referee is that now she yellow cards me when I tell a dad joke

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They’ve done Scotland, England, Australia, Wales, and Ireland. “Really different” must mean… an actor from the Isle of Man?

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Let’s play “Someone’s embarrassing nickname or totally unnecessary product?”

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Say, hypothetically, that you wanted to name a chicken after an #NWSL player. Would it be: 1. Olivia Poultrie 2. Feathers O’Reilly 3. Hendis Jónsdóttir 4. Ashley Hatch

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Q: Doug, did you spend months researching the cultural history of salted caramel? A: Sure did. Here's 3,000 words on this oddly fascinating subject!

snackstack.net

The long, sticky rise of salted caramel

Investigating a modern candy’s origins and evolution from Brittany to Blumenthal to your local candy aisle

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wait, are normal shorts horizontal or vertical? Worn them all my life and I couldn’t tell ya

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Unreasonably happy about Malawi winning and the double-Chawinga domination #wafcon

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another reminder that biology will always have more surprises in store

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Getting a new water heater installed and it’s taking every drop of energy I have to stop myself from saying to the plumber, “Whew, that’s a tankless job.”

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Political reporters, NOW is finally the time to go interview some diner patrons

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Hadestown movie was good fun, but I’ve never seen a longer and weirder set of trailers before a movie. Drummer Boy…appears to be a jingoistic Revolutionary War Christian Pop musical shot like a Creed video.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know there will be many takes on Katie Porter leaving politics to be a book influencer, but I’d rather have that than the alternative

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is it too much to ask for us to return to an era when US Senators wrote homages to beans?

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