iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Braden Charles DeMattei @cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today was the first time I got to do outreach, and with a middle school robotics team no less! We chatted about ecology and the challenges facing biodiversity, and got asked really insightful questions! Had so much fun 😊

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Michael Meyer @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New paper! Our analysis on the nutritional content of under ice phytoplankton communities is live in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Ecosphere! The analysis uses data from the LTER lakes to show that phytos under ice are productive & nutritious! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Nutritional content of phytoplankton communities under ice

The effects of winter environmental conditions on lake ecology can be highly variable. Ice and overlying snow isolate the water below, impeding exchange of materials among water, atmosphere, and the ...

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Stephanie Hampton @sehampton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Labor of love published! We integrated fatty acid database created by @awegalloway.bsky.social with under-ice freshwater phytoplankton data to understand how nutrition available to lake food web shifts seasonally! Under-ice plankton are nutritious! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For those keeping score at home: The Ohio GOP Senator who long refused to denounce his MAGA son-in-law who allegedly abused the senator's daughter and granddaughter is a *different Republican* from the Ohio GOP Senator who has long employed a white supremacist who likes to cosplay as Nazis.

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Braden Charles DeMattei @cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Couldn't agree with this more. I downloaded this document for a reason, Adobe!

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Stephanie Hampton @sehampton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Check out this new computer vision tool for detecting predator prey encounters in video! And see Braden’s rotifer video too

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms

Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump

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Braden Charles DeMattei @cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's awesome to see this come out! It was a pleasure to have helped with this project.

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Melissa @melissadotcom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That’s a lot of lying.

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Braden Charles DeMattei @cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My zooplankton scanner is coming along nicely! I did a test run with a Daphnia individual in a drop of water on an Epson Perfection V550 photo scanner and it turned out great. The tray (Pic 2) should hold enough water to prevent that color distortion. Best part is everything came to less than $200

Image of a Daphnia individual captured on an Epson Perfection v550 scanner. Color distortion due to volume of water used.

Piece of PVC board and glass adhered together with silicone, being clamped down and weighed down.

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Braden Charles DeMattei @cyanobacteria-boy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This was a really interesting read! Glad this came across my timeline.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Treasure Planet is fantastic and in a just universe Long John Silver would be among the greatest Disney Villains of all time.

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Treasure Planet: You Got the Makings of Greatness

ALT: Treasure Planet: You Got the Makings of Greatness

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson. Image: Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters.

This color photo shows green algae in the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. The Lincoln Memorial is visible in the background.

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 19/06/2026

*slaps pool* This baby's got so much microplastic and cyanobacteria in it *frantically washes hands*

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/06/2026

As a physicist I find this hilarious. The angle of the photo is so shallow that it’s almost impossible to see the color of the water; at that angle, in that lighting, the water almost 100% just reflects the sky. So congrats to Dept of Interior for figuring out how to make the water blue, I guess?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise
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On a painting of young 19th-century men looking drunk and sad around a table with cigarettes and drinks

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

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