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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 18h

Fall colors have come to the Cut River that connects Higgins, Marl, and Houghton Lakes. Image from today. Fall colors are tracking pretty close to normal, ahead of the timing of the last few years. #Michigan #Fall 🍂

The Cut River flows through forests and wetlands amidst vibrant fall colors.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 30/09/2026

When the BigTen refs put a bonus second on the clock for Michigan

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 24/09/2026

Thank you to Garret Ellison for facilitating a panel for #PFASAwarenessWeek, and thank you to panelists Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Tony Spaniola, and EGLE Director Phil Roos for a fascinating, sobering discussion about #PFAS.

Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Tony Spaniola, and EGLE Director Phil Roos speak on a panel facilitated by award-winning journalist Garret Ellison for PFAS Awareness Week. The event was held at the Pease Auditorium on EMU's campus in Ypsilanti.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 18/09/2026

I got to introduce one of my professional heroes, @peterwsinclair.bsky.social, today during our Suds for the River event

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 10/09/2026

PFAS Awareness Week in Michigan is 9/20-9/26 There are two events in Ypsilanti you should come to: 1) Ypsi Fall River Day, 9/20 at noon, Riverside Park 2) Dark Waters Movie Showing, 6:00 pm 9/23, Pease Auditorium, EMU Local elected officials will be at both events. #PFASAwarenessWeek #PFAS

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 28/08/2026

When things are bad in the world, it helps to look up at a clear night sky, made more special and humbling by the lunar eclipse this morning.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 11/08/2026

Didn’t Michael Scott try this?

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 05/08/2026

From DuckDuckGo, ladies and gentlemen.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 12/07/2026

Aerial views of Higgins Lake, #Michigan today. The maximum depth of Higgins Lake is currently about 135 feet (41 meters). It's spring-fed, crystal clear, with a sudden drop-off in many parts of the lake that can take you from hip depth to well over your head in a single step.

An aerial view of Higgins Lake showing the clear transition from shallow turquoise waters to deep, dark blue depths. Flag Point, Detroit Point, the popular sand bar gathering area, and Flynn Island are visible on a brilliant summer day.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 29/06/2026

This is absolutely insane. I bought this 2TB drive in 2021 for around $200 bucks. It's now (*rubs eyes*) $750!! What the hell are we doing here.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 11/06/2026

Caught a sunset with the drone tonight as storms approached from two sides. #photography

Photograph of a dramatic sunset over a wetland and forested area in Michigan taken from an aerial drone.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 29/05/2026

Sometimes redditors get the response right on the first try

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 30/03/2026

A colleague of mine was trying to track down a radio interview I gave a while ago and came across this Google AI summary. Gemini felt it necessary to remind everyone *twice* that I am not, in fact, the author of the Da Vinci Code.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 08/01/2026

Watched Captain America with my son recently and this line hit a lot harder than in 2011.

"People often forget the first country the Nazi's invaded was their own."

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 07/12/2025

I feel like #LEGO Group has a rapidly closing window to make headlines by giving a world leader their LEGO Piece Prize

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 05/12/2025

The Great Lakes PFAS Summit wrapped yesterday. Lots of encouraging iterative improvements in understanding the threat PFAS pose, but the big takeaway for me was that it is time to press forward with bans on #PFAS in consumer goods. #Michigan is nowhere on this list. It's embarrassing.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 02/12/2025

There are debates raging on the Michigan subreddit about whether Michigan is good or bad because of snow and where "Up North" begins: 1. Winter is awesome. 2. The correct answer is that the Up North is not linear. It follows forest composition.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 28/06/2025

On a day when we've slid fast toward authoritarianism and lost substantial Constitutional rights, we've also lost countless hours of work by scientific experts and community leaders to better prepare for the future. This is the enveloping darkness of the "Demon-haunted World."

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 26/04/2025

Sometimes r/Physics proposes poetry in particle physics naming conventions.

Odo was the security chief in Deep Space Nine who was always after Quark, a criminal bar owner.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 21/04/2025

But how did he find her under the quicksand?!

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 12/03/2025

Nazis promoting the “people’s car” 80 years ago.

Adolf Hitler stands at a podium beneath a Nazi swastika ca. 1935 advertising the Volkswagen Beetle as a car for the working man. The image is similar to images of Donald Trump promoting Teslas in 2025.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 27/02/2025

He was many things to many people, but for me, as I child of the 80s, he will always fondly be the "greatest criminal mind of our time," Lex Luthor.

Actor Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in the 1978 film, Superman.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 14/02/2025

The world looking at the U.S. right now like

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 29/01/2025

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong..." - George Washington

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 31/12/2024

Post your favorite photo that you took in 2024

Great American Solar Eclipse, as seen from Arlington, Ohio

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 18/12/2024

Last Christmas, our toddler expressed concern about "Daddy's friend in the tunnel" then pointed to this ornament I made for my wife a while ago

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 22/11/2024

A November sunset over Higgins Lake, Michigan, from 2019. #Michigan #photography #HigginsLake

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 21/11/2024

From November 2018, near the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan #Michigan #NaturePhotograhy #AnnArbor

Morning sunlight through snowy trees, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 19/11/2024

Sending out some Golden Retriever puppy cuteness into the Bluesky ether. Granger, 2018, named after Hermione, because we solemnly swore she was up to no good.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 17/11/2024

DTE in Michigan is one of the least reliable providers of electricity in the entire country yet is one of the most profitable. They just effectively lobbied our State Speaker of the House to give them tax breaks and create climate policy loopholes so new Big Tech data centers could be built.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 16/11/2024

Verified my profile as @bsky.app recommends. Surprisingly straightforward. Now @danielarthurbrown.com

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 13/11/2024

From the Fowlerville Community Theater. (Michigan) Nazis were waving swastikas and harassing passersby nearby as the theater was performing the Diary of Anne Frank. This is just a couple towns away from me.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 12/11/2024

Currently in the upper 40s and lower 50s near Sleeping Bear Dunes. I took this photo on November 10th, 2018 (Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Day) at Sleeping Bear Point. Different weather vibes that year. #Michigan #NaturePhotography #LakeMichigan

Gloomy skies and turquoise waters at Sleeping Bear Point, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 08/11/2024

Okay fine I will write the script

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 03/11/2024

Voting for environmentally friendly candidates is one of the most effective climate actions individuals can take. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 21/10/2024

Went back to Bird Hills today. Happened to catch an autumn maple leaf in free fall, perfectly illuminated by the sun with a dark tree as a backdrop.

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 20/10/2024

Golden Autumn at Bird Hills in Ann Arbor, Michigan #fallcolors #autumn #Michigan

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 19/10/2024

A few really good spots of fall color at Kensington Metropark. Still a lot of green, but some trees are poppin'

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 19/10/2024

Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS tonight from southeast Michigan. There is a lot of light pollution here and the comet is growing faint by the day. This was shot at 100 mm on a crop sensor, ISO 3200, f5.0, then passed through a noise reduction process. #comet

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Daniel Brown @danielarthurbrown.com · 11/06/2024

We had an absolutely stunning evening yesterday for our paddle tour of the Huron River during the National PFAS Conference. Great scenery and great conversation. #PFAS

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