iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Doing a distillation. I thought ‘I’ll bet that stuff fluoresces.’ Yup.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s the time of year that holiday decorations start making their appearance

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My sister found all these flowers on a walk on the greenbelt around our hometown.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the best parts of my job is getting to mentor young people. I learn more than they do, no doubt, but I think passing on passion for exploration is imperative.

Two people looking at electron microscope display

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sometimes I make little things.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pink purslane. Also known as Kiss-Me-Quick…

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Orange jewelweed, Impatiens capensis.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Programming small, WiFi-enabled boards to read temperature and communicate with one another, to monitor the temperature of a furnace remotely and broadcast an alert if things get out of spec. There are lots of commercial ways, but this is fun, inexpensive, and educational for our students.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

They’re easy to miss, but I dig tiny flowers.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Field madder. I love little flowers.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Making deep eutectic solvents. You put two solids together and get a liquid. They enable all sorts of weird chemistry; lately I’ve been using them to dissolve biomass and also to plate out aluminum, doing research on batteries.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My lovely wife makes a lot of kidney stones. Here’s a screen pic of a recent one. I have the luxury of immediate access to an SEM, and have followed hers for about a decade.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I hope everyone is having a good day in spite of everything. That’s my approach. I’m not going to be quiet, and not going to go along. But I’m not going to let them disturb my chi.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’m slowly coming back to social media life here. X is a portal to look into hell, and Facebook is a constant reminder that people I grew up with don’t understand how anything works. Not politics, not science, not arithmetic, not economics. But I’ll keep an account there to see family pics.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m just tired of being rage-mined elsewhere, but I agree.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The narrative shifts are whipsawing Maga. The NOLA attack was Biden immigrant mayhem, then the driver was discovered to be a vet and an American born citizen. Then it became Biden’s fault because Islam, or something.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Occasionally I look in at the bird bin to see what idiocy is circulating. It’s depressing, usually. One of the constants is Musk worship. How much is sincere and how much is manipulation, I don’t know or care to discern. But it inspired me to haul out this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

rollingstone.com

The Big List of Elon Musk's Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies

Elon Musk, owner of Twitter (now X) has a long history of misrepresentations, evasions, and lies — from company policy to fighting Mark Zuckerberg.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

the anger in the country is as palpable as I ever remember it being.

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Kumar S @starryknightone.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Saturn in 2024 & over the last four years👇🏽 Bcos of Saturn’s axial tilt of ~ 27deg, the view of the rings has been changing from our perspective; they will appear edge-on by March 2025. Equinox follows a little later, in May 2025. #astronomy #astrophotography

Saturn with nearly edge-on rings in 2024. The gap between the planet and the rings is barely visible

Images of Saturn from 2020 to 2024 showing the changing orientation of the rings from more face-on in 2020, to nearly edge-on in 2024. Saturn goes through a 13 year cycle where its rings change orientation from edge-on to face-on.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

@lexetamor.bsky.social is there a ball game tonight or something?

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Well, this place must be happening for real. I’m getting lots of pr0nbot followers.

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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Recall what happened with the FBI when Nixon politicized it by appointing Patrick Gray director. The rank and file leaked, leaked and leaked up to the assistant director (aka Mark Felt/Deep Throat) level. They destroyed Nixon. Trump is inviting big trouble with Kash Patel.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

we taught our baby sign language and this was how he signed help

My baby on Santa’s lap looking very distressed and making a sign that would be almost the right sign if his thumb was pointed up, but he was literally a baby lol

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Chris Franz @themadbehemoth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

There’s a billboard near my child’s school for an AI service with the phrase “Still hiring humans?” I’m not sure how they expected that to go over with the humans who see it.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’m noticing a few hiccups on the platform. I’m guessing it’s the influx from the Xodous. No worries. Someone will be getting more server space soon, I imagine.

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Dr. Fatma Kaplan @drfatmakaplan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Pheronym is thrilled to be on one of C&EN's #StartUpsOnOurRadar 2024. @Pheronym protects crops with nematode pheromones and provide climate-smart sustainable solutions to the farmers.

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On our radar 2024

These early-stage firms are tackling huge challenges

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

One of the fun things I get to do is teach other science and engineering types to use microcontrollers to take data and control experiments.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Snakeroot. Pretty, but toxic, and the toxin can eliminate in milk if dairy cows eat it. It’s implicated in the death of Abraham Lincoln’s mother.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

I feel like we need to do something.

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

⚒️Salamander we saw on our cave outing in Rockcastle County. Great day, about 4 hours in the cave. I feel like someone beat me with a hammer. But I feel good.

Black salamander with spots on a rock in a cave

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Of course the first thing I post of geological or paleontological interest I leave off ⚒️

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Fossil Sponge found by Enrique Clark in the Drakes Ordovician Formation in Taylorsville Kentucky

A hand holding a fossil sponge from the Ordovician.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” ~ William James Durant, American historian, philosopher, and author 1885-1981 🧪 geology ⚒️

: A picture of Russia's Sarychev Volcano, on Matua Island in the Kuril Islands, erupting on 12 June 2009, as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS orbits the Earth at a height of between 347 and 360 km.

Original description by NASA:
"A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia’s Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain and is located on the northwestern end of Matua Island.

From Wikimedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sarychev_Volcano_edit.jpg

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Shit just got real! Chemsky chemistry

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Dave Eaton @eatonmachine.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

@earth-science.bsky.social might I be added to your bunch as well? My group is doing more and more geochemistry.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

MORNING EVERYONE “One of the benefits of Twitter was how it created a sense of community for scientists, particularly for those from under-represented groups.” “Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty…” www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-…

nature.com

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community. A Nature survey reveals scientis...

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