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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.” The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow. 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio
Cartoon of Darwin holding a copy of the Origin, looking into a mirror and seeing as his reflection Malthus holding a copy off his Essay on the Principle of Population. By Tom Dunne for American Scientist.
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 28/09/2026
Today is Octidi the 8th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate amaranth. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Amaranth.
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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org · 28/09/2026
Colleges need to teach people to read books, apparently. I enjoy helping people grow and realize their dreams and take their next steps. That obviously means “meeting them where they are,” a mantra now said so often as to be bordering on the cliché. But how we let it come to this is disconcerting.
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Sean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't anyone forget it!
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think what it shows is that Western MA is Like That
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember Rhode Islanders...it is your Constitutional Right to go out and collect as much of this as you like.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Belchertown Fair | Massachusetts, USA
Two purple cars on a carnival rideA statue of a civil war soldier rising above the midway. A US flag flutters off to the rightA crowd of fairgoers on a not yet rainy noreaster SaturdayA diorama entitled 'What Lake Wallace Means to Me'
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Feeling self-conscious in BioLab....
pink text on a white board saying 'The more people staring at you, the higher your heart rate will be.'
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Virtue signaling Elmhurst style.
Tags indicating that my recycling has passed inspection at least twice. TBH it always doe. Sadly my neighbors and city are slack so I haven't really recycled anything for years.  https://pvdeye.org/does-the-city-of-providence-get-fined-for-each-truck-of-recycling-rejected-at-the-landfill/
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The response across campus, much as I’ve heard it, has not yet been as immediately, um, *robust* as I expected. Maybe takes time for student reporting to get around. I worry there’s cowardice or complicity at work, faculty perhaps who’ve crossed lines themselves, or accepted the inevitability lie.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On the way to Devil's Tower
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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Steven Spielberg
ALT: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Steven Spielberg
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So now I can stop worrying about the robot dogs killing us :-/
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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So I've decided to release a short story collection because there are people out there who like my brand of weird. Tentative title is "Appatizers" and the goal is for December.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now that GoogleScholar has displaced more authoritative systems, they're making it as useless as regular Google. If you type the title of this PRS paper into GS, you get ONLY the preprint server version. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Cities as evolutionary incubators for the global spread of the spotted lanternfly
Abstract. Habitat destruction and invasive species pose two of the greatest global threats to biodiversity. These factors do not operate in isolation, and
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's not even 7 pm and it's getting dark. WTH @weatherishappening.com ?
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Circle of corporate life EndNote... RefWorks->Proquest RefWorks-> EndNote
Ref works being rebranded as the product is seems to have replaced
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JenStewart4RI.bsky.social @jenstewart4ri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Proud to be endorsed by Climate Action Rhode Island again. Looking forward to continuing the fight for environmental justice, against environmental racism, and for a sustainable clean energy economy powered by good union jobs. Our children deserve a future. 🌎 🌳🏡🌲 💙 💚
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Democrats have a plan to stop AI from destroying civilization. But how will they pay for it?
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 13/09/2026
Today is Octidi the 28th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate corn. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Corn.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.cnn.com/business/vid... We could 'limit risks' the way we did with nuclear power in the US, lawn darts, and thalidomide.
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Exclusive: Anderson Cooper asks Anthropic CEO: ‘Do you earnestly believe that AI could kill all humans?’ | CNN Business
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reacts to an employee who quit over concerns that AI could wipe out humanity and discusses his proposal to slow down de...
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Last month's eclipses from Rhode Island. Small bite out of sun with a few sunspots visible. Partial moon through high cirrus clouds.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ranked choice voting when?
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Maybe the mayor should have sent out a few more flyers?
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Mark O'Connell @oconnellmark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What other business famously offers the first doses for free? 🤔
A chat GPT ad aimed at students offering the first several months for free
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Does anyone know if HBF took the governor's concession/congratulations phone call? Meanwhile, back in 2022 www.wpri.com/news/electio...
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McKee-Foulkes race ends in declined phone call on live TV
A McKee staffer interrupted the governor while he was on stage, offering a cellphone and saying: “Helena wants to talk to you.”
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data
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Retroist @retroist.com · 06/09/2026
All trash cans should be this fun.
Trash can with a lion face
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Black Mirror and Robocop coming true.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Join us on 9/16 to learn more about these amazing projects supported by the @catacombsociety.bsky.social Shohet Grant, and how you can apply for one, too! #archaeology #grants #events #humanities #Pompeii #Malta
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Did you know that @rwpzoo.bsky.social offers FREE admission for City of Providence residents the first Saturday of each month?! A valid ID and proof of residency (ID, license, utility bill, lease agreement, etc.) must be shown at the ticket window, no need to reserve your tickets in advance.
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 05/09/2026
I finally saw Top Gun: Maverick and I just want to reaffirm my love of airplane movies while acknowledging the genre is getting stale. Here are some free ideas for Hollywood to make more awesome airplane movies.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Through a series of coincidences, he teams up with Dexter and Jessie Pinkman. The trio takes a harrowing flying road trip. The odd trio learns that the real treasure is making new friends. And drugs. And misguided vengeance. And jorts. Hilarity ensues.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@kennyuong.bsky.social @phileil.bsky.social
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Kendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Two month of untended garden. Far fewer volunteer tomatoes than expected. Raspberries are doing well and the birds are leaving them alone. Chives have bloomed, should i pick and salt like I'd preserve garlic flowers?
Over grown garden beds with trees and suburban yeard in background. A cluster of small red tomatoes in dense foliage. A cluster of yellow and purple tomatoes in dense foliage. A cluster of raspberries in dense foliage
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
AI chatbots are becoming a go-to source for voters to ask questions about elections, but a new study found nearly a third of generated replies could be inaccurate or outdated. www.wpri.com/news/politics/study-ne…
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Eileen @eileenleft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@mapcenter.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh no!
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Guess it ain't such an unstoppable force after all.
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BuT YoU CaN't ReSTRiCT Ai IT iS InEviTAble. Yes you can! Let's do High Schools and Colleges next 😀
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
finally, an adult in the room
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you listening @mazdausa.bsky.social ? J/k, I know you're not.
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 03/09/2026
Getting to meet Senator Whitehouse was a real treat today. My grandmother loved the guy and would have been tickled to see us hanging out. Maps depict the past but they also help us envision better futures.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien look at a map held by Andrew Middleton
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Jeffrey M @jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh no! How will I ever get this email to my mom finished 🙃
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