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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 04/09/2026

for #FossilFriday, two of the most charismatic displays at the Museum Of The Moment, the Academy of Natural Sciences here in Philly

a pencil drawing of a mosasaur skeleton, showcasing its very awesome teeth and not showcasing its anything else because I stopped drawing

t rex. classic. drawing in pencil on paper. skull only, got bored and stopped.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 01/09/2026

When the Academy of Natural Sciences opened, paleontology had just been founded and the first steam locomotive launched. All other custodians of this museum preserved its incredible cultural and scientific heritage for 200 years. This is an embarrassment to the Drexel administration forever.

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Jo Martin @jrymart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Can neural networks think like geomorphologists? @gregtucker.bsky.social and I trained a neural network to invert the streampower-diffusion model, and then opened the black box. It learned how valley spacing and drainage density connect to process. Out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2026...

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Can Neural Networks Think Like Geomorphologists?

A simple neural network can infer parameters from synthetic topography generated by a process-based numerical model of landscape evolution The network can be queried to identify a sensible relati...

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Turan Orujlu @turanorujlu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

UAI 2026 paper: A genetic perturbation can change the connectome, a new policy can rewire economic links between firms. In each case, interventions change the graph itself which standard SCMs treat as fixed. We tackle this in Partially Observed Structural Causal Models (POSCMs).

Expanded DAG for a 3-node POSCM under ordered generation. An exogenous ordering τ feeds context variables β₁, β₂, β₃; each βᵢ generates adjacency variables A_ji, which gate the value channels between endogenous variables V₁, V₂, V₃ and also feed the mechanism variables f₁, f₂, f₃. Phase I covers structure and context generation; Phase II covers mechanism assignment and value generation.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 20/07/2026

well that's awfully young for a prime minister

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 20/07/2026

well that's awfully young for a prime minister

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 18/07/2026

hey, come on now blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com

the blueblocks game (which i freakin made) doesn't accept the word "ediacaran"

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 29/06/2026

booking a trip to Florence right after reading @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance" is like being 8 and walking past an ice cream store and hearing your parents say, "why don't we go in!" www.adapalmer.com/publication/...

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Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer

In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 28/06/2026

oh wtf @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social, I searched for four papers in five minutes while writing a grant and that gets me banned??

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 15/05/2026

rotisserie pillow. is this anything?

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 27/06/2026

Just donated to #fdroid because the #FOSS ecosystem is a beautiful thing! Learned a lot when I published Coppelia [blog.jordan.matelsky.com/coppelia], my Jellyfin music client, and the review team and community was extraordinary!! #foss #jellyfin #android

A screenshot of the fdroid donation receipt showing 2052 financial contributors and a $50 donation

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 15/06/2026

so I just realized I forgot to #skeetprint my Contactomes paper... (is that what we're calling it?) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @kordinglab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social smithneurallab.weebly.com @jhuapl.bsky.social #academicsky #preprint #neuroscience

a single dendritic spine with a handful of synaptic partners but a HUGE number of contact partners

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 15/06/2026

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Lem and Douglas Adams were the only true prophets of LLMs in science fiction.

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Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here is an aerial before / after I-76 of Lansdowne Dr. The highway ramps forced the removal of all the park trails, which served as crucial connectors for park visitors. In many ways the reasonable thing to do would be to turn Lansdowne over to people walking / biking to restore park connectivity.

Lansdown Dr. before I-76 showing many trails adjacent to the road.

Lansdown Dr. after I-76. None of the trails remain.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 15/05/2026

rotisserie pillow. is this anything?

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 13/05/2026

reminder for those writing grants these days — we made a tool to fill out your NSF/NIH COA lists automatically :) bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa #academicsky

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 25/04/2026

Hi all reMarkable users — remailable.getneutrality.org is back up and running! You can now email documents to your tablet again. #reMarkable

remailable.getneutrality.org

ReMailable

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 23/04/2026

this is fun!! I just spent a ton of hours making this animation for my dissertation defense in @blender.org, I wish I had known about this a little sooner 😆 mine is of course not real data...

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There's still time to apply!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 12/04/2026

"whats yer horse's name, pardner?" [shoving KISSBABY's nametag under my saddle] uh she doesn't have one

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 11/04/2026

coolest visuals in the world, science is amazing

small integrity crew capsule against a backdrop of the ocean

small integrity crew capsule against a backdrop of the sky

integrity crew capsule with drogues and parachutes open

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 08/04/2026

should I work on my dissertation defense slides or should I learn how to use @blender.org geometry node simulation zones...

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 07/04/2026

Such cool work by @felipeparodi.bsky.social, bringing face detection, landmark tracking, and facial movement analysis to primate research! 🐒🦍🦧 totally opens up new ways to study communication and social behavior. Felipe rocks!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 31/03/2026

Love this — such a great interactive! @inquirer.com Here's a pro move: "How are you gonna afford this?" was such a non-issue in my playthrough because dropping police spending by 20% paid for the rest of my entire Philadelphia.

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Preprint out arguing that we should build the techology to translate (compile) molecularly annotated connectomes into dynamics. I think this is incredibly important. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 26/03/2026

excited to announce it's time for me to defend my dissertation! come hang :) april 21, 2026 1:30pm EDT gaulton auditorium at UPenn or Zoom jordan.matelsky.com/phd

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 26/03/2026

excited to announce it's time for me to defend my dissertation! come hang :) april 21, 2026 1:30pm EDT gaulton auditorium at UPenn or Zoom jordan.matelsky.com/phd

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 24/03/2026

getting a good workout on my sitting-still muscles these days

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 16/03/2026

someone's working late to fix the production string replacement fail tonight at Strava I'll bet

screenshot of Strava showing they forgot to replace the string interpolation of segment titles with the actual text

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 14/03/2026

dissertation goes out in 20 days, can confirm

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 04/03/2026

the base64 encoding of this image is also this image blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod. but this time it's represented in ascii art! and it's the data URL of the first image.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 05/03/2026

bsky bot that auto-replies to skeets with dollar amounts saying "$21.5M SEPTA expansion is worth 28 minutes of doing war"

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 04/03/2026

We could fund an entire PhD student on the expenses the military burned in the time it took you to read this

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 04/03/2026

the base64 encoding of this image is also this image blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 04/03/2026

One day I will drink my last beer from Brewer's Art in Baltimore and shed a single tear

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 19/02/2026

I remember the days before @blender.org even had a "save before closing" :)

meme graphic of a soldier shielding a sleeping person with his body; the bullets are labeled "IT DEPT TRYING TO REMOTELY FORCE-REBOOT MY LAPTOP" and the soldier is labeled "BLENDER SAVE CHANGES BEFORE CLOSING DIALOG"

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 19/02/2026

I'm super pumped about this! LLMs in scientific publishing have at times been a promethean tragic boon. PlanYourScience.com feels like putting LLMs where they belong!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 18/02/2026

This is such a scourge of modern ML conferences too — "I didn't quite know how to embed this object so I just asked an LLM to spit out 64 floating-point numbers"

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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