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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 15/09/2026

lmao — I was about to screenshot this in-the-wild post to send to my coworker who just had a similar experience

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 · 04/09/2026

where did you see these? i must see one for myself

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

Trikke Positron, probably 10K each. trikkemobility.com/positron-72v...

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

can't do this because bananas release a gas that causes other bananas to ripen faster. would be impossible to own a banana anywhere close to that place. 1000s of feet above every grocery store is a no-fly zone for planes with bananas. with so many bananas, ripening happens so fast it's like a bomb.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 02/09/2026

"Lookin' at cool skull stuff" — Disambiguation

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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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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/08/2026

woah!! is that Schlieren imaging or just standard photography?

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/08/2026

why would you make the euphemism much worse than just saying the thing [checks notes] ah yes, yiddish

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 13/08/2026

woahh this is SO COOL, thank you for the link! I haven't seen Matt Brand's work before but that is gorgeous — something for my little project to aspire to :)

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 12/08/2026

Gaggia Classic Pro, people will argue about this forever but it is a simple and great machine that will last ages and there's TONS of support around it if you decide to become an annoying espresso person www.wholelattelove.com/products/gag...

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Gaggia Classic Pro E24 Espresso Machine

The Gaggia Classic Pro E24 is a premium entry-level espresso machine designed and built entirely in Italy. Made from commercial-grade components, the Classic Pro E24 features a one-piece steel frame, ...

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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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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 02/08/2026

well... nice effort, but you can't even tell which direction those things are facing :) PS: *AWESOME* art, do they want to sell prints? PPS: happy birthday!! ⛵

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/07/2026

omg this is extraordinary work!!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/07/2026

punch tummy for emergency brake (Pro subscription only)

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 29/07/2026

I read a book ages ago about The Internet by someone who clearly tried to spend as little time on the internet as possible and who was scandalized by people who acted otherwise. So bizarre! Why not work on something you want to work on??

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 25/07/2026

Truly! Totally wild. And that's of the reviewers who were not obviously just LLMs!

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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 · 24/07/2026

this year was *brutal*... I think all the reviewers were cranky reviewing so many AI-generated papers...

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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 · 20/07/2026

I followed this amazing literature, amasci.com/amateur/holo..., by @wbeaty.bsky.social who omg is on bsky, hi!!! and modified it slightly: • hyperboloids instead of circles (just showing off, barely changes anything) • used a robot holding a sword instead of precise hand carving • I made it worse

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Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms [SCIENCE HOBBYIST]

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

for example, here's a hologram I carved of Suzanne from @blender.org . like doing File ⟩ Print in Blender, but with a bajillion other steps :) #penplotter #creativecode #blender #blender3d

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

very much not comparable in my experience. fine as supplementary models, but probably 1 or 2 generations behind the frontier right now. silly mistakes when you give them anything more than a super simple task, in my experience.

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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 · 30/06/2026

I went on a high school trip with this one kid who had convinced his parents to send him to Europe so he could sneak off and get drunk. He was dead weight until we got extremely (pre-smartphone) lost in Paris. He had played enough Battlefield that he effortlessly got us back on track. Wild :)

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/06/2026

I'm glad they know a haycartless jump when they see one!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/06/2026

This is also way more effective than googling "nine dudes in a tower fav restaurant" "best place to eat as dude in tower" "good food near tower of dudes" "Signoria team-building dinner spots"

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/06/2026

Wow thank you so much, your suggestions are all going to the top of the list!! :) There may be no place I love more than a museum cafe, and a museum cafe in Florence seems like perhaps the pinnacle of this!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 30/06/2026

omg I'll throw some in my backpack to bring back for you too!!

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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 · 29/06/2026

love this. my only exception is I ALWAYS want "stale" claims in my manuscript to be flagged; I have an agent review code, analysis, or data changes and replace stale conclusions with a \todo{} automatically. I'm ALWAYS happier to re-add :) blog.jordan.matelsky.com/LLMs-for-Pap...

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Human-assisted scientific manuscripts with LLMs

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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 · 28/06/2026

one long thermal-paper receipt, like you get at CVS. it's so that we can throw ticker-tape parades when the numbers come out all good

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

By far one of the coolest live music performances I've seen was at a bar in Beijing :) Sounds like you've given your sister an amazing gift the memories of which will be special to her in the future even if she isn't quite filing them correctly today!

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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 · 25/06/2026

"I, a person who has never experienced a natural disaster, am uniquely credentialed to prescribe solutions for other peoples' natural disasters"

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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 · 20/06/2026

Inference Clubs could be globally distributed, so that peak work hours are spread. Like an Earth Sandwich but for minimally overlapping sets of people who would never be awake at the same time otherwise :)

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