Sign in

Josh Martin

@jpmantis.bsky.social
323 followers 336 following 551 posts

Asst. Prof. at Colby College. Neuro-enthusiast and Entomo-wanabee. Insects, neuroethology, motor control, movement

PostsRepliesMedia
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thanks Andrew! Really hope we can get together soon, and I'm happy to be your Maine prof colleague.
000
Reposted by Josh Martin
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
11264857812421
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This tiny monument appeared in my driveway today. The crows or the squirrels may have invented religion.
020
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In my first day back as a tenured professor, I sent out an email announcing a summer research program and accidentally listed the deadline as today, getting dozens of frantic emails from students. Off to a great start!
020
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I have finally grabbed the brass ring: I have earned tenure. Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.
2100
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
You got some great shots. I wasn't able to capture anything. Except a feeling of awe and wonder at nature's majesty, etc.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
I made a physical model of the Survivor Bias Airplane. Now with a frame and a home on my office wall.
030
Reposted by Josh Martin
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/03/2024
@washingtonpost.com I would like to take over #SquirrelWeek now that John Kelly has retired
fat squirrel
14214
Reposted by Josh Martin
Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
The oVert specimen digitization project has wrapped up. Here is a summary of accomplishments and goals for the next push to make museum specimens more useful. Explicit mention of #SciArt 🧪🐡 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
12913
Reposted by Josh Martin
Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Here's @franzanth.bsky.social's reconstruction of Mieridduryn, one of the unique Welsh fossils held in NMW. Even though I published on it, I still haven't seen it in person, and might never be able to if these cuts happen 😡🧪 Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Mieridduryn bonniae reconstruction by Franz Anthony. It is a tiny (under 13 mm) soft bodied but arthropod like creature, with lateral flaps and spiny lobopodian legs, dorsal furrows instead of segments. It has a spiny proboscis and "hat" which may be some kind of head carapace. 2nd individual shown is 3 mm and may be a larva
0159
Reposted by Josh Martin
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
The new chaotropic solvent arrived from Sigma-Eldritch. (from Reddit.com/r/labrats)
A bottle of some organic solvent (ether would be my guest) has probably had the solvent spill or come into contact with the inked label containing chemical safety information, resulting in the letters sliding apart into a chaotic mess of distinct letters in no particular shape or alignment.

Sigma-Aldrich makes most of these types of bottles, but the homonym "Sigma-Eldritch" suggests Cthulu type horrors and madness.
1528669
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
He's a down on his luck Catholic missionary. She's an island overrun with snakes. Can they set aside their differences? It would take a miracle. Hugh Jackman and the nation of Ireland in: St Patrick's Day
3222
Reposted by Josh Martin
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
6. To put it somewhat bluntly, we just happen to be dismantling an HigherEd infrastructure which has long been the envy of the world for the edification of billionaires at exactly the moment when it is about to start serving a predominantly non-white population of students. END
325279
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
📌
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Making them into incestuous hedonists was a weird choice. Then they killed Hugh, which is unforgivable.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Absorbed right through her thick skull.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Miss Harvard's Finishing School for Young Assholes
0120
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
I'd be a traveling tinker. I'm more sure of that than I am of my role in modern times.
110
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: secreting chemicals into the ooze that surrounds us and blindly extending protuberances in search of the chemicals others have left.
0164
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
The return of utopian scifi!
140
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
I'm always pleasantly surprised to find other 40K nerds in the wild 😁
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Well I for one am glad. We all know that Harvard professors are notoriously *too* present and caring and attentive to student needs.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
You think "they're so cute I'll just get one" and then before you know it...😄
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
True. I'm open but unconvinced. Of course my solutions toward diversity and inclusion would be much more radical, but no one is asking me.
110
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Yes. The problem is that almost everything favors dumb, rich, white people. It's not surprising that test optional + status quo favored them, too. I'm not sure that the argument for mandatory tests has been made.
110
Reposted by Josh Martin
Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
In case anyone is curious who checked into my insect hotels during the 2023 season, here are pics. #invertebrates 🌿https://colinpurrington.com/2024/01/sorting-through-guests-at-my-insect-hotels/
colinpurrington.com
Sorting through guests at my insect hotels » Colin Purrington
When the weather is cold and rainy in winter, I entertain myself by bringing the nests from my bee and wasp hotels inside for photo ops and cleaning. With a hot cup of tea (I’m in a cold basement), I ...
0125
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
These would be hilarious *if and only if* she found it funny, too. The only good prank is one everyone can enjoy.
1190
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
Excuse me Engineering is a four year degree plus a licensing exam and all of it involves *math*. How dare you think you could just "figure out" chocolate bars and paper.
0120
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
So much for the tolerant Left!
010
Reposted by Josh Martin
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative. 🧪🌎
americanprogress.org
The Biden Administration Has Reached Conservation Records in 2023
After three years in office, it is clear that the Biden administration is safeguarding public lands at a record rate; in the coming year, it must continue its conservation progress through community-l...
12614256
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
I think the pattern on the wall is a QR code that takes you to the old Time Cube website.
010
Reposted by Josh Martin
Lisa No Thank You @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
This anecdote is by Michael Tager, who shared it on Twitter back when people argued about whether punching Richard Spencer was okay (it was; it is always morally correct to meet nazism w violence and exclusion bc its guiding principle is one of extreme violence and its proponents deserve no respect)
27614
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
13yo boys are stupid. Sorry about that.
110
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Adorable
110
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Countdown until we find out that they downsized the people responsible for the preflight checklist to save money - 10, 9, 8...
080
Reposted by Josh Martin
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Conservatives have long hosted two approaches to sexuality in their coalition: Heritage, evangelical-style sexual Puritanism, and Trumpish, “barstool”-style boorish sexual entitlement. Some people think these are hard to reconcile, but the central aim of both is the domination and control of women.
462030585
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
"Cambridge? Oh i just I love British colleges!"
000
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Clatch ya on the flip side
020
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
The all-punt offense?
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
The mome raths are giving outgrabe fr fr
140
Reposted by Josh Martin
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/02/2024
compare to this NBC story, which actually is just a straightforward description of the facts as the NYT brass says it’s supposed to be
WHITE HOUSE
Biden administration cancels student loans of more than 150,000 borrowers under new plan
Those who qualify must be enrolled in the administration's Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan, which was launched last summer.
17815204
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Good advice. If I read that on a CV, I'd see it as "I'm going to burn out"
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
If you see this, post a robot
020
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Ain't nothin wrong with a skant.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
You have to ask that guy to name five apples he likes.
000
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
"boy, I sure am having a hard time giving away my hard salami. People keep getting the wrong idea when I offer it to them on the street. I know! I'll put it up on Craigslist!"
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
I've been thinking about end times since your Beast post earlier. So he's supposed to make everyone wear his name on their forehead, huh?
020
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
I already have trouble going to all the social/exhausting stuff at a conference. If there were puppies I'd just do that all day.
010
Josh Martin @jpmantis.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Reality is a hack writer.
0100