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Matt Mc

@matty1mac.bsky.social
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Work: Sustainability, climate, biosphere, engineering (PhD), innovation Life: Curiosity, family, music, nature

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/10/2025
The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
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The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material
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Tony Iommi @iommi.com · 22/07/2025
I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 05/04/2025
CO₂ concentrations are already higher than during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, 3-3.3 million years ago, when global sea levels were 5 to 25 meters higher than today! We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 01/04/2025
📢 Join our team! IISD Experimental Lakes Area, one of the world's most influential freshwater research facilities, is searching for: 🔹Manager, Educational Programming and Indigenous Relations 🔸Project Manager Interested? Apply now! iisd.org/mission-and-... #Hiring #GreenJobs #ClimateJobs
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Columbia River feels the ripple of growing US Canada tensions #USCanada #WaterManagement globalnews.ca/news/1107739...
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B.C. says U.S. has paused Columbia River Treaty talks amid Trump tensions | Globalnews.ca
British Columbia's Energy Ministry says in a news release that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration 'is conducting a broad review of its international engagement.'
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My smartwatch just congratulated me on my workout. I had a shower.
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Meanwhile, the Russian National Anthem replaces the Star Spangled Banner
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If Zelenskyy really were a dictator, Trump would be cozying up to him
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C. Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously. 1/n
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Brief Communication Open access Published: 10 February 2025 Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected
breach of Paris Agreement threshold
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Brief Communication | Open access | Published: 10 February 2025 A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably
within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris
Agreement limit
Emanuele Bevacqua , Carl-Friedrich Schleussner & Jakob Zscheischler
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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...
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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.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/02/2025
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup." nymag.com/intelligence...
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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/01/2025
Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
2024 breaks a global warming threshold while the world's biggest players step back from climate action. #ClimateCrisis #ActNow
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In 2016, world leaders met in Paris and pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2024, that line was crossed. #ClimateCrisis #ActNow www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/01/2025
Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.
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Tesla's Annual Sales Dropped for the First Time—but the EV Industry Keeps Growing
Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in Interface Focus takes questions like this out of science fiction and into scientific laws. santafe.edu/news-center/...
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Arctic tundra has flipped: once a carbon sink, now a carbon source—warming, wildfires, and inaction made it happen. #ClimateCrisis From NOAA: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
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Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions
2024 Arctic Report Card tracks rapid, complex Arctic change
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
AI eating AI: AI models are trained on the web. As AI-generated content takes over the internet, AI learns from its own output. This feedback loop makes it lose touch with reality Article in Nature by Shumailov et al (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #ModelCollapse #ComplexSystems
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Reducing emissions” has become an industry standard. Phasing out fossil fuels? That’s the message we need. Great WIRED piece on changing the narrative. #FossilFuelPhaseout #ClimateAction Worth a read: www.wired.com/story/fossil...
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The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
The term “reducing emissions” has outlived its usefulness, a crutch to soften the blow that’s being exploited by greenwashers. Now it’s time to get real.
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Winnipeg. Normally today (Nov 21) the rivers would be frozen, the ground blanketed in snow, water levels higher, and the geese long gone to warmer climes.
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Matt Mc @matty1mac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Think global, restore local: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts
Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’
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