Reposted by Matt KuchtaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My man looks like Billy Bob Thornton starring in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" 22635
Reposted by Matt Kuchtasirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art 6514138
Reposted by Matt KuchtaPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952520671
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Things may not be great most places, but having a spot near home where I can do a six mile run and then soak my legs in a cold creek while catching smallmouth bass on a fly rod makes a big difference in being willing/able to deal with the other stuff. 000
Reposted by Matt KuchtaKelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you ever find yourself starting a sentence with “not all” just stop. Put the phone down. This is your opportunity to not become part of the problem. Say to yourself: this isn’t about me. Go outside. Touch grass. Choose de-escalation. 0143
Reposted by Matt KuchtaThat Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gonna be referring to this thing as a pedometer but with a very different accent than I do for the other product. 011726
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The ternary diagram for clay content In this paper is pretty cool. I guess kaolinite doesn’t get invited to many parties without much chemical weathering. Hydrolysis without liquid water isn’t easy. 020
Reposted by Matt KuchtaRussell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...glasgowlive.co.ukBurst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on pathThe issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens. 13930212
Reposted by Matt KuchtaGrimmla @grimmla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The month's A-Z challenge monster is the Jabberwocky! 8395116
Reposted by Matt KuchtaLionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 0179
Reposted by Matt KuchtaCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think its kind of clear that beanie babies must in some sense "have the juice" solely because of how insane its made pretty much everybody. 35410
Reposted by Matt KuchtaTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026on balance I think the invention of puppetry was probably much more jarring 519718
Reposted by Matt KuchtaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2 171411894
Reposted by Matt KuchtaBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026...they're going to die. 6305
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When your dad teaches soil mechanics, you end up with the coolest sandcastles at the beach. 010
Reposted by Matt KuchtaDr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/ 40914441
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I am still thinking about the math problem posed by Burger King’s “Have-sies” option. The fry to ring ratio based on calories does not appear to match the fry/ring ratio based on cost. 000
Reposted by Matt KuchtaKelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The group of Americans who are currently aware of that sort of thing and the group of Americans who decide close elections is a Venn diagram with two circles that do not overlap because they’re not even on the same sheet of paper. 0145
Reposted by Matt Kuchtatruerg.bsky.social @truerg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I get it. When I had to send my son away from our planet before it exploded, I made an AI of me that I stored in a crystal rod in his little spaceship that he could talk to all alone in the middle of the Arctic. 216010
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Seriously, this entire thread is just one top shelf description of Bradbury-esque tech dystopia after another. 010
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There is no good emoji that combines the necessary side eye and wide-eyed gobsmack required for a response to this. 000
Reposted by Matt KuchtaBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience. 20885460
Reposted by Matt KuchtaJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this! 7756637
Reposted by Matt KuchtaMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026For those who write tenure letters: you play an important role here. For the last few years I include a statement that the funding environment is bad and while any funding wins should be celebrated, lack of fundraising success should no longer be used as a meaningful metric for tenure. 37226
Reposted by Matt KuchtaFossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Older than "trees" so older than Devonian but younger than mountains, which means Ordovician. So West Virginia is Silurian. 071
Reposted by Matt KuchtaChris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It’s impressive that autonomous AI agents is only the second most unreal idea in this sentence, behind the magic “press to get data” button. Just a huge devaluing of the process of data collection. Science is not just interpretation of data! There’s a reason many scientists want their own lab. 3219
Reposted by Matt KuchtaBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Ok, now, tell me they're not implementing the presidential budget that *was not passed by Congress* with a 50% cut to NSF. Go on. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 42413
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Greetings from the Copper Harbor Conglomerate. A thick sequence containing mostly cobble to pebble sized clasts (rocks that barely to easily sit in the palm of your hand), but sometimes you can get large boulders the size of small boulders too! 250
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We found the most ironic sign in the Upper Peninsula. 010
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Went up to the Keweenaw Peninsula to be the support crew for my wife as she does a 200-mile mountain bike race this weekend. We were going to be camping through Monday, but seeing as the AQI in Copper Harbor was over 800, we retreated to a hotel for the first few nights. In 200
Reposted by Matt KuchtaLaura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This morning I got an email from my district about piloting STEMscopes HS curriculum. A list of the unit phenomena for each class (Bio, Chem and Physics) was attached. After looking over the Living Earth (bio) segments let me tell you that I HAVE CONCERNS. 🧪🍎🧬🎢⚒️ 56827
Reposted by Matt KuchtaCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This is going to take a while. 79413
Reposted by Matt KuchtaJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Today, the University of Maine's Vice Chancellor for Finance and Strategic AI Integration (who made $243,000 last year) sent UMaine campuses an announcement that we have partnered with OpenAI with a contract for ChatGPT Edu. I sent him the following questions: 1225192
Reposted by Matt KuchtaCrystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A small thread about this Mexican monument that commemorates the most significant single event in the history of the planet (plus, the surrounding area - and criticism of Werner Herzog (sorry)) 🧵 1/ 16421
Reposted by Matt KuchtaMark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis. www.newscientist.com/article/2516... I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.newscientist.comNew fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaursSpinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons 7463171
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A method conceived of by paleontologist Anita Harris. McPhee wrote about her with the book “In Suspect Terrain” (1983). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_G...en.wikipedia.orgAnita G. Harris - Wikipedia 032
Reposted by Matt KuchtaWisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 06/02/2026Scoop from @henry-redman.bsky.social, who has been in Western Wisconsin & Minneapolis all week: Twin Cities ICE presence extends into Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/02/06/t...wisconsinexaminer.comTwin Cities ICE presence extends into Wisconsin • Wisconsin ExaminerICE agents involved in the agency's surge into Minnesota have regularly crossed the border into nearby western Wisconsin communities. 03225
Reposted by Matt Kuchtamindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice 1833591125
Reposted by Matt Kuchta👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/01/2026kristi noem is like a box of chocolates they'll both kill your dog 526435
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Saved so I can improve my “natural resource” lectures with more direct language about social effects. 120
Reposted by Matt KuchtaMount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Building on Blake's post, if there's one book I recommend everyone read about the eruption, it's Richard Waitt's work. IMHO, this is *the* book. Also, if you're an audiobooker (my people), you can also find it on Audible. wsupress.wsu.edu/product/in-t... 3203
Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Most people in my grandfather’s generation switched to circuit breakers when they came out. But not my grandpa - he simply refused. 010