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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like Billy Bob Thornton starring in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

46.4866001, -87.6546617

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thinking 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

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.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

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Things 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.

Photo of a thirteen inch long smallmouth bass I caught in the Red Cedar River today

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My first thought was this could be an MLB version of the NIT

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If 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.

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That Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gonna be referring to this thing as a pedometer but with a very different accent than I do for the other product.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In some cases literally built on trolls

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 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.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favorite was watching undergrads try to climb *through* the coal cars as the train crew tried to swap out deliveries to the coal/steam plant across from Weeks Hall.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New documentary series with Attenborough and Herzog.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yellowed notes in a 3-ring binder are the least likely to have been stolen by AI

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to Yellowstone a couple years ago. The hat-to-flip-flop ratio was about 2:1. We met a ranger who was retrieving stuff from the springs, but they asked ppl not to take photos as they thought it would make people feel it was okay to be careless.

A panoramic view of grand prismatic springs showing the brown and orange mud surrounding the steaming pond. On the right side some tourists are on the walkway and there is a red baseball hat lying on the middle near the spring.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw this at Ft Wilkins State park in Michigan this summer. No, we didn’t see any bigfoots. Bigfeet? Bigsfoot?

A Bigfoot warning poster I saw in Michigan this summer:

Bigfoot Warning!

Attention campers: due to the increased flow in the Fanny Hooe
Creek, the Bigfoots are coming down from the high country to feed on fish and vegetation at the edge of the creek.
Do not be alarmed if you have an encounter. Remain calm and follow these simple steps to stay safe:
• Do not run from Bigfoot
• Do not chase Bigfoot
• Do not yell at Bigfoot
• Do not feed Bigfoot
• Do go about your business
• Do take pictures
Bigfoot will not enter your campsite.
Bigfoot will not harm you.
Once the encounter is finished, report it to the nearest ranger station.
Please keep note of the location, time, and the direction the Bigfoot is traveling.
park store.
The most recent sightings are between the East Campground and the park store

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is that via your online store? I may have to get some for my classes.

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Grimmla @grimmla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The month's A-Z challenge monster is the Jabberwocky!

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My favorite is forgetting to select the correct datum while making a reference map and suddenly all my field sites were in Fargo.

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LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I 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.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

on balance I think the invention of puppetry was probably much more jarring

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No matter how interesting you might be, there’s always someone more interesting on a Greyhound bus.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A naked American just stole my balloons.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s a reason the first lab in my soils classes involves looking at paper USGS maps.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Laptops with Terabytes of RAM…

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention 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

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Currently it’s the guitar intro for Heart’s “Crazy on You”

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

...they're going to die.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When your dad teaches soil mechanics, you end up with the coolest sandcastles at the beach.

A freestanding sandcastle tower, about a foot tall and four inches in diameter. Made with sand compacted in a mold and then brick pattern carved into the side.

Another tall sandcastle with carved brickwork and drip sand structures growing off it like a tree.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I remember walking to class at Lawrence in Appleton and when the wind was right, hoo boy what a smell.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have yet to see any use case where the Word-Predicting Plagiarism Machine actually helps in either research or education. Any system that is wrong more than about 2% of the time can’t be trusted. And LLMs are a good 30-50% wrong on a good day…

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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have 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/

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I 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.

A photo of the sides menu at Burger King. Fries, onion rings, or “Have-sies” are options, but I can’t calculate the fry to ring ratio using both calories and price

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 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.

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truerg.bsky.social @truerg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I 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.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Seriously, this entire thread is just one top shelf description of Bradbury-esque tech dystopia after another.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There is no good emoji that combines the necessary side eye and wide-eyed gobsmack required for a response to this.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: Sleep - that’s when I’m a Viking! Ach! My retirement grease! I’m Idaho! My Cat’s breathe smells like cat food. Monorail!

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So 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.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey 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!

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For 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.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I need to get this as a supplement for my Dinosaurs, Diamonds, and Disasters course.

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Older than "trees" so older than Devonian but younger than mountains, which means Ordovician. So West Virginia is Silurian.

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Everyone needs a snuggle buddy.

Our ginger cat, sound asleep and hugging a stuffed animal.

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’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.

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