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Morgan Robertson

@morganrobertson.bsky.social
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Geographer at UW-Madison. Political ecologist, policy nerd, plant noticer, union member, Iowan, 🔱/🌊🦅Wetlands restoration, ecology and history are my jam. Also Australia and roller derby. USEPA HQ alum 2004-07.

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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 18h
Going to start using “fewer” where “less” is grammatically correct. The balance must be restored.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Myles Garrett is really thinking about his life choices tonight.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Starting a conspiracy theory that the Seahawks’ embarrassing flop in DC was due to McDonald using CoPilot. Who’s in?
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UN looks smart now declaring 2026 the International Year of the Backup Quarterback
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Noted responsibility-accepter seen leaving venue
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Rams complaining about the refs, check. Just like the last time they blew a 16 point lead! Oh, the fingers they’ll point. Have fun at the bottom of the NFC West, boys.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How many of these can Sean McVay lose before his eyes just pop out of his head for good?
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a happy bear enjoying a nice evening @barchen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This game is dumb. The Rams should run back the kick, fumble, the broncos should scoop and run, fumble, and then a penalty should be called that makes everyone explode.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When the Packers lose like that it throws the vibes off across the whole state. The cheese doesn't melt right and the beer tastes like humiliation. Who had ATL coming in to a playoff team's home opener and bullying them right off the field? That's Seattle's job 💚💙
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New Thismia! The hope that T. americana will be found behind a Kwik Trip in Schaumburg lives on in the hearts of Chicago botanists.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You have Justus von Liebig’s full attention.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s a wet bee morning here in Wisconsin
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I need the Bills to play a game in Hawaii and lose badly so I can make my James Cook joke.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I cannot get over how much Jared Goff looks like Ryan Gosling. Especially in that movie where he plays a quarterback who has no idea what he’s doing.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seeing Marshawn Lynch advertise AI is like watching a winner advertise losing.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
snapping the football is hard.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Colonial wishcasting the map of Australia, 1827.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
an oldie but a goodie
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
chronicle.com
U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses
The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the offseason NFL passed a new rule that only Seattle can have a defense and wow it's really changing how the game is played.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Guys is it good to take your points off the scoreboard after you've already scored them? GB with some galaxy brain coaching there.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One space after a comma, two spaces after a full stop. That is the one true way. Anything else is wrong. Yes, I know HTML only puts one after a full stop no matter how many you type - it's wrong.
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Curt Affair @wrongopinionman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It seems pretty clear the only good defense in the NFL is the Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As someone who has flown many times to Australia, the idea of doing anything other recovering and chilling out the day after you fly there is absurd on the face of it. Congrats all around to the Rams and McVay for their big brain thinking — did they ask ChatGPT how to plan their trip?
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NFL 2026 passing leader Drew Lock
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Darnold going to have to fight for his position when he gets back. #Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Drew Lock, charming and on message as the first player interviewed after a win? Nehemiah fucking Pritchett making us not miss Riq at all?? Oh we can NEVER be normal. 💚💙💚 It’s good to be back #Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FINALLY #Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fascinating hit on my search for early uses of the word "wetland". John Wetland, here is from Podunk Rd. "Podunk" is a place name but also a fictional small town in southern New England invented by an essayist in the 1840s. It is also from "pautaunke", Algonkian for... wetland.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Idea for a crime drama about a 16th century zealot defacing renaissance masterworks. Attack on Titian.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026
It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I left Seattle at age 2, but apparently I talk as though I stayed.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When a Dean sends out a broadcast email comparing himself to the legendary folk hero of an extremely niche fantasy legendarium, whose name is translated “hero with 1000 enemies“, he is definitely having a completely normal one.
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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"I've majored in geography, transportation, and people. I've been a traveling man." —Satchel Paige on his education, quoted in Bill Veeck, "VEECK—As in Wreck" (1962)
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finally couldn’t put off listening to the last Seahawks Man2Man podcast ever. What a loss to the fandom and what a fantastic voice and mind @mikedugar.bsky.social brought to it. Together they said what needed to be said, for nine years, in the funnest and smartest way possible.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This sounds like a Johnny Paycheck song.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon gives thieves deadline to return 40,000 pounds of stolen beer
The Pabst Brewing Company is asking the public for help after more than 40,000 pounds of beer was stolen.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Third string Seahawks can’t protect a 16 point lead against the second string Titans. Good to know.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Even worse day. Jfc let’s move on.
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bad day for the Milroe stans. #Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Replaying Darnold bobbling the bauble is going to get real old, I can feel it. #Seahawks
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Does anybody know if there are note-summarizing software applications out there that do not use AI? I’m thinking of something that might be particularly useful for people with ADHD or otherwise impaired ability to retrieve and summarize data quickly.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.
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