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Mikey P

@polyploid.party
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MS Plant breeding & genetics. Batologist.

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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 23/09/2026
Today's winners. #pomology #fruitbreeder #plantscience
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HappyPagan @annfinnemore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone who doubts the existence of infinity has never tried to clean all the ink out of a dried up fountain pen nib
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 11/09/2026
There are many advantages of breeding fruits. (Beautiful scenery and walking away with a big ol' bag of Zestar!/Minnewashta and Chestnut Crab apples.) #pomology #fruitbreeding
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 10/09/2026
Of note. #pomology #fruitbreeding
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 02/09/2026
Assignment with =
It isn't wrong, but we just don't do it.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 27/08/2026
Tip rooting of Rubus occidentalis. #plantscience #batology
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 21/08/2026
pH of the beast
Digital pH meter reading 6.66
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ever since I was a child, from the very first time I experienced the joy and wonder of dinosaur fossils at a natural history museum, I always knew I wanted to grow up and submit expense reports in Concur for institutionally sponsored travel
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026
"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
mcsweeneys.net
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 19/08/2026
Bonus photo: Trying to figure out what rust strain was plaguing me. Turns out it was squash pollen. #plantpathology #plantscience
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 19/08/2026
Today's little guys
Cecropia moth caterpillar on blackberry leaf.Tree frog on black raspberry leaf.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 17/08/2026
Last day of the Carver County Fair. #demolitionderby
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 16/08/2026
A good day on the Carver County clay. Only one broken drive shaft this year!
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 14/08/2026
When someone has a science problem and you suggest a science solution, talking straight out of your ass... but then it turns out you're actually correct because you do know a science or two.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 11/08/2026
Give me a bag of lettuce and tell me where "Dobby's grave" is.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 05/08/2026
A little guy.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 29/07/2026
Cedar-quince rust (maybe?) on crabapple. #plantpathology
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 25/07/2026
Hello, fren
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 21/07/2026
I could only get these bubble levels in a 5-pack. What else do I need to level?
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The Sword of Domi-cles @doomulux.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I thought that the occasional robotic female voice saying "charge me" was a recurring motif in this Boards of Canada album right up until my bluetooth headphones suddenly stopped playing
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 17/07/2026
Rubus ID workshop. Screaming, crying, throwing up. #botany #plantscience
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
academia is making plots and figures you care about but no one else does, industry is making ones that you don't care about but other people do
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 11/07/2026
Nobody in this coffee shop knows that I'm aligning genomic data for a specialty crop and listening to the Brokedown Palace (1999) soundtrack.
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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 03/03/2025
programming is just the art of adding bugs to an empty file
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 07/07/2026
Because the #datascience and #plantscience deities smiled on me after complaining online last time: There's also got to be an API for a data source with cumulative precipitation, right?
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 05/07/2026
#FreedomFromPantsRide got a lot of rain this year, but just turned into a dance party in the old sculpture garden conservatory.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 01/07/2026
usanpn.org/data/code offers an API for this, if you even care.
usanpn.org
Home Page | USA National Phenology Network
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 01/07/2026
There's got to be a Department of Ag (Fed or State) API for growing degree days, right? #plantscience #climate
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 28/06/2026
The people making sets for Space: 1999 were really just having fun.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 26/06/2026
Whenever I have an idea for an improvement/shortcut to someone's research and they act like they're a fool for not thinking of it: Shh. I only thought of it because I was the fool last time.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 25/06/2026
Pawpaw don't preach.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
PhD year 1: do the 18-level Gauschman-Vorlaug test to check robustness of results Postdoc: see if thing that should not have stars has stars
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 24/06/2026
Ghost in the (hazelnut) shell.
Cluster of dedicated hazelnut husks in front of green foliage.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 24/06/2026
The first year of everything fruiting from my germplasm collection. Now the fun behind... #pomology #rubus #plantscience
Cluster of Rubus occidental 
Is fruit with the center berry fully ripened.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 11/06/2026
Can we take a moment to appreciate the rendering of transposable elements as mischievous little scamps in this Medeiros et al paper? acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience
Illustration of double helix DNA strand with a transposable element depicted as a single twist of double helix with arms and legs running along the strand.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/05/2026
Two people riding one lime scooter inside the skinny buffer lines on Lyndale Ave because there's no bike lane. My reaction: Good. It builds character. In my day we rode in traffic, we got run over on the way there and on the way back, and we appreciated what we had.
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taber @kvetch.gay · 22/05/2026
one thing the Kylie doc should make crystal clear is we simply do not appreciate Dannii enough
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
would this save on infrastructure? no, existing roads can't handle this. well the technology is easier, right? nope, would need far better automation than exists. surely, it's safer though? guess again.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I am so confused by this article. Who are these people who are so embarrassed to be caught shopping at Aldi that they felt they needed to make excuses? Is this a regional thing? My image of the Typical NPR Listener includes "feels mildly smug about all the money they save shopping at Aldi."
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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 08/05/2026
ggplot(ritual) + geom_sf() + theme_c̵̤͛̌̎̀͘t̶̡̨̯̝̼͗̂͒͊̀̾̇̾͜h̸̡̰͉̼̖͉̉u̶̡̗̮̜͍̠̯̙̍l̸̞̲̓̒̒̓̓̃̔h̶̛̖̣̲̩̖͉̠͍̬̄̔̊̽͜u̸̱͛̈̽̀̅() + coord_noneuclidean() #RStats #rayshader #rayrender
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 05/05/2026
Honestly, the packages panel in Positron is kind of The Big One.
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Pierre-Paul Axisa @ppaxisa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Me every week #rstats
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 03/05/2026
If you want to accuse someone of "playing semantics" you need to have a functional grasp of language.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 29/04/2026
All this Neovim setup: will it pay off?
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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
me after learning #rstats chose %notin% instead of %nin% for the R 4.6.0 release
Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) frowning.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 25/04/2026
Do you do outdoor science? Join us: www.reddit.com/r/fieldmice
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fieldmice
Cousin of the lab rat. For doers of field research.
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Mikey P @polyploid.party · 25/04/2026
I haven't seen Speed Racer since it's original theatrical run, and I am stoked.
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