sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Just say no to installing vscode extensions 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 22/04/2026news.mit.edu/2026/new-stu... distributions to the rescue again! This sounds incredible, I'm not a physicist, but I'm a little surprised it isn't bigger news! 🧪news.mit.eduNew study bridges the worlds of classical and quantum physicsMIT scientists showed that certain mathematical ideas from everyday classical physics can be used to describe the often weird and nonintuitive behavior that occurs at the quantum, subatomic scale. 020
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Hopped on twitter for the first time in a bit. Anyone else feel like it has overwhelming LinkedIn vibes these days? Everyone’s talking about how AI means life as you know it is over and it’s time to redefine yourself (most likely in terms of productivity). Feels like exclusively tech recruiters 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 18/04/2026www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Cool, and also, yikes 🧪sciencedaily.comArtificial neurons successfully communicate with living brain cellsEngineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible... 3308
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR... WATCH WATCH WATCH! 🧪youtube.comNASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)YouTube video by NASA 050
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 27/02/2026For when you wish your agent-based model was less interpretable. I feel like if you are trying to max out predictive capacity, an ABM is a poor choice, and if you are trying to max out interpretability LLMs are a poor choice. Interesting idea, but I don't get the utility here. 🧪biorxiv.org 010
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This actually seems like a great solution to me. Hope the Pacific Science Center is able to upgrade its infrastructure, I was sad to see the end of the dino exhibit hall. www.geekwire.com/2026/pacific...geekwire.comPacific Science Center sells real estate to help fund upgrades and an innovation-focused star attractionPacific Science Center confirmed it's selling a wedge of its campus to help keep operations afloat and fund the development of a new star attraction. 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 07/02/2026As someone who has only watched the first season of stranger things and is not very tuned in, I thought this play was not that good as a play and also really enjoyed it! A brief review 🧵#broadway #strangerthings 100
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 07/02/2026It’s my favorite time of the every-other year, THE OLYMPICS ARE UPON US! I have a lot to catch up on, but for starters behold a human condition laid bare: a person, a passion, a challenge, and a relentless pursuit. Rooting for Vonn’s recovery with my whole soul! youtu.be/2PfRZrL0xic?...youtu.be 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I share Dr. Wu's frustrations with uninterpretable models, which is why I've chosen to toil away in the land of spatiotemporal mechanistic models (and agent-based models). I think there is a bigger issue being touched on here though, and its with the word "model". 🧵🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRevisiting the blueprint for an interpretable virtual cell - Nature Reviews GeneticsIn this Journal Club, Angela Ruohao Wu highlights a 2012 paper by Karr et al. that exemplifies the value of 'rule-based' mechanistic models in biology, prompting questions about the future of predicti... 100
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Internet highlights of my last few days 🧵 100
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I love a twist 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgIn a twist, polar bears are getting fatter in the Norwegian ArcticWith sea ice dwindling, the massive predators are relying more on land-based food sources such as reindeer 1137
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I’m personally offended that Natasha Hodgson is not Tony nominated #theatre #theater #broadway 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Cool to see Georgia O’Keeffe making the jump to game dev as lead environment artist of Metroid Prime 4 000
Reposted by @sparklingtortoise.bsky.socialScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer. 190142943011
Reposted by @sparklingtortoise.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread: 27515199
Reposted by @sparklingtortoise.bsky.socialSarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Judge Reyes just became my favorite person. 1236290
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Re: your proposal to assign sex at conception, you do know why men have nipples right? 000
sparklingtortoise.bsky.social @sparklingtortoise.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The PLOS Comp Bio RSS feed had a locust-heavy week. I know nothing about locusts nor the types of modeling researchers use to study locusts, so I gave one locust paper a skim. Here is a brief skim summary 🧪💻🧵 140
