amazing crowd today to save the Academy of Natural Sciences! save-the-academy.org and awesome speech by Councilwoman @ninaahmadphl.bsky.social!! #savetheacademy @sarahmackattack.bsky.social @skypeascientist.bsky.social @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com @greenphilly.bsky.social

for #FossilFriday, two of the most charismatic displays at the Museum Of The Moment, the Academy of Natural Sciences here in Philly

When the Academy of Natural Sciences opened, paleontology had just been founded and the first steam locomotive launched. All other custodians of this museum preserved its incredible cultural and scientific heritage for 200 years. This is an embarrassment to the Drexel administration forever.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3w ago

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Can neural networks think like geomorphologists? @gregtucker.bsky.social and I trained a neural network to invert the streampower-diffusion model, and then opened the black box. It learned how valley spacing and drainage density connect to process. Out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2026...

Can Neural Networks Think Like Geomorphologists?

A simple neural network can infer parameters from synthetic topography generated by a process-based numerical model of landscape evolution The network can be queried to identify a sensible relati...

doi.org

UAI 2026 paper: A genetic perturbation can change the connectome, a new policy can rewire economic links between firms. In each case, interventions change the graph itself which standard SCMs treat as fixed. We tackle this in Partially Observed Structural Causal Models (POSCMs).

So it turns out you can make holograms with a pen-plotter: blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-h... #penplotter #creativecoding

well that's awfully young for a prime minister

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

King Charles III is about to welcome the fourth Prime Minister of his reign, which is not yet four years old.

well that's awfully young for a prime minister

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

King Charles III is about to welcome the fourth Prime Minister of his reign, which is not yet four years old.

So it turns out you can make holograms with a pen-plotter: blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-h... #penplotter #creativecoding

hey, come on now blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com

these are some blender-ass conference snacks #blender #blender3d @blender.org #blenderguru

booking a trip to Florence right after reading @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance" is like being 8 and walking past an ice cream store and hearing your parents say, "why don't we go in!" www.adapalmer.com/publication/...

Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer

In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

adapalmer.com

oh wtf @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social, I searched for four papers in five minutes while writing a grant and that gets me banned??

rotisserie pillow. is this anything?

Just donated to #fdroid because the #FOSS ecosystem is a beautiful thing! Learned a lot when I published Coppelia [https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/coppelia/], my Jellyfin music client, and the review team and community was extraordinary!! #foss #jellyfin #android

so I just realized I forgot to #skeetprint my Contactomes paper... (is that what we're calling it?) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @kordinglab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social smithneurallab.weebly.com @jhuapl.bsky.social #academicsky #preprint #neuroscience

so I just realized I forgot to #skeetprint my Contactomes paper... (is that what we're calling it?) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @kordinglab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social smithneurallab.weebly.com @jhuapl.bsky.social #academicsky #preprint #neuroscience

Lem and Douglas Adams were the only true prophets of LLMs in science fiction.

Here is an aerial before / after I-76 of Lansdowne Dr. The highway ramps forced the removal of all the park trails, which served as crucial connectors for park visitors. In many ways the reasonable thing to do would be to turn Lansdowne over to people walking / biking to restore park connectivity.

rotisserie pillow. is this anything?

reminder for those writing grants these days — we made a tool to fill out your NSF/NIH COA lists automatically :) bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa #academicsky

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 2y ago

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

Hi all reMarkable users — remailable.getneutrality.org is back up and running! You can now email documents to your tablet again. #reMarkable

this is fun!! I just spent a ton of hours making this animation for my dissertation defense in @blender.org, I wish I had known about this a little sooner 😆 mine is of course not real data...

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Development has always intimidated me. So much happening, so fast, but it is also one of the most fascinating areas of bioscience that we know shockingly little about.

✅ (🎉 @kordinglab.bsky.social)

There's still time to apply!

Community for Rigor@comm4rigor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Perfect part-time role for a high‑energy and creative science communicator. Apply here! buff.ly/5F1hX9A #sciencecommunication

OMG. so cool!

Anna Schapiro@annaschapiro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

"whats yer horse's name, pardner?" [shoving KISSBABY's nametag under my saddle] uh she doesn't have one

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 5mo ago

If I was in the desert on a horse with no name I’d simply name the horse.

coolest visuals in the world, science is amazing

should I work on my dissertation defense slides or should I learn how to use @blender.org geometry node simulation zones...

Such cool work by @felipeparodi.bsky.social, bringing face detection, landmark tracking, and facial movement analysis to primate research! 🐒🦍🦧 totally opens up new ways to study communication and social behavior. Felipe rocks!

Earth Species Project (ESP)@earthspecies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌟Community Spotlight 🌟 We recently spoke with Felipe Parodi, the lead developer of PrimateFace, an open-source platform for automated facial analysis across the primate order. Learn more earthspecies.org/2026/04/07/w...