Jeffrey M
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Saving the biosphere - One allele at a time ™ | Jeffrey Markert | Non Satis Scire
This is very cool. But also...I'm looking forward to when they have the resolution worked out well enough that they can use Rhode Island units.
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 7h agoThis is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.
Sure, a Ph.D. science 'career' is fun. But it's not as satisfying as my true calling. I am really good at assembling flat pack furniture.
“Do we really want to be a town that always wants to be under surveillance for every single thing?” Narragansett says "No!" What about @pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social ?
WPRI 12@wpri12.bsky.social · 2d agoNarragansett became the latest municipality to end its contract with Flock Safety Monday night. Details: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/south-county/narragansett-to-stop-using-automated-license-plate-readers/
Narragansett became the latest municipality to end its contract with Flock Safety Monday night. Details: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/south-county/narragansett-to-stop-using-automated-license-plate-readers/
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
I dunno. Sometimes attitudes shift over time.
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d agoI don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
The short version is: after a month the AI has not given me any good reasons to trust it, and I am honestly freaked out by the confidence with which it weaves completely wrong facts into prose, and the confidence with which it writes and professionally formats entire sections of bullshit.
Police drones: While some say they're helping stop crime, others worry the line between security and surveillance is starting to blur. Watch Target 12's special report, Tuesday on 12 News at 5 p.m.
My milkweed is finally paying off. I hope it's a viceroy - they're more digestable!
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Happy Lamarck's Birthday to those who celebrate!
Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 4d agoJ-B Lamarck was born OTD in 1744 A “prime cause … endows animal life with the power to make organization gradually more complex…. Occasionally a foreign, accidental, and therefore variable cause has interfered with the execution of the plan, without, however, destroying it.” 🐋🌱🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio #HistSTM
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Jeffrey M@jeffreymphd.bsky.social · 6d agoHi RI Science Fans! One of the most fun summer events is tomorrow at URI. The undergraduate research symposium runs from about 9 to noon. It's a glorious assemblage of hundreds student summer research presentations from all the RI colleges. Details here: web.uri.edu/ri-surs/
Hi RI Science Fans! One of the most fun summer events is tomorrow at URI. The undergraduate research symposium runs from about 9 to noon. It's a glorious assemblage of hundreds student summer research presentations from all the RI colleges. Details here: web.uri.edu/ri-surs/
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The RI-INBRE and RI NSF EPSCoR programs are pleased to invite you to the: 2026 RI Summer Research Symposium (RI-SuRS) at the University of Rhode Island Friday, July 31, 2026 Introductory Remarks, 9:00...
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This tech fundamentally alters the way people are able to express their basic human rights, and is incompatible with any society that claims to be free. As people understand the capabilities of the tech and how widespread it is, the backlash is entirely understandable.
Why Flock surveillance cameras are drawing fierce backlash across Massachusetts - The Boston Globe
People tolerate Ring cameras, cellphones, and CCTV cameras — but Flock Safety has some filling city council meetings in protest.
bostonglobe.com
I also sometimes have a hard time controlling my attitude.
Jonathan Serrie@jonathanserrie.bsky.social · last wk.LINK spacecraft, on mission to raise decaying orbit of Swift space observatory, experiencing attitude control problems
So my mom and I both got to watch Joan Baez perform on the last night of Newport Folk Festival as a rainbow came out — 59 years apart. Projo coverage from 1967, and yesterday
If you're in the greater Worcester area, join me at the Millbury Public Library tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 6PM for a family friendly activity called A Map for a Cat! It's a bit silly but there are big ideas underneath it. It's most fun for participants aged 10 and up (adults can come too!)
I made the trek to the Braintree MA Sears today out of curiosity. It's not as empty as the one in the video below. Offerings are limited, but not post-apocalyptic. Only clothes and appliances upstairs. I guess they had some luggage and mattresses on display too. And a couple gas grills. 1/4
@erik-pbg.bsky.social · 2w agoThe remaining ones are weird and empty because Sears sold most of their legacy brands They make the end of Kmart feel dignified by comparison www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWs...
Omg I found the video of former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Sesame Street with Abby and Rosita!! 🫢 Cc: @phileil.bsky.social
