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04.12.2025 17:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@mrmattdavenport.bsky.social
"You ask too many questions, boy." he/him
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04.12.2025 17:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Researchers found that out of 125 species-age class combinations, 58 had changed size. Of those 58 that changed, 46 were smaller. In other words, 37 percent of all age classes showed statistically significant shrinkage, compared to just 9 percent that grew larger."
www.mlive.com/environment/...
After 2 years of war, 98% of tree cropland and 75% of greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed. Remote sensing maps tracking the progression of damage can help identify the best ways to remediate the land & rebuild Gazaโs agricultural sector. #AGU25
My latest for @eos.org:
eos.org/articles/98-...
A while back back, I asked Bluesky for random questions about the world. I'm finally sharing some answers to three of them!
Why is cinnamon "hot"?
Why is mint "cold"?
Why does soda fizz more when you add ice? ๐งช
news.ncsu.edu/2025/12/why-...
"This is the way coal ends, not with a bang but a whimper." ๐๐ก
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-coal-dead
Nutrition label saying that the serving size for the Advent calendar is 24 pieces
I don't think the people who made this Advent calendar understand how Advent calendars work
02.12.2025 16:11 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Journalists: I can't recommend the Knight-Wallace fellowship enough. Personally and professionally, it changed my life.
Here's a chance to learn more if you're considering giving it a go!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hey @lansingmifacts.com we busted out the moderately sized green orbs for our Holiday Sale next week.
26.11.2025 22:29 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1In which Joe Burrow perfectly encapsulates the Detroit Lions viewing experience roughly a decade ago: "You go watch Matthew Stafford throw for 300, 400-some yards with Calvin Johnson and probably lose the game. But it was fun to watch. Those are memories that you have.โ
26.11.2025 17:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every year I think, "This @mcsweeneys.net piece won't be relevant next year," and every year I'm wrong
25.11.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Writing about neuroscience is a great time because misspelling "brain" as "brian" is never not funny to me.
25.11.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In 2008, after killing many of their neighbors, Ngogo chimpanzees expanded their territory. Female fertility then doubled, and infant mortality plummeted. Adaptive violence in our ape cousins, documented in this new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
18.11.2025 04:20 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
21.11.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 243 ๐ 119 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 56This is dangerous. "FDA has received reports that recalled formula is still being found on store shelves in multiple states, including at multiple Walmart, Target, and Kroger locations, and at one or more Sprouts Organic Market, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shawโs, and Star Market locations."
21.11.2025 14:31 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sea level rise is accelerating thanks to climate change. This doesn't just mean coastal homes falling into the ocean. Bigger problems are on the horizon now.
abcnews.go.com/US/thousands...
I will never forget having to edit Jamalโs final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.
โItโs 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."
For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.
Stunning report.
That, or enter more contests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1P...
12.11.2025 20:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The lesson here is I need to start bringing the box to events. That way, when someone asks if I have one, I can say open it and say, "Take as many as you like," like one of the cool houses on Halloween.
12.11.2025 20:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I got business cards today, which is super exciting. But it also reminded me I have still have most of a box left over from a previous job.
12.11.2025 20:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Tiny spiders that build giant 'puppet' decoys from disembodied prey discovered in Peru and Philippines www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
12.11.2025 19:08 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Cade Cunningham has the SECOND 40-point triple-double in Pistons franchise history
The first since Isiah Thomas in 1983!
Students think most other students regularly use AI for classes, but that they do so far less frequently.
Students think most other students regularly violate AI policies, but that they almost always follow them.
Preliminary data from @umich.edu survey on student AI use for class.
Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.
Perceptions of misuse โ reality
Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.
Every time I see a band with pedal boards the size of command centers, they're deeply serious (and boring).
This is not that.
(Shout out to my colleague Nikki for booking Nova Twins at the Tiny Desk. This one rules.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOi...
It's the first Friday of the month and we got no jobs data for the first time in 77 years. Hold me.
07.11.2025 15:26 โ ๐ 831 ๐ 209 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 141/ New research from our group @umich.edu in collaboration with MI DNR investigated if climate change is altering fish body size. Our team analyzed data from 13 species and 1,497 lakes from 1945-2020.
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#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel
Itโs hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
05.11.2025 21:08 โ ๐ 11762 ๐ 2471 ๐ฌ 255 ๐ 296I do like it in terms of providing this context that's like, "Ok, we're already at dime in MI. Where do we go from here if we're going to improve things?" And I think that the report is trying to highlight some opportunities on that front.
04.11.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I really liked the tidbit in Keith Matheny's Detroit Free Press story that pointed out Oregon overtook Michigan in 2023, after upping its nickel deposit to a dime in 2017. That kind of hurt my state pride as a Michigander, but...
04.11.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So the question the report set out to answer wasn't as much "Do bottle bills work?" as it was "Why isn't Michigan's bottle bill as effective as it used to be?"
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