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Aidan O’Brien
@aidan.prettymath.ca
Music, Ecology, Geography (and dogs) on Treaty 3 Territory (Guelph) 📍

💼: https://prettymath.ca
🎧: prettymath.bandcamp.com
👾: github.com/aidanwobrien
Game dev peaked here

cdrom.ca/games/cancon...
Crosscountry BC
cdrom.ca
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Aidan O’Brien
Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant

go.nature.com/3NaS1Bs
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
go.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Aidan O’Brien
Exciting News to Wrap Up 2025!

I’m thrilled to announce the release of the QGIS Geemap Plugin, which allows you to run Google Earth Engine and Jupyter Notebooks directly within QGIS!

GitHub Repo: github.com/opengeos/qgi...
Video Tutorial: youtu.be/QHFp0v579Hc
December 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Recently finished a side project where I simulated a stable 3-tier ‘ecosystem’ of plants, herbivores and carnivores in pygame. Herbivores eat plants and carnivores eat herbivores in stable phases, in line with Lotka Voterra equations, but with added spatiality. You can read about it on my GitHub
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A collection of Midnights favourite toys 💕
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Some important thoughts here, especially around seed collection
December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The world is cruel, so I won’t be
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My (partners) transphobe grandmother is a pain in the ass
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I’ve been making an ecological management sim (a non game game if you will) in pygame and I gotta say, I’m having a blast, but it’s clearly a masochistic black hole endeavour and I should really just stop and get back to working on music…
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Boys first ride in the Outback 🖤🖤
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Bayside for the Holidays ❄️ Heaven on Earth 💫
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Darkness all cozied up this morning
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
KiNG MALA and Dezi in Toronto last night was 👌🏻👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My first EP ‘Dispositions’ turns 5 years old today!

It tells the story of a river, from source to mouth.

This EP taught me so much about myself. Check it out!

prettymath.bandcamp.com/album/dispos...
Dispositions, by Pretty Math
9 track album
prettymath.bandcamp.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I listened to these records over the weekend
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Got a Facebook (ew) reminder that 13 years ago today I was listening to Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X

tidal.com/browse/album...
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Listen to Becoming X on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Reposted by Aidan O’Brien
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Aidan O’Brien
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I listened to these records today (so far)
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Aidan O’Brien
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM