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Matt Murphy
@mjosmurphy.bsky.social
Entomology postdoc/ moth rancher in Kansas

Olfaction | Behavior | Genomics | Bugs

Mildly obsessed with Pokemon

Posts are my own opinion
"if you want smelly masculine men, you want the hard cock that comes with the show -- you do not want one of nature's more complex and variable structures, the pum-pum"

--Robert Trivers

pic related
February 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Robert Trivers, who wrote this email, is of course one of the leading theorists in the evolution of parental care and altruism in animals.
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
February 1, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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"From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. Truth is...Nintendo was Woke from the start."
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, 2008)
January 31, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Blexas real?
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
speaking of
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Looks like my bsky might have accidentally unfollowed some people. Sorry if you were one of them!
February 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Well?
February 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
(1) I hate this timeline (2) thank christ i didn't have to read this from the Other kotaku senior author, my college dorm neighbor
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I went to the "locally made crafts" consignment store downtown. Among the endless 3D printed bootleg stuff were *several* furry makers, including knockoff Duke Bad Dragon figurines. I wonder if the shop owner knows what they are.
February 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I've got a middle authorship on a manuscript sent off for review. The topic is totally outside my usual wheelhouse - it's about bread quality - but I was tapped by people in the neighboring unit to run some stats analysis and do dataviz.
January 31, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I spent 12 hours yesterday helping fix a gas chromatograph and working on manuscript figures. I wonder why I feel so tired.
January 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Ficus punctata fruit are very cutie
January 31, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Anime was a mistake
January 31, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Vision Science
Politics In Literature
Ancient Greek Literature
Abnormal Psychology
Statistics
Hypermedia and Phanopoeia with Michael Joyce
Shakespeare in Film with Don Foster
Folklore and Fairy Tales with Nancy Willard
Intro to Cellular Biology (I sucked at it but I learned so much)
Medieval Irish Lit at Trinity College Dublin
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
January 31, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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January 28, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I remember when Adobe asked me if I wanted it to summarize a "long document" (my dissertation)
wow yeah Adobe, thanks for offering to use AI to summarize the "long document" I have personally assembled. It's 12 pages long and it's mostly photos of our friend Bob. I can tell from looking.
January 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
its only a little ironic that the class i avoided in college (Analytic Chemistry) is My Life Now.

it's fun, but. still.
January 28, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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If “a man is not dead while his name is still spoken”, Ea-Nasir has had the strangest resurrection ever.
January 28, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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Really, Hello Kitty Island Adventure??
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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happy 30th birthday pikachu and yeast genome publication
January 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end
For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:54 PM
🦀
January 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
kind of disappointed that i have 99 mutuals following this antivax "epidemiologist"
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 AM