Matt Bizer, PhD
@mttbizer96.bsky.social
Environmental engineer. PhD dissertation on transformational climate adaptation & resilience in wastewater utilities. Proud to be autistic & a music nerd, sometimes proud to be a Boston sports fan.
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Matt Bizer, PhD
@mttbizer96.bsky.social
· Mar 11
![Matt Bizer smiles in relief at the conclusion of his dissertation presentation. He is standing in front of a slide that reads "Questions? - Thank you for attending and following along" with a quote from Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark: "The hope I'm interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, one that invite or demand that we act. [...] You could call it an account of complexities and uncertainties, with openings." The slide also contains a lengthy list of acknowledgements and references.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:srn2r23pheebphjeaapwoxwb/bafkreihos7uq6z5bed5tjncit7liai7ighzmyjdpmtahwz6mvov6jsvhla@jpeg)
I defended my PhD dissertation, "Tracing and Assessing Transformational Climate Adaptation over Time in Public Wastewater Infrastructure Systems" yesterday! My defense was a massive success and I am honored to have earned a PhD in civil & environmental engineering from the University of Connecticut!
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nice try but i've read enough carl hiaasen, you can't trick me into taking miami politics seriously even when the outcome is good
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
nice try but i've read enough carl hiaasen, you can't trick me into taking miami politics seriously even when the outcome is good
Party of free speech and Christian religious freedom!
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Party of free speech and Christian religious freedom!
Maybe don’t have kids then?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Maybe don’t have kids then?
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Somewhere Phil Rivers is on what I imagine is a preposterously large couch watching this and thinking: ya know what I’m good
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Somewhere Phil Rivers is on what I imagine is a preposterously large couch watching this and thinking: ya know what I’m good
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I'm gonna save most of my verbiage for tomorrow's newsletter, but Brian Cashman making a point to recount 7+ year-old conversations with Sonny Gray for the express purpose of calling Gray a liar over a trade that took place 8+ years ago is pretty low-rent, unprofessional, and unnecessary.
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm gonna save most of my verbiage for tomorrow's newsletter, but Brian Cashman making a point to recount 7+ year-old conversations with Sonny Gray for the express purpose of calling Gray a liar over a trade that took place 8+ years ago is pretty low-rent, unprofessional, and unnecessary.
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i also would like to not see people who have dual citizenships in twitter and bluesky come over here to tell us what's going on over there. don't care and honestly, i think you should not be there and probably shouldn't brag about what you're doing there
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
i also would like to not see people who have dual citizenships in twitter and bluesky come over here to tell us what's going on over there. don't care and honestly, i think you should not be there and probably shouldn't brag about what you're doing there
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The point of playing football is to play football.
So Notre Dame's decision to opt out of playing a bowl game isn't just disappointing, but bad for the sports, @chrisvannini.com writes.
So Notre Dame's decision to opt out of playing a bowl game isn't just disappointing, but bad for the sports, @chrisvannini.com writes.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The point of playing football is to play football.
So Notre Dame's decision to opt out of playing a bowl game isn't just disappointing, but bad for the sports, @chrisvannini.com writes.
So Notre Dame's decision to opt out of playing a bowl game isn't just disappointing, but bad for the sports, @chrisvannini.com writes.
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It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
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Indiana was the worst team in college football for 150 years and then they let you start paying players and they immediately became No. 1 and the only conclusion one can draw is they were the only ones who didn’t realize you could pay players under the table for the first 150 years.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Indiana was the worst team in college football for 150 years and then they let you start paying players and they immediately became No. 1 and the only conclusion one can draw is they were the only ones who didn’t realize you could pay players under the table for the first 150 years.
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Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
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This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
The drive to create every Torment Nexus has finally claimed an episode of The Orville
Can you imagine how depraved you have to be to try to bring to life a cautionary-tale episode of THE ORVILLE?
Can you imagine how depraved you have to be to try to bring to life a cautionary-tale episode of THE ORVILLE?
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The drive to create every Torment Nexus has finally claimed an episode of The Orville
Can you imagine how depraved you have to be to try to bring to life a cautionary-tale episode of THE ORVILLE?
Can you imagine how depraved you have to be to try to bring to life a cautionary-tale episode of THE ORVILLE?
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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The Shedeur Industrial Complex is trying to delegitimize perfectly good and reasonable QB metrics that make their guy look bad. A lot of folks need him to succeed because he's good for business: Engagement, outrage, clicks, views, etc.
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Shedeur Industrial Complex is trying to delegitimize perfectly good and reasonable QB metrics that make their guy look bad. A lot of folks need him to succeed because he's good for business: Engagement, outrage, clicks, views, etc.
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
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You really see how vital an evolutionary advantage it was for baby animals to be tiny and cute when Stranger Things is trying to get you to be as terrified for Winona Ryder's kid as you were at the beginning now that he's 45
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
You really see how vital an evolutionary advantage it was for baby animals to be tiny and cute when Stranger Things is trying to get you to be as terrified for Winona Ryder's kid as you were at the beginning now that he's 45
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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“Americans spent the most ever this Black Friday!”
First off, I’m not sure I even believe that.
But the increasing amount of spending year over year isn’t because we’re fuckin balling out, it’s because everything fucking costs more. Because these fucks are greedy as hell.
First off, I’m not sure I even believe that.
But the increasing amount of spending year over year isn’t because we’re fuckin balling out, it’s because everything fucking costs more. Because these fucks are greedy as hell.
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Americans spent the most ever this Black Friday!”
First off, I’m not sure I even believe that.
But the increasing amount of spending year over year isn’t because we’re fuckin balling out, it’s because everything fucking costs more. Because these fucks are greedy as hell.
First off, I’m not sure I even believe that.
But the increasing amount of spending year over year isn’t because we’re fuckin balling out, it’s because everything fucking costs more. Because these fucks are greedy as hell.
This is so poorly written that it feels like bait to get a bad grade and then whine to Turning Point in order to secure a bag by becoming a conservative media darling. Many such cases! They do this because our media is so decayed that it works!
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is so poorly written that it feels like bait to get a bad grade and then whine to Turning Point in order to secure a bag by becoming a conservative media darling. Many such cases! They do this because our media is so decayed that it works!
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.