Sam Levine
@srlevine.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
Professional chemist. Amateur baker. Bike commuter.
Favorite stars don't cost money and can make someone smile (or at least feel seen) so I use them often […]
[bridged from https://neuromatch.social/@SRLevine on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Favorite stars don't cost money and can make someone smile (or at least feel seen) so I use them often […]
[bridged from https://neuromatch.social/@SRLevine on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Anyone who can tell me whether it also a good alternative for Mac OS on an Apple laptop with Apple M1 Pro chip?
@elduvelle @JosetAEtzel
@elduvelle @JosetAEtzel
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Anyone who can tell me whether it also a good alternative for Mac OS on an Apple laptop with Apple M1 Pro chip?
@elduvelle @JosetAEtzel
@elduvelle @JosetAEtzel
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About 12 days left in this #crowdfund Please give me a boost to meet a stretch goal for gear to ease the creation of visual effects in a #solarpunk world with no capitalism, no governments or politicians, no police. As the #climate crisis worsens and fascism rises around the world, help me […]
Original post on mograph.social
mograph.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
About 12 days left in this #crowdfund Please give me a boost to meet a stretch goal for gear to ease the creation of visual effects in a #solarpunk world with no capitalism, no governments or politicians, no police. As the #climate crisis worsens and fascism rises around the world, help me […]
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Thank you so much, Ioana Ilie (@biosim-lab.bsky.social), for coming up with this cool tradition of handing over the keys to APNet. I will do my best to follow the great example that you set for the engagement and excitement of president of @apnet.bsky.social and will keep this amazing new tradition.
Today we had the ceremonial handover of the keys to APNet from our previous president, Ioana Ilie (@biosim-lab.bsky.social), to our new president, @stephanhacker2.bsky.social! (1/3)
#AssistantProfessor #Network #Keys
#AssistantProfessor #Network #Keys
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you so much, Ioana Ilie (@biosim-lab.bsky.social), for coming up with this cool tradition of handing over the keys to APNet. I will do my best to follow the great example that you set for the engagement and excitement of president of @apnet.bsky.social and will keep this amazing new tradition.
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Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
https://wapo.st/3MeKCkf
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
https://wapo.st/3MeKCkf
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
https://wapo.st/3MeKCkf
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
https://wapo.st/3MeKCkf
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@sundogplanets wait, so one group of techies want to build some space reflector thingy to shine more sun at night and another bunch that want to block the sun? Sigh.
In spring of 2020 I was helping organize a conference on “Why Solar Geoengineering is Bad Actually and How To Regulate it Now […]
In spring of 2020 I was helping organize a conference on “Why Solar Geoengineering is Bad Actually and How To Regulate it Now […]
Original post on mastodon.green
mastodon.green
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@sundogplanets wait, so one group of techies want to build some space reflector thingy to shine more sun at night and another bunch that want to block the sun? Sigh.
In spring of 2020 I was helping organize a conference on “Why Solar Geoengineering is Bad Actually and How To Regulate it Now […]
In spring of 2020 I was helping organize a conference on “Why Solar Geoengineering is Bad Actually and How To Regulate it Now […]
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Amazing talk by Sander Woutersen at #NWOCHAINS. He gave an entertaining talk on his Ig Nobel Prize winning research on using (drunk) worms as a model for active polymers to better understand their exciting properties.
iop.uva.nl/content/news...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Chemistry #Polymers
iop.uva.nl/content/news...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Chemistry #Polymers
Ig Nobel prize for drunk worms - IoP
Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen have won an Ig Nobel prize for their research in which they investigate the behaviour of drunk worms as a particular form of active ma...
iop.uva.nl
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Amazing talk by Sander Woutersen at #NWOCHAINS. He gave an entertaining talk on his Ig Nobel Prize winning research on using (drunk) worms as a model for active polymers to better understand their exciting properties.
iop.uva.nl/content/news...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Chemistry #Polymers
iop.uva.nl/content/news...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Chemistry #Polymers
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"Anything signed by Biden with an autopen is legally invalid" has a lot of the same energy as the "sovereign citizens" who claim they don't have to pay taxes because the IRS has the wrong kind of flag flying outside its building.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Anything signed by Biden with an autopen is legally invalid" has a lot of the same energy as the "sovereign citizens" who claim they don't have to pay taxes because the IRS has the wrong kind of flag flying outside its building.
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I needed to see some creek liberation today and maybe you do too
https://youtu.be/kDzvw1JnhPQ?si=Bqqj0dPO5fQB0dff
https://youtu.be/kDzvw1JnhPQ?si=Bqqj0dPO5fQB0dff
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I needed to see some creek liberation today and maybe you do too
https://youtu.be/kDzvw1JnhPQ?si=Bqqj0dPO5fQB0dff
https://youtu.be/kDzvw1JnhPQ?si=Bqqj0dPO5fQB0dff
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[Kitchen injury (no graphics, just description)]
I sliced my finger open with a mandoline on Sunday, but honestly the pain was not as painful as trying to figure out new insurance and new urgent care
I sliced my finger open with a mandoline on Sunday, but honestly the pain was not as painful as trying to figure out new insurance and new urgent care
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
[Kitchen injury (no graphics, just description)]
I sliced my finger open with a mandoline on Sunday, but honestly the pain was not as painful as trying to figure out new insurance and new urgent care
I sliced my finger open with a mandoline on Sunday, but honestly the pain was not as painful as trying to figure out new insurance and new urgent care
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"Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution" like "Annals of the Former World" but less daunting and metaphysical. "Annals of the Former World" is a book you get lost in, the deep past swallows you. The best way to read it is on a long train ride going out West. "Trilobite" is a book you can read in […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
October 19, 2024 at 11:54 PM
"Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution" like "Annals of the Former World" but less daunting and metaphysical. "Annals of the Former World" is a book you get lost in, the deep past swallows you. The best way to read it is on a long train ride going out West. "Trilobite" is a book you can read in […]
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"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
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Oh boy. The albino alligator at the academy of sciences has died unexpectedly.
My 5yo loves this alligator. LOVES this alligator.
Oof.
My 5yo loves this alligator. LOVES this alligator.
Oof.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oh boy. The albino alligator at the academy of sciences has died unexpectedly.
My 5yo loves this alligator. LOVES this alligator.
Oof.
My 5yo loves this alligator. LOVES this alligator.
Oof.
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You've heard of a murder of crows? This is a mass murder of crows—every evening around sunset, literally hundreds of fish crows congregate at the tops of about a dozen bare trees. Shortly after sunset, they start departing, in waves. All the while, they're […]
[Original post on urbanists.social]
[Original post on urbanists.social]
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You've heard of a murder of crows? This is a mass murder of crows—every evening around sunset, literally hundreds of fish crows congregate at the tops of about a dozen bare trees. Shortly after sunset, they start departing, in waves. All the while, they're […]
[Original post on urbanists.social]
[Original post on urbanists.social]
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is there a place I can post these reviews so that there's some accountability for the insane chatgptness and laziness of it? Like give me some feedback that isn't saying "you didn't do this" with 'this' being something that I had an entire subsection on in the paper
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
is there a place I can post these reviews so that there's some accountability for the insane chatgptness and laziness of it? Like give me some feedback that isn't saying "you didn't do this" with 'this' being something that I had an entire subsection on in the paper
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It would be cool to have a #writing pen pal. One where we enjoy each other's stories and provide useful feedback to each other.
It sounds cool at least
It sounds cool at least
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
It would be cool to have a #writing pen pal. One where we enjoy each other's stories and provide useful feedback to each other.
It sounds cool at least
It sounds cool at least
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Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]
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U.S. air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee https://www.npr.org/2025/12/02/g-s1-100045/travelers-without-real-id-charged-fee?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
U.S. air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee https://www.npr.org/2025/12/02/g-s1-100045/travelers-without-real-id-charged-fee?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
My sister saw the traveling greeting card thing and asked if she could sign up, so I sent her the link.
She also thinks fedi and social media in general is complicated and maybe doesn't want to get involved. Perhaps she will if she joins the greeting card thing and wants to post a photo when it […]
She also thinks fedi and social media in general is complicated and maybe doesn't want to get involved. Perhaps she will if she joins the greeting card thing and wants to post a photo when it […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
My sister saw the traveling greeting card thing and asked if she could sign up, so I sent her the link.
She also thinks fedi and social media in general is complicated and maybe doesn't want to get involved. Perhaps she will if she joins the greeting card thing and wants to post a photo when it […]
She also thinks fedi and social media in general is complicated and maybe doesn't want to get involved. Perhaps she will if she joins the greeting card thing and wants to post a photo when it […]
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*** y'all youngsters using the word "rawdogging" this way need to stop. 🤨
Also, what idiot decided being an idiot doing dangerous activities was a positive thing?
Also, what idiot decided being an idiot doing dangerous activities was a positive thing?
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
*** y'all youngsters using the word "rawdogging" this way need to stop. 🤨
Also, what idiot decided being an idiot doing dangerous activities was a positive thing?
Also, what idiot decided being an idiot doing dangerous activities was a positive thing?
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Apparently those Waymos can't avoid small animals. After killing a cat, one ran over a dog.
Also, they have learned passive voice from the police departments:
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway. " […]
Also, they have learned passive voice from the police departments:
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway. " […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Apparently those Waymos can't avoid small animals. After killing a cat, one ran over a dog.
Also, they have learned passive voice from the police departments:
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway. " […]
Also, they have learned passive voice from the police departments:
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway. " […]
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So, it's BETTER if you can manage your earthquake food supply by rotating stuff you eat through (or consuming what you are buying on a regular rate, i.e. make yourself a tuna sandwich or casserole enough to consume/rotate your supply regularly). But, this also works. (this is directly a result […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So, it's BETTER if you can manage your earthquake food supply by rotating stuff you eat through (or consuming what you are buying on a regular rate, i.e. make yourself a tuna sandwich or casserole enough to consume/rotate your supply regularly). But, this also works. (this is directly a result […]
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Lumpy, my own personal crochet Yule Goat, is here too for the season. #gavlebocken #yulegoat
Also, #shelfie
Also, #shelfie
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lumpy, my own personal crochet Yule Goat, is here too for the season. #gavlebocken #yulegoat
Also, #shelfie
Also, #shelfie
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My wife is talking about making a mastodon account so I'm going to need you all to act real cool
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My wife is talking about making a mastodon account so I'm going to need you all to act real cool
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My 2yo is now calling the Bay Bridge the “Gay Bridge” so I have to see how long I can keep from someone teaching him differently.
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
My 2yo is now calling the Bay Bridge the “Gay Bridge” so I have to see how long I can keep from someone teaching him differently.
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I like to think that the guinea pig will be chasing him through the world, asking for carrots, forever
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I like to think that the guinea pig will be chasing him through the world, asking for carrots, forever
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon