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Mark E. Griffin

@marvelousmarks.bsky.social

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Writer for hire of science, music, food, culture, and kids. Podcaster of those things, too. Audio producer, writer, storyteller, McSweeney's, Cap Times, Wisconsin Life, etc. MarvelousMarks.com

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · Aug 27

My newest for @mcsweeneys.net, I detail the ways in which your child should definitely, absolutely, positively not destroy their school issued Chromebook: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook

I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, c...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Noa Dalzell @noadalzell.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: I lost to Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics coaches by 53 points in a Media vs Coaches scrimmage at the Auerbach Center today.

It was probably the most lopsided basketball game I ever played in.

But it was also the time of my life:
www.celticsblog.com/articles/122...

I lost to Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics coaches by 53 points — and it was the time of my life

Joe Mazzulla challenged the Celtics beat reporters to a very humbling game of 5-on-5 basketball. It was a memory I’ll never forget.

www.celticsblog.com

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Wisconsin Energy Institute @uwenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for some weather fun at the 2nd Annual Wisconsin Weather Festival! Hands-on activities, weather science, and more await. Get the details: energy.wisc.edu/events/2nd-a...

Hosted in collaboration with @wisconet.bsky.social and #WiSciFest

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 21h

TLDR: The consequence of increased polarization is less democracy.

There's also a cool "what do we do about it?" section at the bottom including a tool that lets you take the emotional temperature of what you read (are you being rage baited?) mores-horizon.eu/blog/when-de... #scicomm 🧪 #polisci

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Michael Pollard @kmichaelpollard.bsky.social · 21h

Fancy that! A little jab recalls memory. 🧪

Science Magazine @science.org · 22h

In humans, #SARSCoV2 booster vaccines recall memory B cells to germinal centers, where they undergo additional selection to recognize both ancestral and evolving Omicron variants of the virus.

Learn more in #ScienceImmunology: https://scim.ag/3J9cQvk

Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization

SARS-CoV-2 variant booster vaccination broadens human B cell responses through the germinal center reaction.

scim.ag

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 5d

As the F35s serenaded me for the 5th time yesterday...

Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 5d

The construction site next door is jackhammering all morning (to remove a slab of concrete they put in 🙉), and I'm finding myself reading up on the health effects of environmental noise. Continues noise exposure really messes up the human brain and body. 🧪

Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Noise from different sources was previously shown to likely affect different organ systems and promote a wide variety of diseases. Detrimental effects of noise can also play a prominent role in onset and progression of many aspects of mental health, like anxiety and depression.

Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 7d

And JBJ obviously

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blaw @blaw.bsky.social · 8d

showing up to grandpa's will reading like

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome sign
Turton, SD

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 8d

Discovery and cultivation of methane-eating microbes is such a neat story because it encompasses such simple instincts of discovery science and the will to make things better. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

www.nytimes.com

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10d

Shut it down

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 10d

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10d

Feels a little bit like cheating bc we’re not even into Stevie’s golden era but

A cover of the album signed sealed delivered

Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10d

If so this has got to be it. My favorite late (3.0?) R.E.M.

Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 11d

This is a cool story about how spending a little bit of dough on the arts can be really helpful (and the journalism around it equally helpful!)

Liam Beran @liamberan.bsky.social · 11d

Why is the city of Madison spending $14,000 on a ‘regional music brand?’

@isthmusmadison.bsky.social

isthmus.com/arts/music/w...

Why is the city of Madison spending $14,000 on a ‘regional music brand?’

A local marketing firm will develop a ‘music brand’ for Madison under a proposal the city council passed on Sept. 16.

isthmus.com

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Seerat Sohi @seeratsohi.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:

theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...

The WNBA Is at a Breaking Point

Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on Cathy Engelbert for a reason. The players are fed up—and the firestorm is here.

theringer.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jul 27

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 13d

A good joke would be if Streisand tried to *stop them* from relaunching it and thereby got a ton of free press for the org.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13d

Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 14d

I think we can all agree too many people had pinned all their hopes and dreams on Bill Burr

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 15d

But is it better than 69 Love Songs? gizmodo.com/physicists-s...

Physicists Smash Record With Magnetic Field 700,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s

The technology could have promising applications for nuclear fusion research and other commercial uses, the researchers said.

gizmodo.com

Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 15d

My take: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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Jenny Peek @jennypeek.bsky.social · 19d

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Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social · 20d

This week on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions, Joan Shelley on her remarkable LP Real Warmth, anthropologist David Graeber & her daughter's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fascination.

Listen wherever you get pods & direct at AD:
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/24/t... @talkhouse.bsky.social