Andy Murdock
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Andy Murdock
@andymurdock.bsky.social
Writer, editor, fern pointer-outer from Alameda, CA, former home of nuclear wessels. Mostly posting about science communication, plants, travel, soccer, and pie. Comms Director at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social‬
Now THIS is a product review
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I’d love to know how Instagram targeting decided this was the ad for me
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Welcome to the egg room, go go to work here everyday
You learn to live like an egg machine in the chicken coop where we lay
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’m curious about this argument. Not allowing trucks on 580 diverted them to surface streets. Delivery trucks have a job to do – they’re gonna drive no matter what, it’s just a question of where.
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Great energy at the #NWSL championship game tonight. Sitting in the middle of Gotham and Washington fans and, in classic NWSL fashion, they’re getting along like old friends.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
One of my very favorite things is finding puns on products that just don’t work at all
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Apologies to the good people of Ecclefechan, Scotland, but I can’t say the word Ecclefechan without fighting to hold back a wisecrack. By the by, that was one good Ecclefechan tart.
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Are we still doing these?
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My platform
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
God I love small town newspapers.

Musings on a gas station closing in #Alameda:
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Now I can reenact my favorite moments
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Weirdest treats(?) of the night my daughter got trick-or-treating
November 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The aptly named scaly tree fern (Sphaeropteris cooperi) from a rainy day hike on Kauai. #fernfriday
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Careful out there, folks (academia edition)
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In my headcanon understanding of "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" Robert Palmer is in love with an actual doctor
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

If you know, you know
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What happened in September 2020 to make people search for the word "aesthetic" more than ever before?
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
And then there are the pages without the disclaimer that feature high-quality original content including such phrases as “an workplace”
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Really good deal for anyone who has a vendetta against barbers
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fox News encounters the word “tuchus” for the first time
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is well put
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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