🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
@mjosmurphy.bsky.social
Entomology postdoc!
Studying insect behavioral and sensory ecology.
PhD 2024
Posts are my own opinion
Studying insect behavioral and sensory ecology.
PhD 2024
Posts are my own opinion
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Remember that when donating to food banks, that they appreciate money more than canned goods. Economies of scale let them stretch money further than you can!
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
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Pumpkin house (it was eaten within 30 minutes)
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Pumpkin house (it was eaten within 30 minutes)
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My dream came true! I got to witness tiny little assassin bugs bursting forth!
#photo #bug #rumsgarden
#photo #bug #rumsgarden
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My dream came true! I got to witness tiny little assassin bugs bursting forth!
#photo #bug #rumsgarden
#photo #bug #rumsgarden
Waking from uneasy dreams to find I've been transformed into a giant insect
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Waking from uneasy dreams to find I've been transformed into a giant insect
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It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
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Now we know why Trump called it the Big Beautiful Bill
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Now we know why Trump called it the Big Beautiful Bill
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Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine:
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine:
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
I finally got confirmation that I will have Adult Dining Furniture by Christmas. I had the money to commission a hardwood table and chairs, so I did. No more using my cousin's hand me downs that she got for college 15 years ago.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I finally got confirmation that I will have Adult Dining Furniture by Christmas. I had the money to commission a hardwood table and chairs, so I did. No more using my cousin's hand me downs that she got for college 15 years ago.
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Ruby Bridges Integrated An All-White School In Louisiana On This Day In 1960 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/14/r...
Ruby Bridges Integrated An All-White School In Louisiana On This Day In 1960 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
Ruby Bridges is famous for, as a first-grader, integrating an all-white school in Louisiana on this day in 1960. You might be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT RUBY BRIDGES…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ruby Bridges Integrated An All-White School In Louisiana On This Day In 1960 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/14/r...
Okay, Pokopia is on my to-buy list
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Okay, Pokopia is on my to-buy list
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"It's most noted for the patches of prairie that are still there that haven't been changed in millennia," Smiley said, adding that Michigan has lost 99% of its lakeplain prairie, a species-rich prairie community...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"It's most noted for the patches of prairie that are still there that haven't been changed in millennia," Smiley said, adding that Michigan has lost 99% of its lakeplain prairie, a species-rich prairie community...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Welcome back federal workers
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Welcome back federal workers
In lighter news, in the new Mario movie, Nintendo turns to the audience and says "I know what you are".
Suggestive, kinda?
Suggestive, kinda?
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
In lighter news, in the new Mario movie, Nintendo turns to the audience and says "I know what you are".
Suggestive, kinda?
Suggestive, kinda?
E.O. Fucking Wilson
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
E.O. Fucking Wilson
Thinking about the time when I walked past my great-grandfather's old house, which hadn't been in the family for ages. It was being remodeled. The contractors had the old windows taken out, the owners didn't want them. My g-grandfather commissioned them personally from Louis Comfort Tiffany
Yeah that lamp was bought by your great grandma during the Columbia exposition and you have an unbroken chain of custody from first buyer to you but that’s a Tiffany lamp sell that shit and buy a new lamp
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Thinking about the time when I walked past my great-grandfather's old house, which hadn't been in the family for ages. It was being remodeled. The contractors had the old windows taken out, the owners didn't want them. My g-grandfather commissioned them personally from Louis Comfort Tiffany
*sticks m'legy put real far*
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
*sticks m'legy put real far*
One of the houses across the street from K-State already has a 20-foot blowup reindeer on the lawn.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of the houses across the street from K-State already has a 20-foot blowup reindeer on the lawn.
If the GabeCube is compatible with keyboard and mouse, then there's basically no reason for regular users to buy Windows any more.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If the GabeCube is compatible with keyboard and mouse, then there's basically no reason for regular users to buy Windows any more.
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YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID. Truth is cubic. Time is cubic. Life is cubic. Form is cubic. There are 4 different simultaneous 24-hour days in a single rotation of the Earth
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID. Truth is cubic. Time is cubic. Life is cubic. Form is cubic. There are 4 different simultaneous 24-hour days in a single rotation of the Earth
Three-cueing being popular certainly explains why I just couldn't seem to convince my anatomy students to use the Latin and Greek Root Words section of their textbooks as a learning aid. Or why none of them could spell. They didn't know how to connect strings of letters with sounds or meaning!
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Three-cueing being popular certainly explains why I just couldn't seem to convince my anatomy students to use the Latin and Greek Root Words section of their textbooks as a learning aid. Or why none of them could spell. They didn't know how to connect strings of letters with sounds or meaning!
The use of three-cueing/ whole-language was definitely heterogeneous, at least in the 90s. I got whole-word ("Dick and Jane") from my parents and phonics from my Baltimore public school. Three-cueing makes no sense for teaching people what the words on the page are actually supposed to say.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The use of three-cueing/ whole-language was definitely heterogeneous, at least in the 90s. I got whole-word ("Dick and Jane") from my parents and phonics from my Baltimore public school. Three-cueing makes no sense for teaching people what the words on the page are actually supposed to say.
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)