Writing a YouTube script and thankful for everyone fighting for open access to be affordable for scientists 🧪
I have no official institutional affiliation and being able to read these papers fully (not just abstracts) is tangibly enhancing my understanding and, thus, the quality of my pitch/product
This feels like it could be a pretty big thing. Ticket prices have been astronomical since COVID. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...
That game was leftover salmon
uh-oh! a psyop!
And Ted (like we are buddies) makes a great point about ppl like me saying "see! I didn't like them, they were no good!" superiority. There's plenty of stuff that was dropped in my lap by the algorithm that I like just fine and I am not mad at it for that.
Of course Ted Leo has a great perspective on this, and his point is well taken. The "marketing" worked insomuch as I Iistened to one of their songs twice, which is a lot for something I didn't like the first time.
You Will Never Regret Asking Other People Who Are Alive And Actually Exist For Their Music Recommendations
www.ienjoymusic.net/your-favorit...
Hands on a piano keyboard Credit: Unsplash/Jordan Whitfield.
Why Your Brain Already Understands Complex Music Theory Without Ever Taking a Single Piano Lesson
Our brains master complex musical rules just through listening.
Listeners Systematically Integrate Hierarchical Tonal Context, Regardless of Musical Training🏺🧪
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Sensational headline aside, an interesting dive on what it takes to go viral, and how it’s not that hard if you have the labor power to do it. (I never liked them anyway)
Ok this is the part that’s fascinating to me. I wonder how much knowing this information changes people’s perceptions (it didn’t yours, but how many might say “I never liked them anyway”)
It doesn’t affect how I regard the band (which I like!) but does make it clear how hard it is for unfunded acts to break into the mainstream, and how folks with money to spend can manipulate the digital cesspool
Many such cases ofc
For sure—but the evolution of what “PR things” entails is worth explaining, especially as those same things (namely, creating fake accounts to drive messaging and manipulate algos) are used to drive agendas around trials, crises, campaigns, controversies etc
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
Hierarchy of Fundamental Evolved Motives
The hierarchy of fundamental evolved motives. It essentially shows the sequence of the assembly of the conditional operators of complex social creatures.
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🧪 #EvoBio
US Grid scale storage increased from 1 GW in 2016 to 65 GW in 2026 YTD and is expected to reach 88 GW by 2027.
The US added ~8GW of storage per year on average over the past decade. And that rate is increasing with time. The percent change for the projected increase from 1 GW to 88GW in 2027 works out to: 100*(88-1)/1 = 8700% 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
Thanks to this thread, I made a video on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=51sj...
A drawing of a guitar player with thought bubbles around them displaying other tools of art.
Today, the first episode of Taste the Music, an interview show about how musicians, writers, and artists of all kinds choose to create, and sometimes why they choose not to: TasteTheMusic.org #Podcast
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Area Man Just Wants To Throw One Good Punch In His Life
Area Man Just Wants To Throw One Good Punch In His Life theonion.com/area-man-just-wants-to-t...
Love this album! Holds up, too.
The funniest part about yesterday's SCOWIS election results is that Chris Taylor got more votes than Maria Lazar in Chippewa County. Why is that funny? Because Susan Crawford lost to Brad Schimel in Chippewa County in 2025.
And we grew up in Chippewa Falls!! 😆
Have you ever walked into a room and then completely forgotten why you went there in the first place?
Find out how a small part of your brain is responsible for derailing your train of thought in this week's post by Serena Chen:
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#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪
Converting carbon dioxide to hydrocarbons could become a cleaner alternative to producing fossil fuels. Now, a team of researchers has envisioned a strategy using “molecular fences” to trap reaction intermediates, increasing the conversion rates and energy efficiency of the process.
#chemsky 🧪
AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Getting journalists like John over here more permanently is the one thing bluesky can do to surpass its counterparts. And it seems like a fix that's doable, @toni.bsky.team . They want to be here.
I really want to share things here on Bluesky the way I do on Twitter but the video uploading is so horrible that I can't. It either takes forever or there are issues with format ... it's always something. Until this place fixes these issues, people like me can't fully embrace the platform.
Thanks John!
Hey John, any sense of whether Vooch is going to get any reps in before the playoffs? I know we are nearing the "reevaluation" time.
Whatever World This Is That We're In Now Problems: let me read a couple of stories first before you throw up the paywall, to see if I like the vibes?
