DoctorBowring
@doctorbowring.bsky.social
Dark matter, quantum sensing, professional mole-man. Very Dad. He/him.
Interesting study on nurturing child talent. Their conclusions (advice?) is to foster diverse experiences rather than to make a child specialize early in life and grind their way to elite success. Bucks conventional wisdom about child athletes, musicians, etc.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Science says we’ve been nurturing “gifted” kids all wrong
A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that ...
www.sciencedaily.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Interesting study on nurturing child talent. Their conclusions (advice?) is to foster diverse experiences rather than to make a child specialize early in life and grind their way to elite success. Bucks conventional wisdom about child athletes, musicians, etc.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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a war so postmodern it's got me asking if *i* exist.
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
a war so postmodern it's got me asking if *i* exist.
Considering the services of a digital sin-eater in the new year. I'll write my posts out longhand with a fountain pen like a gentleman and leave them under a rock in the woods. Some horrible zoomer can collect them and do the degrading work of touching a telephone on my behalf.
January 2, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Considering the services of a digital sin-eater in the new year. I'll write my posts out longhand with a fountain pen like a gentleman and leave them under a rock in the woods. Some horrible zoomer can collect them and do the degrading work of touching a telephone on my behalf.
The past year was unbelievably stupid. The future is unknowable. Right at this moment I’m the coziest dingdong who ever lived. Happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
The past year was unbelievably stupid. The future is unknowable. Right at this moment I’m the coziest dingdong who ever lived. Happy new year
This is microblogging, to me
December 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is microblogging, to me
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Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there.
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
December 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there.
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush?
I think it's that...
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This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students.
If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you!
🧪
If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you!
🧪
December 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students.
If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you!
🧪
If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you!
🧪
“Oh whoa it’s almost eleven o’clock” I say out loud in my empty kitchen, convincing absolutely nobody that it’s time for bed
December 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“Oh whoa it’s almost eleven o’clock” I say out loud in my empty kitchen, convincing absolutely nobody that it’s time for bed
For me, it was sitting at my computer and entering my work password over and over and over again, never once getting it right
I am on vacation (like real vacation). First night, what did I dream? That I woke up to a room full of my colleagues, eating breakfast and letting me know I missed the first class of the quarter.
December 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For me, it was sitting at my computer and entering my work password over and over and over again, never once getting it right
Press ⭕️ to skritch on neck
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Press ⭕️ to skritch on neck
Rewatching the old Grenada Television version of Sherlock Holmes over break. It’s not “good” in the way that most of you talk about “good tv” but I love it. Specifically, I love that the brilliant Jeremy Brett seems to be in a different show from everyone else.
December 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Rewatching the old Grenada Television version of Sherlock Holmes over break. It’s not “good” in the way that most of you talk about “good tv” but I love it. Specifically, I love that the brilliant Jeremy Brett seems to be in a different show from everyone else.
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Metallic snow (or maybe frost, depending on your definition of "snow") is radar-bright material at the tops of Venus’ highest mountains, such as Maxwell Montes (11 km high), possibly made of condensed lead sulfide and bismuth sulfide that sublimate at warmer altitudes and condense on mountaintops ❄️
December 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Metallic snow (or maybe frost, depending on your definition of "snow") is radar-bright material at the tops of Venus’ highest mountains, such as Maxwell Montes (11 km high), possibly made of condensed lead sulfide and bismuth sulfide that sublimate at warmer altitudes and condense on mountaintops ❄️
Baby do you like this seed?
I got it from that acorn tree
I wish my mommy was with me
So we’re riding the catbus
Riding the catbus!
T-O-T-T-O-R-O
That’s my neighbor Totoro!
I got it from that acorn tree
I wish my mommy was with me
So we’re riding the catbus
Riding the catbus!
T-O-T-T-O-R-O
That’s my neighbor Totoro!
December 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Baby do you like this seed?
I got it from that acorn tree
I wish my mommy was with me
So we’re riding the catbus
Riding the catbus!
T-O-T-T-O-R-O
That’s my neighbor Totoro!
I got it from that acorn tree
I wish my mommy was with me
So we’re riding the catbus
Riding the catbus!
T-O-T-T-O-R-O
That’s my neighbor Totoro!
Logging on and getting instantly humbled, good grief.
Progress shot of my CatKnit Pullover for my daughter.
#showmeyourwips #knit #knitting #craft #knitsky
#showmeyourwips #knit #knitting #craft #knitsky
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Logging on and getting instantly humbled, good grief.
According to grandma the casinos are packed today
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
According to grandma the casinos are packed today
Star Wars is starting to feel stale. Here’s a concept sketch for how to zazz it up. JJ Abrams call me we can discuss optioning this.
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Star Wars is starting to feel stale. Here’s a concept sketch for how to zazz it up. JJ Abrams call me we can discuss optioning this.
Sitting like captain picard
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sitting like captain picard
א פריילעך ניטל נאכט
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
א פריילעך ניטל נאכט
If the second season of Pluribus was just starting from the beginning and doing it all again from Manousos’s POV, I would watch that.
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If the second season of Pluribus was just starting from the beginning and doing it all again from Manousos’s POV, I would watch that.
the dog is upon me
December 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the dog is upon me
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But I can see you
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
But I can see you
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
The 6yo has declared that Six-Seven is "abandoned". Forbidden in the house. The 4yo gets scolded just for counting more than six things out loud.
Why is it abandoned? Because the boys at school can't stop saying it and they are "very annoying".
Why is it abandoned? Because the boys at school can't stop saying it and they are "very annoying".
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The 6yo has declared that Six-Seven is "abandoned". Forbidden in the house. The 4yo gets scolded just for counting more than six things out loud.
Why is it abandoned? Because the boys at school can't stop saying it and they are "very annoying".
Why is it abandoned? Because the boys at school can't stop saying it and they are "very annoying".
Due to the fragmented nature of network tv back in the day, that movie was the first time I'd ever heard that the saucer section could separate. Man I levitated out of my chair in that theater.
there’s is no truly great TNG movie (hot take?) but the part where the saucer crash lands on the planet blew my little baby brain apart
STAR TREK GENERATIONS (1994)
Visual Effects by Industrial Light & Magic
Visual Effects by Industrial Light & Magic
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Due to the fragmented nature of network tv back in the day, that movie was the first time I'd ever heard that the saucer section could separate. Man I levitated out of my chair in that theater.
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Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons