jordan
@jordan.matelsky.com
making computers better using brains and making brains better using computers. computational neuro and dumb little web apps
sticking a steam wand directly into my brain and frothing it like a cappuccino at @kordinglab. senior research scientist at JHU/APL
sticking a steam wand directly into my brain and frothing it like a cappuccino at @kordinglab. senior research scientist at JHU/APL
still matching, people!!
This is so awesome. I'll match donations to #philabundance!
Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
still matching, people!!
Amelia Bedelia-ass copy-editor at Target
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amelia Bedelia-ass copy-editor at Target
oh wow I just started @adapalmer.bsky.social 's "Inventing the Renaissance" and it's SO good. Only a few pages in and there are gems like this:
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
oh wow I just started @adapalmer.bsky.social 's "Inventing the Renaissance" and it's SO good. Only a few pages in and there are gems like this:
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2. I'll be in the US for the next few days - roving around PA, Baltimore, NY, etc. Can anyone recommend a dance / rave event happening between Sunday, 2 Nov and Wednesday 5th? Not ideal dates, I know!
November 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
2. I'll be in the US for the next few days - roving around PA, Baltimore, NY, etc. Can anyone recommend a dance / rave event happening between Sunday, 2 Nov and Wednesday 5th? Not ideal dates, I know!
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Anybody else worried that because of the long standing Republican war on SNAP people are going to experience painful hunger. Lets do something. @nanopharmnc.bsky.social and i are going to donate to some local nc food banks. Join us! Gonna match up to $500.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Anybody else worried that because of the long standing Republican war on SNAP people are going to experience painful hunger. Lets do something. @nanopharmnc.bsky.social and i are going to donate to some local nc food banks. Join us! Gonna match up to $500.
This is so awesome. I'll match donations to #philabundance!
Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is so awesome. I'll match donations to #philabundance!
"time to do the worm" is also the trigger phrase for a spontaneous dance party around the @kordinglab.bsky.social
Time to do the worm.
Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology, and how neurons generate behavior, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/48EzEO8
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/48EzEO8
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"time to do the worm" is also the trigger phrase for a spontaneous dance party around the @kordinglab.bsky.social
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excited to share a game i made:
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
excited to share a game i made:
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
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If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...
Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download).
Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest.
Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during,...
ssd.eff.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...
excited to share a game i made:
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
excited to share a game i made:
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
blueblocks.jordan.matelsky.com
If you've played scrabble/bananagrams you know the great feeling of densely packing your tiles.
blueblocks assigns points for the smallest bounding box possible!
mondays easy → sundays hardest!
feedback welcome, hope you enjoy :)
This is amazing and moves scientific publishing into the modern age in a MAJOR way. @qedscience.bsky.social by @odedrechavi.bsky.social and team, and planyourscience.com by @kordinglab.bsky.social, are my gamechanging life-hack recommendations for all scientists!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is amazing and moves scientific publishing into the modern age in a MAJOR way. @qedscience.bsky.social by @odedrechavi.bsky.social and team, and planyourscience.com by @kordinglab.bsky.social, are my gamechanging life-hack recommendations for all scientists!
I've been writing letters of recommendation for six hours today and I think I'm about to explode
September 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've been writing letters of recommendation for six hours today and I think I'm about to explode
so proud to share @jhuapl.bsky.social neuroscience research at #blenderconference2025 @blender.org ❤️
also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!
also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!
Blending brains: Tales from the neuro department — Blender Conference 2025
YouTube video by Blender
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
so proud to share @jhuapl.bsky.social neuroscience research at #blenderconference2025 @blender.org ❤️
also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!
also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My hot take is that this is a good change, albeit wasteful and self-aggrandizing.
Congress should have to say out loud that they are spending $1 trillion per year on "War." No euphemisms.
$32,000 of tax money EVERY SECOND of every day on War.
Congress should have to say out loud that they are spending $1 trillion per year on "War." No euphemisms.
$32,000 of tax money EVERY SECOND of every day on War.
Fascinating - and frustrating - read. To change the name of the Department of Defense will mean changing all 700,000 seals, letterhead, signage, etc around the world. At a cost of potentially billions.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: White House to rebrand Pentagon the Department of War
The name change would likely require an act of Congress, although the White House is looking for ways to avoid a vote.
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My hot take is that this is a good change, albeit wasteful and self-aggrandizing.
Congress should have to say out loud that they are spending $1 trillion per year on "War." No euphemisms.
$32,000 of tax money EVERY SECOND of every day on War.
Congress should have to say out loud that they are spending $1 trillion per year on "War." No euphemisms.
$32,000 of tax money EVERY SECOND of every day on War.
When I was reading up on policies prohibiting free municipal wireless a few months ago, it was pretty hard to fathom how policymakers could be so deliberately cruel.
In contrast, teams like @phillywireless.bsky.social @nycmesh.bsky.social @dcmesh.bsky.social & more are doing extraordinary work!
In contrast, teams like @phillywireless.bsky.social @nycmesh.bsky.social @dcmesh.bsky.social & more are doing extraordinary work!
note this program (which helped poor rural schoolkids access the internet via mobile Wi-Fi hotspots) didn't cost taxpayers anything extra. Nobody in the U.S. public was clamoring for it to be destroyed.
This is just wanton destruction by assholes.
This is just wanton destruction by assholes.
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When I was reading up on policies prohibiting free municipal wireless a few months ago, it was pretty hard to fathom how policymakers could be so deliberately cruel.
In contrast, teams like @phillywireless.bsky.social @nycmesh.bsky.social @dcmesh.bsky.social & more are doing extraordinary work!
In contrast, teams like @phillywireless.bsky.social @nycmesh.bsky.social @dcmesh.bsky.social & more are doing extraordinary work!
all asinine politicking aside, I don't understand how you could look at massive windmill projects and be anything other than inspired. Free energy from weather! Extraordinary engineering at scale! Windmills rock.
White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind
White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind
The effort involves several agencies that typically have little to do with wind power, including the Health and Human Services Department.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
all asinine politicking aside, I don't understand how you could look at massive windmill projects and be anything other than inspired. Free energy from weather! Extraordinary engineering at scale! Windmills rock.
private funding for public transit is less messed up than public funding for private transit (which phila is also doing), but i absolutely cannot understand how the eagles — who net many $M per game — aren't willing to foot this $80K bill (instead saying, "carpool to avoid traffic")
#eagles #septa
#eagles #septa
#JustIn 🦅 FanDuel will cover the cost of an additional 10 sports express trains and fares for fans on their way home from the Philadelphia #Eagles home opener against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.
🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...
🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...
SEPTA will run sports express trains for Eagles home opener after sponsor steps in
FanDuel will cover the cost of an additional 10 sports express trains and fares for fans on their way home from the Philadelphia Eagles home opener against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.
inquirer.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
god said let there be zebra
and then an angel was like huh that one looks a lot like a horf
and god said let there be shut up
and then an angel was like huh that one looks a lot like a horf
and god said let there be shut up
August 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
god said let there be zebra
and then an angel was like huh that one looks a lot like a horf
and god said let there be shut up
and then an angel was like huh that one looks a lot like a horf
and god said let there be shut up
This work is extraordinary and makes me half excited to see where the field takes us, and half pull my hair out and scream WHY EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO UNDERSTAND NEUROSCIENCE AT ALL. In the most awesome way possible 🥹❤️
The first one is some crazy work by @monmitabhar.bsky.social, Tanumoy, @hari-flies.bsky.social and Kamal Kishore. They eavesdropped on worm conversations and found the exciting phenomenon of movement of memory from one worm to another 2/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extracellular vesicles aid in the transfer of long-term associative memory between Caenorhabditis elegans
Memory formation is necessary for the survival of animals across phyla. Here, we elucidate the mechanism underlying the formation of long-term associative memory (LTAM) formed by treating Caenorhabdit...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This work is extraordinary and makes me half excited to see where the field takes us, and half pull my hair out and scream WHY EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO UNDERSTAND NEUROSCIENCE AT ALL. In the most awesome way possible 🥹❤️
omg, just finished the astonishingly awesome talk "What is a Puzzle Canon?" by @miltonline.bsky.social on J. S. Bach, highly HIGHLY recommend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFP...
What is a Puzzle Canon? The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach - Milton Mermikides
YouTube video by Gresham College
www.youtube.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
omg, just finished the astonishingly awesome talk "What is a Puzzle Canon?" by @miltonline.bsky.social on J. S. Bach, highly HIGHLY recommend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFP...
I've started using this tool to guide new papers and projects and it's awesome; @kordinglab.bsky.social made something really cool here! Highly recommend for all scientists :)
#C4R25 Conference speaker highlights - Join our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social for a demo of his new app, the Scientific Project Planner. A hands-on session to get your study started rigorously.
🗓️ September 9
Space is limited. RSVP at C4R.io/conference
🗓️ September 9
Space is limited. RSVP at C4R.io/conference
August 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've started using this tool to guide new papers and projects and it's awesome; @kordinglab.bsky.social made something really cool here! Highly recommend for all scientists :)
August 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM