Josh Martin
@jpmantis.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. at Colby College. Neuro-enthusiast and Entomo-wanabee.
Insects, neuroethology, motor control, movement
Insects, neuroethology, motor control, movement
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
This tiny monument appeared in my driveway today. The crows or the squirrels may have invented religion.
January 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This tiny monument appeared in my driveway today. The crows or the squirrels may have invented religion.
I have finally grabbed the brass ring: I have earned tenure.
Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.
Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.
January 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I have finally grabbed the brass ring: I have earned tenure.
Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.
Thank you to my colleagues at Colby College and around the world for your support and compassion. I love you all, and I pledge to use my position to pay your kindness forward.
I made a physical model of the Survivor Bias Airplane. Now with a frame and a home on my office wall.
May 7, 2024 at 1:59 AM
I made a physical model of the Survivor Bias Airplane. Now with a frame and a home on my office wall.
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@washingtonpost.com I would like to take over #SquirrelWeek now that John Kelly has retired
March 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
@washingtonpost.com I would like to take over #SquirrelWeek now that John Kelly has retired
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The oVert specimen digitization project has wrapped up. Here is a summary of accomplishments and goals for the next push to make museum specimens more useful.
Explicit mention of #SciArt
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academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Explicit mention of #SciArt
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academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
March 6, 2024 at 2:52 PM
The oVert specimen digitization project has wrapped up. Here is a summary of accomplishments and goals for the next push to make museum specimens more useful.
Explicit mention of #SciArt
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academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Explicit mention of #SciArt
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academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Here's @franzanth.bsky.social's reconstruction of Mieridduryn, one of the unique Welsh fossils held in NMW. Even though I published on it, I still haven't seen it in person, and might never be able to if these cuts happen 😡🧪
Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
March 4, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Here's @franzanth.bsky.social's reconstruction of Mieridduryn, one of the unique Welsh fossils held in NMW. Even though I published on it, I still haven't seen it in person, and might never be able to if these cuts happen 😡🧪
Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Help stop them: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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March 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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6. To put it somewhat bluntly, we just happen to be dismantling an HigherEd infrastructure which has long been the envy of the world for the edification of billionaires at exactly the moment when it is about to start serving a predominantly non-white population of students.
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March 3, 2024 at 2:23 PM
6. To put it somewhat bluntly, we just happen to be dismantling an HigherEd infrastructure which has long been the envy of the world for the edification of billionaires at exactly the moment when it is about to start serving a predominantly non-white population of students.
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Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: secreting chemicals into the ooze that surrounds us and blindly extending protuberances in search of the chemicals others have left.
Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: decoding the intentions of others through close examination of the entrails of waterfowl.
Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: establishing a network of soot-covered street urchins who will move throughout the city unnoticed gathering information and passing along coded messages.
February 28, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Given the way things are going I think we should all delete our social media accounts and go back to the original communication method: secreting chemicals into the ooze that surrounds us and blindly extending protuberances in search of the chemicals others have left.
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In case anyone is curious who checked into my insect hotels during the 2023 season, here are pics. #invertebrates 🌿https://colinpurrington.com/2024/01/sorting-through-guests-at-my-insect-hotels/
Sorting through guests at my insect hotels » Colin Purrington
When the weather is cold and rainy in winter, I entertain myself by bringing the nests from my bee and wasp hotels inside for photo ops and cleaning. With a hot cup of tea (I’m in a cold basement), I ...
colinpurrington.com
February 26, 2024 at 2:23 PM
In case anyone is curious who checked into my insect hotels during the 2023 season, here are pics. #invertebrates 🌿https://colinpurrington.com/2024/01/sorting-through-guests-at-my-insect-hotels/
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The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative.
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The Biden Administration Has Reached Conservation Records in 2023
After three years in office, it is clear that the Biden administration is safeguarding public lands at a record rate; in the coming year, it must continue its conservation progress through community-l...
www.americanprogress.org
January 8, 2024 at 4:05 PM
The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative.
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This anecdote is by Michael Tager, who shared it on Twitter back when people argued about whether punching Richard Spencer was okay (it was; it is always morally correct to meet nazism w violence and exclusion bc its guiding principle is one of extreme violence and its proponents deserve no respect)
This one barman had deeper insights into the risk of Nazi normalization than the GOP
February 25, 2024 at 12:50 AM
This anecdote is by Michael Tager, who shared it on Twitter back when people argued about whether punching Richard Spencer was okay (it was; it is always morally correct to meet nazism w violence and exclusion bc its guiding principle is one of extreme violence and its proponents deserve no respect)
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Conservatives have long hosted two approaches to sexuality in their coalition: Heritage, evangelical-style sexual Puritanism, and Trumpish, “barstool”-style boorish sexual entitlement. Some people think these are hard to reconcile, but the central aim of both is the domination and control of women.
When they’re right, they’re right, I completely agree that conservatives should make “ending recreational sex” their central issue
February 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Conservatives have long hosted two approaches to sexuality in their coalition: Heritage, evangelical-style sexual Puritanism, and Trumpish, “barstool”-style boorish sexual entitlement. Some people think these are hard to reconcile, but the central aim of both is the domination and control of women.
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compare to this NBC story, which actually is just a straightforward description of the facts as the NYT brass says it’s supposed to be
February 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM
compare to this NBC story, which actually is just a straightforward description of the facts as the NYT brass says it’s supposed to be
Good advice. If I read that on a CV, I'd see it as "I'm going to burn out"
Early career scientist/grad student colleagues, I review a lot of CVs/Resumes and I have some advice:
I am not sure if "hobbies" need to be on these at all
But if you have a "hobbies" section, don't just put something like "my hobby is getting better at my job."
Work is not your whole life.
I am not sure if "hobbies" need to be on these at all
But if you have a "hobbies" section, don't just put something like "my hobby is getting better at my job."
Work is not your whole life.
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Good advice. If I read that on a CV, I'd see it as "I'm going to burn out"
If you see this, post a robot
February 22, 2024 at 2:13 AM
If you see this, post a robot
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I will keep banging this drum. They are mad they will be called names or people won't want to hang out with them. Meanwhile queer folks are being legislated out of states and murdered.
We are not the same.
We are not the same.
Justice Alito takes aim at marriage equality again, warning that Obergefell means "Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct" are being "labeled as bigots and treated as such" by the state and "society." www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
February 20, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I will keep banging this drum. They are mad they will be called names or people won't want to hang out with them. Meanwhile queer folks are being legislated out of states and murdered.
We are not the same.
We are not the same.
Boy, the 1920s sure are shaping up to be an interesting time in national and global politics! Sure hope this nationalism stuff turns out to be a good idea!
February 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Boy, the 1920s sure are shaping up to be an interesting time in national and global politics! Sure hope this nationalism stuff turns out to be a good idea!
My worst tech fail was in a job talk. They didn't have the right dongle, but I was staying nearby so I literally ran and got it. Then my laptop wouldn't turn on so I downloaded the talk. Some videos wouldn't run so I acted them out. Three laser pointers died, so I used a stick. I got the job.
I show up an hour early, am using about 3 youtube videos...and my laptop won't connect to the internet.
It's always the days we *need* tech to work that it doesn't 😅.
Send good tech thoughts please!
It's always the days we *need* tech to work that it doesn't 😅.
Send good tech thoughts please!
February 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM
My worst tech fail was in a job talk. They didn't have the right dongle, but I was staying nearby so I literally ran and got it. Then my laptop wouldn't turn on so I downloaded the talk. Some videos wouldn't run so I acted them out. Three laser pointers died, so I used a stick. I got the job.
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Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people
February 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people
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Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
Eyes on Education
www.in.gov
February 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...