🎅🎃 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!
Youtube is now serving me up ads for SigmaAldrich (lab supply company) pure sodium azide
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Youtube is now serving me up ads for SigmaAldrich (lab supply company) pure sodium azide
Ouch oof my wallet.
(These are *so soft and huggable*. I have the weighted Pikachu already)
(These are *so soft and huggable*. I have the weighted Pikachu already)
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ouch oof my wallet.
(These are *so soft and huggable*. I have the weighted Pikachu already)
(These are *so soft and huggable*. I have the weighted Pikachu already)
A couple months ago, a student in the lab I work in was talking about this "old paper". it was published while I was in grad school.
Oops no wait she just described UCE phylogenetics as something everyone knows because we’ve been doing it since like “2012”
I have crumbled into mummy dust and skeleton bones
I have crumbled into mummy dust and skeleton bones
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A couple months ago, a student in the lab I work in was talking about this "old paper". it was published while I was in grad school.
If they sign the Ag minibus bill, I'll finally be able to return to the lab.
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If they sign the Ag minibus bill, I'll finally be able to return to the lab.
First time buying meat in a while. Kroger is selling deli ham for $18 a pound now.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
First time buying meat in a while. Kroger is selling deli ham for $18 a pound now.
Reposted by 🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
Reposted by 🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
Reposted by 🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
We're snail posting. Post your snails.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We're snail posting. Post your snails.
Another kind of hairy snail (shell): snail fur (Hydractinia)! A relative of corals and jellyfish, they colonize snail shells occupied by hermit crabs
photo via seawater.no
photo via seawater.no
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Another kind of hairy snail (shell): snail fur (Hydractinia)! A relative of corals and jellyfish, they colonize snail shells occupied by hermit crabs
photo via seawater.no
photo via seawater.no
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Not my snails; just snails I saw while on walks.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Not my snails; just snails I saw while on walks.
A good hairy snail for this #Snunday (snail Sunday)
I don’t quite know why we are #snailposting today but it seems to ba a ‘thing’ so here goes:
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK.
I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry.
#gastropod
#mollusc
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A good hairy snail for this #Snunday (snail Sunday)
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Steven Hammer, one of our regular collection users, co-developed a new #insect pinning block, with staff and volunteers from the museum.
It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself:
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
#ECN2025
It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself:
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
#ECN2025
Entoblock step
An improved pinning block for entomological collections.
It has five steps at different heights for quick and accurate label setting. The steps are visible from both sides, making it suitable for lef...
cults3d.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Steven Hammer, one of our regular collection users, co-developed a new #insect pinning block, with staff and volunteers from the museum.
It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself:
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
#ECN2025
It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself:
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
#ECN2025
we're snailposting. post your snails
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
we're snailposting. post your snails
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Wait the Russians sent yuri into space 64 years ago, who was even up there to read it??
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Wait the Russians sent yuri into space 64 years ago, who was even up there to read it??
Reposted by 🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
inflates ur corn maze, big and uncanny
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
inflates ur corn maze, big and uncanny
I remember when, on the Web, you could do anything (at Zombocom)
shout-out to that extremely brief period of the late 90s when everyone knew the internet existed but not really what it was, and movies and television had fake websites like "www.serialkillers@philadelphia/usa.com"
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I remember when, on the Web, you could do anything (at Zombocom)
This is just the GitHub mascot
My word... @zincawesome.bsky.social ....My dear friend...WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE TO YA?? ;_;
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is just the GitHub mascot
look at all these Good Bugs!
went to a bug show today and made some friends. the Giant Peaceful Ground Beetle (actual common name of the Teflus genus) was my favourite she was SO sweet
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
look at all these Good Bugs!
Corporate death penalty, in that all the voting shareholders for this monstrosity of a corporation should be lined up and
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Corporate death penalty, in that all the voting shareholders for this monstrosity of a corporation should be lined up and
Reposted by 🎅🎃 Matt Murphy 🎃🎅
there’s a long history of white ppl stealing language created by Black ppl - esp Black women - & then when its use by white ppl becomes mainstream, attributing it to “the kids”
this is not dunking on GenZ (why are we doing that anyway??), this is depicting AAVE as a joke / not “real” language
this is not dunking on GenZ (why are we doing that anyway??), this is depicting AAVE as a joke / not “real” language
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
there’s a long history of white ppl stealing language created by Black ppl - esp Black women - & then when its use by white ppl becomes mainstream, attributing it to “the kids”
this is not dunking on GenZ (why are we doing that anyway??), this is depicting AAVE as a joke / not “real” language
this is not dunking on GenZ (why are we doing that anyway??), this is depicting AAVE as a joke / not “real” language
They're turning the fricken trains gay
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
They're turning the fricken trains gay