Mike MacFerrin
@icesheetmike.bsky.social
Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D
Featuring mustard and onion, both explodable, of course.
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Featuring mustard and onion, both explodable, of course.
You’re in luck; he wrote a whole paper about it!
If you would like to read about how the sling-jaw mechanism works, you can read my 1991 JEB @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper. Now working on a new computational model!
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You’re in luck; he wrote a whole paper about it!
Whoa.
I’m wondering if this might help diabetics too, who also sometimes suffer from blindness by retinal blood-vessel growth (if sugars aren’t well-controlled for long enough).
I’m wondering if this might help diabetics too, who also sometimes suffer from blindness by retinal blood-vessel growth (if sugars aren’t well-controlled for long enough).
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Whoa.
I’m wondering if this might help diabetics too, who also sometimes suffer from blindness by retinal blood-vessel growth (if sugars aren’t well-controlled for long enough).
I’m wondering if this might help diabetics too, who also sometimes suffer from blindness by retinal blood-vessel growth (if sugars aren’t well-controlled for long enough).
Besides the other nonsense—and there is much—the last chapters of RotK feature the hobbits rising up to oust an army of orcs that enslaved the Shire, led by Saruman who’d escaped after Isengard fell.
Course, you don’t reach that part if you only saw the movies.
“Didn’t do the reading” indeed.
Course, you don’t reach that part if you only saw the movies.
“Didn’t do the reading” indeed.
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Besides the other nonsense—and there is much—the last chapters of RotK feature the hobbits rising up to oust an army of orcs that enslaved the Shire, led by Saruman who’d escaped after Isengard fell.
Course, you don’t reach that part if you only saw the movies.
“Didn’t do the reading” indeed.
Course, you don’t reach that part if you only saw the movies.
“Didn’t do the reading” indeed.
100%
The Nazis called them “asocial prisoners.” Same exact idea.
libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibi...
The Nazis called them “asocial prisoners.” Same exact idea.
libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibi...
Asocial Prisoners · The Era of the Holocaust ·
libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
100%
The Nazis called them “asocial prisoners.” Same exact idea.
libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibi...
The Nazis called them “asocial prisoners.” Same exact idea.
libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibi...
That last monkey is about to make a prime-time movie plot.
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That last monkey is about to make a prime-time movie plot.
Go You!
I’m still procrastinating.
I’m still procrastinating.
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Go You!
I’m still procrastinating.
I’m still procrastinating.
Wait, so they’re antennae? 😳🥹
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wait, so they’re antennae? 😳🥹
There’ve been 5 mass extinctions in Earth’s history that wiped out a majority of species living on the planet. Most were from sudden climate change. None of those happened anywhere close to as fast as we’re doing it right now.
Give it 50 million yrs, planet will be fine. We’re hosing ourselves tho.
Give it 50 million yrs, planet will be fine. We’re hosing ourselves tho.
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There’ve been 5 mass extinctions in Earth’s history that wiped out a majority of species living on the planet. Most were from sudden climate change. None of those happened anywhere close to as fast as we’re doing it right now.
Give it 50 million yrs, planet will be fine. We’re hosing ourselves tho.
Give it 50 million yrs, planet will be fine. We’re hosing ourselves tho.
The biggest thing (perhaps not, but maybe?) is getting my hope back. I feel more political motivation + strength now than ever in my life. And I know 5x more of my neighbors by first name & a hug than a year ago.
Action. Cures. Hopelessness.
🌍’s burning but is still here; we can build it better.
Action. Cures. Hopelessness.
🌍’s burning but is still here; we can build it better.
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The biggest thing (perhaps not, but maybe?) is getting my hope back. I feel more political motivation + strength now than ever in my life. And I know 5x more of my neighbors by first name & a hug than a year ago.
Action. Cures. Hopelessness.
🌍’s burning but is still here; we can build it better.
Action. Cures. Hopelessness.
🌍’s burning but is still here; we can build it better.
Big time nope. Multiple reasons.
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Big time nope. Multiple reasons.
100% a “comment was more about them than it is about you” kinda reply.
And, lol. 😂
And, lol. 😂
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
100% a “comment was more about them than it is about you” kinda reply.
And, lol. 😂
And, lol. 😂
Wow yeah that’s an insta-block.
October 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wow yeah that’s an insta-block.
It’s a big chunk of why I value following you here!
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s a big chunk of why I value following you here!
It just cleared the #2 spot of BSky’s Most Blocked. Long road to be out-blocked over JD Vance tho.
October 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It just cleared the #2 spot of BSky’s Most Blocked. Long road to be out-blocked over JD Vance tho.
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM