MattBille
@mattbille.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, historian. Space, zoology, marine life, cryptozoology, Dunkleosteus. 4 science/history books, 2 novels: Querying ecothriller Apex Predator
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www.mattbilleauthor.com
https://mattbille.blogspot.com
mattsciwriter@protonmail.com
www.mattbilleauthor.com
https://mattbille.blogspot.com
Fascinating.
Asa Gray was born OTD in 1810. A devout believer in a personal God, G was also one of Darwin’s greatest champions.
In a correspondence spanning 12 years, G and D minutely explored what evolution says about God and free will. D could not accept G’s God, but was deeply torn.
🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci 🧪
In a correspondence spanning 12 years, G and D minutely explored what evolution says about God and free will. D could not accept G’s God, but was deeply torn.
🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci 🧪
| Darwin Correspondence Project
www.darwinproject.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fascinating.
Can we stop crowding the Writing list with political posts unrelated to writing?
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can we stop crowding the Writing list with political posts unrelated to writing?
Can't argue with genius.
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can't argue with genius.
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
Exactly.
"laid off" is just another term for full time writer
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Exactly.
My first sale to a large publisher took years despite praise as it crossed genres (creature thriller/mainstream). Factors: 1.Taking feedback, improving. 2.right agent (also took years). 3.Commitments from 2 bestsellers to blurb. 4.Conferences: Pitch mtg + dinner with the buyer's top editor. Onwards!
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My first sale to a large publisher took years despite praise as it crossed genres (creature thriller/mainstream). Factors: 1.Taking feedback, improving. 2.right agent (also took years). 3.Commitments from 2 bestsellers to blurb. 4.Conferences: Pitch mtg + dinner with the buyer's top editor. Onwards!
No matter your view of the movie or the military, we who've been in nuclear commands know no STRATCOM boss would say what Brady does, and his deputies would object if he did. I don't know if the director never met with someone who'd held the job, or ignored them, but it mars an important film.
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
No matter your view of the movie or the military, we who've been in nuclear commands know no STRATCOM boss would say what Brady does, and his deputies would object if he did. I don't know if the director never met with someone who'd held the job, or ignored them, but it mars an important film.
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We’ve published our Writers’ Guidelines to help any journalist or editor prepare for an assignment, from how to source and fact-check to navigating deadlines. 🧪
The Open Notebook’s Writers’ Guidelines - The Open Notebook
Landing an assignment, especially a feature, is an exciting moment for any early-career journalist. But what happens next in the reporting, writing, and editing phases can sometimes be ambiguous. This...
www.theopennotebook.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We’ve published our Writers’ Guidelines to help any journalist or editor prepare for an assignment, from how to source and fact-check to navigating deadlines. 🧪
Clay has it right. AI might write a workable story, but not a good one because the program doesn't know the details of your characters and your world, only basic details. Humans (and thus believable characters) base their actions on their history, culture, & context. The AI knows nothing of those.
Writing Tip:
There is no 'quick and easy' way to do good writing. This is why AI is a trap. Good writing requires a comprehensive understanding of a fictional world and the massive effort required to make it work. Like a complex clockwork mechanism. It takes time.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
There is no 'quick and easy' way to do good writing. This is why AI is a trap. Good writing requires a comprehensive understanding of a fictional world and the massive effort required to make it work. Like a complex clockwork mechanism. It takes time.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Clay has it right. AI might write a workable story, but not a good one because the program doesn't know the details of your characters and your world, only basic details. Humans (and thus believable characters) base their actions on their history, culture, & context. The AI knows nothing of those.
Archaeology isn't just about what happened centuries ago. It continues to explore the story of humanity up to the present day.
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Archaeology isn't just about what happened centuries ago. It continues to explore the story of humanity up to the present day.
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A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.
I'm not sure if I live on Earth anymore. Apparently I stepped into an alternate dimension. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
MSN
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October 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I'm not sure if I live on Earth anymore. Apparently I stepped into an alternate dimension. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
I am a former officer, a science writer, and a military R&D SME, and on every possible level this is foolish, insulting, absurd, professional malpractice, damaging to national security, a threat to servicemembers relying on ONR breakthroughs to maintain a combat edge, and almost beyond belief.
Bad news for science today. Rachel Riley moved from HHS, where she gutted NIH and the largest part of US biomedical research, to the office of Naval Research, where she presumably will gut the science funded by ONR.
How to stop this? Impeach her boss, the Project 2025 co-head Russell Vought.
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How to stop this? Impeach her boss, the Project 2025 co-head Russell Vought.
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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am a former officer, a science writer, and a military R&D SME, and on every possible level this is foolish, insulting, absurd, professional malpractice, damaging to national security, a threat to servicemembers relying on ONR breakthroughs to maintain a combat edge, and almost beyond belief.
@hinalusaire.bsky.social Have you read Bradbury's poetry? Most people don't realize he was a poet. He often worked with scientific or cosmic topics.
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
@hinalusaire.bsky.social Have you read Bradbury's poetry? Most people don't realize he was a poet. He often worked with scientific or cosmic topics.
Important! Business and organizational leaders need to listen.
AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Important! Business and organizational leaders need to listen.
This is original and cool. Countless people, myself included, live closer to space than the ocean.
I love this.
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
Space is a lot closer than most people realise
by u/Many-Excitement3246
by u/Many-Excitement3246
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is original and cool. Countless people, myself included, live closer to space than the ocean.
Onwards!
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Onwards!
Note to political leaders: you could suspend your death-stare contest long enough to pass a bill that simplify authorizes the next paycheck for federal workers and prevent one source of misery while you work out the rest. You won't, sadly, but you could.
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Note to political leaders: you could suspend your death-stare contest long enough to pass a bill that simplify authorizes the next paycheck for federal workers and prevent one source of misery while you work out the rest. You won't, sadly, but you could.
Science is awesome. That is all.
Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution - Communications Biology
The earliest appearance of mega-body size in sharks is pushed back by 15 million years with the discovery of new fossils from Northern Australia. Using a comprehensive dataset of living sharks to esti...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Science is awesome. That is all.
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WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed
There's an interesting implication: if we build an observatory on the far side to block out Earth interference, it may have an easier time finding adequate water in the regolith than based on "our" side.
China's Chang'e-6 sample-return mission discovered that the far side of the Moon is covered with fragments of carbonaceous, water-rich meteorites.
Long ago, similar objects may have helped give Earth its oceans & delivered some of the raw materials for life. 🧪🔭
english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...
Long ago, similar objects may have helped give Earth its oceans & delivered some of the raw materials for life. 🧪🔭
english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...
October 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's an interesting implication: if we build an observatory on the far side to block out Earth interference, it may have an easier time finding adequate water in the regolith than based on "our" side.
Fascinating!
Can a mountain really be cursed? @amayor.bsky.social explores the folklore behind natural history.
Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth
The drive to explain perplexing things in nature, and the desire to understand earthshaking events of unfathomable scale are timeless human impulses. Found in cultures around the world, geomyths at…
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fascinating!
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With the rise of AI, combating medical misinformation has never been more important! We're gathering all our medical misinfo explainers in one section so you can get the answers you need FAST. Come and find news you can use at MNB medicalnewsbulletin.com/category/dis... 🧪
Misinformation Busters Archives | Medical News Bulletin
Innoculate yourself against medical misinformation with MNB! Our writers are ready to search the literature to bring you the numbers behind the headlines.
medicalnewsbulletin.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
With the rise of AI, combating medical misinformation has never been more important! We're gathering all our medical misinfo explainers in one section so you can get the answers you need FAST. Come and find news you can use at MNB medicalnewsbulletin.com/category/dis... 🧪
@beautyinthemess.bsky.social Superb. Just superb.
October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@beautyinthemess.bsky.social Superb. Just superb.