Matt Bizer, PhD
@mttbizer96.bsky.social
Environmental engineer. PhD dissertation on transformational climate adaptation & resilience in wastewater utilities. Proud to be autistic & a music nerd, sometimes proud to be a Boston sports fan.
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Matt Bizer, PhD
@mttbizer96.bsky.social
· Mar 11
![Matt Bizer smiles in relief at the conclusion of his dissertation presentation. He is standing in front of a slide that reads "Questions? - Thank you for attending and following along" with a quote from Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark: "The hope I'm interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, one that invite or demand that we act. [...] You could call it an account of complexities and uncertainties, with openings." The slide also contains a lengthy list of acknowledgements and references.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:srn2r23pheebphjeaapwoxwb/bafkreihos7uq6z5bed5tjncit7liai7ighzmyjdpmtahwz6mvov6jsvhla@jpeg)
I defended my PhD dissertation, "Tracing and Assessing Transformational Climate Adaptation over Time in Public Wastewater Infrastructure Systems" yesterday! My defense was a massive success and I am honored to have earned a PhD in civil & environmental engineering from the University of Connecticut!
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You know what was unhelpful, all the electeds and pundits back in the spring saying, "to be sure, maybe DOGE is needed to increase efficiency". That's not what it was for, it was meant for destruction and crimey stuff. Total marks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
You know what was unhelpful, all the electeds and pundits back in the spring saying, "to be sure, maybe DOGE is needed to increase efficiency". That's not what it was for, it was meant for destruction and crimey stuff. Total marks.
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After that meeting, I'm never playing poker against Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
After that meeting, I'm never playing poker against Zohran Mamdani.
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I’ve been saying for years that the best way to deal with Trump is to play him since he’s so fucking easy to play. None of them took me up on it until now
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’ve been saying for years that the best way to deal with Trump is to play him since he’s so fucking easy to play. None of them took me up on it until now
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Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
No it isn't. That traitor ass was calling for executions yesterday. And today everyone is gufawwing at his smiling shit smeared mouth.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
Using the word “orthodoxy” as if it’s a philosophical difference and not trampling on hard settled science
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Using the word “orthodoxy” as if it’s a philosophical difference and not trampling on hard settled science
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its almost like being proactive generates coverage instead of leaning back and hoping for the best. and yes, im willing to give props to some of the dems in this who are usually the boring backbencher types.
This is the ad for which Trump thinks Democratic lawmakers should be executed:
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
its almost like being proactive generates coverage instead of leaning back and hoping for the best. and yes, im willing to give props to some of the dems in this who are usually the boring backbencher types.
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An entire argument dismantled in two words.
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
An entire argument dismantled in two words.
In a warming world, there is no material prosperity without environmentalism.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
In a warming world, there is no material prosperity without environmentalism.
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I love modern criminals, they’re always googling shit like “how to do crime”
"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I love modern criminals, they’re always googling shit like “how to do crime”
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The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable
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it won’t feel good to say but it is crucial to actually admit this:
democrats’ pivot to affordability is already seeing them tear up climate policies
and any effort to lower costs for consumers will conflict with investments in renewables, unless even more money is poured into them
democrats’ pivot to affordability is already seeing them tear up climate policies
and any effort to lower costs for consumers will conflict with investments in renewables, unless even more money is poured into them
Democrats’ New Affordability Message Is Complicating Climate Policy
The transition to clean energy will be expensive today, even if it’ll be cheaper in the long run.
heatmap.news
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
it won’t feel good to say but it is crucial to actually admit this:
democrats’ pivot to affordability is already seeing them tear up climate policies
and any effort to lower costs for consumers will conflict with investments in renewables, unless even more money is poured into them
democrats’ pivot to affordability is already seeing them tear up climate policies
and any effort to lower costs for consumers will conflict with investments in renewables, unless even more money is poured into them
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my colleague @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social wrote the paragraph i have been waiting for far too many people to say out loud
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
my colleague @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social wrote the paragraph i have been waiting for far too many people to say out loud
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Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.
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it's almost like tariffs increase prices
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it's almost like tariffs increase prices
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Nick Markakis may not be a Hall of Famer in real life but he will always be a Hall of Famer in my heart for the time he took strike one
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Nick Markakis may not be a Hall of Famer in real life but he will always be a Hall of Famer in my heart for the time he took strike one
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
This will be a very interesting HOF voting season because there’s no consensus pick, several controversial figures (for varied reasons!), and an absolute fuckton of borderline cases.
Big opportunity for 2 of my favorites, Pedroia and King Felix, to build on their promising ballot debuts last year.
Big opportunity for 2 of my favorites, Pedroia and King Felix, to build on their promising ballot debuts last year.
The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago by @baseballhall.org (baseballhall.org/news/2026-bb...). Results will be announced Jan. 20th. Game on!
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This will be a very interesting HOF voting season because there’s no consensus pick, several controversial figures (for varied reasons!), and an absolute fuckton of borderline cases.
Big opportunity for 2 of my favorites, Pedroia and King Felix, to build on their promising ballot debuts last year.
Big opportunity for 2 of my favorites, Pedroia and King Felix, to build on their promising ballot debuts last year.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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When I'm dictator I'm going to mandate that all teenage characters in videos/movies/TV shows/etc be played by people exactly the correct age. No more 26 year olds pretending to be high schoolers. Everyone is going to internalize what a 15 year old actually looks like
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When I'm dictator I'm going to mandate that all teenage characters in videos/movies/TV shows/etc be played by people exactly the correct age. No more 26 year olds pretending to be high schoolers. Everyone is going to internalize what a 15 year old actually looks like
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people should have to sign a waver to get on the platform that says "i'm a big birthday boy and sticks and stones may break my bones but abstract thoughts contained in words can't actually hurt me and I support trans people"
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
people should have to sign a waver to get on the platform that says "i'm a big birthday boy and sticks and stones may break my bones but abstract thoughts contained in words can't actually hurt me and I support trans people"
The second Trump term is an exercise in punishing the American people as much as possible for not reelecting him in 2020.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is officially withdrawing a Biden-era plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by the airlines.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The second Trump term is an exercise in punishing the American people as much as possible for not reelecting him in 2020.
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Still true
The last time the Patriots lost a game, the Red Sox had yet to clinch a playoff spot.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Still true
Literal Black Mirror episode come to life, what could go wrong?
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Literal Black Mirror episode come to life, what could go wrong?
The writers in 2022: “look, we know Shohei Ohtani had the more well-rounded season, but Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs. We can’t let a guy hit that many homers and not be MVP”
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The writers in 2022: “look, we know Shohei Ohtani had the more well-rounded season, but Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs. We can’t let a guy hit that many homers and not be MVP”
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Boring. Who cares. Cal was robbed. I’m tired of being force fed Aaron Judge propaganda.
ALL RISE (AGAIN).
Aaron Judge has been named the AL MVP, the third of his career.
Aaron Judge has been named the AL MVP, the third of his career.
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Boring. Who cares. Cal was robbed. I’m tired of being force fed Aaron Judge propaganda.