Martin Tusler
@mtusler.bsky.social
Mostly retired researcher, three amazing daughters. Studied the role of numeracy in decision making also patient activation. Chickadees, squirrels, kestrels. Old cis white guy with tons of useless knowledge.
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"Take your own side"
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Take your own side"
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Baby elephant time!
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Baby elephant time!
2/2 Our ability to reduce carbon emissions is better than the most optimistic projections and medicine has shown giant strides, not only mRNA vaccines but using antibodies to fight cancer that gave Carter years of life. I'm not saying we dented the patriarchy but, absent Trump I'd be optimistic
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
2/2 Our ability to reduce carbon emissions is better than the most optimistic projections and medicine has shown giant strides, not only mRNA vaccines but using antibodies to fight cancer that gave Carter years of life. I'm not saying we dented the patriarchy but, absent Trump I'd be optimistic
1/2 One thing that bothers me about our current situation is that in at least two domains we have made great progress. .
August 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
1/2 One thing that bothers me about our current situation is that in at least two domains we have made great progress. .
Not my favorite week. Two decent but not great from Motown, a Randy Newman song (never a bad idea) a soapy Beatles song and the last gasp of bubblegum rock.
55 years ago, here were the top songs on the Billboard Hot 100 this day in 1970:
1. "The Love You Save" - Jackson 5
2. "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" - Three Dog Night
3. "Ball Of Confusion" - The Temptations
4. "The Long And Winding Road" - The Beatles
5. "Hitchin' A Ride" - Vanity Fare
1. "The Love You Save" - Jackson 5
2. "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" - Three Dog Night
3. "Ball Of Confusion" - The Temptations
4. "The Long And Winding Road" - The Beatles
5. "Hitchin' A Ride" - Vanity Fare
June 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Not my favorite week. Two decent but not great from Motown, a Randy Newman song (never a bad idea) a soapy Beatles song and the last gasp of bubblegum rock.
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"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse –
Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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June 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse –
Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I'm trying to teach Carter about automotive design. It's possible I rushed things
May 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm trying to teach Carter about automotive design. It's possible I rushed things
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Heading into Philadelphia a day early in June for the ALA Conference so I can spend a day at The Mutter Museum.
Already been once, but frankly, ya gotta go multiple times. Like all good museums, it's too much to absorb in one trip.
Already been once, but frankly, ya gotta go multiple times. Like all good museums, it's too much to absorb in one trip.
May 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Heading into Philadelphia a day early in June for the ALA Conference so I can spend a day at The Mutter Museum.
Already been once, but frankly, ya gotta go multiple times. Like all good museums, it's too much to absorb in one trip.
Already been once, but frankly, ya gotta go multiple times. Like all good museums, it's too much to absorb in one trip.
I find myself wondering how much the Ivy League is to blame for the current chaos in the Democratic party. My two favorite politicians are Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown. Neither lost touch with working people by attending one of the Ivies.
January 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I find myself wondering how much the Ivy League is to blame for the current chaos in the Democratic party. My two favorite politicians are Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown. Neither lost touch with working people by attending one of the Ivies.
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Bird of the Day — Lazuli Bunting, Montana 2022
#birds
This image is 1 of 18 that I have made available for the silent auction to support a great online literary magazine, Terrain.org. Click the link below for details.
us.givergy.com/terrainorg20...
And please share this widely. Thanks!
#birds
This image is 1 of 18 that I have made available for the silent auction to support a great online literary magazine, Terrain.org. Click the link below for details.
us.givergy.com/terrainorg20...
And please share this widely. Thanks!
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Bird of the Day — Lazuli Bunting, Montana 2022
#birds
This image is 1 of 18 that I have made available for the silent auction to support a great online literary magazine, Terrain.org. Click the link below for details.
us.givergy.com/terrainorg20...
And please share this widely. Thanks!
#birds
This image is 1 of 18 that I have made available for the silent auction to support a great online literary magazine, Terrain.org. Click the link below for details.
us.givergy.com/terrainorg20...
And please share this widely. Thanks!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,290,149!
September 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,290,149!
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I kept trying to come up with a rebuttal to any of these points — I lived through almost all of it — and I could not.
August 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
I kept trying to come up with a rebuttal to any of these points — I lived through almost all of it — and I could not.
I was 18 in 1968. I don't remember seeing Eartha Kitt's White House remarks, "The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason... Mrs. Johnson – we raise children and send them to war."
August 4, 2024 at 12:40 PM
I was 18 in 1968. I don't remember seeing Eartha Kitt's White House remarks, "The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason... Mrs. Johnson – we raise children and send them to war."
I'm tearing up and I don't know either of you.
Teacup brought home her 2nd grade writing portfolio today. Among many cute stories was Gravity Falls fan fiction, and this was on the first page. Reader, I cried. The paper says: dedicated to mom master of weird.
June 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
I'm tearing up and I don't know either of you.
This matches my memory of the time.
Dug into the Roper poll archives to explore how Americans felt about student protests against the Vietnam War at the time. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
April 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
This matches my memory of the time.
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GOP commissioners have single-handedly blocked FEC action against Trump on every single one of the 29 occasions when the FEC's own lawyers found reason to believe there were violations. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
March 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
GOP commissioners have single-handedly blocked FEC action against Trump on every single one of the 29 occasions when the FEC's own lawyers found reason to believe there were violations. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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Our new paper is out on how to communicate about melanoma to encourage people to check their skin and do it well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 2, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Our new paper is out on how to communicate about melanoma to encourage people to check their skin and do it well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2/2 I am impressed by how clearly it expresses an idea that had not occurred to me.
January 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
2/2 I am impressed by how clearly it expresses an idea that had not occurred to me.
I was reading the NYRB and saw "Internet’s hunger for content in the form of first-person narrative—highly condensed, written in an oblique yet evocative style, anchored in feeling, and built on a fiction of intimacy between authors and their audiences—has surely affected how we evaluate poems."
January 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I was reading the NYRB and saw "Internet’s hunger for content in the form of first-person narrative—highly condensed, written in an oblique yet evocative style, anchored in feeling, and built on a fiction of intimacy between authors and their audiences—has surely affected how we evaluate poems."
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Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
December 23, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
It's no fair to bring a Nene into a discussion of asshole geese. Swans, sure but not Nenes.
I took this goose photo the other day…
November 21, 2023 at 5:05 AM
It's no fair to bring a Nene into a discussion of asshole geese. Swans, sure but not Nenes.