Students in my Bioinspiration class are designing 3D printed and laser-cut samaras (“helicopter” seeds) modeled after maple seeds, and testing which membrane shapes keep the seeds airborne the longest.

Autumn light in Maine

Stob! Hamber time!

Astronomers calling it "Orbital Decay", when "Orbituary" was right there smh

My wife and I refer to the superintendent of our kids' school system as "SuperNintendo Potenziano"...and now our kids do too.

"I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago," wrote Jane Goodall, "when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death." Best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on her passing mentions this fact. It's worth knowing. news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

RIP to the incomparable Jane Goodall, who embodied the best of humanity. Her rich legacy included becoming friends with Gary Larson after he drew this cartoon. (She was delighted by it, even though many at the time thought it was terribly offensive to her.)

My gravestone: “Here lies Professor Mountcastle, who frequently remarked, “you will find that information in the syllabus.””

"They are empty and soulless." This captures the same feeling I get when I read AI-generated text. There is no voice behind the glossy facade.

Late September sun in Maine.

Accurate

Susan Collins response to this has been to confirm hundreds of MAGA nominees; to refrain from scheduling a single oversight hearing or issue a single subpoena in 8+ months; and to vote with Trump 96% of the time. tinyurl.com/3xp8fzxu #MEpolitics

NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear." The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt. 🧪 1/x

NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear." The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt. 🧪 1/x

Starting to feel like this rapture could have been an email.

Sitting in the rapture waiting room waiting for my rapture paperwork to get processed. It’s not looking good for my haters.

Wore my Squidward socks for the rapture

Apparently carcinisation applies to signs as well

In order to get a COVID vax you'll have to first suffer through a powerpoint of RFK Jr.'s anti-science bullshit. I will never forgive Susan Collins for voting for that dim-witted ghoul.

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

Shout out to @chuckwendig.bsky.social, who wrote an excellent book on how to write compelling narrative, which I reference every year in my Science Communication course.

On the same day that Charlie Kirk was murdered, at least 3 teens, including the shooter, are reported to be in critical condition following a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado. The only difference is that we've become numb to gun violence aimed at our children. coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/e...

Aside from the massive privacy concerns, the speed with which folks are jumping to outsource brain work to this computational black box is truly depressing. You're a therapist! You spent a good chunk of your life training your brain to work through this stuff!

Please repost! We have a second biomechanics faculty position! This is an open rank clinical-track position in sports biomechanics at the University of Michigan. This is a largely teaching-focused position and we have outstanding resources to support teaching and student learning. #BiomechSky

Exposure to viewpoints in the classroom that challenge a student's personal beliefs is now considered "indoctrination", and is subject to punishment. This is deeply a troubling story out of Texas A&M. 🧪

Mentioned the movie Garden State in the classroom today and all the students looked at me like I was referencing a silent movie from the 1920’s. Anyway, the first week of classes is going well.

Door yahd

I guarantee you that at no point in the following sentence will you be able to predict where the sentence will take you next.

A brand new luxury super yacht immediately sinks after its maiden launch in Turkey, raising suspicions about the local Orca population.

I mark my age by the number of open webMD tabs on my browser

Maine summer

What city am I in? #EastCoastKin #Monochrome

The FB Marketplace algorithm has decided I'm really into quirky Maine lawnmowers and I'm now being fed a steady diet of some real bangers

99% of wild blueberries in the United States come from Maine, and 95% of those are eaten by me.

This might make me a car guy

This is especially rich considering the UK government recently launched an "AI Opportunities Action Plan" to make the UK a global leader in artificial intelligence, an absolute water-guzzling technology.

"The Bear", only it takes place in #Maine instead of Chicago, and instead of everyone saying "Yes Chef" they say "Ayuh Bub", and there's an actual bear in it.

ChatGPT-5 has more of a comment than a question

Well this is dark as hell 🦞

ANTS! 👇

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and assembling flat pack furniture

High and dry. #Maine

Hey guys don't talk about Aroostook County like this.

8.7 magnitude!! That's big.

This is going in my next comparative anatomy exam

Olympic National Park, Hurricane Ridge Sunrise.

“In retrospect, I think it was a mistake, from what I’ve learned about Mr. Divine since. But sometimes, you rely on your colleagues.” Relying on Josh Hawley's advice in lieu of doing the bare minimum of due diligence is not a mistake, it's a total failure of duty and judgment. #MEpolitics

New book day! Can’t wait to dive into this tonight, written by my friend and fellow Mainer, Laura Poppick. Congrats @laurapoppick.bsky.social!

To have been told for years by conservatives and neoliberals that we don't need government regulation to reign in carbon emissions because innovative technology will eventually solve the climate crisis, only to see the entirety of big tech go whole hog into environmental destruction for AI. 🙃