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tylik.bsky.social
Neurobio, biomech and roboticist - mad scientist. And apparently now CS Prof. Martial artist who lives in a cabin overlooking Puget Sound and loves to forage plants and mushrooms. Way into fiber arts.
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 17 hours ago • 253 comments

Seems pretty dangerous to turn a lot of angry, unemployed, highly-skilled scientists out on the streets. Do you want dino-people? Because THIS is how you get dino-people.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I feel like Alaska shouldn't get to have all the fun, and WA residents could do well to embrace the jewel that is Tahoma.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

For folks in WA, this is a great tool for seeing what's going on locally with bird flu. www.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One of the things about going to school in the seventies (and eighties, but a lot more caveats for the eighties) was that I got inculcated with a pretty rosy sense of what this country was supposed to be as a multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvL...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I want to put up signs that say "Trump is killing American jobs"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@montbayseaweeds.bsky.social Do you ship for aquarium use?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting with alt text

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking a lot about the privileged loser to Nazi pipeline.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“It's fucking racist,” one active-duty Army general told @stevenbeynon.bsky.social on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply,’ and it breaks my heart."

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

So much of Trump's agenda would make more sense were his goal to destroy the US as a global superpower.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

What are the current recs for good seed sellers for the maritime PNW? Istr that territorial had issues?

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Academics, I'm not joking when I say save your work in multiple places outside of your institution's server or Google or MS cloud. A thumb drive. An external drive. Print out the critical documents, e.g., final drafts, approved grants, latest teaching/research statements, teaching assessments, etc.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

I'm appalled.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Universities really seem to have the “comply in advance” thing mastered.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I love this picture of Ember, who was on her way downstairs to get treats, but was caught by a sunbeam

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Cricket is watching you.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to keep providing much needed timeline cleanses: yesterday I saw a slug that I've been looking for for a year, one of nature's miracles: MacFarland's chromodorid, a vivid purple nudibranch! Absolutely stunning. 😍 Eats sponges. #socal. 📸Olympus TG6. #tidepooling 🦑🦀

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I was joking with my C++ students about how they were missing Python, and one of them posted this to the class discord.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This quarter, my intro to programming students are learning C++ ...this mostly seems to have them realizing how much they love python.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

What? I kept thinking "DEIA" was a typo or some obscure thing I missed. They're attacking the "A" for "Accessibility" as too woke? And, they want employees to snitch on accessibility efforts? People have to fight this evil stacked upon evil.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

So, @dahlialithwick.bsky.social, I just saw Lady Justice featured proudly at my local farm & garden. (We have the best garden shops here...) I've recommended it to so many. A few mentioned they found it a bit frustrating, being about great people fighting rear guard actions... "Like life, maybe?"

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Portrait of Hedy Lamarr, detail, mixed media collage on wood panel, by Lisa Sheets, 10" x 8" x 1", 2024. #hedylamarr #womanscientist #womeninventors #womenscientists

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I have been beating this drum about big tech companies for so long (especially Google), and now there’s actual research about it! Companies that tout DEI do so to get investors, and treat underrepresented groups WORSE than other companies!!!!!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I just taught an intro to curb class for the first time in a while, and it felt wonderful.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

So creeped out by ads for for-profit universities. Eeee.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

FB has been a hellscape for a long time. Has anyone not been seeing major performance problems with it? (It might be my set up, I don't really care.) Throw in no longer paying for fact checkers, and I'm wondering if it's failing.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments