Matt Murphy, PhD

@mjosmurphy.bsky.social

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I studied the evolution of sensory optimization in butterflies. Looking forward to whatever comes next!

Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

*raises hand slowly*

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

It finally resurfaced in my memory after 30-odd years because a podcast I listen to (Dogg Zzone 9000, seanbaby's podcast for 1-900-hotdog, the comedy site that is clearly superior to the modern onion) uses a parody as its opening song

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

the concierge has a goatee

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

Specifically the one at the end of

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

depends on your field, i guess the people who make hiring decisions in biology definitely do

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:06 UTC

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:05 UTC

o7

I also just saw this post:
bsky.app/profile/lexa...

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

Tell them you aren't interested in the position (add "right this moment" as necessary).Hiring managers talk to each other; you don't want to say youre unqualified if that isnt true

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

snice (snail! nice!)

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Happycrumble 🎉 @rumwik.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

I found a very beautiful snail!

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

This stone is blackish/red, but most nephrite I see online is dark green even raw. Do you know why your example is differrent?

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

he's doing the meme

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

I may need to try it this weekend

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it

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Ellen (Shark Mode) @yotedragon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

Crabs should get into politics.

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

those look incredible

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

And square pizza from Ledo's

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

Don't look too closely at her "Dixieland Stampede" shows/restaurants, either

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

Timbits beach balls

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

there's also Ugly Sonic

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

a... baby shark?

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

together they look kind of like a giant spider

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

liberal shit. noooOooo, you have to wait for the rapist to defame his victims, you need to have them debate it out!

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:47 UTC

not i.e.s?

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

there's (nothing|everything) alarming about this development

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

the ciiiiircle of life

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

maybe she doesnt believe it because he's an sff author she knows, but like it's pretty obvious he's some kind of a creep of you read any of his short stories, or Sandman, or Stardust

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

pine tar, not bitumen, but still, ugh

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

i have a copy of her comic Digger from a while back. i'm familiar with her work

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

yes

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

Is "These Lifeless Things" part of the same setting as "Beneath The Rising"?

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

the person you're subtweeting and the guy she is defending are probably the two worst fantasy authors I've ever read. she should have stuck to comics.

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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

And the Most Evil Pomegranate award goes to...

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

No clue! I'm following you and 1900hotdog, seanbaby's new website

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

If Pennsylvanians had invented Scandinavian representative government, the legislature would have been called The Jawn

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:03 UTC

haven't they seen enough Bond or Marvel movies to save the villain monologue for afterwards?

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

completely rancid

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

A progressive woman not believing women when they speak up about a comic industry colleague being a creep and worse.

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

I expected better than this from Ursula Vernon. Disappointing.

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Not too long ago, I had to specify "fursuit" or "mascot" when searching for them

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

Shoutout to whoever made fursuit cooling vests popular enough that you can buy them retail for ecology field work

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:04 UTC

in Carcosa

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Happycrumble 🎉 @rumwik.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Rum beholds a mighty firework!

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@mossworm.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:00 UTC

*nodding sagely*

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Certified Tom Paris-Hater @sumoyokai.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:23 UTC

This has been stuck in my head for a week.

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

last I remember, after the big war, the liberals and the Nazis got together and formed a certain Treaty Organization

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds

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Matt Murphy, PhD @mjosmurphy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

i tried thlamming it in a car door, would that help?

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