Matt Fay 🌱
@mattefay
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👨🔧 Passionate engineer 🦒 Animal advocate 🧬 Scaling bio @ProlificMachine Nerd-jock hobbies:🏅📊 sports statistics, 📷 photography, 🫘 beans, 🚴♂️ cycling
Oakland, CA
Joined November 2014
Patrick the Orangutan turns 34, receives a royal cloak, and then ties the perfect knot. This guy is too smart to ever be in captivity.
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Probably just good advice generally
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Just released pysparkplug 0.6.0, now supporting metric metadata thanks to Hussam Eldin Wael. And yes, that means we're up to 5 contributors on the repo!
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It's crazy how the Republican Party Platform was already predicted by a comic about the effective supervillains over a year ago
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Just released pysparkplug 0.5.0, now supporting array datatypes thanks to @ahmedibnwahdan. Glad to see this package turning into a true open-source tool, we're now up to 4 contributors!
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One day factory farming will meet the same fate as greyhound racing and dog fighting, cockfighting, and bear-baiting before it: Slow decline ... then state and national bans ... then disbelief that we ever let people treat animals this way.
New Zealand is one of only five countries where commercial greyhound racing is still permitted and practiced. Today we have announced we will be ending greyhound racing.
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Today I learned: "Carnival" derives from the Latin "carne levare", which means "farewell to meat". Let's do it! 🤘🌱
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A question for you: at what step do you stop agreeing with this logical argument relating to animals? (see below) Please comment "disagree" on the first step you disagree with (and if you have time, please explain why you disagree with that step). Thanks! 🙂 🧵
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Today I learned Alaska doesn't have counties. Wow! Why? Is that good? Thanks Alaska for being our test pilot!
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Joni Mitchell is almost certainly the most influential female musician of the 20th century. How do we only have one, mediocre biography of her? I would devour all 1,500 pages of a Robert Caro-esque book chronicling her life & music in a heartbeat.
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Seeing these Trump court cases voluntarily winding down is pretty scary. Feels like preemptive compliance under fascism, right? If they really have a case (they do), why not force Trump's hand? https://t.co/I9pmi7vTPx
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The decision to indefinitely adjourn next week's sentencing date comes several days after both lawyers agreed that a stay would help sort out unprecedented legal questions.
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Anyways, hopefully we can put dumb tweets about scientific research taken out of context as a means to reduce the deficit back into 2013's discarded takes pile
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So yeah, science is not some unalloyed good we should just pile more money into blindly. It needs reform! - @cogcelia is doing great work on animal ethics in research - @IFP 's Metascience 101 podcast covers the larger landscape
macroscience.org
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Dylan Matthews sits down with economist Heidi Williams and IFP co-founder Caleb Watney to set the scene.
Also, insane animal cruelty! TL;DR: To model PTSD in rats, they use Bobcat urine, a rat predator they're scared of. Apparently this is cheaper than electrifying their cage and shocking their little paws? https://t.co/cKWsn8TOvz
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Also, insane animal cruelty! TL;DR: To model PTSD in rats, they use Bobcat urine, a rat predator they're scared of. Apparently this is cheaper than electrifying their cage and shocking their little paws? https://t.co/cKWsn8TOvz
Folks are dunking on these takes for all the right reasons (science funding is <1% of the budget and is underfunded), but @hankgreen figured out this research is on PTSD <> alcoholism, i.e. veteran's health. lol, lmao even
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Folks are dunking on these takes for all the right reasons (science funding is <1% of the budget and is underfunded), but @hankgreen figured out this research is on PTSD <> alcoholism, i.e. veteran's health. lol, lmao even
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? In 2020, the U.S. government spent $4.5 million to spray alcoholic rats with bobcat urine.
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Never worked with them and don't know anyone that works there, but Asimov sounds pretty rad!
Over the years, people have asked: What does Asimov do? This is our brief response. At a high level, we think biology is an advanced form of molecular nanotechnology. Our goal is to create tools and software to more reliably engineer cells, thus bolstering humanity’s ability to
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