jordan matelsky
making computers better using brains and making brains better using computers. computational neuro and dumb little web apps
sticking a steam wand directly into my brain and frothing it like a cappuccino at @kordinglab. senior research scientist at JHU/APL
- i like rust and when I have questions about it i usually ask @sharphall.org . if you want to start writing better rust, you should read this blog :)
- Reposted by jordan matelskyThe worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
- I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...
- we need oysters but for air
- Philly gets an F for air quality: "some of the places most exposed to unhealthy air pollution includes neighborhoods located along highways." Long-term it is crucial that transportation planning aims to reduce vehicle traffic through population centers. whyy.org/articles/phi...
- I worked with @zey.bsky.social and others (@DK! ❤️) on an open-source donation-matching project during the first trump admin. Then Sahil had an article written about himself and claimed the project as his own invention. Not surprised he's a DOGE'er.
- So, I had an interesting conversation last week. For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent. www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog... (Gift link)
- Reposted by jordan matelskyAs a follow-up to the Kaiser interview, here is my exchange with Dr. Bhattacharya starting Sunday evening... 1/n
- Reposted by jordan matelskyEarlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)
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- I've been truly astonished at the number of VC/PE people I've spoken to who are sure doctors and lawyers are a doomed species in 2026, but VCs still have a few more decades left
- truly living in the future, i'm listening to a room of twenty students read twenty final presentations written by chatgpt.
- In the US, about 40K car deaths per year; pop is 330M. ~1 out of every 8K are killed by cars each year. If driving from age 16-76, odds they've killed with their car over lifespan is ~1% If you know N=150 people, (1-(1-p)ᴺ), ~80% chance you know someone who has killed someone else with their car.
- I love Okeanos Explorer. Whenever I need a science pick-me-up I tune in and see the most incredible thing ever and then I go back to answering dumb emails www.youtube.com/@oceanexplor...
- In all seriousness, my first thought on hearing of the Pope's death was "aw, that's sad" and my second thought was "okay time to start repeatedly refreshing the Chatner" and @dannymlavery.bsky.social DELIVERED
- my top ten Pope drafts, based solely on header photos from the Wikipedia list of eligible cardinals (Taking into account "authoritative hair, eye-twinkliness, nose character, eyebrow magnitude, sense of whimsy") www.thechatner.com/p/is-he-pope...
- I always knew confirmation bias was the worst! check out @kordinglab.bsky.social and @comm4rigor.bsky.social today :)
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- just wrote a browser extension so you can give bluesky users "strikes" github.com/j6k4m8/skeet...
- Reposted by jordan matelskyHere at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out. tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed. From me and science colleagues: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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- #paleo science!!! We built ML fossil segmentation tools to save paleontologists time and money. Everything is online and open-source! Amazing collab with @melanieduring.com + @kordinglab.bsky.social @perahlberg.bsky.social at @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social @upenn.edu @jhuapl.bsky.social @jhu.edu @ki.se!
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- go birds 🗑️ 🦅 🍰
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- Reposted by jordan matelskyPSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
- I use the "trouble" mnemonic ALL the time and never knew where I learned it — thank you @b0rk.jvns.ca !!
- just finished @dannymlavery.bsky.social 's "Something That May Shock And Discredit You" and "Merry Spinster" and they're both instant favorites. the scariest part of Spinster for me was that I did not know what a skin horse was and I had to assume the worst
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- happy birthday @sarahmackattack.bsky.social!!
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- discussion i had yesterday: pedestrians and cyclists participate in society. car drivers do not realize, but they are not participating in society. a pedestrian can engage in conversation, commerce, social behaviors. to everyone else, the only relationship you can have to a car is injury or death.
- One of the craziest things about Baltimore is that it could have this gorgeous miles-long riverside promenade center of arts and business, and instead, it... has a highway. Meanwhile, Philadelphia has TWO rivers and BOTH have their own highway each using up the riverfront real estate.
- this is why banging your head on your desk makes it easier to write: it narrows the effective distance the words have to traverse.
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- @cyd.social is doing awesome, proactive, defensive work in personal data control. I didn't know about them until after I nixed the remnants of my twitter account, but you can be sure I'll be following closely for upcoming platform support!
