Software developer at a major research university. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.
Experienced in e-commerce, e-publishing, search, A.I. and other data-rich systems. Current side projects involve modelling financial messages in OWL, a smart RSS reader with a transformer-based classifier and workflow engine, and a system of three-sided cards.
Here to cultivate growth and resilience.
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📉 Either too little or too much: Report finds world's water cycles are getting more erratic
The water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society.
🧊 Intense groundwater flow destabilizes ice in North America's Great Lakes, simulations show
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-intense-groundwater-destabilizes-ice-north.html
#water #ice #lakes #earthscience #greatlakes #northamerica #limnology
Powerful pulses of groundwater flow up from beneath Lakes Michigan and Huron, which together form one of the largest freshwater systems in the world. This groundwater flux may dramatically alter how and where ice forms, with important implications for ice-climate models. As climate change pressures the system, new research suggests that conventional models may underestimate how groundwater can destabilize lake ice along its shorelines (coasts).
🍄 Subway station study reveals fungal communities
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-subway-station-reveals-fungal-communities.html
#subway #transportation #publictransportation #fungus #fungi #microbiome #biology
Subways don't just bring people together. They're also a hub of microbial activity, including fungi. Over the course of a year, an international team of researchers collected air samples from 15 stations in the Beijing subway network, one of the largest in the world, and cataloged the fungal species they found.
👽 Finding organics on Mars means absolutely nothing for life
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/organics-mars-means-for-life/
#space #mars #biology #exobiology #exploration #planets #solarsystem
Little white daisies with brutalist Bradfield Hall in the background
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daises #cornell #bradfield
Yellow flowers of the kind that you find up and down Fall Creek in Monkey Run
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #monkeyrun #fallcreek #cornell #nature
This is what you get when you take a picture of the sun with the Laowa 9mm -- sunstars! Here's a road west of Dryden Lake
#photo #photography #landscape #9mm #laowa #dryden #drydenlake #sun #sunstar
Wide Angle shot outside Duffield Hall on Cornell's Engineering Quad
#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #fall #college #university #landscape
Iza Meltxor was 2nd in the 2025 Danby Down and Dirty with a time of 1:57:13; find more photos of this event https://www.yogile.com/danby-down-and-dirty-2025#11m
#photo #photography #running #danby #flrc #sports #forest #danbystateforest #danbydownanddirty
🔥 Novel way to 'rev up' brown fat burns calories, limits obesity in mice
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-rev-brown-fat-calories-limits.html
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a novel way brown fat—an energy-burning form of fat—can rev the body's metabolic engine, consuming cellular fuel and producing heat in a way that improves metabolic health. The study, in mice, reveals new avenues to exploit brown fat to treat metabolic diseases, such as insulin resistance and obesity.
White phallic fungus rises out of leaf little on forest floor with one fresh green oak leaf next to it
#photo #photography #forest #ForestFriday #fungus #mushroom #nature #outdoors
