Matthew Garcia

New paper out today with coauthors @sturtevant25 @yboulanger2 @PhilTownsnd and several others @NRCan @cflscf and @usfs_nrs! "Modeling weather-driven long-distance dispersal of spruce budworm moths (Choristoneura fumiferana). Part 1: Model description” authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

Today is the International Day of Forests fao.org/international-…. Forests provide us homes, food, fuels, oxygen, pharmaceuticals, clean water, wild places, peace and quiet, and scientific puzzles that we're still figuring out. Go hug a tree and say thanks.

@LakeSuperior U mad bro?

@TomPurdyWI BWER!

Debris signature just west of downtown Bloomington reached about 12kft. #inwx #tornado

.@Microsoft AutoUpdate has said "Installing - 4 seconds remaining" for about 10 minutes now... 🤔

"She's here to PLAY!" and "She is NOT here to play!" somehow mean the same thing... #WinterOlympics

The #ArcticBlast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing #CloudStreets caught by @NOAA's #GOESEast. Learn more in our #SatelliteSnapshot: bit.ly/3NVBiT5

This will always be what the ever-expanding vastness of the internet sounds like.

10/10 no notes. This timeline is HORRFIYING‼️

If you haven’t seen this bit from Saturday Night Live from last night yet, you absolutely have to. It’s hilarious and at the same time extremely therapeutic. Even if it’s not real. “DO YOU WANT THIS TO BE REAL?”

RIP and thank you, Dr. West. Without GPS, we have no idea where we might be now.

This is so needed, especially for this app😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

Did you play this one? Time for a trip down memory lane to the year 1991: Scorched Earth, the self-proclaimed "Mother of All Games," is a glorious shareware artillery game for MS-DOS, created by Wendell Hicken. Players command tanks on destructible 2D terrain, taking turns to calibrate angle and power for ballistic shots while also having to consider wind and gravity impact. You can customize various settings, making each game unique: gravity, meteor showers, and economies to buy wild weapons - from nukes and napalm to dirt bombs and MIRVs - plus defenses like shields. It supports up to 10 hot-seat players which was no small feat back in 1991! Its physics mastery and replayability paved the way for and inspired later classics like Worms, cementing its legacy.

Can the Pluribus hivemind run Doom? @AppleTV

Arrival

Organists are operating on another brain level [🎹 annalapwoodorgan]

In The Americas a closer look at civic freedoms: 🟢Open and narrowed: 19 🟡Obstructed: 6 🟠Repressed: 7 🔴Closed: 3 ⬇️ #Argentina #ElSalvador #USA New #PeoplePower2025 report: web.civicus.org/Americas2025

One of the best science fiction films of all time.

.@TIME Person of the Year for 2025?

This is 90 pounds of cheese. The average Midwesterner eats this much cheese every day. Let that sink in.