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Ooh, Shiny!
I finally returned to The Cnidae Gritty because I found a groove with Shiny app development again!
Since my postdoc in France, I’ve been wanting to improve a barebones photo annotation script that I created there.
Trust Science!
Trust the science?
Trust the scientists?
Trust {the |}scien{ce|tists}!
Ahh. That’s safe.
Wait, what science? Or which scientists?
Pseudoquasivegetarianism
2016 was a pivotal year for me.
For the past four years, I had been traveling the world and studying coral reefs from every region. I was becoming an expert on their evolution and their interactions with various microbes. I knew these ecosystems had been in decline for decades, that climate change was a major threat, and that some people had claimed that eating meat and flying in airplanes were major contributors to climate change.
Big guys shout 'merde!' louder
New preprint!
Bacterial sepsis triggers stronger transcriptomic responses in larger primates
I am happy to report that a paper I’ve been working on for a long time is finally available
Maybe it doesn't Matern
Calling all bored and crazy Stan coders. I need a long term coding partner.
I’ve been doing a lot of completely solo work for a couple years now, and you can guess the result. I have a couple of really awesome models that I am proud of, and yet they’re (1) not quite what I want, (2) probably way more complicated and messy than necessary, and (3) sitting there, waiting for me to figure out how to be a real modeler and justify them.
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Ryan's most recent taxonomic discoveries
(observations of taxa that he'd never before uploaded)
Rose campion 2025-06-21 ID confirmed |
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forest scurfpea 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Forked Globetail 2025-06-21 ID confirmed |
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Bead-like Cottonwood Gall aphid 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Hybrid Bindweed 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Common Laburnum 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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silver birch 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Cherry-plum 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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large bindweed 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Sticky Groundsel 2025-06-21 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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pineapple-weed 2025-06-21 ID confirmed |
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Silver-spotted Tiger Moth 2025-06-18 ID confirmed |
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Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea 2025-06-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Nevada Bumble Bee 2025-06-15 ID confirmed |
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Red Sand Spurrey 2025-06-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Elegant Goldenrod 2025-06-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Broadleaf Lupine 2025-06-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Hawthorn Mining Bee 2025-06-11 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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White-striped Running Crab Spider 2025-06-09 ID confirmed |
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Potato Aphid 2025-06-04 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Bookwyrm.social
Ryan recently finished reading:
James S.A. Corey Finished June 15, 2025 4 stars |
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Mari Sandoz Finished May 11, 2025 No rating |
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Dee Alexander Brown Finished May 1, 2025 5 stars |
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The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout Thomas P. Quinn Finished April 18, 2025 5 stars |
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Le lion, la sorcière blanche et l'armoire magique C. S. Lewis Finished March 28, 2025 No rating |
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Brian Woodwick Finished March 12, 2025 4 stars |
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Charles Wilkinson Finished Jan. 25, 2025 5 stars |
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T. H. White Finished Dec. 29, 2024 5 stars |
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Sarah Stodola Finished Dec. 5, 2024 4 stars |
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Irus Braverman Finished Nov. 23, 2024 4 stars |
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...and is currently reading:
James S.A. Corey |
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Rena Priest |
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The journals of William Fraser Tolmie, physician and fur trader William Fraser Tolmie |
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Salman Rushdie |
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Dante Alighieri |
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Isaac Asimov |
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Charles F. Wilkinson |
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