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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)
Santa Maria feverfew 2024-11-03 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Goose Grass 2024-11-03 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Withered Mocis 2024-10-19 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Ogre-faced Spider 2024-10-13 ID confirmed |
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Eastern Giant Swallowtail 2024-10-11 ID confirmed |
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Latte Bracket 2024-10-06 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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slender blazing-star 2024-10-06 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Chapman's Goldenrod 2024-10-06 ID confirmed |
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Furry Oak Leaf Gall Wasp 2024-10-06 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Coralberry 2024-10-06 ID confirmed |
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Resonant Cicada 2024-10-06 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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False Turkey-Tail 2024-10-06 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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piñuela 2024-10-06 ID confirmed |
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Carolina holly 2024-10-06 ID confirmed |
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Mustard Yellow Polypore 2024-10-01 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Mexican Paper Wasp 2024-09-28 ID confirmed |
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2024-09-24 ID confirmed |
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2024-09-18 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Atala 2024-09-16 ID confirmed |
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Trooping Crumble Cap 2024-09-13 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
Bookwyrm.social
Ryan recently finished reading:
Gordon Staff Finished July 11, 2024 4 stars |
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Pimsleur Finished July 11, 2024 4 stars |
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C. S. Lewis Finished March 2, 2024 4 stars |
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Ted Chiang Finished June 26, 2023 5 stars |
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John Steinbeck Finished June 11, 2023 4 stars |
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Erased: the untold story of the Panama Canal Marixa Lasso Finished June 4, 2023 4 stars |
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Ayn Rand Finished Jan. 2, 2023 1 star |
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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians Brent R. Weisman Finished Dec. 28, 2022 4 stars |
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Lauren Groff Finished Oct. 15, 2022 4 stars |
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Nelson Mandela Finished Sept. 30, 2022 4 stars |
...and is currently reading:
Le lion, la sorcière blanche et l'armoire magique C. S. Lewis |
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Dante Alighieri |
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Charles F. Wilkinson |
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T. H. White |
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Irus Braverman |
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Sarah Stodola |
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Isaac Asimov |