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• Apr 25, 2024

  Trust Science!

  Trust the science?

  Trust the scientists?

  Trust {the |}scien{ce|tists}!

  Ahh. That’s safe.

  Wait, what science? Or which scientists?

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• Jul 17, 2023

  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.

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• Jul 14, 2023

  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 on BioRxiv.

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• Apr 7, 2021

  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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• Mar 29, 2021

  merdemicrobes

  When I started my first blog, I initially used this title for it. I had recently begun working in French Polynesia, was helping a French postdoc, and was interested in learning the language, and I thought, “‘Sea of Microbes’ in French, that’s nice.” I created the page and started working on the blog. And then that French postdoc saw the url: ‘merdemicrobes’.

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