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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)
Funeral Bell 2025-01-13 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis Western Amethyst Laccaria 2025-01-12 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Silky Pinkgill 2025-01-12 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Western Panther 2025-01-12 ID confirmed |
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Western Conifer Seed Bug 2025-01-09 ID confirmed |
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Turkish washcloth 2025-01-01 ID confirmed |
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honey mushrooms 2025-01-01 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Australian Cockroach 2024-12-21 ID confirmed |
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Variable Field Cricket 2024-12-16 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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musk stork's-bill 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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water fern 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Western Side-blotched Lizard 2024-12-15 ID confirmed |
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California Gall Wasp 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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California wild grape 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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red willow 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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prostrate pigweed 2024-12-15 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Mexican holdback 2024-12-14 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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Bitter Snakewood 2024-12-14 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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2024-12-14 ID confirmed |
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Desert Leaf-cutter Ant 2024-12-14 ID confirmed |
Bookwyrm.social
Ryan recently finished reading:
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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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 |
...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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Isaac Asimov |