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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.
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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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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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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
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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)
Bookwyrm.social
Ryan recently finished reading:
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Sarah Vowell Finished Oct. 2, 2025 3 stars |
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Salman Rushdie Finished Sept. 16, 2025 2 stars |
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James S.A. Corey Finished July 20, 2025 3 stars |
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James S.A. Corey Finished June 27, 2025 4 stars |
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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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...and is currently reading:
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Billy Frank |
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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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Charles F. Wilkinson |
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Isaac Asimov |
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