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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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iNaturalist

Ryan's most recent taxonomic discoveries

(observations of taxa that he'd never before uploaded)

Mischocyttarus mexicanus

Mexican Paper Wasp

2024-09-28

ID confirmed

Maekistocera longipennis

2024-09-24

ID confirmed

Haplaxius

2024-09-18

Help me confirm this ID or suggest another!

Eumaeus atala

Atala

2024-09-16

ID confirmed

Coprinellus disseminatus

Trooping Crumble Cap

2024-09-13

Help me confirm this ID or suggest another!

Camponotus inaequalis

2024-09-08

ID confirmed

Rhadinaea flavilata

Pine Woods Littersnake

2024-09-02

ID confirmed

Bulbostylis barbata

Watergrass

2024-09-01

ID confirmed

Euphorbia hyssopifolia

hyssop spurge

2024-09-01

ID confirmed

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Bald Eagle

2024-08-20

Ischnura posita

Fragile Forktail

2024-08-03

ID confirmed

Verbena bracteata

Bigbract Verbena

2024-07-25

Help me confirm this ID or suggest another!

Agropyron cristatum

Crested Wheatgrass

2024-07-24

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Mirabilis linearis

Narrowleaf Four o'Clock

2024-07-24

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Balsamorhiza sagittata

arrowleaf balsamroot

2024-07-24

ID confirmed

Castilleja linariifolia

Wyoming Paintbrush

2024-07-24

ID confirmed

Heliomeris multiflora

showy goldeneye

2024-07-24

Help me confirm this ID or suggest another!

Ceanothus fendleri

Fendler's ceanothus

2024-07-24

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Packera neomexicana

New Mexico groundsel

2024-07-24

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Pinus longaeva

Great Basin bristlecone pine

2024-07-24

ID confirmed


Bookwyrm.social

Ryan recently finished reading:

Parent Effectiveness Training

Gordon Staff

Finished July 11, 2024

4 stars

Dutch

Pimsleur

Finished July 11, 2024

4 stars

El león, la bruja y el ropero

C. S. Lewis

Finished March 2, 2024

4 stars

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Finished June 26, 2023

5 stars

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Finished June 11, 2023

4 stars

Erased: the untold story of the Panama Canal

Marixa Lasso

Finished June 4, 2023

4 stars

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Finished Jan. 2, 2023

1 star

Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians

Brent R. Weisman

Finished Dec. 28, 2022

4 stars

Florida

Lauren Groff

Finished Oct. 15, 2022

4 stars

A Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Finished Sept. 30, 2022

4 stars

...and is currently reading:

Le lion, la sorcière blanche et l'armoire magique

C. S. Lewis

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Blood Struggle

Charles F. Wilkinson

The Once and Future King

T. H. White

Coral Whisperers

Irus Braverman

The Last Resort

Sarah Stodola

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Isaac Asimov