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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?

    ...read more


  • 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.

    ...read more


  • 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

    ...read more


  • 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.

    ...read more


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iNaturalist

Ryan's most recent taxonomic discoveries

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

Rattus rattus

Black Rat

2024-12-10

Help me confirm this ID or suggest another!

Oxalis articulata

pink-sorrel

2024-12-10

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Amaranthus viridis

green amaranth

2024-12-10

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Nothoscordum bivalve

crowpoison

2024-12-10

ID confirmed

Nipaecoccus

2024-12-09

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Usnea strigosa

Bushy beard lichen

2024-11-20

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Parthenium hysterophorus

Santa Maria feverfew

2024-11-03

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Eleusine indica

Goose Grass

2024-11-03

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Mocis marcida

Withered Mocis

2024-10-19

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Deinopis spinosa

Ogre-faced Spider

2024-10-13

ID confirmed

Heraclides cresphontes

Eastern Giant Swallowtail

2024-10-11

ID confirmed

Trametes lactinea

Latte Bracket

2024-10-06

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Liatris gracilis

slender blazing-star

2024-10-06

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Solidago chapmanii

Chapman's Goldenrod

2024-10-06

ID confirmed

Callirhytis furva

Furry Oak Leaf Gall Wasp

2024-10-06

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Ardisia crenata

Coralberry

2024-10-06

ID confirmed

Megatibicen resonans

Resonant Cicada

2024-10-06

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Stereum ostrea

False Turkey-Tail

2024-10-06

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Bromelia pinguin

piñuela

2024-10-06

ID confirmed

Ilex ambigua

Carolina holly

2024-10-06

ID confirmed


Bookwyrm.social

Ryan recently finished reading:

Coral Whisperers

Irus Braverman

Finished Nov. 23, 2024

4 stars

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

...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

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Isaac Asimov

The Last Resort

Sarah Stodola

The Once and Future King

T. H. White