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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.
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.
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.
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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Ryan's most recent taxonomic discoveries
(observations of taxa that he'd never before uploaded)
Roseate Skimmer 2023-11-23 ID confirmed |
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Ringless Honey Mushroom 2023-11-16 Help me confirm this ID or suggest another! |
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2023-11-05 ID confirmed |
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common passionfruit 2023-11-05 ID confirmed |
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Asian Clam 2023-11-05 ID confirmed |
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Bookwyrm.social
Ryan recently finished reading:
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 |
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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians Brent R. Weisman Finished Dec. 28, 2022 4 stars |
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...and is currently reading:
Dante Alighieri |
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Charles F. Wilkinson |
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Isaac Asimov |
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Sarah Stodola |
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T. H. White |
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