Now that the tooth fairy apparently brings $5, does that count as inflation or deflation? Sure feels like inflation. Also, where am I supposed to find $5 cash? #parenting #economy
I was unprepared for the utter chaos invited by showing a class read.csv(file.choose()). #rstats #rstudio #posit #academicsky
Rewatching #stargate #sg1 season 1 and wild to realize that the president they talk to on the red phone, who makes decisions about intergalactic emergencies, was Bill Clinton.
"Let's put the fox in charge of the henhouse" seems to be a common theme these days.
A lot of my comparative anatomy students keep calling the eye sockets "orbitals" instead of "orbits". Maybe bio majors take too much chemistry? #academicsky #highered #biology
I have 96 exams to grade this weekend. My house is going to be spotless. #academicsky #highered
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12th, 1809. One changed how we understand our place in nature, the other changed how we understand our obligations to each other. Both had a historical perspective that we forget at our peril. And, both are wildly misunderstood today.
Map of Mexico left shows mean annual temperature is generally higher in the north; right shows relative humidity increasing from north to south.
Got to make a neat map of temperature and relative humidity in Mexico using ERA5 data for a colleague. The temperature gradient surprised me. #rstats #gis
Manuscript accepted! My first paper focusing on plants. Being an #Rstats person means I collect study organisms like infinity stones. #academicsky #science #ecology
If the last year has taught us anything, it's that we'd probably be better off if marmots were in charge. #groundhogday
Today while I was searching for papers about ruminant headgear evolution, Google Scholar returned multiple results about Noah's ark from creationist "journals". This is the first time for me... Has anyone else had this experience? #evolution #googlescholar #pseudoscience
An in-class discussion of this paper in my comparative anatomy class would either be the best idea or the worst idea ever. #anatomy #academicsky #academicfreedom #zoology
Rounding down lol
Lol just reminds us how silly p values can be. P = 0.049998 and we'd feel totally different about it 🤣
When p = 0.050002, what are we really doing? #rstats #academicsky
Sunday: I can clean up that manuscript and submit it by the end of the year on Wednesday.
Monday: Hmm, what if I completely reconceptualized the data analysis? I can clean this up on Tuesday.
Connections summary: solved 184 times without any mistakes, which is in the top 1% of players
I think I'm going to put this on my annual review.
Proud of my home state twice in one week.
Why do urban ecology in Atlanta? For one thing, it's much more forested than most other cities >100k population in CONUS, so likely a very different landscape for wildlife. Figure made with Census Bureau and NLCD data. #rstats #opendata #urbanecology
It's not often I get to be proud of my home state, but GO HOOSIERS! Big 10 champs and #1 #cfb #indiana #big10
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Congratulations to new lab alum Sydney Morton! Story about her population genetics research below:
www.kennesaw.edu/graduate/abo...
5 year old son tonight: What is the number 8?
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Scatter plot of points increasing up and to the right, with different colors indicating different species.
Digitizing P. maniculatus growth data for a class exercise from a paper published in 1942... I'm always fascinated by papers and books published on obscure topics like this during the war. Dice and Bradley 1942, J. Mammalogy. #rstats #biology #mice #academicsky
Vert Zoology lab today is craniometry...students are measuring skulls of mice we collected back in September. One of the coolest labs I've ever run but apparently I'm not the only one who needs reading glasses.
Map of county-level occurrences of some plant species, made for a student. R with terra and sp packages. #rstats #gis #ecology
Is the USCB TIGER/Line shape file ftp site down for everybody? I was going to use some of its data for a class activity today but no one can access it. I found an alternative but still am curious to know. #gis #shutdown #uscensus
"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature... But if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it can only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil." Charles Darwin
It's a little scary how much of my research involves running terminal commands from complete strangers on Google to help install software from complete strangers' GitHub repos. #Rstats #opensource
January me: I should move these folders of original field data sheets to my office for safekeeping.
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
I'm starting to see ads for a drug for a disease I've never heard of before. Does the algorithm know something I don't?
