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postdoc on an island 🏝️ caribbean reefs 🐠 ecology 🌎 code 💻 stats 🧮 3D 📷 robots 🤖 AI 🧠 inverts 🪸 📍US Virgin Islands 🇻🇮🇺🇸
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Protest in paradise #nokings #usvi

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

#nokings on St. John usvi 💙

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

energy and water use per chatgpt query is absolutely trivial

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

My heart hurts for Harvard-bound students who lost GRFPs and teams everywhere who have had grants terminated. A senseless waste of blood, sweat, tears, late nights, strained relationships, abandoned hobbies, frequent moves, financial instability, and mental health. 🧪

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Wolverine is the formal word for wolf 🫣

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Michael does not approve of the robot hogging the couch. Sorry bud, firmware update. 🥺🧪

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Hard agree! Those old American naturalist articles took me on ADVENTURES 😍

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This is important research funded by #NSF looking at how sponge filter feeding changes the molecular makeup of seawater, with important implications for coral reefs and even bioremediation. Great to see continuation of my PhD research! And I’m glad they moved the lab indoors 👍🏻🤣 🧪

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

As the Trump administration fires government researchers, cancels scientific grants, and targets universities with funding freezes, scientists who might once have welcomed public attention for their work or spoken up on issues affecting their field are instead opting for silence. scim.ag/4jLxA9E

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

☝🏻But only in males? Study based on male mice only? What’s up with that? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 42 days ago • 762 comments

Find a hobby that you genuinely enjoy but aren’t naturally great at.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

needed this

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Journal editors struggling to find reviewers — there are some bloody good reasons why I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts that I am seeing near constantly now are the symptoms of a much larger problem. That…

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments