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Issue 3 or volume 51 of the American Statistician has a really great back-and-forth on this. If I ever get to teach Biostats, I’d base the syllabus on the Bayes-first one laid out by Berry in that issue. Your brain is Bayesian! We should teach students to statistic in the way they think!

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lol it’s back because I apparently can’t use dryad and forgot a running head. Second times the charm.

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Another #naturalhistory collection may be orphaned. Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York ("top 5 such collections in the country") @corriemoreau.bsky.social estimates PRI has produced more female paleontologists than most other institutions www.science.org/content/arti...

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everyone wants there to be an equivalent of oil in the green energy economy - a scarce and geopolitically contested natural resource that can be secured by violence and hoarded for huge profits - and there just... isn't one.

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Finally submitted the big manuscript that's been around too long

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I don’t know what my damage is, but like once a month my body informs me I absolutely need to eat a Subway sandwich with extra jalapeños immediately. That moment is right now.

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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"Some hope Cornell itself will step in. Hundreds of the Ivy League institution’s students use PRI’s collections every year. .... But Cornell leadership doesn’t seem inclined to help, despite having at least 18 current and pending research grants that depend on PRI’s services."

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An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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I'm happy to see my latest preprint out on stratigraphic intervals, a topic I've been interested in since my first year as PhD student. Available in the brand-new StratIntervals.jl (github.com/gaballench/S...) @julialang.org package. Preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Have to submit the data packet to get the DRYAD link to submit the manuscript, so that you can get the manuscript number to include in the DRYAD packet ...

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Very cool. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A flexible Bayesian method for estimating stratigraphic intervals and their co-occurrence in time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638199v1

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Someone had an awesome time on IKEA day two

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My new desk arrives from Ikea today. Valentine's Day is gonna be lit.

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Check out our new method for summarising BEAST trees. The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ah, yes. The constant bombardment of discussing the month of April begins. “And in April - ” “Huh, what, sorry?”

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Oh, to be the world’s dumbest dog, frolicking in fresh snow for the first time in my life

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Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

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The new, correct meeting announcement is over on the @evolmtg.bsky.social account. But my retweet of the original one is a work of art

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Hey look, something to which you can look forward

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I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.

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We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

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there are still 6 days left to apply to join my group at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt as a PhD Student in #Paleobiology! Are you interested in how the rock record shapes our undersanding of macroevolutionary dynamics of #plants in the #Mesozoic? @sgn.one www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

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My dog spotted some water and almost dragged me into the creek on our hike today

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Am I still a grad student? No. Am I above picking up a frozen metal IKEA shelving unit from my neighbor’s curb, balancing my beer on the top shelf and wrapping my dog leash around my non-dominant hand to waddle home? Also no.

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I just watched an eagle fly around outside my house for like an hour. Perhaps I'm more exhausted than I thought ...

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Friends, now is a good time to read the Tiffany Aching books to your kids. Terry Pratchett was such a kind and pro-social writer and these books are all about the magic of caring for each other and making people who fall through the cracks your business when no one else will.

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Surprised to announce a new version of Seq-Gen (v1.3.5) – software for simulating nucleotide/amino acid sequences on a tree. Nearly 30 years old but still being used and cited apparently so fixed a few things. Written in 1990's C so should compile on just about anything. github.com/rambaut/Seq-...

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Going to Costco after my long run but before eating is arguably my worst idea in recent memory

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“Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.” new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Saw this on my way home tonight. Amazing.

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Go outside and look west after sunset--Venus and the Crescent Moon are putting on a show tonight. Mars is in the east near Castor and Pollux and Jupiter is straight overhead earthsky.org/astronomy-es...

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Chaperoning a middle school dance ama

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I realized today that genAI joke images make me irrationally angry. I can’t pinpoint why. But boy do I hate them.

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If you are on Facebook just for Buy Nothing, here is your lifeboat! Buy Nothing now has an app so we can share with each other without supporting Zuck Please join me, I am posting a bunch of stuff this weekend. buynothingproject.org/join

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New Open Access book: Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science Eds: T. Knuuttila, T. Grüne-Yanoff, R. Koskinen, Y. S. Wirling #philosophy #philsci

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