Ah the joys of publishing a paper (not pictured, a quote by the CEO of palantir after the name of published behavioural ecologist/primatologist that is absolutely not the person who wrote this email)

One of my favourite things I’ve ever found in the depths of old papers (aside from the time I learned that “jizz” was a term old British birders used in reference of the vibes of a bird)

I’m adopting a dog in the next few weeks and I can’t believe I’m expected to work instead of lay on the floor and think about Booster

I did my first ever stand up set yesterday and it was amazing- Bright Club is such a great opportunity to do fun science communication

I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x

Today I learned that “jizz” means “vibes” in birding from an old bird book that gives such golden quotes as “Merlin Falco columbarius is another bird almost always 90% jizz”

Had a long day at work today and part of it was that I had to read this

Sometimes I’m having a normal day and then a scientific paper talks about marmot cucks

Some snapshots from my paper reading recently - oh to have the freedom to write like a naturalist from 1947

Today in: sentences that make me love reading old scientific papers

RACISM, NOT RACE: Answers to FAQs 👨🏼‍🎓🔬 Questions? Come & listen to Joseph Graves speak at the DECOLONIZING SCIENCE public lecture, hosted by the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Biology Anti-Racism & School of Biology EDI committees 📅12th of March 1pm at the Booth Lecture Theatre Everyone is welcome!

Other fun times in my PhD involves extracting data from 2000+ papers and running into things like “goosing”

This seems like a good way to ease myself back into blue sky 1 like = 1 piece of Thomas lore (freebie: I am gay)

found the extension file for gender fluid people- the non-binary extension for a parasolid file

I think I win for the most ridiculous way to keep my code/statistical analysis in order…. Just throw it all in PowerPoint

I have 6 latent variables- i've tried condensing it to 4 but i get the same errors anyways. I've included the errors I've been getting as well I'm the least confident with the correlated resids and the loadings but I've tried a few configurations of both and I still can't get it to work

How to make reading papers more fun? Make a bingo card!

today's motivational code annotation