Wow, Pluto is incredible. Because of my python muscle-memory I've just been running julia in jupyter whenever I needed a notebook but I finally took the plunge and it's crazy how many features this thing has. #julialang

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

Reminder that the New England Patriots are ontologically evil, so therefore any act against them is inherently good.

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

Ughgh, science has wrecked my ability to feel "productive". I spent the last 3 hours just thinking about whether or not I should remove a single variable from an equation. Ultimately, I didn't. So I'm right back to where I was when I started this morning. 🫠

I just finished all of the Murderbot books and since I've also recently read some of the Culture books, I now have a silly little headcanon that they all exist in the same universe. The ships in Murderbot--Perihelion/ART and Holism--are early examples of ship minds #scifi #murderbot #booksky

Finally watched Bugonia. Great documentary of what happens if you keep non-native bees.

All you need to know about how cool Geese are is how low that bass is being played.

If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you

My kingdom for a CJ Anderson-esque TD run in this game.

There is nothing more pure in life than a fat man touchdown.

FRANK CRUM, WELCOME TO VALHALLA!

no, being a real shitlord to people who you find annoying on social media from the comfort and convenience of your own home is not actually praxis, much as you may wish it were so

Oh man, a mathematically robust exploration of mutualistic community dynamics with code examples in python??? 😍😍😍 msia.centre-mersenne.org/item/10.5802...

[reading one book by Nabokov] truly this man was troubled but inarguably brilliant, a pedlar of the voluptuous to his fellow embarrassed and abused sybarites [reading six books by Nabokov] truly this man loved bugs

Economy in plot and storytelling is cowardice. #pluribus #fionnaandcake

Finally saw the #Pluribus season finale -- so freaking good. That opening scene was haunting. I need season 2 asap.

I'm an ecologist with an undergrad degree in evolutionary bio and yeah, you can't seriously study biology without quickly realizing that the only hard and fast rule is that there's an exception to literally every rule that has ever been formulated. Life is *weird* (and beautiful for that weirdness!)

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Crazy to see Redvale…My grandma once told me that it used to be “Fredvale” until an oversized semi came along and knocked the “f” off the sign.

Oof. It’s so refreshing to read such an insightful and well written article. In a sea of slop, I love reading a line like “But solutions curdle”. An LLM could never. And it’s a reminder of one of the most important reasons we write:

People are like “oh well it’s just the way it is now” no it’s not!! You can simply not open a ChatGPT window!!! You can still ask your friends questions instead of asking the bullshit machine!!!

I feel genuinely insane when I see really emotional and tribal posts in video game subreddits re: the game awards. Who cares about the game awards?? Is it a psyop by their marketing when I see someone crash out that “their” game didn’t win??

It's so obvious that the OU nonsense is about so much more*. But it really makes me want to once again talk about how I think the best model for "grading" is to just give everyone an A but then actually be honest about how dogshit their effort/assignment actually is.

another normal style win for the denver boncos

A movie that takes place where you were born. Filmed an hour away.

guys the suns are fun again

🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics 📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.

A (kinda old) Amanita from my walk to campus today. I love this time of year! #mycology #mushroom

There's a bunch of shows airing right now that I enjoy (Fionna and Cake, Hazbin, Pluribus) and it's reminding me how much I dislike most online discourse for shows, especially around plot-pacing. I swear most people just want the characters to read a wikipedia article of plot points.

Suns legend Cale Makar

I still can't get over just how much more fun it is to watch the Suns this year compared to last year. #nba #suns

Oh no. The Functional Fabric Fair is overlapping with the Entomology Conference in Portland. Last night a scientist who studies fiber-eating moths was cornered by a group of weavers in a dark corridor. Things escalated and the scientist has been badly injured.

Just presented at #EntSoc25! All about the benefits and challenges of using autonomous camera sampling and machine learning to study plant/pollinator interactions.

treat yo self!!!

Reading a really nice paper on equilibrium (or lack thereof) in ecology and it has one of the most ecology coded passages I've read in a while: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm so happy to be able to post this for the first time in years. No expectations, but let's fucking go Suns www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...

All I want is for the vibes to be better for the Suns this year. The team has just been so hard to watch the last couple of years. Go Suns!

Me seeing Lakers fans finally realize how much of a drag Ayton is to have on your team, no matter the price.

Something that I actually kind of like about doing stats in python instead of R is that being forced to implement a lot of things by hand gives me more of an understanding of the equations that I'm using for any given analysis. I don't know if this is really a "pro".... #rstats #pystats

Holy cow this is incredible. I loved the Owl House but I'm so excited to see what a fully unleashed Dana Terrace can do. This *needs* to be picked up for a full series

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I love everything about this. I also love how much it breaks some people's brains that you don't have to make yourself miserable to make art or even run a company. I have no doubt that they could have released this in a fraction of the time if they had "real" project management. But at what cost?

I find the argument that "LLMs might exhibit some aspects of human cognition! We might be probability machines too! So we should treat them as actual intelligence" to be really tiresome. Especially since it feels like a lot of these people wouldn't give the same consideration to animal cognition.

My first ever middle school dance, I got it in my head to request "War Pigs". I guess the DJs didn't know it, because they actually played it (right after "It's getting hot in herre"). They got 30 secs into it before yelling at me that I couldn't request music anymore. RIP Ozzy. Absolute legend.

After long and ardent thought, I have come up with what I believe to be the definitive Philosophy of AI: It sucks.