Whenever anyones uses “neck” and “back” in the same sentence, I have intrusive thoughts

[closes book, slowly removes glasses, and thoughtfully cleans them with a small cloth] I honestly don't think Waldo is in there

I've tried a couple of apps for locating people on Mastodon. https://www.movetodon.org/ is the most painless so far.

Debirdify has some nice charts though.

This site needs way more shitpostery for any chance of survival. Have a drink and post some unhinged shit, I know y’all have it in you

And it's time for another round of free #COVID19 tests via USPS https://www.covid.gov/tests

There are a lot of (predominantly white) researchers that are interested in broadening participation in #STEM & tbh I'm concerned about the way folks are approaching their outreach & community work. I worry that white folks are showing up in Black & Brown spaces in ways that might be self-serving, reductionist, extractivist, or even harmful. Not sure what the solution is here, but even the literature on this is disheartening.

Hey #botany & #biology #researchers! I’m looking into #OCR software right now because I’m interested in extracting flower trait information from #floras & botanical #monographs.
Does anyone have an idea if such a tool exists? Pls let me know!!

RT @RootandShootRCN@twitter.com

ROOT&SHOOT travel awards applications are open, to attend one of several designated plant science conferences in 2023 (travel within US only). Awards go to student/mentor pairs, at least one of which is a member of SACNAS or MANRRS.
Apply by Jan 9, 2023. https://rootandshoot.org/root-shoot-nsf-rcn-travel-award-application-for-members-of-sacnas-or-manrrs/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RootandShootRCN/status/1600464645071970305

ahhhh the latest RStudio daily (v1.3+) *also* syntax highlights hex colors with the actual color! #rstats

Universities often announce increases in faculty diversity; how is that adding up? 🧵

In a new analysis of US federal data in Nature Human Behavioir with @NeilLewisJr & @HopesPsychology@twitter.com, we show that the U.S. is not succeeding in diversifying faculty.

We also (1) analyze whether the pipeline analogy is helping or hurting and (2) compute what it would take to achieve faculty parity in our lifetime.

(if you are an #Academic, please Boost & share with colleagues)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01495-4

We will see

So, I went to an #economics #econtwitter mixer yesterday and people kept referencing my twitter account. It occurred to me in that moment that real people in real life can see my tweets. Like all of you following me on #mastodon are real.

I am perpetually shocked that people read my tweets and engage with it online AND offline.

"Aren't you that girl from #Twitter?" be having me like:

The next #PolyploidWebinar will be next Wednesday, December 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time. Join us for two great talks from Brian Husband and Hannes Becher! If you are not signed up already, you can sign up here to join us: https://www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

#Polyploidy #k-mers #WGD #Genomics #GenomeSize #Adaptation

Participatory lego dataviz! I asked people in my department to put a lego on the scatterplot to share how much sleep they got and how caffeinated they were. #dataviz

#ConsGenPop22 starting!

An examination of over 1 million funding proposals to the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 2019 reveals that white principal investigators are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs and relative funding rates for white PIs have been increasing. https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

3 years into this PhD