idk, maybe on a day when I’m trying my best to reconcile three societal norms that (a) it’s okay to murder queer people in broad daylight, (b) a trans woman can be sentenced to 15 years of prison rape if she resists a man trying to kill her and (c) i’m supposed to be nice to cis people and give them art and statistics even as they are trying to exterminate us, maybe you should give me a bit of slack if I decide to use the world “fuck” occasionally? because honestly, i know a few harsher words and i am starting to think i need to use them more

@millerdl What handlebars are you using? Looks gorgeous. I biked Inverness-Applecross loop-Skye once, loved it!
*meant to add hebridees also!

#FreePalestine

The Cure vs The Smiths

(weird, the things you save on your phone)

💭 what if we taught people not only how to record data but *how to record data that can then be used by someone else* ?

data visualisation is my passion

@millerdl one step to load a netcdf? How am I meant to feel like a Clever Person in this environment?!

@millerdl in research a terrible idea, in business a terrible idea, in finance a terrible idea. Good, fast, cheap. You can only pick two. In research we never get anything but cheap. So the choice is good or fast. Rewarding fast means you will never be good. In research good is the only metric that matters

realised that a lot of "AI art" (esp. earlier stuff) just looks like the video for "Butterfly" by Crazytown

🎵 little fish, big fish, swimming in the water 🎵

#rstats #rtistry

I'm very excited about my last #phd chapter published in ecology Letters:
> We focused on size-structured community responses to multiple scenarios involving #ThermalPerformanceCurves in predator and prey traits, #warming induced size reduction and thermal niche mismatches.

-> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70022?af=R

This holiday season, it’s important to remember the true meaning of Xmas.

Ghosts terrorising rich people into treating their employees like people.

@wojciechuszko @ASNAmNat congrats Wojtek! It's a very cool model :)

#JustAccepted at @ASNAmNat #OpenAccess: Availability of juvenile refuge habitats explains the dynamics and size structure of cannibalistic fish populations, by @wojciechuszko Tobias van Kooten and Pär Byström.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734103

Spent awhile before breakfast composing a "here's what we're gonna do" email to the class I teach on Wednesday afternoons, and figured I'd put it on the blog for posterity. It's maybe the closest I've got to anything coherent to say right now

https://denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2024/11/the-morning-after/

#USpolitics

Special de⁠liver⁠y from Olympus! 🏛️

Look at the language. Over and over again, imputes a sort of cognitive agency that LLMs simply don't have.

"I’m piecing together"

"I’m noting"

"I’m thinking through"

"I noticed that"

"Hmm, I’m thinking about"

LLM's don't note, think, or notice.

a little more on that job ad...

are you:

1. a postdoc who is fed-up of being on a temporary contract? Do you like the idea of a PERMANENT JOB?

2. tried of the competitive nature of university work, constantly playing a zero-sum game with your colleagues for students, grants and time? Would you prefer to WORK TOGETHER towards better science?

then: come work with us in a permanent position in a truly collaborative environment.

https://ecoevo.social/@tcornulier/113282505791383444

#rstats #getfedihired

We are recruiting for a Statistician/Modeller @BioSScotland, to work collaboratively on a range of exciting Ecology & Environment problems.

Based in beautiful Scotland! https://flic.kr/p/2qmCqpq

📅Deadline: 28th October 2024.
👉https://reduced.to/di6ew for more info.

#statistics #statsjobs

@millerdl I read this and thought you'd asked to have a new desk, made from paper - some sort of eco-friendly paper-based board - and the department said no, you had to have conventional wooden one instead. This coffee is slow to kick in this morning.