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Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler

@catalicu.bsky.social

Associate prof at Cal Poly Humboldt. Ecologist of microbes, tasted metagenomics once and now I want more. Spawned in Colombia, cumbia follows me everywhere I go.

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Jonathan Eisen@phylogenomics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, I know birds can swallow large prey. But this was pretty wild. At Yolo Bypass, near LotG, I witnessed a juvenile pied billed grebe catch, struggle with, and then eat a crawfish. And the crawfish, relative to the grebe, was quite big. #birds

Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler@catalicu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“If you are writing an email with ‘I dont want to add to your plate’ then dont add to it! Why are you emailing? Its the summer time and to be honest I dont even have a plate anymore. Good luck.” Is this too much for an out of the office email?

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.