@janewiedlin.bsky.social Just listened to Blue Kiss; love the wide, lyrical melody, especially in the bridge: "How can you choose a one color world / When you know that I've got a rainbow for you" is such a beautiful lyric and tune. Did you write melody first, words, or chords?

My students/collaborators and I came up with photorealistic Chernoff faces a few years ago and ran some experiments, but I haven't had time to write up a manuscript yet. Here's a sample: @bbolker.bsky.social @datavisfriendly.bsky.social #rstats #stats #dataviz #AcademicSky 🧪

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 01, 1923 Herman Chernoff born in New York, USA 🇺🇸 1973: Cartoons of human face to represent multivariate data -- idea that people are sensitive to configural properties of faces. 'Chernoff face' displays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...

Chernoff face - Wikipedia

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I use π every day.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. One of my favorites, from the National Gallery of Art two weeks ago.

Jessica Smith@thedaybooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. This is a detail from Clara Weaver Parrish’s “Night.” I thought she did a really good job on the hands. (Sorry for the reflection)

Questions about submitting a manuscript to a journal that requires including the data and code: 1) For public databases (eg, PBDB), do you submit the code w/ API calls to download the data, or the downloaded dataset itself? 2) What about datasets that don't allow sharing (eg,WoRMS)? #AcademicSky 🧪 ⚒️

Questions about submitting a manuscript to a journal that requires including the data and code: 1) For public databases (eg, PBDB), do you submit the code w/ API calls to download the data, or the downloaded dataset itself? 2) What about datasets that don't allow sharing (eg,WoRMS)? #AcademicSky 🧪 ⚒️

Springtime in New York (although given the humidity, it feels more like July). World’s slimmest skyscraper at left.

Last day of work at the coolest sabbatical job ever. Thanks to the team for letting me fulfill a childhood dream.

I'll be traveling from Penn Station or Grand Central Station NYC to Yankee Stadium. Is there a train that is above ground so I can see the city, or are they all subways?

📢 Paper alert! Excited to share the first publication of my PhD!😁 We analysed fossil occurrences of the last 23 Ma to understand how geographic range change relates to extinction risk.🌍🐚🪸🦈 Keen to learn more? Here is the paper: 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

The Extinction Risk–Range Change Relationship: Evidence From the Fossil Record

Aim Climate change is a major driver for the wave of species extinctions predicted for this century. Extinction risk assessments are often estimated from climate-driven reductions in the geographic .....

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I drove through my old college town last week, and I'm happy to report that despite the gray skies, Ithaca is still gorges.

You’ve heard of ecosystem engineers. Earth system engineers have even larger, longer impacts on the planet. 🌏 🧪 #ExtremeEarthMakeover

Earth System Engineers Take Planetary Alterations to Extreme Scales - Eos

A new framework argues Earth scientists should employ the concept of ecosystem engineering across geologic time and space.

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I don't understand why we ever used "citizen science". I've always preferred "community science".

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

For me, the best moment of the Olympics was Ami Nakai not realizing that she had won bronze in her first Olympics, then seeing her score, double-checking with Alysa Liu, and Alysa coming over to celebrate with her before Alysa had even celebrated her own win. So heartwarming.

Can anyone tell me what this might be? Found on the limestone base of a sculpture at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. #fossil #marine #limestone

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Super Bowl Sunday: the best time to… go grocery shopping

Swarthmore College is hiring a 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics. We're a Math+Stat dept. with ~23 faculty. Friendly colleagues, excellent students, beautiful campus, convenient location (Philly suburbs). Happy to answer any questions. www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27... #AcademicSky 🧪

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis! Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure

Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

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I found a new example for my collection of False Sepkoski Curves: the S&P 500 over the last 35 years. This one is the best yet. You can see the Cambrian explosion, the Ordovician diversification, the Paleozoic plateau, the Devonian, Permian, and Cretaceous mass extinctions, and Cenozoic radiation.

This is what I get for not taking @stevewang251.bsky.social ‘s class.

I learned about these because Swarthmore prof Steve Wang used these for baseball stats. www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/s...

Professor Puts a Face on the Performance of Baseball Managers (Published 2008)

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Read the Bill James Baseball Abstract when I was 11 & decided I wanted to be a baseball statistician, long before that was an actual career. In college I discovered academic stats wasn't like baseball "stats", but I liked it & kept doing it. Got into statistical paleontology just by serendipity.

Recurse Center@recurse.com · 9mo ago

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

Opinion: ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time

Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…

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When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time

Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…

sciencedirect.com

The new Martin Hall at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social is spectacular