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Uriel Menalled

@urielmenalled.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech studying the #agroecology of apple orchard systems 🍎. Soon to be Assistant Professor of Agroecology at Montana State University 🏔️! #Rstats Lab website: https://urielmenalled.github.io/lab-website

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Uriel Menalled@urielmenalled.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I recommend academics look into university-hosted AI (🧵 1/2): I'm lucky enough to access Gemma 4-31B via my university's HPC using an API key to code in #rstats. For now, I've been able to avoid any (increasingly expensive) subscriptions with that and #GitHub Copilot's "free" educator AI tools.

Philip Boucher-Hayes@philipb-h.bsky.social · 4mo ago

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/

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Uriel Menalled@urielmenalled.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨A new publication is out! 🚨 My first foray into chemical ecology and plant insect interactions.

Elias H. Bloom@susta1nabeelity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our latest research on cover cropping, soil microbiomes, and plant pest defense in cash crops is now live 👇👇👇Congratulations to lead author Zoe Economos, and the authorship team @urielmenalled.bsky.social, Sarah Pethybridge, Matt Ryan, and Clare Casteel. Thank you for including me on the project!

Agroecology Coalition@agroecology.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌱Episode 1 of Agroecology Uprooted by @iatp.bsky.social looks at the current food system and the potential for a radically sustainable approach to food and agriculture: Agroecology. 🎧 Listen here: www.iatp.org/agroecology-... #Agroecology #FoodSystems #FoodSystemsTransformation

Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure

As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper.

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Uriel Menalled@urielmenalled.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How far do birds spread plant #seeds? Here's a cool paper that answers that very question. Dispersal range across plant species: - mean = 9–45 km - max = 58–521 km In the context of #agriculture, this means constant weed seed rain. #ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?

Abstract. Long-distance seed dispersal plays a crucial role in shaping plant distributions. The annual migration of millions of frugivorous birds holds sub

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Uriel Menalled@urielmenalled.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fun paper on the infamous corpse flower. One of the most interesting findings was that pollution degraded plant volatiles. Potentially, some interesting links to urban ecology, where pollution could reduce plant-insect interactions. 🤔 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Efficient Pollination Stinks: Corpse Flowers Use Floral Trapping and Persistent Emissions

Sulfur compounds dominated the female flowers of a Titan arum bloom, while the male flowers had more chemically diverse floral emissions We identified evidence toward the use of floral trapping d...

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Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · 6mo ago

New Article: "Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing" rdcu.be/e0NAR De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.

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Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal. This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second. On a laptop.

dbreg example showing how to estimate a model against a large dataset, comprising parquet files on disk. The model takes < 1 to run, including the time needed to read the data from disk. dbreg( tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name, path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", vcov = ~month, # clustered SEs strategy = "compress" # skip auto strategy overhead )
Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

Uriel Menalled@urielmenalled.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Are you stuck on the fundamentals of Bayesian analysis? For a long time, I was. Sure, I was familiar with the equation P(A|B) = [P(B|A)*P(A)] / P(B), but it was hard to internalize. To this end, I've made an #RStats workshop on Bayesian analysis. Check it out on GitHub: github.com/UrielMenalle...

GitHub - UrielMenalled/workshop-BayesianR: Learn about Bayesian analysis theory and its application in R

Learn about Bayesian analysis theory and its application in R - UrielMenalled/workshop-BayesianR

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫@ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A while ago, I wrote about the future of Kernza and perennial grain research. A concern I voiced was that, as grain yields increase, the plant would move from investing resources in roots and biomass in favor of seed yield, denuding the plants ability to curtail erosion and improve soil health. (🧵)

A field of Kernza with the sun peaking behind it