Nick Green
@greenquanteco.bsky.social
Ecologist and biostatistician at a university, doing math about animals and other things. Also a dad. Opinions are my own.
An in-class discussion of this paper in my comparative anatomy class would either be the best idea or the worst idea ever. #anatomy #academicsky #academicfreedom #zoology
Why is the human #penis unusually large compared to other primates? @upama.bsky.social @mikejennions.bsky.social &co show that #genital size is a cue for male-male assessment in humans, so #PenisSize likely evolved due to both female choice & male-male rivalry @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45tjF33
January 23, 2026 at 6:40 PM
An in-class discussion of this paper in my comparative anatomy class would either be the best idea or the worst idea ever. #anatomy #academicsky #academicfreedom #zoology
When p = 0.050002, what are we really doing? #rstats #academicsky
January 22, 2026 at 7:38 PM
When p = 0.050002, what are we really doing? #rstats #academicsky
Sunday: I can clean up that manuscript and submit it by the end of the year on Wednesday.
Monday: Hmm, what if I completely reconceptualized the data analysis? I can clean this up on Tuesday.
Monday: Hmm, what if I completely reconceptualized the data analysis? I can clean this up on Tuesday.
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sunday: I can clean up that manuscript and submit it by the end of the year on Wednesday.
Monday: Hmm, what if I completely reconceptualized the data analysis? I can clean this up on Tuesday.
Monday: Hmm, what if I completely reconceptualized the data analysis? I can clean this up on Tuesday.
I think I'm going to put this on my annual review.
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I think I'm going to put this on my annual review.
Proud of my home state twice in one week.
MAJOR BREAKING: Despite Trump's threats, the Indiana State Senate has REJECTED the Trump-backed 9-0 gerrymandered map, leaving the existing 7-2 map in place.
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Proud of my home state twice in one week.
Why do urban ecology in Atlanta? For one thing, it's much more forested than most other cities >100k population in CONUS, so likely a very different landscape for wildlife. Figure made with Census Bureau and NLCD data. #rstats #opendata #urbanecology
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Why do urban ecology in Atlanta? For one thing, it's much more forested than most other cities >100k population in CONUS, so likely a very different landscape for wildlife. Figure made with Census Bureau and NLCD data. #rstats #opendata #urbanecology
It's not often I get to be proud of my home state, but GO HOOSIERS! Big 10 champs and #1 #cfb #indiana #big10
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Indiana 13-10 Ohio State (Dec 6, 2025) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Indiana Hoosiers vs. Ohio State Buckeyes NCAAF game, final score 13-10, from December 6, 2025 on ESPN.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It's not often I get to be proud of my home state, but GO HOOSIERS! Big 10 champs and #1 #cfb #indiana #big10
www.espn.com/college-foot...
www.espn.com/college-foot...
Congratulations to new lab alum Sydney Morton! Story about her population genetics research below:
www.kennesaw.edu/graduate/abo...
www.kennesaw.edu/graduate/abo...
KSU Graduate Student Investigates How Human Activity Shapes Wildlife Behavior and Health.
Ever since she was little, Sydney Morton knew she wanted to work in a career that allowed her to work with animals. She began her professional journey during high school by shadowing veterinarians, an...
www.kennesaw.edu
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Congratulations to new lab alum Sydney Morton! Story about her population genetics research below:
www.kennesaw.edu/graduate/abo...
www.kennesaw.edu/graduate/abo...
5 year old son tonight: What is the number 8?
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
5 year old son tonight: What is the number 8?
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Digitizing P. maniculatus growth data for a class exercise from a paper published in 1942... I'm always fascinated by papers and books published on obscure topics like this during the war. Dice and Bradley 1942, J. Mammalogy. #rstats #biology #mice #academicsky
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Digitizing P. maniculatus growth data for a class exercise from a paper published in 1942... I'm always fascinated by papers and books published on obscure topics like this during the war. Dice and Bradley 1942, J. Mammalogy. #rstats #biology #mice #academicsky
Vert Zoology lab today is craniometry...students are measuring skulls of mice we collected back in September. One of the coolest labs I've ever run but apparently I'm not the only one who needs reading glasses.
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Vert Zoology lab today is craniometry...students are measuring skulls of mice we collected back in September. One of the coolest labs I've ever run but apparently I'm not the only one who needs reading glasses.
"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature... But if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it can only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil." Charles Darwin
October 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature... But if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it can only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil." Charles Darwin
It's a little scary how much of my research involves running terminal commands from complete strangers on Google to help install software from complete strangers' GitHub repos. #Rstats #opensource
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's a little scary how much of my research involves running terminal commands from complete strangers on Google to help install software from complete strangers' GitHub repos. #Rstats #opensource
January me: I should move these folders of original field data sheets to my office for safekeeping.
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
January me: I should move these folders of original field data sheets to my office for safekeeping.
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
I'm starting to see ads for a drug for a disease I've never heard of before. Does the algorithm know something I don't?
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm starting to see ads for a drug for a disease I've never heard of before. Does the algorithm know something I don't?
It's not work, it's bureaucracy.
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's not work, it's bureaucracy.
My question is, why would fair use apply differently to AI models than to any other situation? Just because copyright is violated faster doesn't mean it's not being violated.
A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit
A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
n.pr
September 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My question is, why would fair use apply differently to AI models than to any other situation? Just because copyright is violated faster doesn't mean it's not being violated.
Databases like these are essential for a lot of my research, and for my Comparative Anatomy course. Awesome publication!
New paper alert: 42 ecological traits for all 6,000+ valid species of #Neotropical_freshwater_fishes, the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna on Earth. A foundation for future studies on the ecology and conservation of tropical aquatic biodiversity.
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Databases like these are essential for a lot of my research, and for my Comparative Anatomy course. Awesome publication!
As of today I am officially a tenured Associate Professor of Biology! Unless I have to use up all my old Assistant Prof. business cards first, in which case this might take effect by 2038.
July 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As of today I am officially a tenured Associate Professor of Biology! Unless I have to use up all my old Assistant Prof. business cards first, in which case this might take effect by 2038.
We *could* have a system where a lover's quarrel could never have geopolitical consequences, but I guess that would be communism.
June 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We *could* have a system where a lover's quarrel could never have geopolitical consequences, but I guess that would be communism.
Just discovered that one of my favorite packages, 'propagate', has been removed from CRAN with R v4.5. Does anyone know a good substitute? #rstats
May 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just discovered that one of my favorite packages, 'propagate', has been removed from CRAN with R v4.5. Does anyone know a good substitute? #rstats