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Bob O’Hara
@bobohara.bsky.social
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Hiding on social media from unpleasant people. Prof of statistics at NTNU in Norway
ORCID: 0000-0001-9737-3724
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bobohara.bsky.social
That was really tough

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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
That was a big chasm forming…

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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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dadsaysjokes.com
My wife and I are sitting on the couch watching TV and I hear a text, realizing | left my phone in the kitchen.

I get up, go to the kitchen to check it... and it's a text from my wife: "Please bring the chips on your way back
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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edrybicki.bsky.social
This is The Academic Way 😎
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
Hey @vdveenb.bsky.social something to work on in Germany. Apparently adding categorical traits into PCA is hard
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
This is lining up to be an epic thread demonstrating why most people either definitely should or definitely should not be taxonomists
tapani-hopkins.bsky.social Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 5d
Well here goes. But could someone please, pretty please, finally split the genus Enicospilus?

That's nowhere near the end of the key to just the known African species. 🧪
Picture of an identification key in a book. It's got to key couplet 100 or so, with really clear (ahem) things to look for in your wasp like "Proximal sclerite more or less L-shaped".
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
Ouch
nccomfort.bsky.social Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 2d
Appreciate you. Not that I know of. Maddox (2002) remains the definitive Franklin. Unless you count the forthcoming opera.

Manhattan Project, double helix, & Nobel Prize notwithstanding, Wilkins still manages to be petty, bitter, and magisterially boring.
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
Tricky today

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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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draustphd.bsky.social
The account Cobb & Comfort set out sounds much more like what I heard from my late father, who joined the King's lab as a grad student a yr later (54), worked there til 1970, & shared a lab bench w Ray Gosling. Dad summarised this 'consensus view' in a letter to the THE after Cricks death in 2004.
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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matthewcobb.bsky.social
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
I like anagrams

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November 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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alixwzl.bsky.social
Just realised @xkcd.com turned 20 in September. I read it religiously during my undergrad, 2006-2010, and hadn't remembered how close to the start that was! There are many excellent strips, but two in particular capture so much of my attitudes to life (150 and 1211).

What are your favourites?
XKCD 150, 'Grown ups', a linear four-panel comic illustrated primarily with simple lines in black and white. In the first, one stick figure is talking through an open door to a second stick figure, who is shown surrounded by colourful balls. Dialogue: 1: "Hey, I was wondering if you had plans for-- holy crap, what happened to your apartment?" 2: "I filled it with playpen balls!" 1: "I... What? Why?" Panel 2 looks straight through the door to the figure in the ball pen. 2: "Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means." Panel 3 shows just the figure outside the door, looking in, with no text. Panel 4 shows the open door, balls spilling out through it, with no characters. A red heart is coming out through the door. XKCD 1211, 'Birds and dinosaurs'. A vertically arranged comic without clear panels and mostly black text. At the top is the text "By any reasonable definition, T. rex is more closely related to sparrows than to Stegosaurus." Below this a simplified black phylogenetic tree is annotated with red lines showing that this is true for separation by time and for phylogenetic distance, with red skeletons underneath illustrating it is true for physical similarity. Under this is text reading "Birds aren't descended from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs." The next block of text reads "Which means the fastest animal alive today is a small carnivorous dinosaur, Falco peregrinus.' Under this is a silhouette of a bird of prey diving on a passerine bird, then the words "It preys mainly on other dinosaurs, which it strikes and kills in midair with its claws." A final line of red text at the bottom reads "This is a good world."
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
That was tough, but I got a nice picture of a flagpole out of it

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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
Accretion of green today

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November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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katzish.bsky.social
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
ryanjreilly.com Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
bobohara.bsky.social
A bit late today…

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November 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
I should have gone for the wild guess earlier

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November 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
I really want to comment on the answer, but I don’t want to give any clues

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November 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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sanho.bsky.social
The moment it all went pear shaped.
Hundreds of pears exploding from the truck.
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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oglaf.bsky.social
www.oglaf.com/flittermouse/
It's like 'interview with the vampire' but if the interview was more of a flirt piece
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
bobohara.bsky.social
A post to share & enjoy
andrewqmr.bsky.social Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 9d
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
The sun peeking round a verdant peak

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November 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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alomshaha.bsky.social
Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
Not as bad as I feared

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November 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
bobohara.bsky.social
That was easy, eventually

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October 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM