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Dax Kellie
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Data Analyst & Science Lead at the Atlas of Living Australia | Evolutionary biologist & social psychologist (PhD) 🧪 | #rstats 📊 | Music enthusiast 🎵

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C’mon Santa please bring that ID!
a young boy is covering his face with his hands while sitting on a bed .
Alt: a young boy is crossing his fingers on both hands wishing for something as hard as possible
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December 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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These photos were made by talented scientists and citizen scientists (not me!). Photo credits are in the alt text
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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This is so friggin good 🤩 Thanks for sharing, it’s a wonderful resource!
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Ooo yes of course! I used {styler} so much to help me format messy code into something readable over the years, so {Air} is definitely an important part of this clean code workflow. Thanks!
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I am blinking with great enthusiasm for helping scientists code better 😆
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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The paper goes onto discuss how this long, coiled optic nerve trait is unique. Similar nerve structures are only found in a few animals, including the Stalk-eye fly which has some of the strangest eyes on the planet
An excerpt from the paper "Low neck mobility, combined with a mainly motionless posture, might have precipitated the decoupled eye movements and extensive eye rotation, and this association was previously reported in the seventeenth century. Thus chameleons, with their large orbits and extensive capacity for rotation, may benefit from the slack provided by the coiled optic nerve. Wavy fibers have been identified in the optic nerves of rats, which allow the nerves to “stretch”, but such fibers have not been found in the chameleon optic nerve. Convoluted optic nerve paths have been described in the larvae of the Ribbon Sawtail Fish (Idiacanthus fasciola). The eyes in the larval stage are supported by long stalks with a long optic nerve posterior to the stalk, but as these fish mature, the optic nerve shows gradual retraction and reduction of coiling. The occurrence of coiled optic nerves have also been reported among invertebrates; in the Stalk-eye Fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei long, coiled optic nerves develop inside the lumen during pupation, allowing for the rapid inflation and elongation of the eye stalks following eclosion."
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM