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I! Friggin! Love!! Oak! Leaf!! Pinwheel! Season!!
(Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)
(Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I! Friggin! Love!! Oak! Leaf!! Pinwheel! Season!!
(Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)
(Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)
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summer nights lit by fireflies
bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.
#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape
bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.
#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape
July 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
summer nights lit by fireflies
bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.
#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape
bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.
#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape
This is based on some research that I did with collaborators from Purdue! It's exciting to see this write up.
“A 2020 census revealed that buckthorn accounts for 36% of trees in the Chicago region…Shrubby invaders have infested nearly 80% of the region’s forests…’So if we don’t do anything … it’s just going to be buckthorn. That’s all we’ll have.’”
news.wttw.com/2025/06/09/n...
news.wttw.com/2025/06/09/n...
Nearly 80% of Chicago-Area Forests Are Infested With Invasive Plants. Ecologists Urge Homeowners to Join the Fight
If private landowners don’t remove invasives alongside natural areas, species like buckthorn will persist in forest preserves and parks, regardless of habitat restoration efforts.
news.wttw.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is based on some research that I did with collaborators from Purdue! It's exciting to see this write up.
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Join me and several distinguished tree-folk this Thursday! @lindsaydarling.bsky.social (Morton Arboretum), Elektra Fike-Data (Tree San Diego), Hamil Pearsall (Temple University), Elizabeth Riedman (US EPA) and yours truly will discuss 🌳 planting and care barriers -- and how to overcome them
February 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Join me and several distinguished tree-folk this Thursday! @lindsaydarling.bsky.social (Morton Arboretum), Elektra Fike-Data (Tree San Diego), Hamil Pearsall (Temple University), Elizabeth Riedman (US EPA) and yours truly will discuss 🌳 planting and care barriers -- and how to overcome them
Andrew's blog is always great, and this is no exception. It's a lovely science story with lots of clear code. Thanks for making the R stats world better!
New blog post! Here's an #rstats guide for how to (1) get CPS data from IPUMS and (2) compare sample and population proportions both frequentistly and Bayesianly with {brms} (with ROPEs!), and (3) make pretty plots and tables #econsky #polisky #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/01...
![Also, it’s important to check the variable details to check for availability. While basic demographic variables like age, sex, marital status, etc. are available in both the monthly surveys and in the annual ASEC, more specialized variables are not.
Variables related to philanthropy and volunteering are only available in September (since they’re part of a special CPS Volunteer Supplement), and only in some years:
[Screenshot from the IPUMS website showing the availability of the volunteer status CPS variable]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2zcfjzyocp6kapg6jc4eacok/bafkreiamtwlmxsc6yc3pdtpnttl4gbwri6o5wgzkivzkpdmdxbnbc5xb4u@jpeg)
January 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Andrew's blog is always great, and this is no exception. It's a lovely science story with lots of clear code. Thanks for making the R stats world better!
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New study where we show how diversity-productivity relationships in forests may be mediated by more complex canopies, with structural diversity driving productivity more than species diversity
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Canopy complexity drives positive effects of tree diversity on productivity in two tree diversity experiments
Forest canopy complexity (i.e., the three-dimensional structure of the canopy) is often associated with increased species diversity as well as high primary productivity across natural forests. Howeve...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New study where we show how diversity-productivity relationships in forests may be mediated by more complex canopies, with structural diversity driving productivity more than species diversity
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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THIS. All of it.
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
THIS. All of it.
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Lots of research shows that #trees aren't distributed equally across #urban landscapes, but what are the drivers of tree inequality? In our #newarticle, we look at how *land use* mediates the distribution of trees.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCz05m5d8...
Read on for our findings: 🧵 1/8
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCz05m5d8...
Read on for our findings: 🧵 1/8
December 6, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977
August 27, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977
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Hey so if you somehow want a painting or print from me that you'd like to have before a specific day it's still possible but that window is closing. And Threadless is still doing $15 tees you can get by a day if you get next day shipping. Just saying.
octophant.us/buy
octophant.us/buy
December 18, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Hey so if you somehow want a painting or print from me that you'd like to have before a specific day it's still possible but that window is closing. And Threadless is still doing $15 tees you can get by a day if you get next day shipping. Just saying.
octophant.us/buy
octophant.us/buy
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