This week I learned that being queer is a political issue and therefore not appropriate for my bio or title. Here I thought it was just my actual identity... silly me. Thanks BYUradio | Podcast Network for teaching me how to be a better scientist.

I was surprised when my daughter said she learned R at school yesterday, and then I remembered that she's 4 and she meant the letter. My priors are all too skewed

Saw on recent covid news that the resident statistician used the same r package and color scheme as my current project #goals?

It feels right to congratulate my greenhouse plants on their daily growth

ABBA brings life to data analytics

A new microbial ecology PhD student, probably: what sort of microbes colonize the sandworms in Dune, and do they aid spice production?

No one prepares you for the absolute high that comes with being able to help someone with their R code

no mom/dad, I can't just "get a postdoc" at the university in the same town that you live

what a surprise! everyone in the reading seminar hated this weeks paper because it *checks notes* weirdly formatted a table

Give your laptop a break OpenAcademics Academic Chatter™ #academictwitter

Kevin Ricks and I are excited about our Brachypodium babies ❤️🌱

After a couple years, my parents are finally starting to understand how the academic system works. Consequently, when I talk to them these days, they’ve stopped asking me about why I won’t give them grandkids, but rather why I’m not publishing fast enough.

Realizing my PhD in microbial ecology is really a just a license to do multivariate stats in the dumbest ways possible

If you're at #ESA2022 and want to hear about the evolution of plant-microbe symbiosis and rhizobia, come check out my talk at 3:45PM on Monday in 516D (COS 38) ☘️🦠😃

While it might look like I'm taking notes on your talk at #ESA2022, and I probably should be, it's more likely I'm doodling 🫠

This paper has too many great quotes to pick just one. Such a great read. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We thank the reviewers for their very helpful suggestions which we now have incorporated in our manuscript.

This project has been a long time coming and huge slog, with me ultimately repeating an entire greenhouse experiment when we realized we were missing a necessary control. But I'm really excited that it's finally published! Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

The work of recent GEMS graduate Kevin Ricks was just featured on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s website. Give it a read! new.nsf.gov/news/soil-micr…