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Heather Gaya

@heathergaya.bsky.social

Postdoc at UGA | bayesian stats, NIMBLE, JAGS | but also cat photos. All views my own. She/her pronouns. hhecoanalytics.com

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Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 17h

I just want to remind everyone that a really fun, free,!ride-to-work activity is to call your least favorite senator/rep and just waste their office phone time by expounding in length about your thoughts on their job performance. I especially enjoy wasting the time of the office of #mikecollins.

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Philip Nel, David R. Miller , and 4 more Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Philip Nel, David R. Miller, Rachel S. Franklin, Kate Jackson, David Darmofal, Heather E. Gaya

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Heather E. Gaya

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Reposted by Steven Heydemann, Jonathan Hopkin, Alan Richardson , and 4 more Steven Heydemann, Jonathan Hopkin, Alan Richardson, Mark Rice, Richard M. Carpiano, Prakash Kashwan, Heather E. Gaya

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 1d

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Reposted by Heather E. Gaya

🇨🇦 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 1d

A message for the senate democrats

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 4d

Love discovering my flight is delayed from a 7:15 boarding to an… 11:30 boarding???? #tsa #fucktrump

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 10d

Isn’t it something with turning it into a character?

Reposted by Connor Morozumi, Heather E. Gaya

Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 13d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Dana R. Fisher, Ann Bartow , and 1 more Lesley Bartlett, Dana R. Fisher, Ann Bartow, Heather E. Gaya

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

indivisible.org

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 14d

Took the puppy on her first camping trip. 10/10 fall colors and 10/10 for exhausting the pup! She like swimming and hiking, did not enjoy having to share the tent with moms

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 22d

One of us devoted a lot more time and skill to our sign but it was a great protest regardless. #noking #Georgia

Two protest signs reading, “no to fascism” and “the only orange monarch we want is a butterfly”

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · 29d

Ran a half marathon, ended up with a kitten 😅 Luckily I had also randomly trapped a cat on Friday and we knew some folks looking for a pair. The cat distribution system at its best! Two fewer cats to eat the birds and create even MORE kittens.

Tiny kitten screaming in a lady’s lap while she drives

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Oct 9

Also good code doesn’t necessarily mean good science - and only if you know what the code is doing can you catch violations or little assumptions.

It’s also frustrating to watch students use ChatGPT and then have no idea how to tweak the code themselves for small changes 😅

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Oct 3

Saw this one today and got so mad I almost forgot to look for the data I was trying to download

A government website with the warning “radical left democrats have shut down the government”

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Oct 2

I don’t doubt people are contributing but we did this study where there is limited human pressure and no supplemental feeding. Certainly didn’t stop the coyotes from flourishing.

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Oct 2

I, for one, am shocked that CWD is spreading in a state that is taking no active measures to prevent CWD from spreading 😂

CIDRAP CWD @cidrap-cwd.bsky.social · Oct 2

Georgia adds Lowndes County to #CWD zone after deer tests positive within 5 miles of border

The 2.5-year-old buck was found about 5 miles from a previous detection in adjacent Lanier County.

cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...

Photo: Judy Baxter / Flickr cc

Reposted by Heather E. Gaya

CIDRAP CWD @cidrap-cwd.bsky.social · Oct 2

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Sep 30

Seeing your own research in the news is a crazy experience! We found that lethal control is not an effective strategy and coyotes are probably just the new normal. Amazing how an article can turn a lengthy study into a sound bite 😅

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Coyote populations rebound faster than can be removed, UGA study says

Coyotes in the Atlanta metro? Removing them permanently may not be possible.

www.wsbtv.com

Reposted by Heather E. Gaya

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Sep 25

A colleague working through stats problems in my office just sighed and said “I hope my models aren’t as broken as I am” and I’m considering getting that as my next tattoo.

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Sep 15

The funny thing about urban #hunting is I’ll be literally in the middle of processing a deer and over my shoulder I’ll see several more deer trying to decide if now is a good time to eat the backyard plants or not 😅

Three female does in a suburban neighborhood next to some recycling bins

A doe standing next to a fence in a suburban backyard

Reposted by Heather E. Gaya

Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is actually possible to reaffirm publicly one's principled opposition to political violence without expressing sympathy or even praise for those who devoted their entire lives to inciting violence and propagating the most vile forms of hatred and bigotry.

Reposted by Alfie Kohn, Heather E. Gaya

Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · Sep 1

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al

Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual
Search (all the way at the bottom)

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Aug 28

The garden at our old house is flourishing, if a little chaotic. Meanwhile at the new house, the deer are eating everything, even the mint! And the hairy rattleweed!
#plantnative #killyourlawn

A native garden exploding with flowers but also tall grass that desperately needs trimming

Reposted by Heather E. Gaya

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 27

We simply do not have to live this way.

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Aug 24

The porch wrens have FINALLY fledged which means we can actually close our screened in porch after weeks of leaving it open while mom took care of babies. Unfortunately fledgling also required encouraging the babies to actually leave the deck 😅

The post author holding a Carolina wren fledgling

A Carolina wren fledging being escorted off the screened in porch

A fledging being escorted, nest and all, off the porch

sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · Aug 11

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Aug 4

Some intellectual cat photos for the day

A calico kitten screaming while being held

A grey cat with long fur being held, half asleep

A grey fluffy cat yawning, showing big teeth

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Jul 14

Well the US might be rapidly approaching fascist disaster but at least I have finally labeled and hung my second case of moths!

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Jul 12

Our integrated population model of a high density coyote population is now online! We combined data collected at irregular intervals and varying spatial scales to inform an #IPM of 18 years of #coyotes on the SRS in SC, USA. Check it out!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An integrated population model of a high‐density coyote population in South Carolina, USA

In the absence of red wolves (Canis rufus), coyote (Canis latrans) populations have expanded across the eastern United States. However, predator populations are particularly difficult to quantify, an...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Heather Gaya @heathergaya.bsky.social · Jul 9

#tarrifs are going well for American businesses I see.

Someone complaining about tariffs affecting their business. The text reads: “TIL how the Tarriff bills are paid and it’s so fucked. US Customs/ Border Patrol have access to our $$ and once a shipment clears customs, the tariff bill is literally just debited from our accounts within 7 days of a shipment clearing customs”

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