More highlights from 2025. The old forefinger came in handy a few times this year, usually as a scale. Micro botany on the beach at Sinah Common, Hayling Island, Hampshire with Little-Robin Geranium purpureum ssp. forsteri and Sand Cat's-tail Phleum arenarium. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Capturing birds overhead is SO HARD. Been trying to capture this hawk nearby for ages. Heard its call, sprinted outside. It was SO CLOSE but I kept missing the autofocus. Id miss the shot and the bird would disappear in the viewfinder. Anyone got tips?

#birds
#birdphotography
#hawk

Magpie negotiations falling through. One of my favorite photos I've taken this year.

#birding
#birdphotography
#photography
#wildlifephotography
#naturephotography

My work laptop got forced over to windows 11 and why in the world does notepad of all things have SMOOTH SCROLLING? You cant even disable it apparently?

It finally has dark mode now but at what cost...

Caught these two double crested cormorants at the lake a while back. Crazy looking birds I love them so much.

#birds
#birdphotography
#birding
#canonr10
#photography
#wildlifephotography

Gonna start posting some of my photography here for fun. See how it goes.

Below is what I believe to be a Two-Spotted Longhorn Bee at work. Really cute little guy!

Photo metadata in the alt text.

#bee
#photography
#beephotography
#canon
#canonr10

Anyone have experience working with “Statistics Without Borders”? Its a volunteer outreach group under the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Am curious about getting involved in it once my school responsibilities lighten up and wanted to learn more about what its like.

#statsky #stats

Oh my god getting any work done this week is impossible my brain refuses.

I really hate math problems that are a massive frustrating pain in the ass but end up being cool enough that you keep thinking about them days later. NO, YOU RUINED MY WEEKEND I WANT TO HATE YOU. I don't want to develop a deeper appreciation I want SPITE.

How does anyone stomach LinkedIn my entire feed is just AI evangelists spewing whatever nonsense came to them in a dream that night while unironically referring to themselves as "thought leaders".

It's like this abyss where only the strangest startup and corporate cryptids survive.

So if I just pretend the structural issues in my model aren't there do they go away eventually? 🙈

#statistics #statsky

The student dream is spending all of thanksgiving break feeling guilty about enjoying any part of thanksgiving break.

I’ve worked all week on my final regression project and still feel guilty taking the evening off tonight.

Anyone actually take this week off or we all struggling?

#gradschool

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

I made one for stats papers

Is there a system in grad school like in prison where my sentence can be shortened due to good behavior? I’ve been good just give me my degree a few semesters early whats the harm?

#gradschool #academicsky