Christopher Anderson
@cranders.bsky.social
PhC at UW/Seattle
Computational ecologist interested in plant/pollinator communities and mutualistic networks.
Will occasionally live skeet Suns games.
he/him.
Seattle/UW
Computational ecologist interested in plant/pollinator communities and mutualistic networks.
Will occasionally live skeet Suns games.
he/him.
Seattle/UW
Oh no. The Functional Fabric Fair is overlapping with the Entomology Conference in Portland. Last night a scientist who studies fiber-eating moths was cornered by a group of weavers in a dark corridor. Things escalated and the scientist has been badly injured.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Oh no. The Functional Fabric Fair is overlapping with the Entomology Conference in Portland. Last night a scientist who studies fiber-eating moths was cornered by a group of weavers in a dark corridor. Things escalated and the scientist has been badly injured.
Just presented at #EntSoc25! All about the benefits and challenges of using autonomous camera sampling and machine learning to study plant/pollinator interactions.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Just presented at #EntSoc25! All about the benefits and challenges of using autonomous camera sampling and machine learning to study plant/pollinator interactions.
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Reading a really nice paper on equilibrium (or lack thereof) in ecology and it has one of the most ecology coded passages I've read in a while:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reading a really nice paper on equilibrium (or lack thereof) in ecology and it has one of the most ecology coded passages I've read in a while:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm so happy to be able to post this for the first time in years. No expectations, but let's fucking go Suns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...
SUNS WIN!
YouTube video by By The Bayou
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October 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I'm so happy to be able to post this for the first time in years. No expectations, but let's fucking go Suns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...
All I want is for the vibes to be better for the Suns this year. The team has just been so hard to watch the last couple of years. Go Suns!
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
All I want is for the vibes to be better for the Suns this year. The team has just been so hard to watch the last couple of years. Go Suns!
Me seeing Lakers fans finally realize how much of a drag Ayton is to have on your team, no matter the price.
a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera
ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera
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October 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Me seeing Lakers fans finally realize how much of a drag Ayton is to have on your team, no matter the price.
Something that I actually kind of like about doing stats in python instead of R is that being forced to implement a lot of things by hand gives me more of an understanding of the equations that I'm using for any given analysis. I don't know if this is really a "pro".... #rstats #pystats
October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Holy cow this is incredible. I loved the Owl House but I'm so excited to see what a fully unleashed Dana Terrace can do. This *needs* to be picked up for a full series
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Holy cow this is incredible. I loved the Owl House but I'm so excited to see what a fully unleashed Dana Terrace can do. This *needs* to be picked up for a full series
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Reviewing this disinformation filled document was a colossal effort! See link in thread to sign up to receive the comment and press package.
Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Example: refuting one sentence.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Example: refuting one sentence.
August 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reviewing this disinformation filled document was a colossal effort! See link in thread to sign up to receive the comment and press package.
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I love everything about this. I also love how much it breaks some people's brains that you don't have to make yourself miserable to make art or even run a company. I have no doubt that they could have released this in a fraction of the time if they had "real" project management. But at what cost?
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.
Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.
This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.
This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make
The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
www.bloomberg.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I love everything about this. I also love how much it breaks some people's brains that you don't have to make yourself miserable to make art or even run a company. I have no doubt that they could have released this in a fraction of the time if they had "real" project management. But at what cost?
I find the argument that "LLMs might exhibit some aspects of human cognition! We might be probability machines too! So we should treat them as actual intelligence" to be really tiresome. Especially since it feels like a lot of these people wouldn't give the same consideration to animal cognition.
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I find the argument that "LLMs might exhibit some aspects of human cognition! We might be probability machines too! So we should treat them as actual intelligence" to be really tiresome. Especially since it feels like a lot of these people wouldn't give the same consideration to animal cognition.
My first ever middle school dance, I got it in my head to request "War Pigs". I guess the DJs didn't know it, because they actually played it (right after "It's getting hot in herre"). They got 30 secs into it before yelling at me that I couldn't request music anymore. RIP Ozzy. Absolute legend.
July 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My first ever middle school dance, I got it in my head to request "War Pigs". I guess the DJs didn't know it, because they actually played it (right after "It's getting hot in herre"). They got 30 secs into it before yelling at me that I couldn't request music anymore. RIP Ozzy. Absolute legend.
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After long and ardent thought, I have come up with what I believe to be the definitive Philosophy of AI:
It sucks.
It sucks.
July 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
After long and ardent thought, I have come up with what I believe to be the definitive Philosophy of AI:
It sucks.
It sucks.
This is a fascinating thread and is close to something I’ve been thinking about since this tragedy, the replacement of local expertise by a kind of suburban willful ignorance that local environment and ecosystems matter when you move to a new place.
As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.
There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵
There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is a fascinating thread and is close to something I’ve been thinking about since this tragedy, the replacement of local expertise by a kind of suburban willful ignorance that local environment and ecosystems matter when you move to a new place.
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The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
July 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
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This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.
The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.
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You Can’t Separate Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling
YouTube video by Princess Weekes
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June 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in Functional Ecology.
Packed with spore-tacular science.
A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Packed with spore-tacular science.
A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mycorrhizal networks: Understanding hidden complexity
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in Functional Ecology.
Packed with spore-tacular science.
A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Packed with spore-tacular science.
A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference
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Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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May 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference
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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...
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It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
Scientific insiders hold power for a reason. Cause they know shit. The idea that there is something wrong with our best and brightest holding power is how we get idiots who run our country into the ground. Absurd
Utterly psychotic. RFK's "unfounded beliefs and suspicions" are what separate him from legitimate critics of science and public health, he fucking lies all the time!
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
May 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
Yes! Exactly! Efficienty at the cost of effectiveness is insanity and drives the enshitification spiral.
Increasingly what our rulers mean when they say "efficiency" is not delivering more good to human beings with less waste and cost, but rather enslavement and systemic murder of human beings for more profit.
But the purpose of human beings is not efficiency.
www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...
But the purpose of human beings is not efficiency.
www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...
Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency
Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.
www.the-reframe.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yes! Exactly! Efficienty at the cost of effectiveness is insanity and drives the enshitification spiral.
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Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.
The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works.
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Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found — Assigned
A 1,000-page report by the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah, which found care safe and effective, stands out from others: It’s both independent and an actual review of the evidence.
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May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.
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