Nick Green
@greenquanteco.bsky.social
Ecologist and biostatistician at a university, doing math about animals and other things. Also a dad. Opinions are my own.
5 year old son tonight: What is the number 8?
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
5 year old son tonight: What is the number 8?
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Me: It's...8.
5yo: But what IS 8?
Me: ... I really don't know what to tell you.
5yo: *Giggles and plays Ninjago*
Digitizing P. maniculatus growth data for a class exercise from a paper published in 1942... I'm always fascinated by papers and books published on obscure topics like this during the war. Dice and Bradley 1942, J. Mammalogy. #rstats #biology #mice #academicsky
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Digitizing P. maniculatus growth data for a class exercise from a paper published in 1942... I'm always fascinated by papers and books published on obscure topics like this during the war. Dice and Bradley 1942, J. Mammalogy. #rstats #biology #mice #academicsky
Vert Zoology lab today is craniometry...students are measuring skulls of mice we collected back in September. One of the coolest labs I've ever run but apparently I'm not the only one who needs reading glasses.
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Vert Zoology lab today is craniometry...students are measuring skulls of mice we collected back in September. One of the coolest labs I've ever run but apparently I'm not the only one who needs reading glasses.
"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature... But if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it can only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil." Charles Darwin
October 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature... But if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it can only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil." Charles Darwin
It's a little scary how much of my research involves running terminal commands from complete strangers on Google to help install software from complete strangers' GitHub repos. #Rstats #opensource
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's a little scary how much of my research involves running terminal commands from complete strangers on Google to help install software from complete strangers' GitHub repos. #Rstats #opensource
January me: I should move these folders of original field data sheets to my office for safekeeping.
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
January me: I should move these folders of original field data sheets to my office for safekeeping.
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
Today me: who took the data sheets out of the lab!?
I'm starting to see ads for a drug for a disease I've never heard of before. Does the algorithm know something I don't?
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm starting to see ads for a drug for a disease I've never heard of before. Does the algorithm know something I don't?
It's not work, it's bureaucracy.
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's not work, it's bureaucracy.
My question is, why would fair use apply differently to AI models than to any other situation? Just because copyright is violated faster doesn't mean it's not being violated.
A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit
A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
n.pr
September 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My question is, why would fair use apply differently to AI models than to any other situation? Just because copyright is violated faster doesn't mean it's not being violated.
Databases like these are essential for a lot of my research, and for my Comparative Anatomy course. Awesome publication!
New paper alert: 42 ecological traits for all 6,000+ valid species of #Neotropical_freshwater_fishes, the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna on Earth. A foundation for future studies on the ecology and conservation of tropical aquatic biodiversity.
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Databases like these are essential for a lot of my research, and for my Comparative Anatomy course. Awesome publication!
As of today I am officially a tenured Associate Professor of Biology! Unless I have to use up all my old Assistant Prof. business cards first, in which case this might take effect by 2038.
July 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As of today I am officially a tenured Associate Professor of Biology! Unless I have to use up all my old Assistant Prof. business cards first, in which case this might take effect by 2038.
We *could* have a system where a lover's quarrel could never have geopolitical consequences, but I guess that would be communism.
June 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We *could* have a system where a lover's quarrel could never have geopolitical consequences, but I guess that would be communism.
Just discovered that one of my favorite packages, 'propagate', has been removed from CRAN with R v4.5. Does anyone know a good substitute? #rstats
May 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just discovered that one of my favorite packages, 'propagate', has been removed from CRAN with R v4.5. Does anyone know a good substitute? #rstats
Black Mirror s7e3 Hotel Reverie was also the best holodeck episode to date. #blackmirror #startrek #scifi
April 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Black Mirror s7e3 Hotel Reverie was also the best holodeck episode to date. #blackmirror #startrek #scifi
5 hours into to my administrivia backlog, and no end in site. At this point even grading sounds nice. #academicsky #highered
April 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
5 hours into to my administrivia backlog, and no end in site. At this point even grading sounds nice. #academicsky #highered
Parenthood is navigating situations where the Easter Bunny only takes cash
April 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Parenthood is navigating situations where the Easter Bunny only takes cash
At this point any #msm outlet expressing surprise or shock about the stock market should be considered state media. They *promised* to crash the economy like this. They knew exactly what would happen, and the right question is about why they did it. Report on that. #tariffs #news #media
April 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How much of the push to use AI in organizations is just the desire to avoid the cost of--and responsibility for--properly encoding and documenting decision-making processes? #ai
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How much of the push to use AI in organizations is just the desire to avoid the cost of--and responsibility for--properly encoding and documenting decision-making processes? #ai
After carefully hoarding a pack of screen protectors for 5 years, I finally let myself put a new one on my phone. Turns out they were for a different phone. #tech #millennial
March 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
After carefully hoarding a pack of screen protectors for 5 years, I finally let myself put a new one on my phone. Turns out they were for a different phone. #tech #millennial