John Best
isposdef.bsky.social
John Best
@isposdef.bsky.social
🐟: Salmon, dams, spatial indices of abundance, population dynamics
📈: Bayesian, spatial, mark-recapture, state-space
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Heyyy hi, #Alaska friends and #UglyDogs

I JUST learned I am losing almost all my hours at work, with zero notice, and I’m freaaaaaking tf out. 🙃 Like, I knew the company was in trouble, but I thought I’d at least get notice?

I have a variety of skills, which I will outline in the replies here… 🤞🤞
June 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Asking you to give me rights implies that they are yours to give.” - Elizabeth Peratrovich

Happy #ElizabethPeratrovich Day!

Besides being an Alaska state holiday, what else should you know about Indigenous civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich?

SO MUCH. A 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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It was such a pleasure and an honor to sit down with Heather Evoy & her beautiful family for this story. We talked about their relationship with their languages, Sm’algya̱x and Lingít, their homelands & the crunchiness & goodness of herring eggs. 📷 Andrés Javier Camacho www.akhf.org/cradling-the...
February 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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One of the greatest line reads of all time. Tim Curry for Command And Conquer, clearly it was a one and done and he could barely stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the line. Perfection
January 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Happy to announce that @tangledwilderness.bsky.social will be publishing the third Danielle Cain book in 2025. The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice is more prequel than sequel, as our characters tell the stories of their dead friends. It's got scary things like trolls and fairies and cops.
January 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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It's been about ten years since my brain started quietly singing ZOtero zoTERo to the tune of the Totoro theme every time I open the app and I would like to file a complaint
December 11, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
March 26, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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There are four or five distinct arguments that get called "AI skepticism" and the tactic of pretending that the least serious of them—"AI is bad at hands, hurr"—represents the whole stack is very Chamber of Commerce–coded.
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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in our latest daddy issues column @sarahljaffe.bsky.social articulates our undoing of one another on a micro + macro level, grief, anger, capital, history and hope in breathtaking, raw and incredible form. you simply must read this. www.huckmag.com/article/sara...
Sarah Jaffe: “The sense of anger amongst some men is masking a form…
Our latest ‘Daddy Issues’ column features a raw and powerful interview with the American author exploring grief as a prism through which to understand the…
www.huckmag.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Preprint: a cross-cultural review of knots.

Using archaeo & anthro data, our study reveals the cultural evolution of knots across 10k years and 83 societies. With mathy methods, we show which knots are most common & how they shaped human innovation.

A knotted thread. 🧵🏺

osf.io/preprints/os...
June 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Sea Grant is accepting applications for NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant
Graduate fellowships in population and ecosystem dynamics & marine resource economics. Deadline = Jan. 23. Applicant guides at lnkd.in/dyggpSR9
November 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Just finished last week’s episode of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social ‘s podcast Weird Little Guys. Between her and @margaret.bsky.social has anyone considered renaming @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Context Zone Media?
November 25, 2024 at 4:21 AM