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Michael Rosenberg
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Evolutionary Biologist, Data Scientist, Amateur Fiddler Crab Wrangler

I don't so much focus on specific topics as meander randomly through the topical landscape, like a broken adaptive model that doesn't realize downhill isn't supposed to be an option.
Since the actual time (dT') is measured by the lecturer, the apparent length of time according to your mental reference frame (dT) dilates and becomes longer than the actual time. According to the relativity formula, dT = dT' / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2).
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
and meta-analytic rain cloud plots
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
rainforest plots
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
MetaWin 3.1.0 released today

Available at www.metawinsoft.com

Major new features are a number of additional data graphing options, including:
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We just got one of those about six weeks ago!
June 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
However, one of Carl Thurman’s students (Abby Hutchins) recently wrote an undergraduate thesis describing all of the Atlantic fiddler crab species, including a color photo of each. In this thesis, she has the following photo for virens, describing it as “typical color of live M. virens”. 38/42
June 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
virens is supposedly green
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June 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
longisignalis is aqua
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June 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
rapax is gray (frequently with light purple speckles)
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June 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
minax is an olive-tan (and frequently—although not always—has red markings along some of its joints)
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June 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
pugnax is cobalt blue
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June 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM

Introducing our new, ~3 months old, fur babies: Abby and Normal

Abby is very dark brown (not quite black) with very subtle striping and silver highlights here and there. Normal is a gray tabby.

We now return you to your regular life, already in progress.
May 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Robert Sokal's lab used to record the height of lab members by marking them on the door frame. When he retired and the lab was going to be renovated, we recorded the data for posterity. The distributions of the heights, when categorized by the sex of the researcher, was amusing:
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We have achieved full fluff
January 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Preparing for fall graduation, as one does
December 14, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Finally, a juvenile Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) who decided to brave the rain and watch us pack up as we were preparing to leave this particular location. 🧪

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
We'll end with a pair of primates. First, a Central American White-faced Capuchin (Cebus imitator). 🧪

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
This Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) sitting in the rain knows that death eventually comes for us all. 🧪🦉

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The first of two mostly black birds, a Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens) is perched in a tree. Always surprises me when large birds are hanging out in trees. 🧪🦉

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The Costa Rican Redleg Tarantula (Abdomegaphobema mesomelas) is not the most subtle of spiders. 🧪

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
A Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) is hanging out in a tree, as one does. 🧪🦉

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Gotta be careful with the Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates auratus) 🧪

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December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Let's shake things up with a Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus). 🧪🦉

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December 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Not to be outdone, we'll also give you a two-toed sloth, Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) just hangin' from a tree. 🧪

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December 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM