Brian O'Meara
@omearabrian.bsky.social
I study diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & similar questions, often using new methods. Also random coding projects. College prof living in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. Opinions my own. He/Him
I mean, by the standard of “hey, sorta looks like = deextinct” it’s already happened: scaly herps dropping onto animals below from trees:
weather.com/nature/wild-...
weather.com/nature/wild-...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I mean, by the standard of “hey, sorta looks like = deextinct” it’s already happened: scaly herps dropping onto animals below from trees:
weather.com/nature/wild-...
weather.com/nature/wild-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposted by Brian O'Meara
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November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Thanks! Peter Wainwright started a conversation at UC Davis on how rate and disparity could be different and how best to measure this, leading eventually to this paper.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Thanks! Peter Wainwright started a conversation at UC Davis on how rate and disparity could be different and how best to measure this, leading eventually to this paper.
Reposted by Brian O'Meara
I embedded all the talks on one page here: doi.org/10.59350/xyj... #Rstats
posit::conf(2025) talks on YouTube
Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube
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November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I embedded all the talks on one page here: doi.org/10.59350/xyj... #Rstats
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Prints and and posters are now available for sale!
They'll ship anywhere world-wide plastic-free and 5% of profits will go to bird rescue in NYC.
There's the big one, and then passerine, parrot & hummingbird editions.
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They'll ship anywhere world-wide plastic-free and 5% of profits will go to bird rescue in NYC.
There's the big one, and then passerine, parrot & hummingbird editions.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊🎨🎁
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Prints and and posters are now available for sale!
They'll ship anywhere world-wide plastic-free and 5% of profits will go to bird rescue in NYC.
There's the big one, and then passerine, parrot & hummingbird editions.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊🎨🎁
They'll ship anywhere world-wide plastic-free and 5% of profits will go to bird rescue in NYC.
There's the big one, and then passerine, parrot & hummingbird editions.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊🎨🎁
And everyone starts somewhere and can feel ridiculous when first starting. But the accessories can be very silly.
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And everyone starts somewhere and can feel ridiculous when first starting. But the accessories can be very silly.
Ah, but if you do wealth per capita, it looks even better: the singularity = end of scarcity line continues to shoot up, but so does the singularity = human extinction one: one person eventually owns ALL the things, even if economic production ceases.
I want to make Financial Times charts, too
😉
I want to make Financial Times charts, too
😉
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ah, but if you do wealth per capita, it looks even better: the singularity = end of scarcity line continues to shoot up, but so does the singularity = human extinction one: one person eventually owns ALL the things, even if economic production ceases.
I want to make Financial Times charts, too
😉
I want to make Financial Times charts, too
😉