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Pablo Gómez Barreiro
@pagomba.bsky.social
🌱 Seeds |🌿 Plants |📜Academic publishing
Most limited of all specialists. Infamous bibliometrician. Amateur photographer of tiny things 📷🔬.
👨‍💻 Too much R. Proud father of #MDPIexploreR.
📈 Surfing the strain: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327
🍄 It’s emoji season 🍄
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Do I spot the @rbgkew.bsky.social's Palm House in The Sandman? 🤗
August 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Meanwhile, in "Travel to Mars-like Places on Earth: A New Branch of Sustainable Ecotourism in Lut Desert World Heritage Site, Iran" www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15...
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Working with lithium chloride solutions to control relative humidity (niche, we know)? We just published a paper + app for you:

📰 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ista...

🖥 pagoba.shinyapps.io/LiClcalc/

Use these tools to make, tweak, or mix solutions to hit your RH target.
#seedscience
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’ve accidentally become a landlord. My tenant is threatening legal action over privacy violations. What are my rights?
📷🐝.
Also... flats available, please call for more info.
#bees #bughotel
May 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Wood anemone season AND good weather? 🎉
March 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Good news aside, Sesbania's pill-shaped seeds are in my top five favorite Fabaceae #seed shapes.
💊

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Yikes.
January 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
New preprint just available. Can germination of highly variable tree #seeds be predicted using images? 🌱📸.
We analyzed thousands of individual colour & X-ray seed images from 5 UK tree species, using XGBoost & CNN models to find out.
with @robertadayrell.bsky.social
#plantSci 🌲🧪🌿 #SeedScience
January 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Amateurs!
January 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Why Are So Many Bird Flowers Red? So You Want Your Child to Be a Genius? Who Are You Calling a Squirt? What Is the Hobbit?. These are all titles of scientific articles. Perhaps they’re designed as clickbait? This is a quick analysis of articles ending with question marks in the #PLOS corpus. 🧪
December 24, 2024 at 5:46 PM
December 14, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Sweet and Spicy.
Happy to discover #tidyTuesday is live in Bluesky. Set some time aside to play with this week perfume data 🌸✨
Here's my take on "Fragrance accord release trends (2000–2024)".
Code: github.com/pgomba/TidyT...

#RStats #ggplot
December 10, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Screenshots with answers below. More info here: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/....
Re: Languages. I don't know, but is fair to assume English majority.
December 9, 2024 at 7:30 AM
December 8, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Some Sunday silly code to 'pixelize' images in #R with a mix of magick and #ggplot2! My sincere apologies to Nintendo and the Jim Henson Company. pixelize() function and examples available here: github.com/pgomba/pixel...
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
December 5, 2024 at 7:31 AM
I can do worst too!
December 4, 2024 at 3:34 PM
I have yet to figure out where I messed up the ggplot code, but the result isn't bad-looking!
#ggplot 🎨
December 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM
And my favourite version of this picture...
December 2, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Every time I see these, I can’t help but think of the Fraggle Rocks. I don't know why
December 2, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise plant) #seeds are equipped with orange hair-like arils to attract birds and aid in their dispersal 🐦🌱🧪.
December 2, 2024 at 10:44 PM
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 PM
🧪🌲 Friday Quiz!
As #NationalTreeWeek comes to a close, can you name these four seedlings of well-known UK native trees? 🌱
Tips and answers here: www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
November 29, 2024 at 11:06 AM
🚧 Testing new #MDPIexploreR functionalities under development! 🚧
🔍 Focus: Proteomes (MDPI) | @mattpadula.bsky.social
📊 Insights:
🕒 Avg. turnaround time (last month): 35 days
📂 Articles in special issues: HIGH
📈 Journal growing: No
R package:
👉 pgomba.github.io/MDPI_explorer/ 🧪
November 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM