We didn't use this ad from 3 Systems for copyright reasons, but it shows the company playing with the tension between woodwork (natural, artisinal, virtuous!) and epoxy (artificial, industrial, maybe not something to be so proud of).

#ramp season here. We're in a drought but the snow melt left enough water in the soil to get things green

I keep trying to humor colleagues who say they are using LLMs across their research programs. Meanwhile, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity all failed to be honest in a simple OCR task. ("held", which is a typo in this transcript, is always presented as "head.")

The lost art of the hand drawn chart (Owen, Prosperity without progress, 1984). I feel like all the new data viz tools are making charts worse, not better...

Got the collector item of the year

Collecting specimens (Asclepius syriaca I think?)

I'm hoping to find a collaborator in #egyptology for a paper who can weigh in on whether the hieroglyphs in this ad are a bunch of nonsense (or not?). Message me for details!

Surely there is a dissertation somewhere in here (digital.hagley.org/MSS_2407_048...) (the report asks "what have been the attitudes of men toward their hair in other periods of history and what can learn from this?")

Fall color 🍂🍁

Two good looking fellows

#fungalfriday timeline cleanse

If you're wondering "why is my article still under review?" or "why aren't there published reviews of my book yet?", the answer is... (ps everyone who suggests alternates when they decline an invitation gets a gold star 👍)

#durianstudies