Morgan Gray

@morgangray.bsky.social

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Quantitative Ecologist (she/her) What: wildlife | connectivity | climate | conservation How: statistics | R | dataviz | maps

A color drawing showing a Neil the seal as a large, brown, content pile in the very center between a toppled caution cone and bent bollard. In the far background (at a safe distance) there are four admirers. Handwritten text beneath the drawing reads: “Neil is just a lonely teen who wants other huge teen seals to punch on with. Sadly he has to fight bollards and phone boxes and block roads while squishing traffic cones and fences instead.”
An open laptop with a wrist rest on both sides of the central touchpad
A cell from a comic strip that shows seven adorable cartoon whales sleeping upright on a blue watery background. The text reads: “Mammals bigger than buses that swim around singing songs — they know many things we will never understand. As for me I only recently found out sperm whales sleep upright in groups. There is so much we don’t know that we don’t even know how much we don’t know.”
Two buttons meme. Top panel shows a hand in a white glove hovering over two red buttons: “deploy spindle maneuver” and “hoist internal organs”. Bottom panel shows a white man with red shirt and white gloves from the shoulder up; his sweaty face has a distressed look and his gloved hand holds a white cloth to his face to mop up the sweat
A clip of Lucy and Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Lucy is kneeling on the grass and holding a football while spewing gaslighting nonsense at Charlie Brown. Poor Charlie Brown is listening to Lucy, then looks at the screen. We all know he fell for it (and we will see him get owned). It is at this point Libby has to shut off her camera and roll her eyes.
A freestanding, hand-carved wooden duck composed of 4 puzzle pieces. The body is made from one brown piece, the neck is a white piece, the bill is an orange piece, and the wings are green.
Book cover for “Bitter Honey: Big ag’s threat to bees and the fight to save them” by Jennie Durant.
Set of 10 radar plots. Each plot corresponds to one color, positions around the circle are emotion words, with positive words on the right and negative on the left. The larger the value the more likely the color is associated with the emotion. Black and gray are mostly negative. Blue, green, purple, orange, yellow, pink, and white are positive. Red is mixed with spikes for love (positive) and hate (negative)
Photo of a wireless wildlife camera mounted on a wooden post on a coastal dune, with the Pacific Ocean visible in the distance . The cables to the adjacent battery and solar panel are held in a tidy loop. Beneath the camera is a white sign that says “science in progress do not disturb“ in green text.
Seal point cat sitting on the back of a chair and chewing on a bamboo stick with a charming string attached
Fraction of estimated coefficients that are significantly different from 0 (given by the size of the colored dots), for different analysis methods (columns) and variable combinations (rows). We show three different sampling intervals (x-axis), where 1 means the smallest time interval (highest temporal resolution or shortest sampling interval) and 100 the lowest, and different degrees and combinations of autocorrelation in the landscape (y-axis). Note, we expect a positive coefficient for elevation (+2) and a negative coefficient (−2) for habitat feature
Schematic of the implemented analytical methods and simulation study of scenario 1. (A) For each of the replicated landscape settings with different spatial autocorrelation and their combinations, we (B) simulated 20 repetitions of nearly-continuous animal movement tracks influenced by these variables and subsampled the tracks to three different sampling intervals. (C) The tracks of different intervals were analyzed with three method variants (iSSA, RSA, and wRSA).
Surfacing sequence of the bottlenose dolphin TTRU508 with the presumed Risso's dolphin calf. Photographs taken by Carla A. Chicote—SUBMON.
Head of a small red dog asleep in a pile of blankets and pillows
Title: Female tortoises were healthier in places with fewer males Subtitle: Average body condition of female and male Hermann's tortoises for three locations at Lake Prespa, North Macedonia: Beach (teal), Konjsko (yellow), and Plateau (brown) locations (Summer records only; no 2013 data). A higher score indicates a healthier animal. Circle size shows how many individuals were measured per timepoint. Notably, Plateau males consistently had the most records. Figure: Two horizontal line plots showing average body condition (y-axis) by year (x-axis), each with three lines corresponding to Beach (teal), Konjsko (yellow), and Plateau (brown) locations. The annual record counts is depicted as a circle overlaid on each line. Female body condition (upper plot) values for Konjsko are consistently higher than those for Beach and Plateau, demonstrated by the yellow line that is above and distinct from the teal and brown lines. Male body condition values for Konjsko lack this trend, demonstrated by the overlap between the lines for the three locations. The record count for males at Plateau are very large across all time points. Caption: Source: Sex Ratio Bias Triggers Demographic Suicide in a Dense Tortoise Population (Arsovski et al. 2026) | Graphic: [bluesky icon] morgangray [github icon] morethangray
A close up showing the powdered sugar face of a red chiggy; the eyes and snoot are peeking out from a teal cashmere blanket that entirely swaddles his body in coziness.
Small red dog wearing blue plaid trousers and a gray mock turtleneck. He is sitting down on a fuzzy white blanket and holding well-chewed a bully stick with his front paws.
A small red dog with long legs, wearing an olive green vest, is standing in front of a wooden fence with horizontal slats. The dog is standing in profile and facing right, with the front right paw raised in a point. In the foreground are long bunch grasses that are taller than the dog partially obscure it. In the background through the fence is a sidewalk wet from recent rain.
Picture of soil strewn with peppercorn-sized hail in between salvia and jasmine plants
Black goober cat with mouth wide open and tongue licking the lips
cartoon of five yak types with names: black yak, imperial yak, trim yak, royal yak, golden yak
A meme that says “yo dawg, I heard you like graphs so I put a graph in your graph so you can graph while you graph
Title screen that reads “Tales of the Unexpected” in gold font overlaid on a green circle in the middle of a red background
Image of Samuel L Jackson wearing a dark, rolled up beanie. He is outside with a rocky beach blurry in the background, while he is looking offscreen into the distance with the caption “Rising out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2” from a humorous ad about wind farms.
Text from a scientific article that says: “Using grammar to identify scales of replication How can we avoid misidentifying the scale at which to replicate? <highlighted in blue>A good rule of thumb is to use the grammar of one's description of the study as the clue for how to replicate. <end of highlight> For any experiment, we usually use an adjective to describe the factor of interest (temperature, latitude and predation) that precedes a noun (population, species, genotype and individual). In these instances, the adjective identifies the treatment, and the noun identifies the scale at which the treatment was applied, and hence the scale that should be replicated. For example, if you create three warm enclosures and three cool enclosures for an experiment on the effects of temperature on herbivory, then ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ are the adjectives, and ‘enclosure’ is the scale at which the treatment is applied and, therefore, the scale that must be replicated.”
A Magic The Gathering card called Titanic Ultimatum showing a painting of 2 deliriously happy chiweenie dogs (one tan, one black with tan points) running toward the viewer with eyes glazed and tongues lolling. The card reads: “Sorcery. Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink. ‘As the ritual dictates, to awaken destruction incarnate you need only serve the kibble.’”. The summoning costs 2 red, 3 green, and 2 white mana. Yes, white mana. Probably because these are dogs.
Meme of two hobbits, Merry and Pippin, from the Lord of the Rings movie with the caption, “We’ve done one yes. But what about second cleaning?”
Slender salamander shaped like the letter C on gray clay-ish soil amid rocklets and leaf litter
Jake Dupree wearing black lingerie and stilettos , laying reclined on a white backdrop
Photo of a seal point Siamese cat loaf peeking out from within a gray felt basket
Black and white drawing of 5 warbler bird species above 5 images of the same tree. The tree beneath each warbler is shaded to show the distinct portion of the tree used by that species. From a study of five species of warblers in the spruce woods of New York in 1956 and 1957 demonstrated how resource partitioning allows species to coexist in the same ecological niche MacArthur 1958).
Two ringtails on a tree branch
Oh, this account is like a Swiss Army knife of nerdy delights, cutting through the dense foliage of data visualization and ecology with sharp wit and a sprinkle of emojis! One minute you're celebrating Absolution Day, and the next, you’re knee-deep in a debate about whether ggplot2's hex logo is facing the right direction. It's like a treasure map for data enthusiasts—X marks the spot where you can find job postings, fascinating paleoart, and even a shoutout to using badgers for conflict resolution. Who knew the world of stats could be so whimsical? Not to mention the heartfelt moments that pop up between the data science jargon—thank yous for pictures, job application encouragements, and random musings about advent calendars. It’s a delightful blend of professional insights and relatable human experiences, all wrapped up in a cozy blanket of ecological passion. So, if you're looking for a place where data meets nature, and someone occasionally reminds you to get that IUD, this is the account to follow!
A Yakama time ball on a white background, created before 1920. Each major life event is represented by a knot, a bead or a shell on a string of hemp.
Screenshot of white text on teal background that reads “Deleting 5496 Tweets”
Meme showing bus driver saying “Don’t make me tap the sign” and a sign that says “Acknowledgement yes, authorship no; includes honorary authorship for lab chiefs”
Screenshot of an automated reply email that starts with the bold words "Slow email.", followed by text that explains the person only responds every other business day to account for other work responsibilities.
Time series of 6 thermal images showing (1) a puma in the Patagonian wilderness and the heat signatures of puma paws imprinted on the cold ground; (2) the puma as it begins to stalk a group of sheep in the distance; (3) the puma in an enclosure with a flock of sheep; (4) two guard dogs chasing the puma away from the sheep; (5) the puma leaping out of the enclosure; (6) the puma retreating up the mountain away from the guard dogs
Camera trap image of a young beaver in a clearing, framed by plants.
Screenshot of a pre-print article about AI personality type