Andrew Jackson

@yodacomplex.bsky.social

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Professor. #Zoology, Theoretical #Ecology & #Evolution, Trinity College Dublin.

The character mecha-streisand from South Park S1 E12
Using the Dune poster generator it reads "Dunegal" with Donegal GAA footballer Michael Murphy superimposed over Atreides and Chani.
A screenshot of an email. A person called Denise writes they are "ready to see your insect tissue..."
A scene from the “polymorph” in Red Dwarf. As an idea to deal with a murderous space alien, Rimmer suggests “Gentlemen, I propose we hit it hard with a major, and I mean major… leaflet campaign”
A giant cornflake in my hand, found this morning in my cereal. It is approximately 5x4cm in size.
Someone did crimes against maths and statistics. A straight line is fitted to a sine wave as a way to show that GAMs are superior. For good measure they also fitted a neural network model to show that it overfits.
Biological performance across the tree of life collapses onto the Universal Thermal Performance Curve (UTPC). Shown are approx. 30,000 performance measurements derived from seven kingdoms, 39 phyla, and 2,710 experiments. Performance is represented by diverse rates including metabolism, individual growth, foraging intensity, voluntary activity, and population growth (see SI Appendix for data grouped by phylum and performance metric). Data are presented on both axes relative to the parameters (Topt, Tc and Pfmax ) estimated by fitting the UTPC equation to each of the 2,710 experiments; the UTPC is overlaid as a yellow line and fits the rescaled data extremely well. Data are colored by the relative density of neighboring points showing very high density of points close to the line and relatively few datapoints further from the line.
A scene from Father Ted “Speed 3” episode. The line “is there anything to be said for another mass?” is replaced with “is there anything to be said for another podcast?”
screen shot from the Irish department of foreign affairs indicating that the current security status for travel to the USA is "normal precautions"