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Adam Mahood 🌻

@adm0n.bsky.social
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Plant and fire ecologist

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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kind of a red flag that the stone cold stunner was the part of the thread that Richard found objectionable
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To be or fucking not too be
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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Such an essential piece. To share with students, trainees, and colleagues all around. (from 7 years ago) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We did it
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kind of lame to mock someone on the internet over a pretty minor crime...
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Perhaps AI will help us discover a way to prevent this
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hopefully this won't affect anyone in any way
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bikes are cool and everything, but have you heard about putting all the buildings closer together and having shops on the first floor? Then you just walk
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Stunning!
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe this is evidence that he is actually zombie Reagan
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🤌
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also the LLM reviews are pretty bad... Kind of a waste of everyone's time
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you like this you'll love Europe
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Of course, switching to an EV protects the affluent individuals who can afford them from rising fuel costs, but probably won't be a meaningful way to reduce emissions from the transportation sector... converting the system to public mass transit is the thing that does that
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's all that avocado toast
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Maybe a passenger vehicle moratorium too?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Because there are a lot of donors with very deep pockets benefiting from ICE
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Adding some tidy functionality to mgcv! Might be worth checking out
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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
arXiv📈🤖 Gratia: An R package for exploring generalized additive models By
arXiv:2406.19082v1 Announce Type: cross 
Abstract: Generalized additive models (GAMs, Hastie & Tibshirani, 1990; Wood, 2017) are an extension of the generalized linear model that allows the effects of covariates to be modelled as smooth functions. GAMs are increasingly used in many areas of science (e.g. Pedersen, Miller, Simpson, & Ross, 2019; Simpson, 2018) because the smooth functions allow nonlinear relationships between covariates and the response to be learned from the data through the use of penalized splines. Within the R (R Core Team, 2024) ecosystem, Simon Wood's mgcv package (Wood, 2017) is widely used to fit GAMs and is a Recommended package that ships with R as part of the default install. A growing number of other R packages build upon mgcv, for example as an engine to fit specialised models not handled by mgcv itself (e.g. GJMR, Marra & Radice, 2023), or to make use of the wide range of splines available in mgcv (e.g. brms, B\"urkner, 2017).
  The gratia package builds upon mgcv by providing functions that make working with GAMs easier. gratia takes a tidy approach (Wickham, 2014) providing ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016) replacements for mgcv's base graphics-based plots, functions for model diagnostics and exploration of fitted models, and a family of functions for drawing samples from the posterior distribution of a fitted GAM. Additional functionality is provided to facilitate the teaching and understanding of GAMs.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Where are all the spikes to prevent people from sitting on it
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Damn. America was so good before, but I guess now it is perhaps bad?
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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Big fish = more mercury" is only half the story. Size matters because bioaccumulation is the key mechanism, but a bigeye and a skipjack of the same weight are not eating out of the same place. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/8/...
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What tuna tell us about the world's mercury levels — Francisco Blaha
By far the most-read posts I have ever written are not about IUU fishing, licensing, transhipment or any of the topics I actually work on. They are the ones about mercury in tuna and where the fish ...
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Nazi font is a nice touch
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Establishment democrats want to make sure the Nazis wear body cams while they ethnically cleanse and are properly trained
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thank you for explaining all of these things about rice and beans to me. McKay still silent about his financial connections to the rice and beans industry.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Condiments on rice and beans?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My "maybe I should go buy a 50lb bag of rice and a 50lb bag of beans" itch is back.... Wait ARE YOU WITH BIG RICE AND BEANS
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
gee wiz
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the one on the lower right is about 250,000 acres
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How many fires > 100,000 acres will there be in Oregon this week?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The best take so far
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
And yet the explosive diarrhea persists
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New York Venice Genoa Montpellier Palma Honorary mention: Vienna Helsinki Riga Geneva Talliin Barcelona Of the places I've been in the past year
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well they probably bonded a lot while working together on a lot of corporate-friendly bills, so he's understandably upset
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One time I was sitting on a bus and there were two people sitting next to each other talking out loud. I could hear everything both people were saying it was WILD.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New article! We went to Tucson for a few weeks back in 2019 and looked at some plants and took quite a few soil samples. We found that buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion was associated with lower plant diversity, and soil carbon. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion is associated with reduced plant diversity and changes in carbon storage in the Sonoran Desert
Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) is a perennial bunchgrass, invasive in arid ecosystems of the United States, Australia, and Mexico. Buffelgrass invas…
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Is Charles de Gaulle the worst airport?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Twin peaks: fire walk with me
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What about parked cars? Can I charge helmet first into a parked car?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
--Paper-- Fires of Unusual Size: Future of Extreme and Emerging Wildfire in a Warming United States (2020–2060) Disproportionate growth in maximum fire size suggests that changes in fire weather will amplify extreme events beyond increases in ignition frequency alone www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/9/...
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
60-yr long time series of changes in local environmental conditions across habitat types (forests, grasslands, shrublands & wetlands) using plant species ecological indicator values #EIVs to track back those changes: increase in N-demanding & shade-tolerant species ⬇️ shorturl.at/RAHGc
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ooooh
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The corporate takeover of universities continues to ruin them
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Haley Wickham has a similar paper/manifesto: www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
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Tidy Data by Hadley Wickham
A huge amount of effort is spent cleaning data to get it ready for analysis, but there has been little research on how to make data cleaning as easy and effective as possible. This paper tackles a sma...
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Apache women make last-gasp attempt to save sacred land at SCOTUS
A group of Apache women filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court to prevent a sacred religious site from being swallowed by a massive copper mine.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Look at the author: an Israeli professor specializing in LLM research. This person has a vested interest in amplifying the AI hype, since their funding depends on it. Why Science doesn't see this obvious conflict of interest is troubling
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Getting early to the zoom meeting is great because when else during the day do you get time to practice making funny faces at the camera
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I feel like the headline for this story should be: AI tools: I'm not exactly sure what they are, but they are kind of useful for some things, sometimes
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