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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve read this page so many times. It sounds like a “.” prefix is recommended when using “…”. So does that mean if there are no “…” then the “.” prefix should NOT be used? Or is there ever a case for using them outside of the dot dot dot context?

Dot prefix
What’s the pattern?

When using ... to create a data structure, or when passing ... to a user-supplied function, add a . prefix to all named arguments. This reduces (but does not eliminate) the chances of matching an argument at the wrong level. Additionally, you should always provide some mechanism that allows you to escape and use that name if needed.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You can peep Neil the seal from a safe distance on social media. Or (if you also want to take a fun ride) in the show Deadloch.

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.”

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I do. It also did a number on my forearms and elbows. A set of little wrist rests saved the day. Hopefully you just have bald spots and not physical pain 🤞

An open laptop with a wrist rest on both sides of the central touchpad

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“There is so much we don’t know that we don’t even know how much we don’t know.”

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.”

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thinking about my fave crocodile movement like

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

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Ok yeah, that sounds like the recipe I used! I started without the PB but decided it needed the oil, so in it went. The result is super fluffy and delicious.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Very fun! It reminds me of wooden puzzle pieces 🧩

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.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It’s #WorldBeeDay! What’s your fave bee book? On my reading list is Bitter Honey, by @jenniedurant.bsky.social

Book cover for “Bitter Honey: Big ag’s threat to bees and the fight to save them” by Jennie Durant.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It’s #DataViz about color x emotion! Radar plots get some hate (that’s a red, btw). IMO here they get the message across about the relationship between color and a suite of emotion words. www.not-ship.com/pastel-walls...

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)

Table of 23 emotion words (vertical) sorted from negative to positive, with 12 columns for color (horizontal) sorted from negative (left) to positive (right). A square filled with the corresponding color indicates an association.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#DangermondPreserve is a treasure. I went to help #PointConceptionInstitute scientists site wireless cameras for coastal monitoring. A required part of the job to check and install cameras was literally walking on the beach. 🤩

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.

A sandy beach in front of a cliff fades into the distance , with a teal ocean and blue sky

A smooth, rippled rocky surface is exposed on the beach at low tide

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It does! One detail I liked was the different font used to label categories. A subtle way to give context and link back to the code in the text.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is Panerai. He talks. A lot.

Seal point cat sitting on the back of a chair and chewing on a bamboo stick with a charming string attached

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

And this is a clever way to label circle size:

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Raising the bar for Figure 1 like:

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).

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Different species but look at this Risso’s calf seen with a pod of bottlenose dolphins. So notable that they wrote a paper about it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Surfacing sequence of the bottlenose dolphin TTRU508 with the presumed Risso's dolphin calf. Photographs taken by Carla A. Chicote—SUBMON.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is great! I’m curious about the plot shapes. A scatterplot default is often a circle, so it seems using + was a choice. Any particular reason? I’ve considered using a + because it can be big without totally obscuring what’s behind it, but always bailed & used a circle

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Best I can do is Felix sleeping

Head of a small red dog asleep in a pile of blankets and pillows

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A time series for #TidyTuesday showing annual trends in body condition for female and male tortoises Code: github.com/morethangray... #dataviz | #ggplot2 | #r4ds | #rstats

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

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I just told Felix he has a Fan Club. He asked why, because fans make him cold 🪭

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is Felix and he loves you too, especially if you are warm.

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.

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Yeah, same. And my (non-academic) love of the ocean was detected by the algo

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Wait, do you actually hate statistics? This is like learning Santa Claus hates flying. Which would make him (you) a hero because he endures his hated thing (stats) to make sure people get presents (knowledge). Thank you for your teachings! Here is a cat for you.

Black goober cat with mouth wide open and tongue licking the lips

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Dude is nonchalantly kidnapping two muppets

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Love the rainbow! It’s giving 1980s Trapper Keeper 🌈

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I engage in regular, intentional, and time-boxed yak shaving. Thinking of tasks as animals gives me a power up. Yak Shaving: "Doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done" @jessitron.bsky.social 1/🧵

cartoon of five yak types with names: black yak, imperial yak, trim yak, royal yak, golden yak

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Maybe something like {ggparty}. github.com/martin-borko...

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Superb use of small multiples and annotation #DataViz

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

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Or: Moving car with two passengers suddenly explodes, followed by big orchestral theme song.

Title screen that reads “Tales of the Unexpected” in gold font overlaid on a green circle in the middle of a red background

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Treatment = adjective (warm vs cool) Scale = noun (enclosure) You need multiple nouns to study an adjective.

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.”

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is so well done! I learned a lot and am impressed by how many landfill features have been put in place to improve safety. I miss the “goo” from an earlier draft though 🤣 It did a lot to convey the issue and how each layer addressed it.