todd ellis
tootstorm@eldritch.cafe
<p>U.S. ecologist and data scientist living in Australia. Studying fire ecology, biogeography, and higher education. Loves kitties, reading, board and video games, and R.</p><p>❤ <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Kitties" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kitties</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SFF</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BoardGames</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Ecologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecologist</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Biogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="ta
Posts
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Post #1796978
Ran to grab his drum kit tonight the second G Flip came on Play School. ❤️
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Post #1796977
clipr::read_clip
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Post #1796975
Cloudspire is *not* overproduced! Relaxing (or tense) puzzle for the night while listening to some classic Petestrumentals.
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Post #1796974
Can a dataset be a dataset if it has no data? 🤔
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Post #1796973
Multiple male colleagues editing a grant EOI, with each revision to the Diversity Statement getting progressively more gross with zero self-awareness. &quot;We will have a ~female~ ~volunteer~ ~undergrad~ ~administrative~ ~assistant~...&quot;
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Post #1796971
One-sentence horror story brought to you by Microsoft Copilot.
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Post #1796970
I don&#39;t mind.
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Post #1796969
The Pynchon subreddit provides a constant, perhaps necessary reminder to please don&#39;t try to write like Pynchon unless you want to look like an absolute dorkass.
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Post #1796968
When I first heard the news, I wondered if my old research station in Wenatchee was affected. Sure enough: Looks like the PNW Research Station is being shut down: https://www.kuow.org/stories/forest-service-axes-most-research-stations-as-severe-fire-season-builds-in-pacific-northwest These decisions are unfathomably stupid, being made by the worst byproducts of US capitalism. Whether they&#39;re grifters shilling for corporate interest or religious zealots using their apocalyptic dogma as...
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Post #1796967
This is the second time I&#39;ve found this once-in-a-lifetime find at an obscure booksale in the middle of nowhere. Certainly never expected to find it in Tasmania. IYKYK.
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Post #1796966
Peer review always stresses me out way too much, and I end up obsessing and spending way too much time on a manuscript. Just accepted a request to review a manuscript that seems to have different sections and analyses lifted from every chapter of my PhD, and yet makes no reference to any of my work despite it being...visible. I don&#39;t think it *was* wholesale lifted, but it certainly looks inspired to the point that I am *baffled* there are zero references to my work. Nearly identical...
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Post #1796965
wonder if they&#39;re friends....
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Post #1694568
Criterion is dumping their Herzog catalogue from streaming at the end of the month, so I&#39;m exhausting myself with a Fitzcarraldo rewatch tonight. Gonna be a rough one. Kinski playing yet another maniac.