phenolology 🐢 @susannah@octodon.social

So this was my first time eating fonio. it's not bad, but not great either. it reminds me a bit of crickets actually. I think it would be better in a savory nutbread with lots of spices than in pancakes.

pancakes salvaged with addition of a bit of soda and regular milk!

OMG IT'S TIME

#AmReading

public kink

Landscape drawing

hey queer friends!

Trying new gluten free pizza. Very scant on sauce and cheese. Added extra parm.

overall, disappointing.

I bought these grapes because they looked weird and I am very disappointed that they taste just like normal grapes.

Pulling out the big guns. I can't normally have caffeine - hope this doesn't backfire!

We get great stuff in the mail sometimes

The first image is a cute little pine seed waiting to grow. look at those little cotyledons (baby's first needles!) at the end of the embryo, like little fingers.

the second image is a radiograph of a spruce seed and at first glance it's pretty similar but ....

#trees #botany #forest

The green lines are the "real" model that I simulated data from, with individual effects. The red line is the new mixed model, but I haven't figured out how to extract the individual effects from lme4 and add them to the graph curves yet. And the black line is what happens when you have individual effects, but only one year.

Today I'm going to figure out how to get individual effects out of glmer (oops, lme4 above was a mistake) models and graph them.

To help me understand the model and fix bugs in my code, I'm building the model one layer at a time and running it on simulated data. Yesterday I added multiple years and individual effects to the simulated data so I could add individual effects to the model. I ran a mixed model with lme4 in R just to try and it works better than a model without individual and year effects - most especially it's better at estimating the steepness of the curve.

I've been reading a lot about pain and illness lately and it's remarkably helpful for understanding, communicating and living with my illness. A Life Less Convenient and Opium Eater are personal. Both spend time meditating on the grief loss denial of illness, but I esp loved ALLC for focusing on how illness can affect romantic relationships and Opium Eater for so carefully detailing the agonizing balancing act of medicating pain. #books #reading

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the artists of wikiHow are goddamn treasures

We could have set up good #childcare and #parentalleave policies.

Instead, we decided that women should have to not only sell their bodies at really terrible rates to survive buy then buy it back at a huge markup to use it.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S DOING THE RIGHT THING BUT I MADE A MODEL THAT GOES

cook some garlic and red chilli pepper flakes in oil. add a big can of chopped tomatoes and heat it up. Add some salt and a little bit of sugar then add a whole bunch of black olives, some capers and a couple tins of sardines. Break up the sardines and simmer for a bit. Eat with gnocchi or pasta. if you're fancy, add some fresh parsley

Field Trip is great - pleasant and soothing environment. Queer friendly and inclusive. Haircuts by length, not gender. Not cheap - my short ish cut is about $60. Worth it for me when I consider the shampoo/head massage, talk therapy, and styling+tips i get too. I always see Amberleigh. Pretty convenient location as well - Main and Broadway.