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Morgan Gray
@morgangray.bsky.social
1.8K followers 570 following 350 posts
Quantitative Ecologist (she/her)
What: wildlife | connectivity | climate | conservation
How: statistics | R | dataviz | maps
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September 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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
September 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Image of Samuel L Jackson wearing a dark, rolled up beanie. He is outside with a rocky beach blurry in the background, while he is looking offscreen into the distance with the caption “Rising out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2” from a humorous ad about wind farms.
September 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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.”
August 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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.
June 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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For this card alone I would build a red, white, and green deck.
A Magic The Gathering card called Titanic Ultimatum showing a painting of 2 deliriously happy chiweenie dogs (one tan, one black with tan points) running toward the viewer with eyes glazed and tongues lolling. The card reads: “Sorcery. Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink. ‘As the ritual dictates, to awaken destruction incarnate you need only serve the kibble.’”. The summoning costs 2 red, 3 green, and 2 white mana. Yes, white mana. Probably because these are dogs.
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Call me a perfectionist but I like cleaning data 🤷🏽‍♀️
Meme of two hobbits, Merry and Pippin, from the Lord of the Rings movie with the caption, “We’ve done one yes. But what about second cleaning?”
March 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Salamander appreciation post
Slender salamander shaped like the letter C on gray clay-ish soil amid rocklets and leaf litter
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Ohhhhhh so THIS is the Mothman content you mentioned in your analysis of post across platforms.

Also, they remind me of Jake Dupree.
Jake Dupree wearing black lingerie and stilettos , laying reclined on a white backdrop
January 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Photo of a seal point Siamese cat loaf peeking out from within a gray felt basket
December 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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*GOOD IDEA GENERATOR*: what about a glow up of MacArthur’s warblers (1958)…but with bats🦇
JAVIER: say no more
Black and white drawing of 5 warbler bird species above 5 images of the same tree. The tree beneath each warbler is shaded to show the distinct portion of the tree used by that species. From a study of five species of warblers in the spruce woods of New York in 1956 and 1957 demonstrated how resource partitioning allows species to coexist in the same ecological niche MacArthur 1958).
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year is brown, inspired by native wildlife (like ringtails) and a growing cultural movement "to align ourselves with the natural world."
Two ringtails on a tree branch A color swatch of Pantone’s 2025 color of the year, Mocha Mousse (a warm brown)
December 5, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Go for the summary, stay for the roast
Oh, this account is like a Swiss Army knife of nerdy delights, cutting through the dense foliage of data visualization and ecology with sharp wit and a sprinkle of emojis! One minute you're celebrating Absolution Day, and the next, you’re knee-deep in a debate about whether ggplot2's hex logo is facing the right direction. It's like a treasure map for data enthusiasts—X marks the spot where you can find job postings, fascinating paleoart, and even a shoutout to using badgers for conflict resolution. Who knew the world of stats could be so whimsical? Not to mention the heartfelt moments that pop up between the data science jargon—thank yous for pictures, job application encouragements, and random musings about advent calendars. It’s a delightful blend of professional insights and relatable human experiences, all wrapped up in a cozy blanket of ecological passion. So, if you're looking for a place where data meets nature, and someone occasionally reminds you to get that IUD, this is the account to follow!
December 1, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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So many imaginative ways to tell a story with data, like the Yakama time ball 🧶

“Women from the Yakama Native American tribe used strings of hemp as personal diaries. Each major event in their life was represented by a knot, a bead or a shell. This mnemonic device is called an Ititamat”
A Yakama time ball on a white background, created before 1920. Each major life event is represented by a knot, a bead or a shell on a string of hemp. Five strings from different time balls, shown as dark strands on a white background. Each string is made of small shells and knots that represent the order of life events in a Yakama woman’s life. A screenshot of text that says: “The ball of twine grew in size as time passed and as events occurred. The women would sometimes divide the twine into 25-year lengths to make it more manageable. When the women were very old, they could use the knots and beads of their time balls to recall not only what happened in their lives but when the events occurred. They could easily recount when their children were born, when they moved away, and other major experiences.” A screenshot of text that says: “A young woman would use a time ball to record her courtship, marriage, and other experiences using a system of knots and beads that only she could decipher. As she grew older, a woman might have several time balls with which to share her life story or keep those memories private. When she passed on, they were buried with her.”
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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It only took a few minutes.
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November 14, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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November 9, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Here’s how I explain the difference between weather and climate
🌎🧪
November 9, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Meme showing bus driver saying “Don’t make me tap the sign” and a sign that says “Acknowledgement yes, authorship no; includes honorary authorship for lab chiefs”
November 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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THIS is an auto-reply I would like to see more of
✅ Clear (and reasonable) boundaries
✅ Accounts for work chores
✅ Manages expectations
Screenshot of an automated reply email that starts with the bold words "Slow email.", followed by text that explains the person only responds every other business day to account for other work responsibilities.
October 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Guard dogs effectively protect livestock. 🌎🧪
Evidence: Thermal camera footage that shows guard dogs preventing a puma attack on a pitch black mountain.
🐾 You can literally see the heat of the puma’s paws on the ground! 🐾

www.livescience.com/animals/cats...
Time series of 6 thermal images showing (1) a puma in the Patagonian wilderness and the heat signatures of puma paws imprinted on the cold ground; (2) the puma as it begins to stalk a group of sheep in the distance; (3) the puma in an enclosure with a flock of sheep; (4) two guard dogs chasing the puma away from the sheep; (5) the puma leaping out of the enclosure; (6) the puma retreating up the mountain away from the guard dogs
September 18, 2023 at 3:09 PM
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What a dam good day for Palo Alto! First beaver 🦫 sighting in 160 years. 🌎🧪

youtu.be/9NQo7Aru2-E
Camera trap image of a young beaver in a clearing, framed by plants.
September 12, 2023 at 4:39 PM
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If AI has a personality type, what does your preferred large language model say about you?
It’s like astrology, but with algorithms.
Screenshot of a pre-print article about AI personality type
July 5, 2023 at 2:21 PM