Sometimes it helps to remember what's going on in the world around you (and no, it wasn't chaos).

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Identifiable or not, here I come!
(part of a 21x21 projection matrix for 3 known age-classes plus unknown age multi-state Barker model coded in m-array format)

I've turned it into a yard sign (given where I live, I doubt it will last one night though).

I was proud of myself, but the Wordle bot was rather unimpressed :

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They said that about Breeding Bird Survey data too (without offering or implementing anything better). Joint analysis of BBS (for consistency and historical continuity) and eBird (for unparalleled spatial and temporal coverage) will be the future of North American bird monitoring, warts and all.

Congrats! I've made several trips to Sax-Zim bog and never got a boreal or a great gray, and you nabbed them both!

Hardly a week goes by that I don't mourn the loss of the science twitter community. Hoping that this will help fill the void.

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