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ojala

@ojala@mastodon.nz

stats & trees UCNZ • quantitative forester • latin american diaspora • personal views, random commas • english/castellano • he/him

impermanence: posts deleted after 2 weeks • text and photos licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

avatar: my face with a receding hairline and a goatee • header: plane trees in Bordeaux with stems wrapped in red plastic.

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#statistics #quantitativeGenetics #forestry #urbanForest #wood #environment #programming #rstats #gis #writing #music​

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Kyotaro and Rikuo playing in NAMM 19 at the Tama Booth. Some Friday energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivp_VAYh7q4

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Pushing grading assignments on Friday afternoon listening Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSxRj9YhG8

ojala, to random
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Listening: "Cuando ya me empiece a quedar solo" version by Mercedes Sosa and Charly García (composer). Mercedes' voice is magnificent in this concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJk2pusxbt0

ojala,
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Followed by "Barro tal vez" version by Mercedes Sosa and Luis Alberto Spinetta (composer). Great collaboration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPw7g2ZkpZw

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When did we start calling culture a 'franchise' (books, movies, sports, etc)?

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University of Canterbury: we respect the right to protest for our students and staff BUT we want to maintain access to our services, so everyone needs to use their ID to enter buildings.

In my building: students stuck outside trying to get to lectures and student services. 🙄

TreeStarMan, to TeslaMotors
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mythbusters. https://www.theguardian.com/business/series/ev-mythbusters

ojala,
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@TreeStarMan The "How problematic is mineral mining for electric cars?" thing is not a myth. Lithium extraction is trashing very fragile ecosystems in Northern Chile, to the point of no return (I know people who study them).

As always, electric cars are not really a solution. Electric public transport, bikes, etc are a much better option.

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Browsing: "Analysis of variation in growth and spline-based growth models for Marecha and Lassi dromedary camels” because I was checking at uses of splines in breeding and dromedaries sounded quite fun.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11250-020-02250-5

ojala, to random
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Listening: Michael Hedges playing "Two Days Old” in 1990. Beautiful with a touch of sadness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cw1xlFsZ8

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Time to resuscitate "Addiction is...” I remember reading the site 20 years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040928070635/http://www.addictionis.org/

#addiction

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Kaki King - "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9ke2Ju7XY

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"It is not external things that restrict us; it is our minds that are attached to things that restrict us"—Ryoshun Nakano #buddhism

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'Why the sea is blue?' https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200902/physicshistory.cfm

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Dog sleeping in Terminal Rodoviario Temuco, from my series on 'Travelling dogs sleeping in bus stations'.

ADDiane, to random
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Them: you should follow Jesus
Me: what kind of content does he post

ojala,
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@ADDiane He hasn't posted an update for ages!

ojala, (edited ) to random
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Some American continent crops that were domesticated a while ago:
Maize ~9,000 years ago
Potatoes ~8,000
Quinoa ~ 7,000
Tomatoes ~7,000
Avocados ~ 6,000
Chili peppers ~ 6,000
Sweet potatoes ~5,000
Cacao ~ 4,000
Pumpkins ~9,000
Common beans ~8,000
Peanuts ∼8,000 years ago

ojala, to random
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Surely I posted this before: "A Plea for Improvisation" by Jojo Mayer.

"Improvisation can be challenging, but it is not the privilege of a chosen few. It's an inherent human capability that all of us have."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npq-bhz1ll0

ojala, to poetry
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p m
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r r
a r
l o
l r
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image of your nose
and my nose we make
a vase
not a kiss
or risk breaking the foot
the emptiness
that makes the container

#MastoPrompt
#parallel

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
@tanweerdar

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This sounds like an awesome activity, but it's restricted to kids under 12 yo. 😔

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Preemptive defederation discussions are so boring.

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Reading about how to play slide ukulele.

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I've been reminded that I'm behind grading exams. Time to unplug. 😮

strypey, (edited ) to aotearoa
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Just as I start to warm to TOP, I find they're campaigning for deregulation of gene-editing. In fact they have been at it for at least 4 years:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2019/05/nz-embracing-gene-editing-is-a-no-brainer-geoff-simmons.html

(1/?)

ojala,
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@strypey It's weird, as there is no opposition to classical breeding, which involves much more massive and different gene combinations every time there is sex involved.

I'm unclear that I'm coming from a "partisan" position. I'm asking to be able to use one more tool (besides classical breeding, use of molecular markers, high-throughput phenotyping, etc) in the development of better performing individuals.

ojala,
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@strypey "We can reliably predict its outcomes and their potential risks" Can we? We do have unexpected crop failures, interaction between genotype & environment, etc that are quite hard to predict.

Modern, theory-based breeding programs don't have millions of years of testing; the oldest ones have probably around a century. We have been dealing with GE for almost a third of that time.

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