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

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, to NewZealand
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"Government hypes gas crisis ahead of restarting drilling” #nzpol

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/10/government-hypes-gas-crisis-ahead-of-restarting-drilling/

ojala, (edited ) to random
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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

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

ojala, to random
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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. 🙄

#nzpol

richardh, to random

Carbon credits for tree planting should only ever be loans. Repayable if the forest is ever cut down, or burns in a forest fire, or anything else.
#ETS

ojala,
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@richardh That's how it works unless you use averaging accounting, in that you only receive units upto a long term average (lower than the total in a rotation) to simplify management. https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/forestry-in-the-emissions-trading-scheme/emissions-returns-and-carbon-units-nzus-for-forestry/accounting-for-carbon-in-the-ets/

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

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

ojala, to random
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Reading about how to play slide ukulele.

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

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

ojala, to random
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#JukeboxFridayNight #mothers

Kaki King - "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers”

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

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

ojala, to poetry
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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

strypey, (edited ) to aotearoa

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 "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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@strypey I work breeding organisms and I've had first hand contact with some of these issues. As a start, the use of "ecocidal" to deal with GM is just appallingly unfair.

"If you're going to shill for BioTech corporations, at least get your facts right."

This is both disrespectful and closes any potential discussion.

ojala,
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@strypey For production purposes.

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.

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Preemptive defederation discussions are so boring.

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

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