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Baja Summer 2026: June 11
Day 2 of this summer trip involved driving south and then east, up to about 9000 feet elevation to the National Park in the Sierra San Pedro Martir. One thing I love about Baja is the stark contrasts between ecoregions that are very close together, quite often. To drive for a few hours from the…
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Baja Summer 2026: June 10th
From June 10th to July 27th this year, I was in Baja California Norte y Sur. It was a working trip, since I had a lot of things to finish up re: editing, and a couple papers to submit. But what a setting from which to work! I recently upgraded to an unlimited Verizon data…
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Meaning to write
Almost every morning, I say to myself, self….you would benefit from journaling on a daily basis, and you’re paying for web hosting for exactly that purpose. Obviously, I never create a post, and here this not-so-cheap site sits, vacant. Maybe today is the day. Below, a nice photo of a little-known cactus, Echinomastus hispidus, supposedly…
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The Road to Heck
I’ve been “meaning to” post here more often but fuck if I ever have the time, or when I do have the time, I lack the mental stamina. This post is going to be super short. I don’t answer messages when I’m just about ready to fall over, and sharing memes takes almost no effort,…
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Lost in technology
Ridiculous week of working in R, in RevBayes, and learning some new or at least newish modeling techniques in order to put together an integral projection model, which is way of understanding the vital rates of a population (growth, survival, reproduction) and making predictions about the future. Very dense statistical week. I feel like I’ve…
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Projects galore
I woke up at about 5 this morning thinking about all the irons I have in the fire, some of which I get paid for and some of which I am doing because I want to. There’s an old project exploring the evolutionary relationships and biogeography of a group of Caribbean cacti, a new project…
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About the blogger
Sober 21 years. Plant evolutionary biologist, phytogeographer, and ecologist. A “non-traditional” Ph.D. student, with the degree earned at age 58.
This blog is basically a personal journal kind of thing.
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Scientist, editor, writer, and musician.