Stephen Ferguson

Asst Prof, endocrinologist, ornithologist, ethologist, likes playing with R/biostats, dabbling in neuro/clocks

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Spiny-tailed gecko!

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@evornithology Surely they're teaching precision of terminology - they're not *related* to Dinosauria because they are nested *within* Dinosauria??

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@CAndrewFrank @evornithology No see you’re asking questions that’s not fair

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@evornithology needs more used cotton

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@evornithology Tempting...

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@evornithology Never *so far*

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@KotDailey @ibwo_discourse the bill is also definitive for IBWO

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@timgill924 Writing is important but I’d like to see more reminders that you should be reading the entire catalog of a given journal for each written page you produce.

[alz @alz_zyd_]

When I was in 3rd year of PhD, I read every paper published in AER, QJE, JPE from 2000-2020, bc I wanted to get a sense of what everyone was working on. It took I think 3 full time months, spread out over half a year or so? Was great and gave me a bunch of useful perspective

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@birdmoder Wrong.

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@AmandaKMontoya > Hindawi

should have led with that

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@timgill924 Tim, will you sign your figure if I legally purchase it first? Or should I steal it to pump up my felony figures?

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@c_lattin @DoctorZen Changes first when people in positions to do so
1) make the shift to primarily pre-prints themselves and
2) don't penalize EC/disadvantaged folks who do the same

Doesn't have to *replace* the current publishing model, it just has to make the bottom fall out on the exploitation.

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@Acanthoplus Bill, probably:

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Note: Don't pick up wild birds! I have permits and training.

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Unfortunate circumstances, but cool to finally get hands on a cedar waxwing!

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@Acanthoplus "What's the worst that could happen? Is it gonna bite me again?"
- Man bitten twice https://t.co/65fMS7htum

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@reflog18 weird thing to call a knee surgery but it works

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@evornithology @MHCNeateClegg @UCLAEEB My students are mostly human

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@UmpScorecards Yikes.

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