David J Morris

PhD candidate in @morehouselab studying the visual ecology of jumping spiders; game enthusiast, and book lover; he/him/his; aphant; avatar by @blackmudpuppy

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@NeseLSD

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@BiologyCarly @RiceUniversity @brown_birds

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@natsabin

[Araní Cuevas-Sanchez @AraniCuevas]

It's recruiting season. I would like to share two articles for those interested in divesifying their labs. There is more to it than simply bringing individuals from diverse backgrounds. There is work to be done & there are ways you can support historically excluded individuals🧵

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@BiologyCarly

[Jenny Goldstein @JennyElaineG]

Cornell is increasing grad stipends to $43k for next year, requiring summer funding to be provided for all PhD students, cutting grad tuition costs for private Cornell colleges cause they are currently higher than the public ones

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@skwinnicki Guess I’m gonna be staring at a painting all day now 😂

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

Hey researchers and research-inclined folks, if you had to explain your research using only a detail from Hieronymus Bosch's painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” which would it be?

I have it easy as someone who studies animals (sorry chemists) but still can’t decide

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@bmkibler @coL_Amazonian Definitely a big lump with knobs

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices.

Encoding matrices as graphs is a cheat code, making complex behavior simple to study.

Let me show you how!

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@BiologyCarly

[Dr. Emily Fairfax @EmilyFairfax]

Redesigning my geomorphology & hydrology class to be laid out as a choose-your-own adventure story this semester!

As a class, we'll choose & follow paths around the map week by week, encountering new processes & landforms as we go. Each unit is standalone, so order won't matter.

[Dennis Sun @Mezarque]

A tad late for #InverteFest, but I submitted a set of my arthropod Lego designs to @LEGOIdeas!

My set idea "Arthropod Model Organisms" features models for a fruit fly, amphipod crustacean, red flour beetle, and two-spotted cricket.

Vote here:
https://t.co/Hb61QLnFWb

1/n

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@BiologyCarly

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@tavdowa

[Sanjee Baksh @S__Baksh]

A PhD is just doing this for 4+ years over and over again

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@BiologyCarly I cheat with vitamin D supplements, but store bought is fine 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jay Stafstrom @JayStafstrom]

HO-HO-HOgre-faced spider

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

USPS just dropped forever stamps for 2023 and one of the themes is microscopic images 🦠

[David J Morris @djmorris89]

@OBauerNilsen Your pretzel, probably