Matt Powers, PhD

Research Associate, Burke Lab, Oregon State. R data science is life. Sounders fan *no longer* stuck in the southeast. PhD Auburn 2022.

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@SoundersFC

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@SoundersFC

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@NoahRiffe

[Kevin Bennett @KevinFPBennett]

Out today in @ScienceAdvances. We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with @hawchuan. https://t.co/iJp2V9rkjz

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

This is one of the deepest and most beautiful equations in all of statistics in my opinion.

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@tcarpenter216 In the past I���ve really loved modeling proportions as the response variable. But now I’m seriously having fun with time series data, including a fun gene expression time course

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

Yellow and red birds use a different battery of carotenoids to produce their coloration, with the yellow birds relying on many of the metabolic precursors to the red birds' carotenoids!

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

Had a humble part in a cool paper led by @DanielM_Hooper on the selective spread of yellow bill color in long-tailed finch populations with yellow-to-orange-to-red geographic variation. Out now in @CurrentBiology.

https://t.co/WodNf7dQNv

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

I helped with pigment analyses of bills, with @NickJustyn and @Geoffrey_E_Hill, adding to a mountain of cool genetics by @SimonGriffith4, @pandolfatto, Callum McDiarmid, Frank Chan, Marek Kučka, and Nathan Hart. Here's some bts photos of yellow and red bill carotenoid extracts!

[Daniel Marc Hooper @DanielM_Hooper]

So excited to have our paper “Spread of yellow-bill-color alleles favored by selection in the long-tailed finch hybrid system” out now in @CurrentBiology ! Check it out: https://t.co/jcYghCyH9a

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@NoahRiffe Hear me out. Raul has one last ride into the Sounders sunset and leads us to another classic deep playoff run.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

in my professional opinion, these are shit statistics

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

Some will take this negatively. They are mistaken

[Senior Spreadsheet Engineer @merm_bot]

Just another day writing R code

[Senior Spreadsheet Engineer @merm_bot]

Just another day writing R code

[Midterms are Nov. 3rd 2026. Go register voters @usrbinr]

Why does base R feel like one or these secret bars where you need to go into a phone booth to get inside and see all the cool stuff?

Such a neat trick below!

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@DrunkAubie

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

MLS legend Kei Kamara, after winning the U.S. Open Cup Wednesday night made his opinion clear about the future of the tournament.

"Don (Garber) better not take this away, this is amazing. This is American soccer right here."

🔗: https://t.co/SmkdqhjytR

[Kyle Umlang @kyleumlang]

To be in the College Football Hall of Fame, a coach must have won at least 60% of his games. Mike Leach won 59.6%.

RT if you think Mike Leach should still be included in the College Football Hall of Fame

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@__Nnamdi_ @RiquiPuig

[Matt Powers, PhD @DrSounder8]

@culerboi @RiquiPuig