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A running archive of science notes and monthly updates.

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Gwen + Justin Jan and Feb

A busy and surprisingly snowy start of the year with lots of work business for us both, and then a little Florida vacation for SCUBA diving and wildlife in the Everglades! It was nice coming back home from New York and h...

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It’s Worse Than You Think: Please Stop Eating Animals

Food is more than fuel. It’s comfort, community, and tradition. It’s a pleasure three times a day and a wonderful reprieve from everything else. But pleasures like these are the easiest targets of misinformation . We hav...

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Justin + Gwen December

This indulgent holiday month, me and Gwen spent a lot of time either inside or on the move! We got our tree right after Thanksgiving this year and Gwen enjoyed putting up Christmas lights and decorations around our house...

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Gwen+Justin November 2024

Me and Gwen had an exciting month, starting with our first Halloween party in the new house, and ending with a just-us Thanksgiving break which was delightfully eventless. Halloween went fantastic! I cooked a LOT includi...

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The Flywire Minimum Feedback Data Challenge and “The Bitter Lesson”

code: https://github.com/TuragaLab/connectome_reordering The central brain of the fruit fly Drosophila Melanogaster is vast, consisting of a staggering ~135,000 neurons which interconnect at 50,000,000 synapses in a soph...

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