Science
A Small Optimizer for Big Days
I built a small eBird route optimizer that uses checklist detection rates, drive time, and repeated chances for hard-to-get species to plan a one-day birding route.
April 27, 2026
Blog
The Ellis-Joyce Blog
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...
March 2, 2025
Science
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...
January 29, 2025
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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...
January 12, 2025
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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...
December 3, 2024
Science
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...
October 29, 2024