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Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): abstracts and titles. This is one of the few places I get to highlight my own original research - what impact to funny titles have on readership/citation? (See https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2022-0079)
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Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will learn (I hope) a bit about ocelots and Caspian terns!
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Day 2 of the course today! My titles slides frequently feature (inflict on students) lame visual puns. This one is up after lunch...
📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): a · 13 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
6.1 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
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Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): abstracts and titles. This is one of the few places I get to highlight my own original research - what impact to funny titles have on readership/citation? (See https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2022-0…
Paper accepted! "No evidence that female body size or fecundity mediate male choice or reproductive isolation in a sympatric native-invasive pair of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)", coming soon in Canadian Entomologist. (Yep, …
So I'm reading this novel, and it's bad in many of the ways I'd expect careless AI-reliance to make something bad. I even checked the copyright date... 2008. There was human slop before there was AI slop!
In which I vent about the foolishness we display when we say "Our budgets have been cut? We'll just have to do more with less". That's a losing strategy, every time. Why do we teach toddlers, but not governments, that choices have consequ…
Day 2 of the course today! My titles slides frequently feature (inflict on students) lame visual puns. This one is up after lunch...
I'm not there in person (waves hands at politics) but so far so good with the tech. Crossing my fingers the Zoom gods treat us well🤣
I can, by the way, teach this course where YOU are. Details: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/w…
Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will lear…
"Listen to a random forest" is a really inviting prompt, unless of course you're a stats nerd and you think for a moment "why would I want to LISTEN to a random forest regression?" But once I got past that, this is lovely. https://www.tre…
I like a good Latin name, and "Zupaysaurus" is definitely that. The fact that it's attached to a cool dinosaur is a bonus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/
On a dinosaur with the absolutely wonderful name Zupaysaurus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/
Barra MacNeils!
Also, it's lovely that all you lovely people are not poking fun at me for apparently adoring the word "lovely"🤣
Day 2 of the course today! My titles slides frequently feature (inflict on students) lame visual puns. This one is up after lunch...
I'm not there in person (waves hands at politics) but so far so good with the tech. Crossing my fingers the Zoom gods treat us well🤣
I can, by the way, teach this course where YOU are. Details: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/w…
Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will lear…
"Listen to a random forest" is a really inviting prompt, unless of course you're a stats nerd and you think for a moment "why would I want to LISTEN to a random forest regression?" But once I got past that, this is lovely. https://www.tre…
I like a good Latin name, and "Zupaysaurus" is definitely that. The fact that it's attached to a cool dinosaur is a bonus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/
On a dinosaur with the absolutely wonderful name Zupaysaurus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/
Barra MacNeils!
Also, it's lovely that all you lovely people are not poking fun at me for apparently adoring the word "lovely"🤣
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 6.1× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
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Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Evolutionary ecologist, entomologist, and Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle & David Bowie's Spider. He/him.
#ScientificWriting #Ecology #Evolution #Entomology #fedi22
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