Assistant Prof at University of Kansas. Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, Environmental Data Science, Open Science, R, emacs. he/him 🌱 🍄 🔬 🧬 📈 👨‍💻https://bsky.app/profile/phytobio.mehttps://bsky.app/profile/phytobio.me/post/3mk3hanrw322nI was an intern at the Forest Service in Hilo when I was in college 20+ years ago. It was that experience that led me to decide to become an ecologist. Ecologists there have been lifelong mentors. Closing this would be incredibly shortsighted and a huge loss to STEM workforce development in Hawai'i. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:3lrt47tgdfhmc6x24secwpss/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3hanrw322nhttps://bsky.app/profile/phytobio.me/post/3m3po4fovak2cYeah this caused quite a bit of consternation yesterday [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Oct 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:3lrt47tgdfhmc6x24secwpss/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3po4fovak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/phytobio.me/post/3m3pnz6icms2nJust announced from @anthropic.com This stuff is moving very fast. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-life-sciences21 Oct 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:3lrt47tgdfhmc6x24secwpss/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pnz6icms2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/phytobio.me/post/3lggeyzcymc25{rix} is an R package that leverages Nix, a package manager focused on reproducible builds. With Nix, you can create project-specific environments with a custom version of R, its packages, and all system dependencies (e.g., GDAL). github.com/ropensci/rix https://github.com/ropensci/rix23 Jan 2025 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:3lrt47tgdfhmc6x24secwpss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggeyzcymc25