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Writing problem sets. #figaday 5.119/n #year5
November 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
A whole lecture just on stability! Fun to see [some of] the students [kind of] realize why I [marginally successfully] forced them to learn all those [three] rules for derivatives. #figaday 5.120/n #year5
November 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Making decisions with sparse data. #figaday 5.118/n #year5
November 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
#figaday sounds lewd in Italian! just saying 🤓
November 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
With gratitude to the freedoms afforded us, Amelie and I took advantage of our class-free day to run the big experiment she designed to be her first Ph.D. chapter. (Note: Amelie is still a #wundergrad.) 15hrs later, exciting to see everything on track! #figaday 5.121/n #year5
November 12, 2026 at 5:09 AM
A colleague suggested using hatching to show significance instead of the asterisks. I am extremely proud of the hack-job used to create the legend, but also this figure might give me a seizure. Thoughts? Preferences? (Prior version also shown.) #figaday 5.117/n #year5
November 6, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Boo yesterday's figure didn't attach. I have stacked the bars. #figaday 5.113/n #year5
November 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Small update rotating the statistical significance markers, adjusting the panel proportions, etc. #figaday 5.114/n #year5
November 5, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Increasingly sophisticated ways of convincing our amazingly-already-on-board university leadership to support the #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus project. #figaday 5.115/n #year5
November 5, 2026 at 5:52 AM
November 2, 2026 at 4:30 AM
From the "My science class will radicalize you" files: My favorite series of lectures this week on Ho and Person's HIV model that revolutionized treatment in the '90s. Which leads naturally into a question of why not everyone has access. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.116/n #year5
November 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I do not wish to discuss how long it took me to add the significance tests to these graphs, nor would I like to discuss the colourblindness probems here. #figaday 5.112/n #year5
November 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Very committed to base R so hacking away today at inset graphs. #figaday 5.109/n #year5
October 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM
And scaled up to all 8 evolution experiments. #figaday 5.110/n #year5
October 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
So many traits, so little page space. #figaday 5.107/n #year5
October 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Weirded out by the difference in distributions but of course I ran a t-test and the difference in means is non significant. #figaday 5.108/n #year5
October 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Guess which person in faculty meeting today was actually frantically measuring the last sets of bacterial reference points? #figaday 5.106/n #year5
October 29, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Just another day in the office. Using Euler's Method to derive his number! Which conveniently reinforces concepts like (1) definition of a derivative, and (2) where the exponential growth equation comes from. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.105/n #year5
October 27, 2026 at 8:43 PM
October 27, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Writing not figuring today, so here are some photos from Oregon last weekend. #figaday 5.103/n #year5
October 26, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Told the lab a draft of the latest mixotroph evolution manuscript would be on their desks on Tuesday, so it's turbo data analysis mode for me this weekend. #figaday 5.102/n #year5
October 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I feel very grateful to have colleagues and students that trust me to try teaching calculus a little differently, and for support around campus to grow our little pilot project a bit bigger each year. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.101/n #year5
October 23, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Deriving the exponential growth equation for the first of probably.... 3 times this year? Plus finishing up some of our rules for derivatives before the midterm. #figaday 5.100/n #year5 #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus
October 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Adding another dataset! Was nervous when I saw the functional response, but also plotting the underlying parameters is helping things make sense. #figaday 5.099n/ #year5
October 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Building intuition on what derivatives and integrals really are. Plus surprise constant multiplier rule. #figaday 5.098/n #year5
October 21, 2026 at 3:33 AM