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The plot thickens

R

ggplot2

PLAY

KoBoToolbox

visualization

bookdown

I’ve taken on the task of creating workflows for the PLAY Project survey data that is collected using KoBoToolbox. On a…

Legacy Project: Visual Acuity

vision

legacy: acuity

meta-analysis

research

My team has launched a new research initiative I call the “Legacy Project: Visual Acuity.” The overarching effort, the “legacy” portion, aims to capture in more open, transparent, reproducible, and constructive ways what we know about the development of various…

JOTA here we go

ham radio

special events

NARC

Yaesu

Last night I had the delight of announcing a partnership between Cub Scout Pack 67 and the Nittany Amateur Radio Club (NARC). We’re collaborating to participate in the…

Open science for early career researchers

open science

early career researchers

JEDI

I gave a talk last week to our developmental area faculty, grads, and postdocs. One attendee noted that many…

The hex is in

R

hex stickers

AI

Earlier in the summer, I tried to make a hex sticker for the Open Science Bootcamp.

Vote like your future depends on it

voting

elections

politics

The following is a piece I submitted to the Highlands Neighborhood Association newsletter.

Swimming to the other side

folk music

community

LGBTQ+

harmonica

Folk singer Pat Humphries wrote a song called “Swimming to the Other Side” that has been covered by many other artists. Here’s a link to the lyrics: https://emmasrevolution.com/track/1288812…

If a picture paints 1,000 words…

visualization

graphs

R

quarto

mermaid

graphviz

Music lovers of my generation remember…

Thanks, Mike

R

visualization

mentors

One stats class was required in my grad program, and Mike Meyer was my professor. The class was in S-plus, the closed source inspiration for R. And Mike…

Scientific norms and counter-norms

ethics

data visualization

R

Quarto

ggplot2

Scholars who study science as an activity have tried to describe the characteristic norms and counter-norms that govern research activities. In this semester’s PSYCH 490 class, we’ve read…

No foolin’

talks

open science

reproducibility crisis

quarto

I have a new talk I call “No foolin’: May all our crises be ‘good’ ones”. It’s a new take on familiar topics. This time, I decided to tell a story about how the…

The webs we weave

genealogy

family

Some years ago when my own children were small, I got bitten by the genealogy bug. Then the products were all on paper, and searching Census…

What I did on my summer vacation

blog

Quarto

I haven’t posted in a while. Frankly, the blog…

Behold

poetry

Behold… Yesterday
I touched tomorrow.

Data analyses as web books

bookdown

coding

open science

Beyond the open science survey I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve created two additional bookdown…

Research protocols as web books

open science

R

reproducibility

One of the first formal activities of our very informal open science working group has been a survey on open science knowledge and practices.

Back in the saddle

personal

I woke up insanely early this morning. Of all things, I decided that it was time to update my…

More Reverent Hands

poetry

Many in curiosity, some in urgency,
seek secret signs in corners dark and cold,
red and brown,
in rock, or ice, or vapor.

Deep rest

personal

Penn State

This morning I read an article in the New York…

Blast from the past

open science

A colleague reached out to me…

This is great

politics

Perhaps like me you suspected that the red hats did not share your view of what makes America great.

Yields again to dawn

poetry

a midnight glance proves
that darkness dominates light.

Shovel brigade

poetry

a long-term symptom of this peculiar viral infection
is loss of smell.

This is personal

politics

The Trump campaign is suing Centre County where I live and serve as an election official:

This, I believe

I believe that Earth is the only planet our species can expect to thrive on for the imaginable future.

Don’t cry for us

poetry

covid-19

don’t cry for us argentina.
the truth is we chose ignorance
and embraced cruelty
out of fear
that our boasts
were as empty
as our heart.

Mother Earth

poetry

Mother Earth
loves her children like no other.
She pulls us close–
an attraction lawful.
No mass within her orbit
resists the pull.

Home of the meek

politics

There is no doubt that the corona virus pandemic provides the entire world a terrifying reminder that human life and civilization is vulnerable to the whims of uncaring…

Morse, of course

ham radio

I’ve been a ham for only a few years. In that time, I’ve enjoyed sampling the hobby’s many facets. When I first heard about ham radio as a boy, the thrills were mostly…

Ho, ho, ho

poetry

Pandemics aren’t funny.
Sure, people still chuckle.
There are jokes.
Some are almost good.

Seeing through the fog

politics

I understand why Republican partisans want to confuse the public. But this is crystal clear.

What makes America great (to me)

Today I rode my bicycle to our public library (an American innovation), and walked around the corner to an Indian restaurant that is owned and operated by people of Latin…

Just do it!

ham radio

Field Day

Two years ago, I participated in my first Field Day as a ham. For the uninitiated, Field Day…

Is there a crisis of reproducibility in science?

open science

reproducibility

A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Redish et al. argues that ‘reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry.’ The authors remind readers that progress in many fields often proceeds…

Atheist prayer

politics

poetry

we fear the people who love their guns
more than we love our children.

Devilish details

open science

ethics

data sharing

pre-registration

Poets may know it

poetry

I’ve been slowly moving my poetry into position on this site. There may be scraps left in some corner of the hard drive, but the task is essentially done.

If you JS8…

ham radio

JS8call

One thing I like about ham radio is the variety. There are new modes to try and new things to learn all the time.

Of Donocrats and Trumpublicans

politics

I wish it were otherwise, but I agree with Andrew Sullivan.…

Burns a bridge

poetry

burns a bridge
the night long, this heat
retards bitterness and cold
yellow-red flickers illuminate, but dimly
even in that moment fleeting
but wonders he later
wher…

Open developmental science

science

open science

If you plan to attend the…

April 9: A national day of reflection and reconciliation

politics

America needs a holiday dedicated to reflecting on the many ways we have failed to…

Itsy Bitsy

poetry

spiders

i wonder what it is like

Behavior is the linchpin

science

behavior

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has requested input on a draft strategic plan for 2020-2024.

In search of the ethogram

science

ethogram

behavior

ontology

behaviorome

Psychology is in part, a science of behavior. Mental experience – thoughts and feelings – are also common targets of inquiry.

Parameters for action

science

Several years ago, Florian Raudies, Swapnaa Jayaraman and I published a paper where we simulated the optic flow that infants would experience in…

The webs we weave

science

motion perception

causal modeling

I’ve been ‘sketching’ out conceptual models for some time…

QSL? QSL

ham radio

CW

Last night, my friend Mike (N3LI) and I made our first-ever CW QSOs. In ham-speak, that means we chatted using Morse code.

New lab logo

research

For I don’t remember how many years I’ve wanted a lab logo. I thought that designing a logo was something that some student might actually enjoy…

Building walls and tearing them down

commentary

folk music

border wall

The building of walls is of much concern these days. This song from Anais Mitchell’s folk opera “Hadestown” sheds light on why some of us want so desperately to build them:

Test-driven development is hard…and important.

R

software

Databrary

I’ve been developing an R package that interacts with the Databrary.org API and with Datavyu annotation files stored…

Ending the endless war

news

politics

I find Andrew Sullivan worth reading almost all of the time even if I disagree with him. This time, I agree completely:

Heroics

poetry

Some rascal or rogue
Stashed kryptonite
Upon my person.

Speedy recovery

poetry

The tools of the do-it-yourself surgeon vary in sharpness.
Some glint in just that light,
and cut in their fashion,
but how deeply
or cleanly
only the scar will tell.

Goad Gunner

poetry

taunts of bad hair boy-men
transfix the play yard.
mine is bigger. no mine. look.

Fourth and long

poetry

sometimes late in the 4th quarter
you’re down a score,
out of timeouts,
and it’s 4th and long.

Delightful delusion

poetry

oh my, yes.
I oh so wanted to see
a tuxedo, penguin crisp, satin shiny,
pseudo-sparkle when he sauntered by
us peons, clinging to
such rags as misfortune
left in her…

Promise

poetry

I flare my talons
and prepare to strike,
but only in defense.
I sharpen my beak, but only in warning.

Specific gravity

poetry

the call always
comes too early
in the morning for anything
but mischief
or the baker

I never metaphysics

poetry

it’s like fireworks, dad.
you said the colors and patterns come from all the minerals.
their making a mutual arrangement designed to ignite and illuminate.

Oh beautiful

poetry

sweet land of liberty of thee i sing

Haiku 4 U

poetry

One last time, Dad says.
Jason squeals ands bolts inside
the mister. Slippery guy.

Lonely cicada

poetry

Lonely cicada.
Bad at math. Off by one? Damn.
No choral singing.

Food for thought

poetry

yes she cranked the handle
but the meat and potato man put his heart in the grinder
and no one saved the pink spaghetti strands for chili.

Who knows how to unmake love

poetry

Who knows how to unmake love?
that fertile ground for growing
goodness
in tiny cracks between beings.

Four letter word

I strangled hope.
Smug bastard annoyed me.
I spring eternal; there is always room for me,
he’d say
(or his fanboys would moonily recite).
So I grabbed his throat
and fingers…

Lipstick on a pig

poetry

some Wilburs inspire no spider-poets
nor earn the love of Fern.

Who shall lionize

poetry

who shall lionize
this deceased?
and where
pray
tell
shall the bodiless
be interred?
i know not
where to
lay bouquets
nor what color
on such
civic holy-days
that celebrate
my dear…

Unsolicited Advice

poetry

Get it? He says, I’m like a Magritte or an Escher. Self-referential.

In Longing and Light

Dear Friends,

It is the ache
and honor
of those you
have touched

to join you uninvited

to fathom the unfathomable
to grieve the grievous

to go where none
would ever choose
except thrust by…

Angels Blue

poetry

They don’t wear wings, you know.
Impractical indoors. Hard to fit under a winter coat. Showy.
Too many feathers ruffled already.

Love of death

poetry

Love of death and fear of life
well describes the current strife
in Babylonia today.
Nihilism rules the day.

No one loves a volcano

poetry

spewing strangling gas
red white vapor paints green grass gray.

The physics of love

poetry

like surfing a comet

Worn on the sleeve

poetry

I used to envy those who carried
their hearts
safe
surrounded by the warm fellowship of other organs.

There are no heroes

poetry

there are no heroes
in this comic book,

Burns a bridge

poetry

burns a bridge
the night long, this heat
retards bitterness and cold
yellow-red flickers illuminate, but dimly
even in that moment fleeting
but wonders he later
wher…

Joy untethered

poetry

joy untethered by sorrow