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Wayne Maddison
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Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Prof @ UBC
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Even still, it means you have to go somewhere other than the PDF that I'm looking at right now.

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Even if you have to change format a bit, I'd much rather edit something I can copy.

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So, why doesn't every single journal have the full citation written out on the first page of articles, "Kutschera M. 2024. Raindrops on roses. Journal of Favourite Things 28:317-339. doi:19938.00/00s8"? How many thousands of times each day do people have to retype such stuff?

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And, like real gardening, you don’t so much come to *the* final result, but simply run out of time for the moment. (See Maddison’s Law of Phylogenetic Analysis: subulatepalpomere.com/category/phy...)

Phylogenetics – The Subulate Palpomere
Phylogenetics – The Subulate Palpomere

Posts about Phylogenetics written by David Maddison

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My (real) garden has a lot of failures too. 🥴

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When you set up and then monitor phylogenetic analyses, do you feel as if you are gardening? You plant the seed with hope. Sometimes you move it to another patch. Sometimes you have to pull out a weed. And then you wait for the harvest. I call it the Garden of Analyses.

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Your salticid sculptures are remarkable for how well they portray the spirit of the spiders. Other sculptures attempt "photorealism" but lack the spirit. Yours are not at all photorealistic, and yet inside them is so clearly the personality of the little beasts.

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This hotel accommodates all belief systems.

On wall, two toilet paper dispensers, one oriented over the top to the front, the other to the back.
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This is what their bodies look like. (©2024 W.Maddison, under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license)

Male jumping spider, preserved in alcohol.
Female jumping spider, preserved in alcohol.
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After a 7 month hiatus, it's so good to be drawing again. Drawings of jumping spider genitalia, day 25. Palp, epigyne, and vulva of a new Habrocestoides. 🧪🐡 (©2024 W.Maddison, under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license)

Ink and pencil drawing the male palp of a species of jumping spider.
Ink and pencil drawing the female epigyne of a species of jumping spider.
Ink and pencil drawing the female vulva of a species of jumping spider.
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Wayne Maddison
@waynemaddison.bsky.social
Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Prof @ UBC
509 followers407 following211 posts