...all efforts this weekend powered by an unhealthy amount of coffee ☕️☕️☕️
Wrapping up courses, getting finals ready, and prepping for summer research (mine & students') at the end of your first year as a #NewPI means I feel like this:
Had a GRRREAT tiger #salamander#fieldwork day! We found >30 egg masses across 2 ponds.
Must have been my lucky 🍀 new #Minnesota hat 😉 (bought it at a gas station this morning 😂)
Most embryos were close to hatching. Tiger sal hatchlings are huge compared to blue spots! Photos to come at some point
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🏙️#Sex biases in the individuals studied in the lab & field. Why is it more often males of a species? What data are we missing because of that bias? 🤔
(Prompted by: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…)
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Any recommendations for ways to collect data about color & pattern from images of #wildlife? We want to quantify things like %cover by a color & intensity.
Have enjoyed reading some of the work by Davis & Grayson on quantifying #color, hue, % coverage in #newts and other animals.
They used Fovea Pro, a Photoshop add in. The newer version (QIA-64) costs ~$800 😬
Am also considering the methods of Paterson & Blouin-Demers where they quantify continuous variation in throat color in #lizards using Adobe & ultimately analysis in #imageJ (but haven't had time to test it out yet)