Matt Powers, PhD

Our CCC run comes to an end.

THREE POINTS ✅

Out today in @ScienceAdvances. We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with @hawchuan. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

This is one of the deepest and most beautiful equations in all of statistics in my opinion.

@tcarpenter216 In the past I’ve really loved modeling proportions as the response variable. But now I’m seriously having fun with time series data, including a fun gene expression time course

I just love analyzing survey data Love it more with {survey} Anyone else have a favorite data type?

Yellow and red birds use a different battery of carotenoids to produce their coloration, with the yellow birds relying on many of the metabolic precursors to the red birds' carotenoids!

I helped with pigment analyses of bills, with @NickJustyn and @Geoffrey_E_Hill, adding to a mountain of cool genetics by @SimonGriffith4, @pandolfatto, Callum McDiarmid, Frank Chan, Marek Kučka, and Nathan Hart. Here's some bts photos of yellow and red bill carotenoid extracts!

Had a humble part in a cool paper led by @DanielM_Hooper on the selective spread of yellow bill color in long-tailed finch populations with yellow-to-orange-to-red geographic variation. Out now in @CurrentBiology. tinyurl.com/y5jhwxvk

So excited to have our paper “Spread of yellow-bill-color alleles favored by selection in the long-tailed finch hybrid system” out now in @CurrentBiology ! Check it out: tinyurl.com/billcolor

@NoahRiffe Hear me out. Raul has one last ride into the Sounders sunset and leads us to another classic deep playoff run.

in my professional opinion, these are shit statistics

Some will take this negatively. They are mistaken

Just another day writing R code

Why does base R feel like one or these secret bars where you need to go into a phone booth to get inside and see all the cool stuff? Such a neat trick below!

If you’re broke

MLS legend Kei Kamara, after winning the U.S. Open Cup Wednesday night made his opinion clear about the future of the tournament. "Don (Garber) better not take this away, this is amazing. This is American soccer right here." 🔗: givemesport.com/this-is-americ…

To be in the College Football Hall of Fame, a coach must have won at least 60% of his games. Mike Leach won 59.6%. RT if you think Mike Leach should still be included in the College Football Hall of Fame

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@RiquiPuig You love this game and you’re in USA?

I love this game!

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