Dr. Bryan H. Juarez (He/They)

Soon we will have vegan AI, no animals were harmed in the training of this model

love being a WOC pointing out zero representation and getting the academic version of "all lives matter" back. "we don't see color" isn't the flex you think it is. it's why nothing changes.

One of my Math colleagues pointed out that there was still an increase in students enrolled in remedial math just prior to the calculator ban (from 2020 to 2023). Anything beyond that is hard to decipher.

For me, outside of policy, this makes clear how impactful 2020 was for students :/

They were amazing talks!!! Very well deserved.

Congratulations!!

I've definitely considered it. But i agree that there's a massive sunk cost (considering we are responding to suggested revisions).

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

Hmm… so this means that colleges that want to “prepare students for the AI workplace” should be sure to keep robust Romance and other language departments?

Worth a shot.

#AcademicSky

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

NSF leaders have just acknowledged what many scientists have long suspected: Presidential directives to boost AI and quantum have upended its traditional way of doing business. www.science.org/content/arti...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

My current record is a manuscript that has been in review for like a year.

And that only includes a single round of reviews so far

I had a pre-interview meeting to discuss a (then) open postdoc position. I asked the PI if they prioritize publishing with the high school students they work with and their response was:

"We don't give token authorship"

This was at an R1.

One thing I've been thinking about is whether we should use the 0.5 cutoff as a standard.

It's our informal verbal standard, so why not prompt people to perform hypothesis tests where the ICC is tested against 0.5 instead of 0?

3 samples per animal is amazing!

0.5 is acceptable, fitting the common assumption of greater differences between individuals (or species) than within.

Our single sample estimates had ICC = 0.21. But averaging just 2 (intraindividual) estimates got our average repeatability up to 0.5 🦎 (Fig 1C)

The take home message:

Any measure of intra-individual variation is better than none. Please sample individuals at least N=2 times per treatment if you want to avoid this error variance from being funneled into your parameter estimates and statistical tests!

In this paper we collected about 100 individual sprints per animal! (they are so cute look at them!).

We used Intraclass Correlation Coefficients and bootstrapping to discuss alternative ways to analyze maximum performance data, with specific attention on the reliability of the resulting studies 😎

🚨 NEW preprint!!! 🚨
Browning, Mayor, and the rest of the Fall 2025 Vert Anat class at OWU are pleased to present you with our study:

Maximum performance, repeatability, and intraindividual variability of sprinting in common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) doi.org/10.32942/X29...

doi.org/10.32942/X29...

The take home message:

Any measure of intraindividual variation is better than none. Please sample individuals at least N=2 times per treatment if you want to avoid this error variance from being funneled into your parameter estimates and statistical tests!

In this paper we collected about 100 individual sprints per animal! (they are so cute look at them!).

We used Intraclass Correlation Coefficients and bootstrapping to discuss alternative ways to analyze maximum performance data, with specific attention on the reliability of the resulting studies 😎

A tortoise beetle on a leaf. The clear elytra extend past the body of the critter. The body is blue and yellow and iridescent.

Sometimes there are jewels just sitting on leaves out here

This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.

Once again, a reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.

This Mexican don't need a status quo skills check on whether i can support non-Latinos

Also I think White academics don't understand that if you practice inclusive pedagogy to support minority groups, you are supporting all.

This is based on my experiences + feedback I've gotten repeatedly on my perceived limitations as an advocate of Latinos (and other minority groups, obvi)

3) you'd think a politician would have issues like helping their constituents to worry about

Are you kidding me lol eff off

And in Spanish:
R u kidding me lol. Chíngate.

This is a racist strawman witch hunt.
1) I know because this guy wants to give trump a 3rd term

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2) there's been similar content in the Superb Owl before

Y'all. I have real good news.

The anxiety we developed during our PhD for when we get email notifications DOES GO AWAY. Can confirm.

Also this single issue stalled the review process for 3 weeks, although they told me the review process would not be affected.

I had a journal tell me they needed a new Dryad DOI from me because it was broken.

I explained Dryad DOI are not live until we enter the data into curation, and that happens after acceptance. To be clear, we also sent them the private link for reviewers.

Some journals are REALLY Dryad unfriendly.

Lmao