News

I will be posting lab news here. my latest tweet feed appears below.

-September 2021: Analysis of faculty demographic data for the ASPIRE SEA CHANGE SELF-ASSESSMENT TASK FORCE REPORT

-Saturday june 6: “2020: the year of the pandemic and social change”:

Phew! This year has been very difficult almost in every single respect. It’s been one thing after the other, personally, with closer family, friends and in the News in general. Yet today, Saturday June 6, I want to stay hopeful that the social unrest resulting from the senseless murder of George Floyd will bring about a much needed change here and in the entire world. In that spirit, and although the Ponciano lab has always been committed with graduate training of Latin American students, there is much work to be done to rid Academia from implicit and explicit biases affecting minorities. As mentors in Academia, we must fight against racism and exclusion in any form. I am deeply committed to actively seek funding to recruit and train individuals who otherwise would not have a chance to grow as a statistical ecologist or quantitative evolutionary biologist. Most of the students I have trained are either mathematicians/physicists learning biology or biologists learning statistical mathematics and stochastic processes. Both journeys have their own rewards and difficulties and I very much enjoy witnessing it first hand over and over. The results never cease to amaze me. The growth and multiplication of my little contribution to the academic world is also very rewarding. I am thankful for having the privilege to do what I do.

 
 
 

Testing stuff

Such a geek: I injected the following code in squarespace to be able to write math! (Settings--> advanced-->inject code) 

<script type="text/javascript" async
src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
</script>
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", function(event){
  var element=event.target;
  if (element.tagName.toLowerCase()!= 'script') {
    MathJax.Hub.Queue(["Typeset",MathJax.Hub,element.parent]);
  }
});

MathJax.Hub.Queue(["Typeset",MathJax.Hub]);
</script>

It works! Here's one of my fav. equations:

$$\frac{dn}{dt} = an -bn^2$$