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# Biography

I'm a Scientific Programmer & Educator at [The University of Arizona](https://datascience.cct.arizona.edu).
I collaborate with researchers in the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences on statistics, data wrangling, and data visualization.
The workshops I teach are on a variety of beginner and intermediate data science topics, typically in R.
My background is in plant chemical ecology, plant--insect interactions, and plant demography.
I'm also a huge tea geek and occasionally do tea science communication.

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### Interests

-   Plant ecology
-   Statistics and programming in R
-   Reproducible research practices
-   Tea 🫖
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### Education

-   PhD in Biology, 2020 Tufts University
-   MS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, 2010 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-   BA in Biology, 2006 Whitman College
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