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Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog P < 0.05 Significant Notes ! This bog will be an outlet for me to share fun or interesting notes on coding, data management and any thing science related that comes my way. A little about me... My current work is focused on the Antarctic Weddell seals. However there are several projects in my lab that I help with so sometimes I will post larval fish or qPCR. So I hope that you will enjoy my blog and subscribe to follow my weekly posts.
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