Siliceous and Delicious

A day of mostly other stuff—long (but productive) meeting with Mateo and Emily in the morning, chat with Jc about the Snowball silica idea, then a lengthy lunch with Jerry and his group (time off work, but good to talk to some other people about some other things for a change).

Finally turned to the morphospace in the afternoon. At long last, addressed the mess surrounding characters describing the various sorts of linking processes: got rid of character #26 and added a character state to #61 (now #60), and consolidated character states 2 and 4 and got rid of state 3 from character #28 (now #27). A bit of a huggledy-juggle, but it feels a bit cleaner and leaner now. Further, decided that characters #54 and #59 (carina vs. collar) describe the same thing, and consolidated them (by deleting #54). Also made the pseudonodulus character presence/absence only, since there were so few taxa with that character at all.

Not perfect, but it’s getting a little better. Goodbye, week. Hello, weekend.