To my big surprise, there was no amphipod simulation game. 🦐🍃🌐 With #EvaCereghetti, we fixed this using fresh science from the lab 🔬🧪(cc @florianaltermatt.bsky.social ). Try it out now: amphipodfeast.francoiskeck.fr #AcademicSky #SciComm #GameDev

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀May 03, 2010 Jacques Bertin died in Paris, France 🇫🇷 In 1967 his Semiology of Graphics became the first comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation. ▶️Paved the road to GoG and ggplot

I’m super happy to share that we’re looking for a PhD student to join us! It’s an exciting project and a great opportunity to work together on big questions about biodiversity and human impacts. Come work with us! and please share with people who might be interested 👉 m.refline.ch/673277/1356/...

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

I'm happy to contribute to scientific surveys. I'm much less happy to be told the survey is "anonymous" when the combination of questions makes re-identification entirely feasible. If you collect sensitive personal data, please be more careful.

If you use @posit.co Positron for #rstats, I just released Quickview. 🚀🎉 This tiny extension lets you quickly inspect the current selection in the View tab or in an external software. I used it as an RStudio add-in for years and it's a huge quality-of-life gain. 🔗 github.com/fkeck/quickv...

A new #ggplot challenge has entered the chat #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

#Research and #innovation depends on good ideas, but also on #funding to turn these into reality. I am thus very grateful to Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF for supporting our project "#BioTesselate: Projecting the #Human #Impact on #Biodiversity". 🌎 🐜 🦠 🦐 🦀 🏭 🎣 🧪

Our paper “The global human impact on biodiversity” turns one today! 🎂 This figure did not make it into the paper, but I still think it is the most striking. It stacks the 3667 multivariate analyses. Each point is a community. 🔵=reference; 🔴=human-impacted. ⬇️

The subtools 📦 is finally on CRAN! Read, write, and manipulate video subtitles without leaving #rstats. Thanks to Alban Sagouis for pushing things forward. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... github.com/fkeck/subtools

Give #time ⏳ to #Meta-#Ecosystem 🍂 🍃 🌊 #Ecology! Interested in integration of a temporal dimension in meta-ecosystem research? Join our session (#13) at #NSO-#GFÖ conference in Odense, Denmark, Sep. 13–17 2026. Abstract submission: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/joint-...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

📢 New preprint out! tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's! 138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

Ants! Ants! Ants! 792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail: spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-... paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... website: www.antscan.info Phenomenal.

We need a geom_snake(...) #rstats #DataViz #ggplot2

An amazing @zooniverse.bsky.social project where volunteers help correct text that will eventually be added to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as the text file and used to help folk find data about species. www.zooniverse.org/projects/bg5... #HighlyRecommended #Zooniverse #ILoveBHL

Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social! ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

While you all fight about whether we should use pipes, I’m out here nesting mine 🧪 #rstats #tidyverse #baseR #pipes

As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience. I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Curious what an LLM would achieve with handwritten labels... I have seen some impressive OCR results here and there.

Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯 Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬

This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.

Seriously considering adopting Swiss Cheese Mono as my default font for all future correspondence www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...

Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

176 tiny maps (1850-2025) Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet. This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order. The stats literature:

Found the code to do this strange attractor while looking for something else. Thought I'd see how fast I can render 360 frames of this with denoising. What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes. #rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

Happy 2026! 🎉 My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.

Great pro-tips for #rstats package development here!

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩 developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...

This is a colossal amount of work and definitely a source of inspiration for #dataviz with #rstats.

2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/... In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈

Looks like the science community has found a home. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I finally made that scandalous chart. #AcademicSky #LLM #ChatGPT

In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

👋 I’m back with some project updates: ecosystem function, Europe-wide experiments, policy papers, a global biodiversity synthesis… and most exciting of all — a new baby💥 Big year and its not even🎄yet😉 Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8

In massive #collaborative #effort, we assembled published & unpublished #fish 🐟 #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding datasets, covering ~2000 sampling sites/>100 river systems globally. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌐 🌍 Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social #aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis 1/6🧵

If doughnuts are coming back into fashion, let me bring this one back. #rstats #ShowYourStripes #ShowYourTorus

We just launched the Kickstarter campaign of MicroMates, a card game that brings the hidden world of microorganisms to life in a fun, colorful, and scientifically inspired way. Please back us up and spread the word! micromates.se

On my way to #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social annual ecology conference in Würzburg www.gfoe-conference.de 🌳 🐟 🔬 🧪 🦀 🦋 🐝 Very much looking forward to catch up with my German & International #Ecology colleagues, please DM for a meeting/chat!

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

I have been experimenting with different ways of visualizing the curvature of meandering rivers. Plotting curvature in the context of the meanders themselves helps QC-ing the curvature data ⚒️🧪

A Workflow for Annotating #Arthropod Organismal Traits bdj.pensoft.net/article/1530... #biology #evolution #taxonomy #textmining

Impressive quantitative synthesis led by Rebecca Oester on the cascading effects of land cover change on aquatic detrital food webs. Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 💧 🌐 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....