I work with the best people... Gift from a colleague because I am sticking it out at work. I think my #rstats and #tidydata rants have made an impact!

One of the most troubling misconceptions about science and research held by politicians is that science and research can be turned on and off without consequence, like turning a water spigot.

More data consultants added, more service tags added, and several new countries represented. Looking for data help? Check out this list! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉 The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week! 🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist... 💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...

I'm very excited to share that Hacking Limno + DSOS are coming back for the FIFTH time 21-25 July! If you're interested in #machinelearning #remotesensing #modeling #limnology #oceanography, this is for YOU! Registration is FREE + open to ALL! #DSOS25 aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

If I follow the rules it is my bluesky image... If I use the next one, I get this.

Excited to announce that I'll be presenting on our #surveydown project at posit::conf(2025)! It'll be in the Wed afternoon session on #Quarto (surveydown lets you use Quarto to build surveys) More on surveydown at surveydown.org

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share! dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

www.abc6.com/road-in-bris... #rhodeislandproblems

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We should all aspire to be a grandparent with a toolbox!

Study Links Binge Eating To Stress, Contentment, Depression, Joy, Boredom, Anger, Relaxation theonion.com/study-l...

This is wild…

📝 "Observable for R users" 👤 Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) 📖 R users: Boost your data viz! Combine R's stats power with Observable's interactive JS visuals via Quarto. Easy, fast, & customizable. 🔗 https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/observable-r-users/ #rladies#rstats

Federal Employees in Juneau have their community behind them. Today my colleagues and I on the Assembly consider a resolution that recognizes the service and importance of Federal Employees and advocates for the cuts to stop.

Applications are open for the Stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences workshop! This NSF-funded training, co-sponsored by CUAHSI is taking place AUG 18-19 at Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA. Apply by May 16 www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old. That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud. By @sengelberg.bsky.social

Hey, #TeamMuskox, a good friend trained as a meteorologist (with a PhD) who shifted to health data science during COVID was working as a federal contractor on racial disparities in maternal-fetal health outcomes, and he just lost his job. If you know of any remote data science positions, hit me up!

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate: Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC. (Feel free to add others in replies)

Hits close to home, but funny is funny...

Happy 75th birthday to the #1 reason we should always be grateful to Canada - their greatest export… Mr. Martin Short.

anyway, if anyone needs EPA ecoregions for CONUS and doesn't want to hunt down the right download link for each region in turn... docker run -it ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-latest ogrinfo /vsicurl/https://mikemahoney218.github.io/epa-ecoregions/ecoregions.parquet github.com/mikemahoney2...

“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.” New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes” Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

@ditzkoff.bsky.social From now on in every White House Chat:

Post a ship that is not Star Wars or Star Trek. This one seemed especially apropos...

Sweden improves its bid to supply the RCAF with Grippen fighter jets. It now says it will ship the aircraft in a flat-pak and they can be assembled with a single Allen key.

Just arrived in DC. Should have all this effing politics bs sorted out by Monday

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

I needed a laugh tonight.

This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Lee Zeldin on Fox accuses the NYT of doing a "face plant" with their reporting about EPA plans to fire more than 1,000 scientists, then in the very next breath basically confirms their reporting

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If climate change is a religion and scientists are its high priests… where’s our tax exemption and housing allowance? h/t @skaky01.bsky.social

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Back in the office for only a few weeks and already dealing with microwaved fish in the lunchroom...

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Wrapping up a quarter-long Intro to Scientific Computing class -- we've had a blast! So grateful for @allisonhorst.bsky.social amazingly joyful illustrations and @uslter.bsky.social LTER datasampler package of simplified environmental datasets for teaching and learning 🧪🌎🌱⌨️

The Learning DuckDB website now has a resources page, which contains curated links to several topics related to @duckdb.org learningduckdb.com/resources/

Pardon my language but ... FUCK YEAH: openRxiv Launch to Sustain and Expand Preprint Sharing in Life and Health Sciences prn.to/3R1f6VQ

Even if you do not have time to read the whole paper, here are some recommendations 1️⃣ Teach Reproducibility from Day One 2️⃣ Make Reproducibility a Requirement 3️⃣ Teach Reproducibility Explicitly 4️⃣ Make Reproducibility a Campus-Wide Effort 👇

Our first week post-"deletion" was a whirlwind: we're still catching up on the headlines. Thank you to the journalists working to shed light on our story—and the stories of many thousands of federal workers like us. 🗞️

You know how some of your clocks will just *know* how to adjust to the time change tonight (and not just our phones talking to cell towers)? They get that from govt radio. Thank you, NIST, for maintaining the time! www.nist.gov/pml/time-and... #ThankYouCivilService

Pecan Lodge in Dallas is about to give me the meat sweats.

NEW: Within the EPA is a small program called IRIS, which measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Two new bills pose the gravest threat to the program’s existence since it was created four decades ago.

@simonpcouch.com is doing some really cool work with LLMs in R! He's created experimental packages like chores, ensure, and gander to help automate tasks like unit testing and roxygen tags. Check out his blog post to learn more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01... #RStats #LLM

Attending posit weekly data science hangout and it's a WEALTH of information this week, Jessica Klein is amazing #datasky