🚨 New paper 🚨 How does livestock grazing impact tick-borne disease hazard? Our new study in the New Forest National Park used a paired experiment to find out. Important for #rewilding and #conservation grazing schemes! #Ticks #LymeDisease @ukhsa.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This would very quickly become my favourite game I reckon. As a bonus it should very occasionally throw in a problem that seems easy and actually was a fiendish open question in computer science or mathematics for 50+ years.

Things that you as a data scientist can replace the term "artificial intelligence" with in stupid marketing text to stop your brain detonating E.g. "We will use advanced methods such as <BLANK> to track sewage spills." - Basic regression models - Interns - The CEO's best guess - An actual fish ...

I feel genuinely ashamed that this wooooshed me for a full two minutes before I realised they weren't serious. I need more coffee before reading exceptionally funny posts :)

Right, with the advent of the recent government whitepaper "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System" (which already has some pretty loaded language in the title), it's worthwhile looking a bit at some of the detail of the student section. It's some "interesting" statistics presentation.

The report released today by the Tony Blair institute is one of the most cynical, least scientific, and most poorly-written reports I have ever seen about climate change. I'm not exactly surprised that there is no climate scientist willing to put their name on it anywhere, but I am disappointed.

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation" new paper now out in NatComm, led by @martashocket.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Tidyverse Tip: If you find yourself writing the same mutation (i.e., #dplyr::mutate()) for several columns, there’s a better way! dplyr::across() allows you to apply a function to multiple columns easily. For example, to scale all numeric columns: df %>% mutate(across(where(is.numeric), scale))

Why I love OneDrive, part 78. My local folder is called /Users/koren/OneDrive\ -\ Central\ European\ University\ \(CEU\ GmbH\ Hungarian\ Branch\ Office\)/ Luckily, I can symlink.

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

This is the real and proper solution to the previous problem I posted, and today I was reminded why reading the documentation regularly is very very important, even when you think you know it. Now if you'll excuse me I have some package error handling to rework.

The redquack 📦 lets REDCap and DuckDB flock together. It batches API requests by record ID using the awesome httr2 📦 . Features include resuming incomplete transfers, converting column types, tracking progress, and logging operations in the database. Headed to CRAN! 🦆 github.com/dylanpieper/...

If you're catching errors in #rstats and stopping using tryCatch and cli_abort (or rlang::abort), you may encounter something like this "Error in `value[[3L]]()`". This isn't helpful for finding where something went wrong, you don't know what actually threw the error. But there's an easy fix!

I just created a silly little tool for finding stats about those following you on Bluesky! Returns who follows you, and basic stats about their own profile. A really fun way to start playing with the bsky public api! #rstats #httr2 #bsky gist.github.com/fwimp/67a20b...

Recently I've been playing with the "slider" package for sliding windows #rstats It's exceedingly useful for generating aggregated summaries over a dataset (i.e. weekly means)

okay I think I've got it

Trying out dplyr::consecutive_id() for a project today. #rstats It generates a unique identifier that increments every time a variable (or combination of variables) changes.

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just started out work on an R Package Developer starterpack, and would love to keep expanding it and making it more diverse. Any suggestions on people to add?

🧵 Now it's time for another R thread. So let's talk about the .data pronoun from rlang/dplyr. #R #dplyr #rlang

A tip for anyone regularly plotting in ggplot in Rstudio: Set up a new snippet (Global Options -> Code -> Edit Snippets) with the following: ``` snippet nolegend theme(legend.position="none") ``` Click save and now you'll never forget that particular bastard ever again.

Sci-comm at its finest! @sderkarabetian.bsky.social and I just published a systematic study of arachnids in the Magic: The Gathering card game @mtgarena.com. We discuss classification and evolution of spiders across the multiverse. Check it out here: virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/wp-content/u...

🧵 As we're in catchup week, here's the second of my weekly threads. This time it's just some spider web information to ease us in (I really am a biologist I promise, not just an R guy)!

I've decided to try and do one post a week for the whole of 2025, exploring a diversity of topics I think would be interesting to the generality of science bluesky. So to start off (and catch up) let's talk about R and why you should probably use it as a scientist. [1/16]

Our friends at Stray Fawn have given us a handful of Dungeon Clawler keys to share with the Peglin community! To enter to win, simply follow us and @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social, and retweet(?) this post - we'll select 5 winners on Dec. 5 at 8pm PST. store.steampowered.com/app/2356780/...

It's funny thinking back over one's journey through academia. When writing my corrections today, I came to the sudden realisation that without @mdahirel.bsky.social sending over some cool data in response to a request out of the blue, my PhD (not even using that data) would be very different!

BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT? Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads

Antarctic scientists showed tiny, early signs of a new accent after spending all winter in isolated groups talking to each other. Cool to see exactly how the process of language divergence starts #langsky

Surveying its domain. #Arachtober #invertebrates

It's obviously Arachtober. However this Araneus marmoreus was in front of the camera a month ago. But maybe it's excused due to its nicely marmored abdomen.