New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Okay, possibly stupid #rstats question. By now we’re all aware that rm(list=ls()) is not a safe trick to ensure a script is running in a clean environment. But… are there tools that you could use to do better *within* a script, such that the script errors on line 1 if it detects a dirty environment?

Thanks @cghlewis.bsky.social for the #rstats tip !! The rainbow indentation looks sooooo cool 🤩

For all my ecologists out there. If I tell you that I am working on a research project that is about niche segregation, what do you expect to see in that research project? 🌎🧪 #ecology

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

My kid: Have you ever heard of Smashing Pumpkins? You should listen to them. They’re good. Me:

New code review response just dropped:

What a lovely and insightful talk by Prof Brownlee on leveraging mobility data to help better inform parks and recreational lands management!

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology! 📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men 📉 Non-native English speakers: –35% 📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70% 🌍 Language & equity matter in science! 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

Air is our incredibly fast R code formatter! Come learn all about it at 2:40pm in Regency V in the Sparking Development Joy session!! We also have hex stickers! #positconf2025 #rstats

Remember the Pac-Man Rule! Leave a gap for people to join your conversation! #PositConf2024 #RStats

How many species have been rediscovered? Which were surprising? What are the prospects for finding the remaining lost species? Learn more in a free webinar from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social on Sept. 18 @ noon ET: birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/sea.... #birds 🌎

Foundation. S3 Ep 10. I was not ready! I l can’t wait for S4 🙀😩

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

There’s so much on my to do list I feel so overwhelmed 😩

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Looking to leave GitHub? Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg. But wait — it gets better! Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]

Reminded of this as an academic told me the other day that they were off to a country in South America, then one in Africa & then one in Asia, in rapid succession I really didn’t know what to say… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Apropos of nothing.... Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude. Critique the work, not the author team. Explain, don’t sneer. Build science up, don’t beat the authors down. Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Even our 'nature-based' climate solutions are poisoning the ecosphere and wiping out biodiversity. The obvious, simple pathway -- protect existing native ecosystems -- is often not even being considered.

Combining #cameratrap data with tourist sightings improves leopards monitoring. Wow!🤩 @rsecjournal.bsky.social @antoniouzal.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This year has not been easy for me. I have used half my energy to try to switch my mindset and remain positive. We are about to start month 9 of the year and I hope the last 4 months will be better.

I feel this in my bones. Sooooo true!!!!

I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT."

Native Species? 🌎🌐🐺🦉 Cultural Paradigms in Conservation @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1lac31R~ea...

This gruesome parasite is more of a threat to your burger than to you

🦟" #OneHealth approach uncovers emergence and dynamics of #Usutu and #WestNile viruses in the #Netherlands 🇳🇱" by ‪ @emmanuellemunger.bsky.social, @marionkoopmans.bsky.social et al. @erasmusmc.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I went from finishing my PhD, straight to the private sector and have thoroughly enjoyed my job for the last 19 years. There are so many opportunities outside academia, but I agree, non-academic #careers are not really discussed inside of academia. #AcademicSky 🧪

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

INVITED COMMENTARY Integrate Remote Sensing Into Ecological Research to Realise Its Potential for Monitoring in the Antarctic 🔗 buff.ly/3a2OFU6

Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an environmental crisis

Friendly advice: DO NOT ask your LLM to analyze your data. DO ask your LLM to help you generate code so YOU can analyze your data & audit the results. After using LLMs heavily across a wide range of projects, I think this is critical for anyone working with data.

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The Web Application 👉: huggingface.co/spaces/diego... #Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting 1/ A thread:

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Don't bother squishing spotted lanternflies, @umdentomology.bsky.social's Paula Shrewsbury told @baltimorebeat.bsky.social. Instead, try not to let the bugs hatch in the first place—hunt down their egg masses in the colder months and scrape them into the trash.

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

Best way to spend my Sunday evening is watching the new season of Strange New Worlds!!!

I am starting to believe that we should learn more about project management in Science. Afterall, we manage projects and teams.

Can anyone pls point me towards some resources for establishing survey sample sizes? I'm doing a discrete choice experiment and want to run a pilot for validity, then establish N based on responses. Also some subgroups I'm keen to examine. Ideally #Bayesian! #surveymethods #stats #statsky #econsky

Rabbits spotted with hornlike growths on their face in northern Colorado are doing better than they look

Jackalope fever continues into its second day. www.cbsnews.com/news/rabbits... Frankenstein bunnies actually have saved many lives, because research on the virus that causes their growths led to the HPV vaccine. gizmodo.com/rabbits-with...

From @posit.co 's coffee chat this morning: @hadley.nz is "80% confident" that it's still a good idea to learn data science coding. But recommends you also know how to do something with your hands. #teaching #llm

Need geology photos for your fall classes? Please check out my site Geologypics.com, which has >5000 of my images --all searchable and all for free download. And please share! Just added 15 more including this one of Mt. St. Helens crater. #geology #EarthScience #teaching #scienceteaching

NEW OPINION PIECE Are #caribou an effective umbrella for multi-species conservation? ☂️☔🌂 The message can be easily muddled. The method used, relative area and amount, matters. Using an index can help compare and contrast situations. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A week ago I was crazy enough to email a paper's corresponding author for the data. No response. "The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request." Why is this data availability statement evil? A few reasons: ...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Call me weird but I think we live in a world with excessive auditory stimulation. Everywhere there’s music too loud, people shouting or talking too loudly… honestly, it’s too much for me sometimes.