Very excited to be reunited with @ellakaye.co.uk + Heather Turner to help out in the #RDevDay! Lots of small wins with @emitanaka.org and others on making R manuals pretty, a continuing project I worked on at last years R Dev Day in Austria 🫶

A pleasure to present research and the analytics projects for the Australian grains industry to the UTokyo Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics 🌾 Fantastic to also listen to the lab’s students present their crop analytics work 🫛🇯🇵 Bonus: the food is so good here 🤤 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

Honored to be Highly Commended for The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning under the leadership of Alice Richardson as part of Statistical People of Knowledge and Experience (SPOKEs) 🎖️ learningandteaching.anu.edu.au/development/...

Our Early Bird registration closes in 1 week! We have a great line up of keynotes, workshops and social events so you can make the most of your Canberra visit 🐨 🍷 🚲 ⭐ Register today and save! 🔗 biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

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📝 Make sense of complex survey data with ‪@tslumley.bsky.social‬ Learn how to analyse stratified & clustered survey data in R using modern tools like weighting, calibration, and robust estimation. 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕒 9am–5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

🧠📸 Deep learning, made approachable for R users! Build your intuition for neural networks & computer vision in this hands-on workshop, using R + {reticulate} 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 9am – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

🗣️ Statisticians, speak so others get it! Boost your stakeholder communication skills in this interactive workshop — perfect for consultants, researchers & collaborative teams. 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 Half day 1:30pm – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

✈️ Travelling soon to Seoul 🇰🇷, Tokyo 🇯🇵, Kyoto 🇯🇵, Coventry 🇬🇧 , Edinburgh 🇬🇧 and Sydney 🇦🇺 Do DM me if I'm in your town and you want an academic chat ☺️ Happy always to chat stats, data science, or plant breeding 🌾 emitanaka.org

📊 Go beyond linear! Learn to model complex relationships with generalized nonlinear models in R using the gnm package with ‪@heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy‬ 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 9am – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

Looking forward to hosting the co-working hour on the theme "Drawing publication-ready plots using R" tomorrow (5th Aug) 11AM AEST (Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane) with @steffilazerte 📊 ropensci.org/events/cowor...

🚶‍♀️Stretch your legs at the #BIB2025 conference Join us for a *free* guided walk around beautiful Lake Burley Griffin and take a breather 🌬️🚣 📅 Wed 26 Nov | 🕜 Meet 1:30pm at NFSA 👣~5km loop | Easy pace 🧢 Bring a hat, sunscreen & water! Let's go! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

🍷Wine not take a break during Biometrics in the Bush Capital? Join us at Murrumbateman’s best wineries — Clonakilla for tastings & cheese 🧀 🍇 🗓️ Wed 26 Nov 📍Pickup near NFSA at 1:15pm 💰$140 🕔 Back by 5pm Sign up to sip, snack & socialise membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

🌿 Coming to Biometrics in the Bush Capital? Keen to spot a platypus? Join us for an arvo at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve — koalas, wallabies, bush walks & nature vibes! 🐨 🦘 🗓️ Wed 26 Nov 📍Pickup from NFSA at 1pm 💰 $35 🕒 Back by 5:30pm Register now! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

The abstract submission for Biometrics in the Bush Capital has been extended till 21st July 2025 5PM AEST 📢 We hope to see you there ☺️ #BIBC2025 For more information see: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... Thank you to @fontikar.bsky.social for making the banner!

Last chance for abstract submission for #BIBC2025! The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 21st July 2025 5PM AEST. Don't miss out! biometricsociety.org.au/conference2025

As the ANU Analytics for 🇦🇺 Grains Industry project gets underway, we sprinted with 4 training sessions discussing everything from analysis of field trials to project management, while enjoying some wheat cake 🌾 We are sharing our training materials on the web 👇 🔗 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

We're pleased to welcome Yidi Deng, last of 3 postdocs we hired for Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry project! Yidi has an impressive list of work from his PhD in developing and applying statistical methods for single cell data integration analysis. 🔗 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

💻 Pre-conference #rstats workshops open for registration 👩‍💻 - generalised non-linear models by Heather - analysing complex survey by @tslumley.bsky.social - stats consulting by Peter & Eve - deep learning + computer vision by @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social 🔗 biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

Meet the keynote speakers for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital, 24-28th November 2025 at Canberra 🇦🇺 Abstract submission closes 14th July 2025 Pre-conference workshop is also open now! biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... @ml4x.bsky.social @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

So glad to have @emitanaka.org and @nimahejazi.org join our editorial board for @ropensci.org's software peer review! They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for software in statistics and data science. ropensci.org/blog/2025/06... #rstats

A bit of an update thread: I resigned from my academic position at UNSW a few months ago now and have been taking a break to rest, reflect, and work out what I want the next half of my career to look like. 1/9

Looking forward to hearing about university governance and more from @davidpocock.bsky.social

What do you do in a long weekend? Get to know your own university by analysing the distribution of ANU researchers and the number of their publications by academic organisational units (yeah, I must be fun at parties 😆). emitanaka.org/blog/2025-06...

Following Patrick (@weihaolipatrick.bsky.social), we're delighted to welcome Fonti (@fontikar.bsky.social), who joined @scienceanu.bsky.social as part of the Analytics of the Australian Grains Industry! anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

If you want to do some text analysis with large language models using R, then I have an online workshop coming up on 📅 3-4th June, limited to 20 participants. 🔗👇 If you miss that one, I'll be repeating the livestream version in October with more participants. www.statsoc.org.au/event-6066471

👉 Check our new publication - by Li, Cheng, Liu & @emitanaka.org: "Analysis of international life expectancies with manifold learning and neural networks" 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Excited to have @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social join the team at ANU (@scienceanu.bsky.social) for the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) project! :D anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n

Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation. "Land doesn't vote, people do." #rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...

My #rstats friends - R-Ladies Canberra x Melbourne x Sydney are thrilled to bring you a #TidyTuesday event! 🎨📊 Come along, connect with the community + stretch your data muscles 😊 All coding experience levels are welcome! 📆: Tue May 6 ⏰: 1:00 PM AEST ℹ️: bit.ly/42rFX2D

Enjoying some democracy sausages 🗳️

I am thrilled to share my paper on statistical training in archaeology. Thank you to @kjkillackey.bsky.social for the incredible illustration in the graphical abstract. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Abstract submission is now open for Biometrics in the Bush Capital, our flagship biannual conference! 📅 Abstract submission is due 14th July 2025! See more information here: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

Hey #rstats! There's space in my courses this Thurs & Fri in Brisbane! Quarto for Scientists - The art & science of reproducibility, "getting unstuck in R" - statsoc.org.au/event-6132307 R Package Essentials: - Function fundamentals, write a package from scratch! - statsoc.org.au/event-6132303

Qld Department of Primary Industries (formerly, Agriculture and Fisheries) is looking to hire a biometrician (no PhD required) 👇 A wonderful Biometry group (includes @michaelmumford.bsky.social) and one of the only 🇦🇺 state departments left of its kind! www.seek.com.au/job/83241082...

😦 www.youtube.com/live/8uUc_7G...

We have read a lot of publications on undergraduate #datascience education research and share our findings in our newly accepted paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Here are few key points we found 👇

Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning? Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...

Shout out to Mu Li, a PhD student in ANU demography. I had a #quarto ANU thesis template that I advertised very little of, but not only did he discover it, he's made a pull request to make it better! This is why #openscience is awesome! 💯 github.com/anuopensci/q...

Did you know that Florence Nightingale, nurse & data viz pioneer, used stats to show poor sanitation killed soldiers in Crimea? Her "Rose Diagram" - which showed monthly causes of mortality - was so impactful, it drove real change in hospital practices. #WomenInSTEM #IWD #DataScienceHistory #RLadies

💜Why do we exist? The R community suffers from an under-representation of women minority genders in every role and area of participation. For the rest of day, we’ll be highlighting ways that you can get involved with R-Ladies and be a better ally! #IWD2025 #RLadies #rstats

How can you help R-Ladies as an ally? 💜 Support your local chapter with a free venue and sponsorship 💜 Invitations to speak at conferences and highlight job opportunities 💜 Volunteer as a conference abstract reviewer: buff.ly/wGXcoSN 💜 Consult our R-Ladies directory: buff.ly/gSnvGEr 💜

If any folks are keen to go to #positconf2025 but resources are limited, I highly recommend applying to be an Opportunity Scholar! Read more about the program here: posit.co/blog/discove...

Australia: Professional Scientists’ Remuneration Survey 2025, by Science & Tech Australia. https://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/have-your-say-scientists-remuneration-survey/

Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

another app made using #Quarto live + #Observable JS -- this time finding the best of line of fit by visual inspection

Using #Observable JS + #Quarto to create an app to demonstrate the central limit theorem from sampling from uniform [0,1] distribution repeatedly and plotting the empirical mean distribution