Our new TREE paper is out! "‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time." "Over ~3.5 billion years our planet has become increasingly bioengineered...". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

Happy #MaintainerMonday! Today's maintenance tasks: - Code of Conduct and Contributing Guide added to deeptime 📝 - 1 pull request merged for palaeoverse ⤴ - started thinking about caching downloads for rphylopic 🤔 - handling submissions for JOSS 📑

🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸 📆 13th November 2025 ⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC 🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Very exciting to see my first edited submission for @openpalaeo.bsky.social finally published! Check out this excellent contribution to experimental paleontology:

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Great to see this new report from @ithakasr.bsky.social on 12 of our members' #academicOSPOs. The findings share insights on common strategies, challenges, and operating models. 📖 sr.ithaka.org/publications... #AcademicSky #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openscience

August news! 🗞️ #rstats ✨ Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” 🎙️ rOpenSci at @useR_conf 🎙️ rOpenSci at @Posit conf 📰 @yabellini on spreadsheets, in Nature 📆 Coworking: accessibility in September, R-multiverse in October 📦 3 new packages: {trud}, {sasquatch} […]

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.

Interested in inferring biodiversity in deep time? 📈📉 Check out our new R package DeepDiveR, led by @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social and now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, helping you to prepare datasets for machine learning inference with DeepDive 🤿 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

We found a pretty neat way to make curl/httr2 work in WebR:

If you are attending @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social and would like to hear more about the palaeoverse R package, come and speak to us at our poster today! We got the coolest spot in the museum 😎🦕

If you're at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social, come check out my poster about rredlist today! I have stickers!

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

I had such a great time teaching early career researchers about @github.com and #rstats yesterday at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social! So great to see such excitement about #openscience! Can't wait for the next @palaeoverse.bsky.social workshop at #GSAConnects2025 (@paleosoc.bsky.social short course)!

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩

In our latest article, #CURIOSS members outline how their #academicOSPOs are strategically leveraging events to build the relationships and institutional support necessary for sustainable #opensource success in academia. 📖Read article: bit.ly/4kMXFVu 🔹CURIOSS patterns: bit.ly/45eldxW

The Paleo Society is looking for student ambassadors to attend the 2025 GSA conference! Apply by August 1st here: www.paleosoc.org/student_amba... #Paleontology #UndergraduateResearch #Geology #Science

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

Mark your calendars for the FREE 2025 PS Short Course, Open Science, Collaboration, and Reproducibility in Paleontology! It will be held from 8:00am - 5:30pm on Saturday, October 18 in San Antonio, TX. www.paleosoc.org/2025-paleo-s... #gsaconnects2025 #paleontology #paleo #gsa #shortcourse

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

What a great, straightforward resource from OpenSource@Stanford, @stanforddata.bsky.social on 6️⃣ things you can do right now to improve your #opensource project. Well done to Zach Chandler and Francesca Vera! 📖 zenodo.org/records/1567... #academicOSPOs #academicOSS #openscience #AcademicSky

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

New post! How to open files, folders, websites in #RStats 📂 Featuring 👐 - base R functions - {usethis} functions - {cli}'s inline formatting - IDE commands & shortcuts masalmon.eu/2025/06/25/o... Thanks @frick.ws for inspiration and reviewing! 🙏

We’re excited to hear from @spissatella.bsky.social later today! 🤩

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science

Why is it worthwhile to translate and localize documentation in the age of LLMs? @masalmon.eu and @yabellini.bsky.social have written a FAQ about our approach at @ropensci.org: ropensci.org/blog/2025/06...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.2.0 is now on #CRAN: - geom_text_phylo() for adding labels to radial phylogenies 🏷️ - timescales updated to ICS 2024/12 🗓️ - compatibility with ggplot2 4.0.0 📈 Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

Exoplanet System xkcd.com/3103/

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

On Wednesday June 25th at 5pm CEST I’ll be giving an online seminar for Cambridge Prisms about my paper from last year on dinosaur diversity! 🦖🦕 Check here for more info and to access the seminar: cassyni.com/events/S34aR...

Paleo post-doc opportunity! Apply by June 30.

Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday