Happy National Eucalypt Day!  I summarised 100 years' of eucalypt data from the Atlas of Living Australia as a landscape #EucalyptoftheYear #rstats @eucalyptaus.bsky.social 📊🧪 See more here: shandiya.com/dataviz.html...

Host a Invertebrates Australia bug lantern and help scientists understand the Bogong moth’s vital migration: Invertebrates Australia provides training, equipment, and support, with expressions of interest due by February 22. buff.ly/WENmzuq

If you can afford to give any small amount to help families access emergency healthcare and winter supplies👇🏾 Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

@daxkellie.bsky.social on why writing good code as scientists can be difficult - many of us are not formally trained to do it. However, there are a few easy steps we can take to improve our code! The ALA also has resources to help: labs.ala.org.au/posts/ labs.ala.org.au/books/ 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats

The person reading your code is most likely to be future-you, so if you think about it, learning good coding practices is self care #ESA2025

We’re at #ESA2025! Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart! Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️

@shandiya.bsky.social shows how huge data infrastructures like the ALA also show what we *don’t* know about biodiversity, but how Data Mobilisation programs & our new {galaxias} package can help people provide data to fill the gaps 👇👀 www.ala.org.au/abdmp/ galaxias.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats

(1) 🥁 Announcing the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners! First place: 🥇 @rukayaj.bsky.social (@gbifnorway.bsky.social) for BDQEmail Sharing first place: 🥇 @daxkellie.bsky.social, Amanda Buyan, @shandiya.bsky.social and @rowdynerd.bsky.social (Atlas of Living Australia) for galaxias!

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚 Early Bird registration ends in just a few days! wombat2025.numbat.space

It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦 Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike 🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au #BirdLifeAustralia #Birds

🕰️ Take the time to come to this tutorial by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild. Use the tidyverse to manipulate time series data and fable to create models in a timely fashion. Don't be late! Early bird discount ends 31st of August! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #RStats

Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away! Speakers and full program have been announced 👇 Details: 🐛 Free (Registration necessary) ⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025 🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social #ecology #conservation #forum

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A lot of people are asking what they can do as individuals. Providing financial assistance directly to Palestinians, no matter how little, is one way to help and keep hope alive chuffed.org/project/hope...

On July 31st Israeli settlers demolished the Palestinian National Seed bank in Hebron. It housed precious heirloom seeds, protecting local crops from loss & extinction, offered tech support to farmers & supported food security for the Palestinian people.

It’s National Tree Day!* 🌴🌳🌲📊 I visualised patterns of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years as tree rings for 4 iconic Australian species: Mountain Ash, Snow Gum, Moreton Bay Fig, and River Red Gum #rstats *well, two days ago but who’s counting

After decades of advocacy, Murujuga has finally been recognised under UNESCO World Heritage status - A powerful win for Raelene Cooper and the Ngarda Ngarli Peoples who fought relentlessly to protect their Country.

The Federal Court will deliver its long-awaited decision on the Torres Strait climate case this Tuesday afternoon in Cairns.

Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.

It's #WorldRainforestDay! 🌴 Australia's Gondwana Rainforests hold examples of major evolutionary & geological stages dating ~359 mya, including the largest surviving population of Araucarians (the most phylogenetically primitive species of conifer) 👴 Code & high-res 📷 👇 #rstats #dataviz 📊🧪🌏🌳

Wonderful to share our research at #ICCB2025 showing how promoting captive animal experiences that prioritise animal agency can increase participation intent and positive attitudes towards the venue.

If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ! #NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025 confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...

This is an excellent visual for how bad the North West Shelf extension is www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Anthony Richardson talks through Shinyplanr, a shiny app for accelerating development of conservation plans by lowering barriers for stakeholders to engage in realtime #iccb2025 #rstats

Konstantina Spiliopoulou describes the nuances involved in identifying key biodiversity areas using Greece as a case study and introduces KBAscope, an R package for identifying KBAs #iccb2025 #rstats

Robyn James from The Nature Conservancy discusses how our interactions with natural resources are not gender-neutral: capitalist-based conservation systems primarily benefit men, which can lead to inequity in programs and policy #ICCB2025

Louisa Warren from CSIRO gives practical guidance around working with Indigenous communities and acknowledging the rights of Indigenous peoples #iccb2025

Salanieta Kitolelei giving a fascinating talk on traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness in Fijian communities in the context of evaluating climate-resilience attributes #ICCB2025

#ICCB2025 Dhananjaya Katju talks about how climate change is affecting the behaviour of Asiatic Black Bears: warmer weather + access to new food sources means they're spending time squatting in apple orchards in the Kashmir Valley, increasing human-bear conflict

Our tools to support open science workflows: - galah for getting data programmatically with a DOI galah.ala.org.au - ALA labs for analytics & visualisation tips labs.ala.org.au - galaxias for publishing data to GBIF via your local node galaxias.ala.org.au

Check out the slides here: shandiya.quarto.pub/iccb2025 or get in contact if you want to talk all things reproducible science! 🧪

#ICCB2025 Plenary speaker Ricky Archer is speaking about an Indigenous-led approach to looking after Country. Departments come and go, but Traditional Owners have always been looking after Country and always will

It's day 1 of #ICCB2025! Excited to be speaking in the Biodiversity Inventories session this morning at 10.30am - come along if you want to know about tools and resources to support open science research practices 🧪🌏

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Excited for all the chats at #ICCB2025! Find me: ➡️Sharing my research on wildlife tourism behaviours on Wed 18 @ 11:35am in the Social Sciences & Conservation session ➡️ Presenting Zoos Victoria’s Image Guidelines at the Designing Social Media Imagery Guidelines for Conservation forum on Sat 14

These penguins are seriously unimpressed by your recent approval of the North West Shelf Gas Project (climate bomb), @albomp.bsky.social & Senator Watt. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Justice for Kumanjayi White: Snap Rally - Friday 6 June - 5:30pm - Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

A little late to the party, but this is my #dataviz for World Parrot Day using data from the Atlas of Living Australia. This was inspired by @andrea-data.bsky.social's longlisted entry to the Information Is Beautiful Awards. #rstats 🪶🧪📊

Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks! * Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social * Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data #conservation #rstats 🧪🌏

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hi scientists 🧪 i'd love to hear your thoughts on bluesky! • what groups/people in science aren't here yet, that you want to see? • what can bluesky do to make it a better place for science comms? • what external tools do you use that should integrate bluesky support? • anything else!

Thousands show up in Naarm / Melbourne for the Easter Sunday Land Day march in solidarity with Palestinians #CeasefireNow

Thousands gather and march together in Naarm/Melbourne at the Free Palestine Palm Sunday Rally. We march for an end to the genocide, for a lifting of the siege, for the opening of borders, for the right of return, and for refugee justice.

Week after week after week, thousands and thousands and thousands continue to protest the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Protesters in Naarm / Melbourne calling for a #CeasefireNow

Thousands gather in Naarm/Melbourne again in support of a free Palestine #CeasefireNow

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Learn to display multiple, overlapping species distributions on one map using hexagons & points in a wonderful new ALA Labs post by Callum Waite & @shandiya.bsky.social 😍 labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-0... #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub