📢 Course alert! Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) in R with @gsimpson.bsky.social 📅 8–11 Dec (Online) Learn how to model complex relationships using GAMs, splines & more with mgcv and gratia. Details & registration 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #DataScience #GAMs #Statistics

🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨 Cascadia R Conference kicks off this Friday in Portland! Amazing talks, hands-on workshops, and a community that loves R as much as you do. 🗓️ June 20–21 📍 Portland, Oregon 🔗 cascadiarconf.org Who’s ready?! #RStats #DataScience

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Does anyone have an accessible guide for best practices in presenting DAGs and associated regression estimates in a paper? This is for a student thesis project (and, frankly, for myself, as I have done it admittedly ad hoc, although no reviewers have so far complained.)

I can’t make it but this looks good!

1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️ A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers! 🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space 🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

New day, new blog. This week I talk about why Functional programming matters and how to adopt it. #rstats #python open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...

If you are not personally interested in attending this workshop, you can also sponsor participation of a student! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Coming up soon (June 16-18)! ... calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app taught by excellent ecological statisticians (and great people) Stacy de Ruiter (Calvin College) and Leslie New (Ursinus College)

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

A nice tutorial on distributed lag models using #rstats 📦 {mgcv}. But if you want to fit these to time series you might want to consider the {mvgam} 📦 instead ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/distrib...

Next person to ask me why I use #Rstats and not python has to start using Power Point for their data science work. youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8

📢Just out! Our latest episode🎧dives into the design & development of the tools that have transformed #DataScience & statistical programming - with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz. Hadley is the Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio). To listen, search your pod app for The Random Sample. #rstats

Join our next #Infra4NextGen webinar to improve your #DataAnalysis workflows and learn how to create a reproducible environment for your #RStats projects! #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch 🕙 Tue, 3rd June, 10:00 am 👉 Register here: infra4nextgen.com/events/webin...

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A wonderful reflection by Andrea Gomez Vargas on her experience of the @ropensci.org Champions program, and making Argentine census data standardized and accessible along the way ropensci.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats (Y en Espanõl! ropensci.org/es/blog/2025... #rstatsES)

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Want to move beyond simple forecasting algorithms for modelling real world time series? The {mvgam} #rstats 📦 has you covered nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/

Has anybody used marginaleffects to display the effects of cumulative ordinal models? I'd love to hear how you went about it. Sometimes I feel that interpreting coefficients from such models is still more informative than calculating a e.g. contrasts. #statssky #rstats

#rstats folks: Anyone have an example of making text labels like the ones @thomasp85.com uses for ggforce::geom_mark_* functions, but for individual points, not groups? I want this angled-line-to-underline aesthetic for ggrepel'd text labels of points:

Some new additions in the {mvgam} #rstats 📦 now make it easier to visualise the complex associations among species that can be inferred from latent variable models nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/refere...

Hey @mjskay.com it would be wonderful to hear your input on how to navigate the visualisation hell that is ordination biplots stackoverflow.com/questions/46.... These are extremely common in ecology but always look like vomit in a page to me

One of the coolest ways to learn #RStats by doing is swirl (swirlstats.com). It's a free R package that runs interactive lessons right in your R console, letting you practice as you learn. I loved it when I was starting out! #datascience #rladies

"As usual, you can install the latest release from our R-Universe" 😉 #rstats

Jumping into one of the most fascinating and challenging topics of the week with @njclark.bsky.social : Multivariate ecological time series! 🔥 Cutting-edge insights, complex data, and powerful forecasting—this is just mind-blowing!🤯 #TimeSeries #Forecasting

🚀 Huge thanks to @njclark.bsky.social for leading another fantastic edition of the Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in R course! 🎉 But also thanks to this incredible group of participants—your curiosity and engagement made this week truly outstanding 🙌📊

Hey #rstats! 👋 As part of my first consulting venture, I'm excited to share 2 in-person workshops in Brisbane on April 14 & 15: "Quarto for Scientists" and "R Package Essentials". Bonus: When you sign up, you'll get a free one-hour video consult with me for code review, writing, or data analysis! 🚀💡

Excited to kick off the 3rd edition of our Time Series Analysis and Forecasting in R course with @njclark.bsky.social! 🎉 A great group of participants, each bringing unique datasets and systems — ready to dive into modeling trends, seasonality, and predictions. #RStats #TimeSeries #DataScience

If you are interested in learning how to analyse ecological time series and forecasting data in R, there is 1 seat left for our course with @njclark.bsky.social starting next week: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Interested in ecological/environmental #stats? Join us at the EnvEcoStats conference at Lancaster Uni 1-3 July 2025 envecostats.wordpress.com 14 days left to submit an abstract - come on ecologists! @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #RStats

If one wanted to hire a professional #rstats #rshiny developer to work work with qualitative/text data in particular (so many involve a dashboard for search/semantic/sentiment analyses), do you have any recommendations of individuals or companies? (please repost)

📢 Postdoc position in the GeoHealth group at KAUST Spatio-temporal models for disease mapping, forecasting & early detection of outbreaks 🌍📊💻 PhD #statistics, #maths, #epidemiology. Experience in spatial stats/machine learning & #rstats 👉 www.paulamoraga.com/opportunitie...

Really looking forward to another rendition of my ecological time series and forecasting course using {`mvgam`} and {`brms`} in #rstats. Come for the wiggles, stay for the memes

Tomorrow! 🌱 @ecoforecast.bsky.social

💻✨ Git for Academics ✨💻 A quick & practical intro to Git for academic projects — covering just the essentials you need to work productively. Perfect for researchers new to version control! 🔗 Watch here: buff.ly/prh2Pip More resources 👉 buff.ly/tTCN5MD #Git #Academia #RStats 🚀

🌍 Interested in ecological time series? Go beyond ARIMA! Join us to learn how to wrangle, visualize, and analyze ecological time series using the {mvgam} and {brms} packages to generate accurate forecasts. 👨‍🍳 @njclark.bsky.social 📅 24-28 March www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#rstats developers, what are the most useful GitHub actions you've implemented? Besides the usual ones for testing, coverage and CMD check?

I'm pleased with how these Impulse Response Function plots have turned out. The {mvgam} #rstats 📦 makes it easy to fit multivariate time series models and compute these, even with non-Gaussian data github.com/nicholasjcla...

Week 8 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in applications of multilevel covariance modelling: social networks and Gaussian processes. Everything wiggles in large amounts. Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ZL...

Hopefully this gets people thinking about the origins of life's thermal optimisation. I'm also super excited about this study - it's probably one of the most "stretchy" projects I've ever worked on, but great fun!

The latest release of the {mvgam} #rstats 📦 has hit CRAN. Plenty of exciting new features including Joint Species Distribution Models, support for the full range of Gaussian Process kernels available in the {brms} 📦 and plenty more nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/news/i...

One of my favourite papers I've been involved in was just published in @peerj.bsky.social. Working with a wonderful team of ecologists at @weecology.bsky.social, we used multivariate ecological forecasts to understand the population dynamics of desert rodents peerj.com/articles/189... 🌎 #rstats

📈 Interested in Ecological Time-series analysis & forecasting? 🦾Do you want to learn how to perform these analyses in R? Join us in March to learn from @njclark.bsky.social how to wrangle, visualize, & analyze ecological data with {mvgam} & {brms} packages 🔗 physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Just 3 days left until this workshop, so don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Sorry for the delay. Here’s the link to the GitHub repo! #rstats github.com/GMU-CherryBl...

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

📦 {eyedropper} has a few new updates. It now has better... + pixel mapping + swatch layout + output options + colour picking with image pixelation + label controls 🔗 github.com/doehm/eyedro... 🧵 1/n #Rstats

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

useR! 2025 Call for Submissions! user2025.r-project.org/call #Rstats