📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Agora, nós contamos com quatro conselheiros externos que nos ajudarão a pensar o futuro da Rede! Brasileiros, mas morando em quatro países diferentes, eles vão trabalhar conosco em encontros semestrais e pensar novas estratégias e atuações para nossa comunidade! #reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer, Fir, is now online at SFU! As the only Canadian system ranked in the world’s top 100, it powers data-intensive computational tasks nationwide, all while protecting the country's data and running on clean energy.

The @force11.bsky.social team is organizing a PREreview Club to review #metascience #preprints. They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...

The Open Science in Action Symposium is happening on Oct 29 2025, at the @ucalgary.bsky.social. Hosted by the @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to see proof of its growing national impact and relevance to advance practical #OpenScience in #neuroscience. www.tickettailor.com/events/hotch...

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.

free drag name idea for a scientist: Phil Trans

🧪 What if we could share genetic sequences in a way that is equitable, and works for the greater good? Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵

🗣️Help us plan our upcoming events! ✍️Complete this short online survey forms.gle/LttxyxAAa4mW... 🏆Enter the draw to win one of two $50 gift cards. (Available only for people based in Canada) 👋We look forward to hearing from you!

I'm doing my biannual donations from R for the Rest of Us to support organizations fighting for social justice (rfortherestofus.com/1percent). I'd like to support those impacted by ICE raids. Anyone have recommendations for organizations to donate to?

🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪

New web app ✨ It’s hard to understand the impact of personal AI usage on water & energy consumption, so I made an interactive + visual conversion tool! 🧮 See how many ChatGPT queries you could make for 1 hamburger. 🤖 🟰 🍔 My goal was to help people make informed decisions. Try it: context.supply

Não trate como Tech Won’t Save Us quem te trata como Braincast. Feliz dia dos namorados.

To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs. This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...

📙 Nosso Guia do Parecerista para Pareceristas Abertos já está disponível em português! Você pode encontrar este recurso aqui: buff.ly/7a7lQN0 Obrigado muito à nossa maravilhosa equipe de campeões por nos ajudar a traduzir este guia-- Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral e Alex Mendonça 💖.

“Should AI be allowed to review papers or grant proposals” always reveals a thing I think people don’t understand about algorithmic bias 🧵

We wrote a paper about (among other things) how it’d be nice to waive APCs for ECRs discussing/working with/coming from tropical regions. Paper got accepted after 4 years. Now we need to pay an APC.

We would like to play around with ecosystem modelling, so we designed a Summer School for that! With training on Madingley Models, high performance computing, git and code optimization, we'll be at @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social on August 18-22. Registrations open until June 15: bit.ly/2025-SS-BM 🧪 🌐

I spent this election period in Canada reading the news both in French and English. Every time I read the word "circonscription" in the French version, my brain would read it as "circumcision" and I'd get really confused. I'm glad it's over now.

Millions of families suffer every year when they ask me if I have something lined-up when my current contract ends, and I have to say NO. By giving me a job you will help each and every one of them not feel sorry and worried about me anymore. One small action can make a huge difference. Act now.

I’m open to contract work & postdoc roles in ecology & conservation biology! Recently laid off in the Feb. 14 federal cuts. I specialize in quantitative ecology, modeling, GIS & decision support tools. Let’s connect! #Ecology #ConservationBiology #Postdoc #ScienceCollaboration

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

You, Canadian person from Saskatoon sleeping more than 22.5 hours / day: LET'S MEET

Bom dia, rede!

Happening now on YT! We had Blake from Suffolk on the DS Hangout a few weeks ago, so it's cool to see the topics he talked about in practice 👀 #databs youtu.be/yavHEWpgrCQ?...

Once in a while a come across a somewhat interesting person online but then I found out that they're proud of promoting products/activities "no-budget". Please block me, thank you.

Just a reminder that this AMAZING community call with @rainbowr.org is coming up THIS FRI-YAY at noon ET! Register here to get the Zoom link: bit.ly/bios2-cc-feb25 #DataBS #RStats

On Feb 21, at noon ET, join us at the next BIOS2 Community Call to chat with folks from @rainbowr.org ! We'll discuss all things community - what we love and hate about them, and how to find and nurture them! Registrations here: bit.ly/bios2-cc-feb25 #DataBS #RStats

🔬 Are you passionate about preprints? The ASAPbio Fellows Program is your chance to: ✅ Explore the preprint landscape ✅ Gain tools to advocate for preprints ✅ Deliver a preprint-focused talk in your community ✅ Collaborate on impactful projects

BIG NEWS! For the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable folks from around the US to get local projects off the ground. Learn more & apply at bit.ly/scienceirl

It’s been mentally exhausting to be a full-time job seeker: for each job ad I need to make a very complex mental gymnastics to evaluate if and how I should apply. The price I pay for not being an “AI” gal… 😂 (but still sleeping very well, thank you very much)

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research is 26% off right now! Learn how to organize data processes for your research grants, how to collect quality data, and how to clean, validate, and structure data for purposes of data sharing! www.amazon.com/Data-Managem...

Has anyone used webr or webr-r in class yet? I've been having some sort of server problem when >2 people use the same code block at the same time like some blocks won't run. I'm trying that on revealjs presentations, maybe it's that? Should it work better on notebooks? #databs #rstats

BIOS2 is happy to announce a new workshop: a 3-hours introduction on Open Refine, a code-less and reproducible tool for data cleaning. The workshop is free and online with very limited seats, so register early!! December 11 @ 10h-13h PT | 13h-16h ET Registration: bit.ly/bios2-OR #databs

Does someone have a starter pack, feed, list, or non-BlueSky watering hole to find environment, science, nature freelancers? Ideally with your areas of interest. Mainly online/print but also radio or TV. Where you at? What do you want to write about? I HAVE STORY IDEAS AND KNOW COOL PEEPS.

I’ve been repeating “my contract ends next year” so often these days that I’m expecting to be transferred to an alternative world where I have job security anytime now.

This is happening TOMORROW!! We're super excited about it and we want to see YOU there! Click here to register: bit.ly/bios2-cc-nov24 🧪

It's been very interesting to be in faculty communities being one of the very few against the use of "GenAI" in teaching and learning. This topic is the new "you gotta publish open access and publish your data!", but with much more social, political and environmental destruction.

We are happy to share the summary blog post of the first year of the PREreview Champions Program! 🥳 It has been an incredible journey working with a wonderful team. Read more about their achievements, feedback, and our plans for next year's program here: content.prereview.org/champions-20...

thinking about our ex(-president) 🇧🇷

My side-project of the day ("productive procrastination") consists of collecting evidence to exterminate "flash talks" in scientific conferences. Nobody stays in school for 20 years to be given 5 minutes to talk about their research.

Using "using" instead of "utilizing".

This month at the BIOS2 Community Call, we’ll have a warming fireside chat with Fares Dhane, Data Analyst at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Please join us on November 22 at 9am PT | 12pm ET on Zoom! Registrations are free here: bit.ly/bios2-cc-nov24

Went to watch Megalopolis and it felt really weird! Love it! Came home googling all the intrigues from ancient Greece that I learned in school and couldn't remember anymore. Adult me loves a good gossip, especially when it's really old.

This Friday, come discuss data management with us! Do this favour to your future self! 9am PT | 12pm ET Registrations are **FREE** here: bit.ly/4dETDuM

Se até o Duca viu esse filme de bonequinho e musiquinha, acho que você tem que ver também.

We are now on BlueSky! 🌍🧪💻 ApexRMS is a dedicated team of scientists and software developers creating advanced ecological models to support informed decision-making. Follow along as we share our work with governments, academics, NGOs, and indigenous communities.

Love for open science level "it's 9am and I've just finished teaching Open Refine" The things we do...