Alexandra Mayette
@alexemayette.bsky.social
Research Scientist for the Canadian Wildlife Federation, working on vessel strike risk of North Atlantic right whales 🐳 (she/her) 📍New Brunswick, Canada 🏫 University of Manitoba (MSc on belugas in the Beaufort Sea) & Université du Québec à Rimouski
#30DayChartChallenge Day 29+30: Monochrome + Data from the Global Health Data Exchange #DataViz #BreastCancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in #women across the world and health systems play a huge role in screening, diagnosis, and treatment🩷
📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz
Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
nrennie.rbind.io
#30DayChartChallenge Day 15: Correlation 📈 Thanks to tylervigen.com for the fun idea. Check his website for more Spurious Correlations
Late for #Day8 of the #30DayChartChallenge, but the "Circular" prompt is the perfect excuse to share yet another #ggplot2 trick! 👀 Tried the "new" #coord_radial yet? Compared to coord_polar, it: 🌀 bends grid lines 🌀 places labels naturally 🌀 allows inner radii 🌀 handles partial circles easily
A faculty position is available at the University of Windsor, Canada. Details: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 🧪🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻❄️
Science, Biology, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Ecology
The University of Windsor’s Department of Biology within the Faculty of Science seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of ecology, commencing July 1, 2026. We are seekin...
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📊 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 – day 07 . Distributions | Multiscale . 🔗 : stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Day 7 — #30DayChartChallenge Wine quality dataset 🍷 Built a multiscale visualization: • Macro → score distributions (red vs white) • Meso → feature distributions by quality tiers • Micro → feature behavior per score 🔗https://wine-quality-distribution.vercel.app/ #DataViz #D3js #DataStorytelling
I can’t decide which variant of this Artemis II Earthset map I like best. flic.kr/p/2s6et1Z #NASA #Moon #Earth #dataviz
#30DayChartChallenge Day 6: Reporters Without Borders (data) 🎥 & Day 7: Multiscale ⚖️ (ideally, it needs more fine-tune adjustments, but I was trying to show both ends of the scale) #DataViz
#30DayChartChallenge Day 3: Mosaic. Although we have achieved much, the Government of Canada just announced its new Strategy to Protect Nature, investing $3.8B to protect nature, better design infrastructures and fund sustainable conservation projects🍁🌱🌊
#30DayChartChallenge Day 2: Pictogram 🎬🍿Thank you @albertrapp.bsky.social for the tutorial on how to use images with ggpattern (link below)
Hope to participate as much as I can in the #30DayChartChallenge 📊 Starting day 1: Part-to-Whole, with a very basic graph, inspired by the #ArtemisII launch. Very proud of our Canadian representative on this mission 🚀🌑
🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz
Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie
The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.
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Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??
There's a new version of dplyr out, and I'm thrilled to chat about it with @rladiesrome.bsky.social tomorrow! Let's learn the new #RStats functions that help you grip your data better (hehe). 3/18 at 12pm CT. Sign up here! www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...
🚢 {whalestrike} is now available on CRAN! cran.r-project.org/web/packages... In case you missed it, the R package calculates the lethality of a ship strike, accounting for ship size, type, and whale species. #MarineMammals #ShipStrike
Alexandra Mayette@alexemayette.bsky.social · 6mo ago{whalestrike} R package version 0.6 is available now! 🐳The package simulates a #shipstrike and calculates the probability of lethality. The updated package provides parameters to select #whale species and vessel types. A Shiny app is available to see the impacts of the parameters in real time.
This looks bad @fisheries.noaa.gov Amendments to the North Atlantic #RightWhale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule "The goal of this initiative is to reduce unnecessary regulatory and economic burdens on the regulated community by replacing current seasonal speed restrictions with... 🐳🌍🦑🧪 1/2
Amendments to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule
NOAA Fisheries has announced an advance notice of proposed rulemaking considering possible deregulatory action to modify the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Speed Rule.
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{whalestrike} R package version 0.6 is available now! 🐳The package simulates a #shipstrike and calculates the probability of lethality. The updated package provides parameters to select #whale species and vessel types. A Shiny app is available to see the impacts of the parameters in real time.
The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...
Canada falls short of 2025 conservation target | The Narwhal
Ottawa says it remains committed to hitting its next conservation milestone even as it races to expand critical minerals production
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Day 1️⃣7️⃣ of our Festive Ocean Art Advent Calendar Festivity at full depth - Santa and science unite! Artwork by Julia Moruchkova #FestiveOceanArt
🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
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