Courtney Taylor

@courtgt.bsky.social

PhD student Mayfield Lab, UniMelb. Community ecology, spatial stuff, networks and lots of small plants. Organiser @pop-bio.bsky.social she/her

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!

celebrate              package:celebrate               R Documentation

Audio 'announcements' when printing model summaries

Description:

     The only function of this package is to augment the printing of
     model summaries with appropriate sound effects based on whether
     you have achieved the magical p<0.05 level of significance for at
     least one variable (not including the intercept - we have to try
     to be a _little_ bit sensible ...)

Details:

     Sounds are taken from <http://freesounds.org>

     To set an alpha-level different from 0.05, you can specify
     ‘options(celebrate.alpha = <value>)’

        • fanfare: user primordiality,
          <https://www.freesound.org/people/primordiality/sounds/78823/>
          (CC BY 3.0)

        • trombone: user kirbydx,
          <https://www.freesound.org/people/kirbydx/sounds/175409/>
          (CC0)

Examples:

     ## Not run:
     
     m1 <- lm(speed~dist,cars)
     m2 <- lm(Income~Population,data.frame(state.x77))
     summary(m1)
     summary(m2)
     ## chi-squared test
     M <- as.table(rbind(c(762, 327, 468), c(484, 239, 477)))
     dimnames(M) <- list(gender = c("F", "M"),
                         party = c("Democrat","Independent", "Republican"))
     (Xsq <- chisq.test(M))  # Prints test summary
     boring <- matrix(c(6,5,4,5), nrow = 2)
     (chisq.test(boring))
     ## End(Not run)

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

PopBio on the Dark Side@pop-bio.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present: A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59 For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.