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Dax Kellie

@daxkellie.bsky.social

Data Analyst & Science Lead at the Atlas of Living Australia | Evolutionary biologist & social psychologist (PhD) 🧪 | #rstats 📊 | Music enthusiast 🎵 www.daxkellie.com Opinions are my own, and they do not express those of my employer

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Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 5d ago

3 decades of data 😮 on this fairy-wren population showed how many cumulative effects of climate change (lower food supply, chick rearing, higher pesticides) can lead to population decline, even for a species categorised as “least concern” on the IUCN Red List 🥺 🌏🧪🦜 news.mongabay.com/2026/08/supe...

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...

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Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 3w ago

And check out this scrolly-telling article that highlights some of the data stories in the painting! 👀 labs.ala.org.au/stories/stor... (made using Quarto + {closeread}) #rstats 🧪🌏📊 #NationalScienceWeek #quartopub

Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cultural knowledge + Western data on one canvas! 🖌️ That's the idea our recent intern Gullara McInnes and her mother Ann-Marie Keating had. The result: This incredible painting of biodiversity in their local area featuring occurrence data from the Atlas of Living Australia 🧪🌏📊 #NationalScienceWeek

A painting by Ann-Marie Keating and her daughter Gullara McInnes depicting animals and plants in Mareeba, a rural town near Cairns, Australia. The painting has a black border, and inside there are over 60 species of animals and plants painted using many different painting techniques. Traditional dot art is used on each species to show the number of observational records on the Atlas of Living Australia, Australia's largest data infrastructure of biodiversity data.
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cultural knowledge + Western data on one canvas! 🖌️ That's the idea our recent intern Gullara McInnes and her mother Ann-Marie Keating had. The result: This incredible painting of biodiversity in their local area featuring occurrence data from the Atlas of Living Australia 🧪🌏📊 #NationalScienceWeek

A painting by Ann-Marie Keating and her daughter Gullara McInnes depicting animals and plants in Mareeba, a rural town near Cairns, Australia. The painting has a black border, and inside there are over 60 species of animals and plants painted using many different painting techniques. Traditional dot art is used on each species to show the number of observational records on the Atlas of Living Australia, Australia's largest data infrastructure of biodiversity data.
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🐌 How much data do we have of our slimy snail & slug friends? How many species do we know virtually nothing about? Despite having over 1.5 million observations of gastropods in Australia, many species have fewer than 10 records, or no records at all 😯 Code & high-res 📷 👇 🧪🌏📊 #rstats #dataviz

A waffle bar chart showing the taxonomic coverage of gastropod records in the Atlas of Living Australia. The plot shows the number of species in each gastropod suborder with 100+ records, 10+ records, 1+ records or no records at all. In general, there is quite a high proportion of species (between 13% and 36% depending on the group) with fewer than 10 records or no records at all. The waffle chart consists of squares in different shades of purple to show species record count. Each group is shown in a separate bar. The background is a very dark purple. Example images of snails from each suborder group are shown below each bar.
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

galah 2.2.0 is on CRAN! 📦 🛡️ Authorised users can access sensitive data from the command line 🌏 GBIF gets full support for predicate or DOI queries, new support for the Flemish and Kew Gardens portals 🗂️ We’ve tidied scripts to be more versatile, efficient & consistent galah.ala.org.au/R/ #rstats

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Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Whoa when this invasive mushroom grows on a dead or dying hardwood tree, the fungal diversity of that tree is cut in half (on average) 😯🍄 Spreading across the US & Canada as well as Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Serbia & Germany, this fungus could have a huge cascading impact on global ecosystems 🧪🌏

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝@fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If it didn't make bright yellow mushrooms, we probably wouldn't even know golden oyster was reducing fungal diversity on decaying hardwoods worldwide. A very interesting genetic banking endeavor to conserve imperiled native fungi whose ecosystem roles we certainly don't understand yet. 🍄🧪

Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Awesome dataviz 🤩 So interesting how much variation there is in phrases like "Realistic possibility" compared to "About even" No wonder it's so difficult to use experimental survey data as strong evidence in research. People are too varied at interpreting scales! 🧪 #psychscisky

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊 There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded! #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

Mirrored bar plot showing the distribution of estimated probabilities for different terms, for US and UK respondents. Will happen is ranked most likely, and almost no chance is least likely. Points highlight the median which are identical for both groups except for may/might happen and highly likely where US medians are higher.
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A nice visual, and a worthwhile one to remember when considering gaps and biases in biodiversity data in Australia 🦘🌱 Nearly 70% of the population lives in a greater capital city, meaning that incidental observations of animals and plants outside of those areas are rare and valuable 🧪🌏📊

Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Love these population density spike maps. (by @researchremora) www.kontur.io/solutions/au...

This population density map of Australia visualizes how most of the population is concentrated in coastal cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth. The interior is mostly uninhabited, with labels like "NO ONE LIVES HERE" emphasizing the vast emptiness. The vertical spikes represent population density, showing the stark contrast between urban centers and the sparsely populated outback.
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏 It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there! @sortee.bsky.social #rstats events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science

For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

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Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Want to make your code better at running again in the future? My talk next month will be filled with lots of tips about how to write sharable, reproducible R code and why it's good for science Hope to see you there! #rstats 🌏🧪👩‍💻

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Alt: a woman in a yellow sweater typing with some real confident swagger on her laptop

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Saoirse Kelleher@saoirsekelleher.eco · 6mo ago

Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 9mo ago

New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat. Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!

Monkeys have rhythm

Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...

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