Go work with Megan! She’s the best. Canberra is also great, but don’t spread that around we’re trying to fly under the radar

Putter Tiatragul@puttert.bsky.social · last wk.

Megan Head at ANU is advertising this amazing postdoc position on thermal tolerance in insects. Canberra is a great place to live and work. Don't listen to the haters! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Finally starting to feel more human after a week of jet lag ✈️😴 Walks and sunshine are helping Back to the office on Monday for more biodiversity informatics good stuff 👨🏻‍💻💪🏽

Nope. No, you haven’t.

As someone who has used AI precisely once, it’s really interesting to see a discussion from an expert of their challenges both with and without AI. Definitely cause for thought here.

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 3w ago

How it started 👇... how it's going: blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-dry-jul... Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of).

Last session of #SOTWPF - powers and pitfalls of AI

Session 5 #SOTWPF

Session 4 #SOTWPF Daniel Zhigila - 73% of Nigerian herbaria are not registered on Index Herbarium; 29% have digitized their data, but locally; 90% not available online. Many Nigerian specimens are located overseas.

Minor interruption of service on #SOTWPF posting for a flat white and ANZAC biscuit

Sarah Greasley welcoming us back for day 2!! #SOTWPF

Posting today from the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium at Kew. If you’re here come and say hi! 👋🏻👋🏻

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

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

events.humanitix.com

I’m proud to be 12.5% of the winners of the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 😆👨🏻‍💻

GBIF@gbif.org · 10mo ago

(1) 🥁 Announcing the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners! First place: 🥇 @rukayaj.bsky.social (@gbifnorway.bsky.social) for BDQEmail Sharing first place: 🥇 @daxkellie.bsky.social, Amanda Buyan, @shandiya.bsky.social and @rowdynerd.bsky.social (Atlas of Living Australia) for galaxias!

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨 📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia galaxias.ala.org.au #rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟 A thread 🧵👇

Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025 #ChurchillFellow, to find ways to improve data quality at ALA & GBIF www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...

If you like #DataViz or a curious about it, come on September 29 for a one-two punch of hands-on tutorials and and stick around for Nicola Rennie's talk on building effective data visualisations the next day. See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space #OpenSource #RStats

Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜

You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚 Early Bird registration ends in just a few days! wombat2025.numbat.space

I’ll be at day 2 of this, along with @daxkellie.bsky.social and @shandiya.bsky.social; very excited to hear from these speakers!

Rob Hyndman@robjhyndman.com · 11mo ago

Early bird registration for #WOMBAT2025 ends this week! WOMBAT is a data analytics workshop in Melbourne featuring the latest open source software. 📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event) 📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia wombat2025.numbat.space

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨 Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae. Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers? There's a whole bunch more names to use! Let me explain ...

Lovely event to mark the end of #ICCB2025 last night, congrats to the organisers for a fantastic conference!

@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025 jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/

Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025

This sounds pretty cool - the ability to programmatically download any dataset from a DOI is a great feature, and super important for reproducibility. {galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...

GBIF@gbif.org · last yr.

⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN! Version 3.8.2 new features: 🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey. Learn more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...

Thanks to everyone who shared #rstats hex stickers so far at #ICCB2025! Some very cool projects represented here…

Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025 milliechapman.info www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spending the morning learning from the Monitoring Biodiversity at Large Scales session at #ICCB2025

Great talk by @hannahsfraser.bsky.social on assessing condition of bird communities