New beta of #Rstats rig: LOTS of EXCITING stuff: - new: web site: rig.r-lib.org - new: user-mode R installation: rig.r-lib.org/admin-vs-use... - new: manage R packages (CRAN + git): rig.r-lib.org/pkg-guide.html - new: manage R projects and virtual environments: rig.r-lib.org/proj-guide.h...

This is happening to me all the time🙈

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 4d ago

I can't be the only one that keeps mixing up 'Zotero' and 'Zenodo', right?

Ooooh😊 For those who were not able to see my talk, IT IS ONLINE🔊 Link: ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-...

Flo Grattarola@flograttarola.bsky.social · 6d ago

Amazing start to the 10th Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology (@ceskaekologie.bsky.social) with @isimova.bsky.social and @ondrejmottl.bsky.social 🤖 #macroecology

This is actually cool! Let's make the science more accessible, more human, and more fun!!!

tomjwebb@tomjwebb.bsky.social · 7d ago

Here you go - short enough just to post here! I added the alt text so you can copy if you find it useful. The paper I cited is this one: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For some reason, I hate the right assignment ('begets') from the bottom of heart. I have strong opinion on the R syntax and you read all about it on my website ondrejmottl.github.io/collaboratio...

Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social · last wk.

<- "gets" and -> "begets" is exactly the right/left spoken reading for R -> "begets" usually at the end of pipe-train of thought, "Oh, better save this as something before I forget" Poor `=` has a far less happy story to tell

This is going to be the next paper discussion for our Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology!

Chuliang Song@clsong.com · 2w ago

Very grateful to the editorial board for the opportunity to write about a topic I care deeply about. This review is deliberately opinionated, a personal view of where theory in community ecology stands and where it might go next. Pushback and disagreement are very welcome! doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I have heard someone saying that the actual need for people with good CS knowledge will increase....I can see that but who knows in this crazy world

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 2w ago

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

👉 "But in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don’t constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases." 🌿

Vicki@vickiboykis.com · 2w ago

New post: we need to be deleting more code. vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/b...

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

Super cool paper! Wish @annatoszogy.bsky.social luck with the review process😊 Based on the structure of the text, I am guessing you are aiming high🤞

Anna Tószögyová@annatoszogy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our manuscript is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv! We show how geometry alone can explain why small geographic ranges are so common—and why they are disproportionately common near continental margins. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Can we trust? Yes, we can trust estimates of species turnover, but estimates of changes in species richness are less reliable. Our new article in the Journal of Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365... @journalofecology.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

Oldie but goldie

That is actually a pretty cool idea! 😃

Kevin Patrick O'Brien@kobriendublin.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Power of Whimsy: Why the R Community Should Claim International Talk Like a Pirate Day Capitalizing on September 19th: How a classic joke offers the global #rstats network a turn-key strategy for community growth and visual identity. kobriendublin.substack.com/p/the-power-...

This is worth reading as it really well describes the feeling of apathy and alienation of today's world. My current work workflow is pretty AI heavy and one can really feel need for human connection after few days of working in my office (alone).

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · last mo.

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

In CZ only but really good! I agree that the current system of government parental support is really bizarre in Czechia.

Magazín UK Forum@ukforum.cuni.cz · last mo.

👶Vyplatí se vrátit do práce na částečný úvazek během rodičovské dovolené? Proč nemohou lidé pobírající mateřskou pokračovat ve své profesi? Jaké nerovnosti se skrývají uvnitř domácností? Odpovědi hledá Sára Derková @pf.unikarlova.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz 📌 www.ukforum.cz/rubriky/stud...

Things making me giggle in my work right now: - A debugging practice package using data about beetles - An activity to practice jacknife resampling using name count data about the name "jack" - Teaching about unnesting datasets using data on bird nests #rstats

Today I was delighted to discover the meme gallery on the marginaleffects website 😂 marginaleffects.com/bonus/meme.h...

It is awesome!!! Higly recommend for any Win user!

tj mahr 🤘@tjmahr.com · last mo.

File Pilot (alternative to Window's File Explorer) is like the only program that makes me happy when i use it. it's 2.5 megabytes and incredibly fast filepilot.tech

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

"Our lives today are a gallery of past generations’ heroic efforts"

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2mo ago

This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

science.org

This is really great for reproducibility! I can see it being used for Quarto one-off reports but I need to think more about the usage as alternative to Project+{renv}. The rig implementation sounds very useful...which is {renv} really missing!!!

Tomasz Kalinowski@t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

eduroam might be the best example of international service and collaboration WHICH👏JUST👏WORKS👏

Emi Tanaka@emitanaka.org · 2mo ago

There's eduroam at Brisbane airport!! And it works! What?! How good is that!

Our lab has in-person meetings after a long time - Bryan has returned from long holiday...and my PhD students surprised me with a cake🎂 Thanks @natynamesna.bsky.social and Bryan🥲

....tempting, but very hard to justify taking on another responsibility...

Journal of Ecology@journalofecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⏰️1 week left to apply! We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌳 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

I was there! And it was very good! Next year Ghana?

The International Association for Vegetation Science@iavs5.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As we conclude the 2026 Annual Symposium in Gijón, Spain, we reflect on an incredible week of science, collaboration, and friendship. #IAVS2026 🌿

I have to say GPT 5.6 Sol feels pretty good (running through the VS Code Extension) It does feel like a small incremental improvement in quality but it feels more consistent (mistakes are less frequent) 🏄‍♂️...going with the flow...

I am still having huge personal/inside fight to make teaching materials freely available online. This👇 might be the last piece to push me over

Nick Tierney@njtierney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I recently gave a talk, "The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher" (njtierney.github.io/talk-teacher...) at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" My argument was: your time is time higher value than content, so put your content up for free #rstats

I'm very happy with how this project turned out! Big thanks to @trigonalid.bsky.social for leading this! Now fingers crossed for the review process 🤞

Martin Libra@trigonalid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint is out! Across 75,000 km² of lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea, we show that parasitoid communities exhibit higher spatial turnover than their caterpillar hosts, and that interaction turnover increases across trophic levels. #parasitoid #diversity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.