Happy National Eucalypt Day! I summarised 100 years' of eucalypt data from the Atlas of Living Australia as a landscape #EucalyptoftheYear #rstats @eucalyptaus.bsky.social 📊🧪 See more here: shandiya.com/dataviz.html...
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
@shandiya.bsky.social
Biodiversity data scientist • Decision Support Program Lead at Atlas of Living Australia • she/her • Views my own 🌐 shandiya.com 📍Wurundjeri Country
Host a Invertebrates Australia bug lantern and help scientists understand the Bogong moth’s vital migration: Invertebrates Australia provides training, equipment, and support, with expressions of interest due by February 22. buff.ly/WENmzuq
If you can afford to give any small amount to help families access emergency healthcare and winter supplies👇🏾 Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
@daxkellie.bsky.social on why writing good code as scientists can be difficult - many of us are not formally trained to do it. However, there are a few easy steps we can take to improve our code! The ALA also has resources to help: labs.ala.org.au/posts/ labs.ala.org.au/books/ 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats
The person reading your code is most likely to be future-you, so if you think about it, learning good coding practices is self care #ESA2025
Dax Kellie@daxkellie.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe all want to write good code…but…how? In my talk later today, I’ll give all few tips I’ve learned about good scientific code writing that have really helped me & maybe they’ll help you! Riverbank room 8, 2:50pm #ESA2025
We’re at #ESA2025! Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart! Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
@shandiya.bsky.social shows how huge data infrastructures like the ALA also show what we *don’t* know about biodiversity, but how Data Mobilisation programs & our new {galaxias} package can help people provide data to fill the gaps 👇👀 www.ala.org.au/abdmp/ galaxias.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats
(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!
The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚 Early Bird registration ends in just a few days! wombat2025.numbat.space
It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦 Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike 🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au #BirdLifeAustralia #Birds
🕰️ Take the time to come to this tutorial by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild. Use the tidyverse to manipulate time series data and fable to create models in a timely fashion. Don't be late! Early bird discount ends 31st of August! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #RStats
Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away! Speakers and full program have been announced 👇 Details: 🐛 Free (Registration necessary) ⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025 🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social #ecology #conservation #forum
A lot of people are asking what they can do as individuals. Providing financial assistance directly to Palestinians, no matter how little, is one way to help and keep hope alive chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
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On July 31st Israeli settlers demolished the Palestinian National Seed bank in Hebron. It housed precious heirloom seeds, protecting local crops from loss & extinction, offered tech support to farmers & supported food security for the Palestinian people.
It’s National Tree Day!* 🌴🌳🌲📊 I visualised patterns of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years as tree rings for 4 iconic Australian species: Mountain Ash, Snow Gum, Moreton Bay Fig, and River Red Gum #rstats *well, two days ago but who’s counting
After decades of advocacy, Murujuga has finally been recognised under UNESCO World Heritage status - A powerful win for Raelene Cooper and the Ngarda Ngarli Peoples who fought relentlessly to protect their Country.
The Federal Court will deliver its long-awaited decision on the Torres Strait climate case this Tuesday afternoon in Cairns.
Decision due on Torres Strait Island climate case
The Federal Court will deliver its long-awaited decision on the Torres Strait climate case this Tuesday afternoon in Cairns.
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Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.
It's #WorldRainforestDay! 🌴 Australia's Gondwana Rainforests hold examples of major evolutionary & geological stages dating ~359 mya, including the largest surviving population of Araucarians (the most phylogenetically primitive species of conifer) 👴 Code & high-res 📷 👇 #rstats #dataviz 📊🧪🌏🌳
Wonderful to share our research at #ICCB2025 showing how promoting captive animal experiences that prioritise animal agency can increase participation intent and positive attitudes towards the venue.
If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ! #NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025 confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...
This is an excellent visual for how bad the North West Shelf extension is www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
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Sandy Horne@sandyhorne.bsky.social · last yr.There's a uni survey happening regarding birdwatching. If you go birding at the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary, researchers would love your help. They are specifically interested in the Parham, Webb Beach, Thompson Beach & Port Prime areas. To participate, go to: tinyurl.com/aibs2024survey
Robyn James from The Nature Conservancy discusses how our interactions with natural resources are not gender-neutral: capitalist-based conservation systems primarily benefit men, which can lead to inequity in programs and policy #ICCB2025
Louisa Warren from CSIRO gives practical guidance around working with Indigenous communities and acknowledging the rights of Indigenous peoples #iccb2025
