Dax Kellie

A tree-ring dataviz where every ring represents that tree’s number of observations each year?? 🌳🤩🌳

Yet another stunning piece of work from @shandiya.bsky.social. This one leafs me speechless 🍃🫢 😜

#rstats 🌏🧪📊

Whoa that was a fast turn around 😮
Looks great! 😀

There's some nuance to this process to return exactly what you want, so hopefully this article helps! 😀

This post is specifically written to help people who need species lists for reporting, whether it's:

📋 Government workers creating lists for monitoring or land assessment
🏘️ Industry workers conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment
📍 Researchers creating lists for their study area

A bar plot showing the number of critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable species observed in 2024 in the Shoalhaven region, New South Wales, Australia. The bar plot is themed with warm reddy-pink colours

A waffle chart, where each block represents one species, showing the taxonomic breakdown of threatened species in Shoalhaven, New South Wales observed in 2024. The waffle chart is themed with earthy colours

Need to make a species list for an area? 📋🌱

Learn how to download a list of species, cross-reference with conservation status lists, and visualise with {ggplot2} in a new ALA Labs post by me & Amanda Buyan

🔗 labs.ala.org.au/posts/2025-0...

#rstats 🧪🌏📊

It's been a while since I last shared my starter pack

If you're a stats/data person in or from the Pacific region (not just Australia or Aotearoa) and would like to be included, please let me know!

#statssky #episky #databs #rstats #python

Photo of a small white flower with 8 narrow tepals of mainly white. Each tepal has a bright purple spot about halfway down

Wurmbea tenella - Eight Nancy

A widespread winter flower in Western Australia, where it is endemic. Each tepal has a bright purple spot halfway along, advertising the presence of nectary glands to possible pollinators
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist

A hand holding an olive green and brown coffee mug in front of a computer screen with a waffle chart dataviz using an incredibly similar green, brown and blue colour palette

Apparently I like this colour palette. Am I too predictable lol
#rstats 📊

Family: NAUTILIDAE Atlas of Living Australia species page for the NAUTILIDAE

The 2 images of real nautiluses aren't mine, but are taken by talented researchers and citizen scientists. I found them on the Atlas of Living Australia
bie.ala.org.au/species/http...

I got all these fun facts from the Australian Museum page on Nautiluses
australian.museum/learn/animal...

The side of a nautilus on a black background. The nautilus shell is curved, coloured white with faded red stripes on the top. The nautilus lives inside this shell, with a large eye and many tentacles sticking out from the bottom opening of the shell. Above the eye is an orange, bumpy 'helmet' shell for add protection. Photo by Erik Schlogl (2000) CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)

2 nautilus shells on a wooden platform. The top shell is much larger than the bottom shell. The bottom shell is cut through the middle so that we can see the individual chambers within the shell. These chambers are equally spaced and continue in a circle, beginning larger on the outside and getting smaller as they move to the centre of the swirly shell shape. Photo by Cape Tribulation Nth Qld (2024) CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Int)

An Omanyte pokemon plush toy, sitting on a white ledge by the window. The body of Omanyte is bright blue and has many little tentacles on the bottom & 2 main arm tentacles at either side. It has 2 big googly eyes under the shell. The shell is brown and in a swirl shape. Omanyte is based on a nautilus, but looks a lot more adorable in my opinion

Nautiluses are so cool. They just seem so ancient! 🐙🦑

Like other cephalopods they have tentacles, but not just 8 or 10—they have 47 pairs that lack any suckers or hooks 🤨 They also use their chambered shells to control buoyancy

This post was inspired by my friend Omanyte I picked up in Tokyo
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Female Powerful Owl sitting on a branch.

The newly-paired female Powerful Owl this morning. Her nearby partner was displaying a bat, so dinner is sorted. Last night they were very active, calling & purring, mating twice, the female went into the nest hollow to investigate, the male later sat at the entrance purring #brisbane #birds #wildoz

That’s true 🙂 always more helpful to bounce ideas off of people over the whole process. I don’t know about you, but usually I need help figuring out what the thing is trying to show in the first place haha

It reminds me of how Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) learned people weren’t hearing the parts he wanted people to hear on Borderline (the bass line + specific harmonies & rhythms), so he redid the sound production and rereleased the song. IMO the newer version sounded better

youtu.be/2g5xkLqIElU?...

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data - Nature Cell Biology Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checkl...

Some great tips on making better #dataviz 👇 In my experience, the final point—feedback—is invaluable

Funny how another person might focus on something completely different to what you intended 🙃 Adjusting from this feedback always makes for a clearer visual message📊🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

whoa this is (*chef's kiss*) amazing! Great work! I love the button effects 🤩

Tanya Shapiro - Wrapped Text Around Circular Images Quick walk on setting up custom functions in R to create wrapped text around circular images.

This dataviz is entirely thanks to @tanyashapiro.bsky.social who, like an absolute legend, made a blog post + code available to make the beeswarm-like image plot. I would have *never* figured this out without those resources 🙌

Blog: tanyaviz.com/blog/image-c...
Code: github.com/tashapiro/ta...

science/comms/2025-05-22_rainforests/scripts at main · AtlasOfLivingAustralia/science Repo for code produced by the ALA Science & Decision Support Team - AtlasOfLivingAustralia/science

Code: github.com/AtlasOfLivin...
📷 High-res: raw.githubusercontent.com/AtlasOfLivin...

A visual snapshot of Gondwana Rainforests’ biodiversity. The visual has a green background. On the left is a map of east Australia, showing the location of Gondwana Rainforests in upper NSW, lower QLD (highlighted in red/orange). On the right is a bubble chart showing images of the most observed species in that area of bird, mammal/marsupial, plant, invertebrate and fungus. The images are ordered by the number of observations they have

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 📊🧪🌏🌳

This is outrageously cool

The authors managed to nullify the geomagnetic field around bogong moths but allowed them to see a typical starry night sky and the moths could *still* navigate the correct direction of migration 🤯
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a man in a black tank top is standing in an elevator with his arms outstretched Alt: Daniel Craig in a black tank top leaving an elevator doing a strangely rhythmic dance is standing with his arms outstretched. Older people left in the elevator look confused

And for some reason this is how I left the coffee shop

Just received my favourite ever wrong-name-coffee-order:

Dance

This deserves a pun-chievement award

oooo nice one. That’s sounds like one of the tasks LLMs would actually be good for (though I try to limit myself for ethical reasons). Might try it out next time I’m nearing an existential crisis haha

who needs food when you can adjust your linewidth from 1.1 to 1.13

a woman in a white dress is sitting on the ground with a speech bubble saying slipping into an existential crisis Alt: a woman (barbie, from the movie Barbie) slipping into an existential crisis. This mainly involves slowly falling to the ground and rolling around aimlessly

ggplot2 is amazing but sometimes you can spend days playing with tiny formatting details and oh no now I'm spiralling
#rstats

A fish with extremely widely spaced eyes. By François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau - Compte rendu de l'expédition de Francis de Castelnau en Amérique du sud (exemplaire de la bibliothèque patrimoniale de Gray (France)), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11472979

Hey good news, I just learned about this fish

Whoaaaaa what is this slide background?? 🤩

Fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 by @shandiya.bsky.social on our teams’ work supporting open data *and* code at ALA

Wellbeing as in “well, I guess you can be here too”