📢 New preprint out!
tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!
138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Ants! Ants! Ants!
792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail:
spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-...
paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
website: www.antscan.info
Phenomenal.
We need a geom_snake(...)
#rstats #DataViz #ggplot2
An amazing @zooniverse.bsky.social project where volunteers help correct text that will eventually be added to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as the text file and used to help folk find data about species. www.zooniverse.org/projects/bg5... #HighlyRecommended #Zooniverse #ILoveBHL
23.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social!
ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
It is! Although I feel like my hands get dirty every time I use this kind of trick.
23.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
R code using mtcars with nested pipes to list top 3 car models
While you all fight about whether we should use pipes, I’m out here nesting mine 🧪
#rstats #tidyverse #baseR #pipes
As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience.
I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!
“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤
A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
Curious what an LLM would achieve with handwritten labels... I have seen some impressive OCR results here and there.
11.02.2026 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.
28.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Seriously considering adopting Swiss Cheese Mono as my default font for all future correspondence
www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...
Vibe coding kills open source.
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
176 tiny maps (1850-2025)
Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.
This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order.
The stats literature:
Found the code to do this strange attractor while looking for something else. Thought I'd see how fast I can render 360 frames of this with denoising.
What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer
obumbratta.com/colour
Happy 2026! 🎉
My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.
Great pro-tips for #rstats package development here!
29.12.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down.
🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.
🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩
developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...
This is a colossal amount of work and definitely a source of inspiration for #dataviz with #rstats.
26.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
A chart showing how LLMs can be used for different tasks in academia. Tasks are distributed along two axis (fails-works and evil-good).
I finally made that scandalous chart.
#AcademicSky #LLM #ChatGPT
In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
