Faculty job ad for a position in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia.

We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA

✨ Proofread translations ✨ by hadley · Pull Request #2926 · r-lib/pkgdown with Claude code cc @jayhesselberth @maelle

Would any fluent speakers of Korean or Chinese have a couple of minutes to review some updated pkgdown translations at github.com/r-lib/pkgdow... ? These were generated by claude code, so they're probably ok, but I'd love a human to double check.

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That gif!

Chelsea YES

I giggle every time I read / write / talk about generalized additive models when "wiggliness" comes up as a formal term.

niche #rstats tweet: does anyone have a nice snippet of code they would share to download, import, and reshape GLORYS12 ocean data?

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

*fascism.

For many, many Americans, fighting racism is part of our heritage.

🎉 UC ANR’s Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social joins the 2025 #TIME100Next, spotlighting 100 rising leaders worldwide. A climate scientist & communicator, Swain studies droughts, floods & wildfires—& makes complex science accessible to the public & policymakers.
More here: bit.ly/4nXePlk

Daniel Swain Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next Find out why Daniel Swain is on this year’s list

Was honored to write this profile for Daniel Swain ( @weatherwest.bsky.social) for Time Magazine's 2025 "#TIME100 Next": time.com/collections/...

@acollierastro.bsky.social Really enjoying your latest video! I've never gone spelunking in your comments sections before, was wild to find out about about the anti-physics posts that miss the point of your videos. Do you think some of them are bots or people commenting based on title alone?

About once a month I get phishing emails that spoof a colleague's email name and image but not the domain. I think these would flag those?

In 2015, global nations pledged to take actions to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial baseline temperature in what has come to be known as the "Paris Agreement." In 2023 and 2024, global temperatures approached or even exceeded that warming target on a temporary basis--an Thoughts from a climate scientist on what it means to exceed the 1.5°C global warming target

I published a video focused on my perspective on the 1.5°C temperature target and what it will mean to exceed it. This monologue is an honest (and unvarnished) scientifically-informed personal reflection, so I hope you'll give it a listen. #ClimateChange www.youtube.com/watc...

Galaxy brain meme format outlining options for working with data: CSV file, parquet & duckdb, databases, and remote SSH sessions

I'm excited to speak this afternoon at #useR2025 on outgrowing your laptop with #Positron for #rstats users!

You can check out my slides at juliasilge.github.io/useR-2025/

Excited to see @weinersmith.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social’s book ‘A City on Mars’ being highlighted at the front of my local @barnesandnoble.com store! It’s their non-fiction book of the month!

This is really cool! Nice work!

This wide-ranging session was recorded live and is now available in its entirety at the link below! BTW, as a "bonus," I also discussed the recent tsunami alert "kerfuffle" (and why we need to do better contextualizing watches vs warnings vs advisories from NOAA/NWS!). #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

Congrats!

Don't miss THE GOAT of burning laptops, #RStats, and all-round very special human being

Congrats!!

Undergrad was at a public university, grad school was at "elite" university. I took fantastic courses at both, and felt that both gave quality education. But undergrad tuition at one was wildly more expensive than the other...

Does anyone know of a writing retreat in the vicinity of New England where they feed you? Maybe just for a couple weekdays or a weekend? I'm really struggling to start a project and could use a push. I know about Highlights but it's somewhat far.

Come and work with me, ye scribblers, ye wretched and ne’er do wells, come one come all hacks and presswomen.

Job specifics: see ad.

Attitude toward pirate language: yaarrrrs please.

Tricorn purchase: encouraged but not required.

I'd love to read #2!!

Posit Connect with a vibrant global community of R and Python data scientists at Posit's annual conference. Learn, share, and grow your expertise in data science.

I am starting to prep for my #positconf2025 talk this year, and I am excited but also a bit nervous 😅 because I am sharing how TERRIBLE things went for me the first time I tried to learn Python! 🐍

Hoping it will be interesting to the Python-curious and beyond:

posit.co/conference/

Hey! Transitioning from academia (ecology) into industry. I have a decade experience in #rstats. I know how to analyze data and make some gnarly math models. Was wondering if I could reach out to anyone (especially those in biotech/pharm) to ask some questions/get advice! #datascience #databs

Hopefully this package will be a useful tool for my fellow mgcv enthusiasts. I wrote a vignette demonstrating all the current features here: cbedwards-dfw.github.io/VizSeasonalG...

As far as I'm concerned, the big win for `VizSeasonalGams` was when I walked through some of our models with a domain expert, and I was able to address questions and iterate on new model variations with a few seconds and two or three lines of code.