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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇

🔗 www.hellodata.science

#rstats #datascience #tidyverse

#Workshop #Mesocosm Automation and High-Frequency Monitoring On 22 January 2026
Talks will feature Smart EcoLake, AQUABOX, and high-resolution chlorophyll-a sensors.
Everyone is welcome. Register: forms.office.com/r/tTQLqUP8Mp
#AquaticScience #SensorTechnology #EcoTech #WaterQuality #Aquacosm

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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Don't miss our ECR event: featuring new diatom index research and a model selection for ecological data Q&A.
🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 25th
🕐 13:00 CET
🔗 Registration form: forms.gle/6YwSLVAyNmem...

📩 Zoom link will be sent to registrants before the event.

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📢PhD in #Palaeoenvironmental & #Archaeological Studies – Loughborough University, UK
Fully funded research on Arctic environmental change.

Deadline: 7 Jan 2026
Details: higherjobz.com/phd-palaeoen...
#PhDPosition #Archaeology #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs
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🎓Join our AQUACOSM ECR Event!

🗨️We invite you to our Panel Discussion: “Building Bridges for Career Success – How to Create Opportunities Through Networking.”
🗓️ October 27|🕑14-15:30 CET
🔗Register here: shorturl.at/z6RQh

📩The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants before the event.

One of our core members @sarahhasnain.bsky.social is co-hosting a session at the ASLO-SIL 2026 Joint Meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract to her session:

SS031: Emerging ideas and technologies transforming aquatic trait-based ecology
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

We invite you to submit abstracts from your mesocosm-based research to the Session SS082: Mesocosm-based approaches to tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems

Possible Formats: Standard Oral, Lightning Talk, Poster

www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

One of our members @majailiczg.bsky.social is co-hosting two sessions at the ASLO-SIL 2026 in Montreal. Please consider submitting abstracts to: Session SS078 and SS088.

You can find session descriptions here:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Abstract preparation guide:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Share your research with us!

If you would like to promote your recently published (in the last year) paper or pre-print with us, we invite you to contact us so that we can advertise these in our upcoming newsletter (mesocosm based-research, aquatic science, R package/Python library).

Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the David M. Dolan Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/47ekTPK

The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐

Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀

Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au

#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

Attending a conference next year and looking for funding? Consider applying to the following 🤩:
waqua.nl/Scholarships
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🎙️ Sign up for our next free online workshop with Dr. Cristina Charette to learn the basics of #SEM and how to apply it to #mesocosm studies.

🗓️ Sept 26, 16:00 - 17:30 CET
🔗Register: forms.gle/rQgwamMaUvmL...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

🎙 Sign up for our next free online event with Dr. Luca Schenone to learn and discuss about how #Bayesian Inference can advance our insights from #mesocosm experiments!

🗓 Aug 21 | 🕓 10:00–11:00 CET
🔗 Register: forms.gle/XExbghHcgnFL...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

Save the dates!

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.

Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

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Fast fashion doing its thing.

❗️Our next workshop will be on June 5th, 6 pm CEST, on Shinyscholar – a template for producing reproducible analytic apps in R by @simonsmart.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

The Essex Summer School's Second Session runs July 21-August 1, online and in person.

Courses include Python, machine learning, spatial econometrics, IRT, causal inference, Bayesian analysis, ethnographic methods, and more!

Learn more:
essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

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Friends, I am teaching a virtual professional development workshop through the Association of Science Communicators, focusing on how to measure the impact of your social media communications.
Register here:
aosc41.wildapricot.org/event-6121762 #SciComm 🧪

mlmRev::egsingle |> performance::check_group_variation( select = c("female", "grade", "math"), by = c("schoolid", "childid"), include_by = TRUE ) #> Check schoolid variation #> #> Variable | Variation | Design #> ------------------------------ #> childid | both | nested #> female | within | crossed #> grade | both | #> math | both | #> #> Check childid variation #> #> Variable | Variation | Design #> ----------------------------- #> schoolid | between | #> female | between | #> grade | both | #> math | both |

🆕 Introducing check_group_variation() in the {performance} #Rstats package! 🎉

This function makes it easy to checks if variables vary within or between levels of grouping variables.

Perfect for understanding and designing mixed models 🚀

easystats.github.io/performance/...

#stats #easystats

🎙 Our next event, "Diversity in Science: Women in Science", will broaden your horizons on diversity-related issues and challenges faced by women in sciences (open to everybody!)
🗓 June 12 | 🕓 16:00–17:30 CET
🔗 Register: forms.gle/aFktByB14RjH...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

#CIIMARtraining

Introduction to Ecological Modelling with a Focus on Food Web Models (IEM2025)

📅 16–20 June | 📍Hybrid

👉 Learn more: www.ciimar.up.pt/events/intro...

🚨 Job alert 🚨

Two very exciting senior researcher positions in community ecology & biodiversity in a changing world @niooknaw.bsky.social

I can also tell you that you'll have a great head of department 😊

vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...

Job Opportunity: Lecturer in Ecology and Global Change at University of Leeds.
We welcome dynamic applicants from across the world to join our team of tropical ecology and global change scientists.
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Meiofauna - from https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/study/postgraduate/phd-opportunities/projects/meiofaunal-molecular-systematics.html

FREE COURSE: Field workshop on the taxonomy and natural history of freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna

Apply now for a free place on the NHM NERC-funded upcoming short training course 27 Aug - 11 Sept. Applications close 31 May.

www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Thanks to all the participants for the nice discussion about the challenges and directions of mesocosm research during our workshop at #ASLO25

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Looking for a new postdoc in my lab @usfcoph. Join a collaboration between John Orrock and me on Lyme disease ecology here in beautiful Tampa. Job #40278 at USF Careers website. Please R/T or email me with questions.

On the #postdoc hunt and would love any leads or sources folks have in evolution and ecology. Trained in systematics, several genetics techniques, ecological modeling with an emphasis in aquatic environments and North American crayfish.