Gabriel Kamener

Painting of a breaking wave

It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave.
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Nice highlight of research at LTER sites, including work being done at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. We absolutely have to save both NSF LTER and USFS R&D who combined maintain some of the best long-term ecological datasets in the world.

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish. The top federal lab on native bees is set to close under President Trump’s budget.

🐝 🐝🐝 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Data Consultants

I've been fortunate to have a network of data freelancers that have been a huge support in my own work.

I've started a list of some of these consultants (in academia, nonprofit, public sector, and industry). If you are looking for help, check out this list!

#databs

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Join the fight!

ESA Action Alert: Contact your senators to advocate to fund science agencies and programs – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science June 2, 2025

ESA Action Alert: Contact your senators to advocate to fund science agencies and programs – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science esa.org/esablog/2025...

15 New Books added to Big Book of R - Oscar Baruffa I’m very excited to announce that 6 English-language books and 9 Portuguese books have been added to the collection of over 400 free, open-source R programming books. Many thanks to Bruno Mioto for th...

I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese!
#Rstats
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Learn about the 4 synthesis projects developed in LTER's new Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course: - Carbon cycling responses across spatiotemporal scales - Coupling of above- and ...

We've been teaching students across the network synthesis science for the past year, and they've used their skills to do actual synthesis science in four group projects.

Next Thursday, they present their work!

Tune in to the SSECR Final Symposium on May 22 at 10am PT/1 ET.

Register below!

Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.

Science--including discovery science, STEM education, and data literacy--benefit **everyone**. Wherever you live, have a conversation today with your friends and neighbors!

theconversation.com/unprecedente...

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago.
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screenshot of a coding integrated development environment showing an autocomplete suggestion, along with a preview of the underlying object

woah, when did RStudio gain this functionality that when you wait for autocomplete to finish, it'll show you a preview of that data object that it is suggesting in the autocomplete?? #RStats

An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.

When an AI customer service agent for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new company policy, users revolted.

What's new in R 4.5.0? Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.

New version of R is out!

Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more.

📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

#rstats #Rprogramming #opensource

most people don't even use 10% of the computer

Inspired by a recent conversation, and by this article (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...), I have been working on a one-pager to help researchers through the process of updating published datasets if errors are ever found. I'd love any feedback!

In 2018 I gave a presentation on research data management to a group of graduate students. Not surprisingly, most of the problems and solutions I discussed 7 years ago, are still the same problems and solutions I see today. #databs

a man is standing in front of a sphere with the words science written on it . ALT: a man is standing in front of a sphere with the words science written on it .

🧪 Science Feeds 🧪

A list of ~240 BlueSky science feeds and their hashtags!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#AcademicSky #PhDSky

At least once a week I wonder if what I do makes sense anymore. Does anyone really want to hear about simple organizational practices that lead to better data? And then every week I encounter someone that didn't know about data dictionaries, or file versioning, or quality control. So, I keep at it.

Florida legislators file measures to make public the hiring process of university presidents The bill would also establish term limits for members of the State University Board of Governors, the Board of Education, state university boards of trustees and Florida College System boards of trust...

The Florida Legislature will consider a higher education bill that sponsors say would strengthen transparency in the hiring of state university presidents.

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅

Come join us!

Using a units ontology to annotate pre-existing metadata - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Using a units ontology to annotate pre-existing metadata

New paper out in Nature by some of my colleagues!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#metadata #units #ontology #science #scientificdata #annotation

Flier for our fundraiser charter shark research expeditions!

Have you always wanted to be a marine biologist?

We are now offering fundraiser charter shark research expeditions! Join me for a day of shark research while supporting the lab's effort's to bring school groups out on future trips.

Join as an individual, or charter the whole day for your group!

#darwinday Enjoy!

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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Wow!

Tips for PIs running research teams who are looking to improve their data management

1. Create standardized processes
2. Delegate tasks
3. Build in data oversight
4. Cultivate buy-in for data management
5. Document everything
6. Check data often
7. Review and revise processes as a team

Archbold Biological Station is hiring a spatial ecologist for a new project automating mapping of prescribed fires in the Everglades Headwaters.
www.archbold-station.org/careers/

Snowed In

Going to give this a try. Posting mostly about conservation work with The Orianne Society. Lots of cool reptile and amphibian research. This Eastern Indigo Snake is one of the species that we work with a lot. Endemic to the southeastern US and the longest native #snake in the US.