Emi Tanaka

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What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

Looking forward to hosting the co-working hour on the theme "Drawing publication-ready plots using R" tomorrow (5th Aug) 11AM AEST (Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane) with @steffilazerte 📊

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🚶‍♀️Stretch your legs at the #BIB2025 conference

Join us for a *free* guided walk around beautiful Lake Burley Griffin and take a breather 🌬️🚣

📅 Wed 26 Nov | 🕜 Meet 1:30pm at NFSA
👣~5km loop | Easy pace
🧢 Bring a hat, sunscreen & water!

Let's go!
membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

🍷Wine not take a break during Biometrics in the Bush Capital? Join us at Murrumbateman’s best wineries — Clonakilla for tastings & cheese 🧀 🍇

🗓️ Wed 26 Nov
📍Pickup near NFSA at 1:15pm
💰$140
🕔 Back by 5pm

Sign up to sip, snack & socialise membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

🌿 Coming to Biometrics in the Bush Capital? Keen to spot a platypus? Join us for an arvo at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve — koalas, wallabies, bush walks & nature vibes! 🐨 🦘

🗓️ Wed 26 Nov
📍Pickup from NFSA at 1pm
💰 $35
🕒 Back by 5:30pm

Register now! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

Storing notes from talks, notes about papers (with Zotero integration extension), day planner, to do list, mapping things, etc. Dataview and Excalidraw are really awesome community extensions!

I love obsidian! I tried notion but I like that the files are local for obsidian and also good community extensions in obsidian too

BIBC abstract submission deadline extended!

The abstract submission for Biometrics in the Bush Capital has been extended till 21st July 2025 5PM AEST 📢

We hope to see you there ☺️ #BIBC2025

For more information see: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

Thank you to @fontikar.bsky.social for making the banner!

Last chance for abstract submission for #BIBC2025!

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 21st July 2025 5PM AEST. Don't miss out!

biometricsociety.org.au/conference2025

Thank you to @fontikar.bsky.social for helping out with the training! And also happy birthday Fonti 🥳

Huddling for group photo 📷

As the ANU Analytics for 🇦🇺 Grains Industry project gets underway, we sprinted with 4 training sessions discussing everything from analysis of field trials to project management, while enjoying some wheat cake 🌾

We are sharing our training materials on the web 👇

🔗 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

A photo of Yidi in front of his office

We're pleased to welcome Yidi Deng, last of 3 postdocs we hired for Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry project!

Yidi has an impressive list of work from his PhD in developing and applying statistical methods for single cell data integration analysis.

🔗 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

💻 Pre-conference #rstats workshops open for registration 👩‍💻

- generalised non-linear models by Heather
- analysing complex survey by @tslumley.bsky.social
- stats consulting by Peter & Eve
- deep learning + computer vision by @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social

🔗 biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

Meet the keynote speakers for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital, 24-28th November 2025 at Canberra 🇦🇺

Abstract submission closes 14th July 2025
Pre-conference workshop is also open now!

biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

@ml4x.bsky.social
@HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Photo of Emi Tanaka. A smiling woman with dark hair and glasses looks directly at the camera. She has a smile strong enough to make her squint. She is wearing a light-colored sweater over a dark top, with pearl earrings visible.

Photo of Nima Hejazi: A man with curly dark hair and a light beard smiles subtly at the camera. He is wearing a light blue collared shirt under a textured brown jacket. Cherry blossoms are visible and slightly out of focus in the background.

So glad to have @emitanaka.org and @nimahejazi.org join our editorial board for @ropensci.org's software peer review!

They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for software in statistics and data science.

ropensci.org/blog/2025/06... #rstats

A bit of an update thread: I resigned from my academic position at UNSW a few months ago now and have been taking a break to rest, reflect, and work out what I want the next half of my career to look like.

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Yes, I’m afraid this is true. Decision makers are too focussed on short term financial goals. Lack of quality population data will impede on downstream inference, and decisions made on less accurate results. In the end, it’s going to cost more in the longer term.

I hope they consulted the statisticians before they made this decision …

Looking forward to hearing this 😆

The stage of the town hall

Looking forward to hearing about university governance and more from @davidpocock.bsky.social

The number of ANU researchers by college

What do you do in a long weekend?

Get to know your own university by analysing the distribution of ANU researchers and the number of their publications by academic organisational units (yeah, I must be fun at parties 😆).

emitanaka.org/blog/2025-06...

It’s not going to be worth my time going through hoops of enquiries and approvals for $28 😢 I’ll save my energy for other battles 😔

Zoom invoice

This happened just before my online workshop 😭 I couldn’t join ANU zoom and start the meeting as host. I had to give up and pay for my own zoom in the end 😢

Fonti sitting in her new office

Following Patrick (@weihaolipatrick.bsky.social), we're delighted to welcome Fonti (@fontikar.bsky.social), who joined @scienceanu.bsky.social as part of the Analytics of the Australian Grains Industry!

anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

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Maybe substack (I don’t use it but I’ve seen others use it) substack.com?learn_more=1

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

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Hoping to similarly raise funds for the regional Biometrics conference, so expect more workshops from me :D
Or we're happy to receive sponsorship if you can! (see link 👇 for the conference sponsorship package).

biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...

Thank you to the 60 participants who attended the March livestream! The shared profit was added to my research account and helps to fund my research activities. I didn't ask for any funds from uni this year, so I feel grateful I can generate revenue when I need it!

If you want to do some text analysis with large language models using R, then I have an online workshop coming up on 📅 3-4th June, limited to 20 participants. 🔗👇

If you miss that one, I'll be repeating the livestream version in October with more participants.

www.statsoc.org.au/event-6066471

👉 Check our new publication - by Li, Cheng, Liu & @emitanaka.org:

"Analysis of international life expectancies with manifold learning and neural networks"

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....