A vibrant orange-red hermit crab with large textured claws and big eyes crawls across wet sand.
Very special hermit crab for your feed. This is potentially only the second-ever iNaturalist observation of the species Dardanus insignis!
Issue 40 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬
➡️ Reproducible R Code @daxkellie.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
➡️ Generating Universes Within Universes with a Single Seed @andrew.heiss.phd
➡️ AEA Replication Tracker @paulgp.com
➡️ Informed Consent Template
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
hexagon with a pink and grey galah on green/blue sunburst background is in the middle of the page. This hexagon logo sits over an explosion of pink dots on a lighter pink background
galah 2.2.0 is on CRAN! 📦
🛡️ Authorised users can access sensitive data from the command line
🌏 GBIF gets full support for predicate or DOI queries, new support for the Flemish and Kew Gardens portals
🗂️ We’ve tidied scripts to be more versatile, efficient & consistent
galah.ala.org.au/R/
#rstats
Whoa when this invasive mushroom grows on a dead or dying hardwood tree, the fungal diversity of that tree is cut in half (on average) 😯🍄
Spreading across the US & Canada as well as Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Serbia & Germany, this fungus could have a huge cascading impact on global ecosystems
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This is a stylised landscape with the sea in the foreground, which is in shades of dark blue with ripples on it, and seven hills in shades of brown, orange, and yellow in the middle ground. The background is of a night sky, with a thin crescent moon and stars in an ascending pattern from left to right.
Happy National Eucalypt Day!
I summarised 100 years' of eucalypt data from the Atlas of Living Australia as a landscape
#EucalyptoftheYear #rstats @eucalyptaus.bsky.social 📊🧪
See more here: shandiya.com/dataviz.html...
Missed @daxkellie.bsky.social’s @sortee.bsky.social webinar this morning? Now up on YouTube!
youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU
If you missed my talk today about how to make your R code more reproducible and why it's good for science, the recording is already online!
Apologies for the internet issues, I hope you can forgive me, they do go away after a few minutes 😅
#rstats 🧪🌏 @sortee.bsky.social
youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU
Ah that’s too bad, but yes it is recorded! Should have a link to share in the next few days
This is happening tomorrow! See you then 😀
#rstats 🌏🧪
Huge news, congrats! 🎉🎉
It should start at 10:30pm UTC I believe 🙂
Awesome dataviz 🤩 So interesting how much variation there is in phrases like "Realistic possibility" compared to "About even"
No wonder it's so difficult to use experimental survey data as strong evidence in research. People are too varied at interpreting scales!
🧪 #psychscisky
A nice visual, and a worthwhile one to remember when considering gaps and biases in biodiversity data in Australia 🦘🌱
Nearly 70% of the population lives in a greater capital city, meaning that incidental observations of animals and plants outside of those areas are rare and valuable
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In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏
It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
Want to make your code better at running again in the future?
My talk next month will be filled with lots of tips about how to write sharable, reproducible R code and why it's good for science
Hope to see you there!
#rstats 🌏🧪👩💻
Wow, this is spectacular! Evolution of beak size in an urban population of juncos in response to the loss of supplementary food (bird feeders) during the COVID pandemic, and subsequent regression. Is the UCLA campus the new Daphne Major?
pnas.org/doi/full/10....
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Populations of endangered animals on an island have increased by 90-100% in five years, after effectively controlling non-native predators.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Yellow and purple text on a navy background: Favourite albums 2025 10–Sault Choke enough –Oklou Lotus–Lil Simz 🥇The Passionate Ones–Nourished by Time LOVED–Parcels The Crux–Djo Getting Killed–Geese Baby–Dijon Guitar–Mac DeMarco Showbiz!–MIKE Honourable mentions DONT’T TAP THE GLASS–Tyler, the Creator Deadbeat–Tame Impala Big City Life - Smerz Joni’s Jazz–Joni Mitchell
I listened to 171 albums in 2025 apparently. These were my favourites 💿🎶🤘
What a massive loss for science in Australia. Emma was a force, and responsible for many of my friends’ careers in biology. Very sad news, my condolences to her friends and family
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
These photos were made by talented scientists and citizen scientists (not me!). Photo credits are in the alt text
An orange, burly round christmas beetle on a green leaf, facing the camera. Photo by nature-lover2 2025 (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int))
An orange christmas beetle with green, shimmering colouration reflecting off of its exoskeleton, sitting on a brown leaf. Christmas beetles are well-known for their bright, reflective colouration (known as iridescence).
A bar plot showing observation counts of Christmas beetles since 1900 in the Atlas of Living Australia. The bars are red and the background is a beige/cream colour. The plot shows that despite huge numbers of Christmas beetles historically, there are relatively few records over the last 100 years of Christmas beetles. This lack of data makes it difficult to know why Christmas beetles seem to be disappearing. After the Christmas Beetle Count began in 2021, the number of observations had a large spike in number in subsequent years.
A series of 3 bar plots showing the number of observations of 3 taxa commonly misidentified as Christmas beetles - Argentinian scarab beetles (invasive), Golden stag beetles and June beetles. The growth of Christmas beetle records after the Christmas Beetle Count initiative began in 2021 coincides with a spike in data for these other taxa as well, a positive but unintended outcome of more people interested in recording Christmas beetle observations!
It's December!🎄 But where are all the Christmas beetles? 😕🪲
Share any Christmas beetle observations with @inaturalist.bsky.social to help figure out why they seem to have disappeared. Even if you're unsure, mis-ID'd observations are valuable too!
www.inaturalist.org/projects/chr...
🧪🌏📊 #rstats
A Pacific white-sided dolphin approaching a Northern Resident Killer Whale. Credit: University of British Columbia (A.Trites), Dalhousie University (S. Fortune), Hakai Institute (K. Holmes), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (X. Cheng)
Killer whales or orca have been observed hunting with Pacific white-sided dolphins in the waters off British Columbia, Canada, and sharing fish scraps with them after making a kill, according to research in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4rZ08RJ 🧪
This is so friggin good 🤩 Thanks for sharing, it’s a wonderful resource!
screenshot of my post
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
😯🧪🌏
New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
