Would you like to read all the articles from the 25 years of R special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics? They are all freely accessible for the next month or so at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #rstats
Neat! I signed up with an alias email. I support you/this work, but not Google :)
“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
I had a great time talking about dplyr 1.2.0 with @rladiesrome.bsky.social! Thank you for having me 🧡
✏️ Slides: ivelasq-dplyr-1-2-0.share.connect.posit.cloud#/title-slide
📹 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF...
🕸️ Materials: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/dplyr-1...
Enjoy the new #RStats release 🧑🔧
Compared PM Luxon's "column" against addresses by the Australian PM Albanese, and British PM Starmer on 1 April in their respective countries, around the same set of issues. The UK, and Australia are two of New Zealand's closest allies. Comparison establishes quality of political leadership. #nzpol
If it were me, I'd sure as hell want to know! I'd be getting a new tattoo today/asafp: "nobody's", and reflecting on a tough lesson.
🌱 Join our webinar on healthy nursery plants & plant biosecurity! Discover how invasive pathogens like #Phytophthora threaten forests & crops & learn practical solutions from leading international experts.
🗓 20 April 2026, 14:00-16:50 (CET)
✍️ Program & registration www.purpest.eu/news/webinar...
New study finds notion that humans can "double-check" AI to be flawed. Participants trusted AI 93% of the time when it was correct, but still trusted it 80% of the time when it was wrong, while being *more* confident in their conclusions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Happy International Day of Forests!
#IntlForestDay
A cat poster in the style of a later 20th century soviet propaganda poster. The image is of a close-up, side profile of a cat. The cat is painted in bright yellows and oranges and the background is also yellow such that the cat blends in somewhat with the background. The warm colours are emphasized by streaks of blue in the fur and contrasted with a blue bandana with small yellow star. The image suggests happiness, basking in the sun on a warm day. Below the image are the words in bold: "Find your spot in the sun! We all prosper in the warmth of solidarity and compassion." Signed N.Nun.
A message from the Cooperative Community Federation: Find Your Spot in the Sun! #art
A large dog stands smiling inside a white metal dog crate with his head popping out from the wide-open crate door. The dog is a Catahoula x Husky mix: short coat, erect ears, curly tail. He has blue merle colouration on head and back, tan on his legs, snout, and eyebrows, and white on his chest and front paws.
More photos, more videos of them being goofy, more cuddles. We enjoy the time we have with them now to comfort our future selves 💜
The FORGENIUS Genomic Resources: New Genotyping Tools and Genomic Data for 23 Forest Tree Species and Their Genetic Conservation Units.
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Thanks for thinking of me as a possible reviewer for this manuscript, as I am very interested in the topic. However, I decline to review this manuscript, as I typically do in the case of journals published by profiteering corporate publishers. Nature Publishing Group charges an outrageous US$6990 to authors to publish in Nature Communications, which has little to do with higher-quality service or journal processes and lots to do with a legacy first-mover advantage that it uses to exploit academia. This is rentier capitalism. NPG funnels papers they reject from their most prestigious outlets to their newer subsidiary journals such as Nature Communications and Nature Communications Psychology, which academics go along with because they don’t (directly) foot the bill, and because, given the pressure academics are under to publish rapidly, they wish to take advantage of the reviews they may have already received from the higher-tier Nature journal. Because we are now live in a world where most studies can eventually be published somewhere, NPG has been able to exploit this by creating their own lower-tier journals and charging high-aspiration authors for the convenience. This practice conflicts with my interest in universities and funders not wasting their money, which is why I do not wish to support it by contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars of labor that academics donate to corporate publishers. Instead, I preferentially review, and volunteer as an editor for, diamond open access journals that are free to read and publish in. For various reasons, including combating this strategy by which corporate publishers are extending the era in which they profiteer from university funds, many academics and funders now advocate for the Publish->Review->Curate model, in which academics publish their work immediately (on preprint servers, which prevents gatekeeping by editors), and then get it peer reviewed, preferably through low-cost and scholar-controlled plat…
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social asked me to post this decline to review for NPG letter with alt text included (although it didn't all fit in the 2000 character limit)
Chris Fleming on a podcast saying "because I think that something awaits for me in the devine for resisting"
them: bro why aren't you posting on linkedin
me:
Text says "Exploring the role of phosphite for kauri dieback disease treatment". Photograph shows kauri tree trunk with a green canopy above and a blue sky behind.
🌲 Fully funded PhD opportunity working on treatments for kauri dieback disease. Join an exciting team working on saving kauri forests. Open to local and international applicants.
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/a...
Full-time science photography job at the BioEconomy Science Institute - Maiangi Taiao, in Auckland, NZ. a great gig: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a... #science #photography
Appreciated this time with Cara Furman and co-authors @redped.bsky.social, @mishuana.bsky.social, Jessica Fremland, and Kali Simmons about our paper on Gardening with Indigenous Feminisms. I feel so lucky to be a part of this project.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Introduction of the #PineWoodNematode in France: what can research do?
#ForestHealth
#TreeHealth
#ForestPathology
www.plantedforests.org/introduction...
New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.
Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
Top: FK506-resistant strains isolated from the Mucor circinelloides complex. Phenotypic analysis of FK506-resistant isolates in Mucor janssenii CBS185.68 (PS1), Mucor bainieri CBS293.63 (PS3), and Mucor atramentarius CBS202.28 (PS6). WT, wild-type; M, mendelian mutant; E, epimutant. Bottom: Schematic overview of epigenetic silencing contributing to antifungal resistance in Mucor species. fkbA expression enables FKBP12 production and FK506 sensitivity (yeast-like morphology). Epigenetic silencing of fkbA via RNAi and/or heterochromatin leads to FK506 resistance and hyphal growth. Generated with BioRender.com.
#Antifungal resistance is a global threat, but epigenetic mechanisms drive rapid, reversible adaptation in fungi. This study shows that #RNAi or #heterochromatin driven #epimutations transiently silence the gene fkbA to confer FK506 #tacrolimus resistance in #Mucor @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qdttWc
Prince Andrew staring in existential dread
Sic semper creepazoids
Andrew’s existential dread is great.
Acrylic on canvas board
“Tā Kim Workman spent 67 years working in the police and criminal justice system…he says, too little has changed in approaches to criminality and social harm. In fact, he says many of the attitudes and ideas that were prevalent when he joined the police force in 1958 remain entrenched today” #nzpol
*an. A joy so great I forgot how to article 🫠
This is one of the #ForestHealth topics that pushed me toward a career in #ForestPathology. Always a immense pleasure to see progress in restoring this keystone species to Eastern US deciduous forests
Delighted to see our work on the impact of drought on the oak microbiome featured on the cover of @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
Link to the article below this post 👇🏻
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.
Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz
Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...