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Joel Nitta
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Associate Prof. at Chiba University, Japan. Father. Pteridologist. Outdoor Activist. Nikkei Yonsei. Posts mine.

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Dec 13
I've created a starter pack of #fern researchers! I am sure there are more of us, suggestions welcome 💚

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🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!

surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:

- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!

More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 DEADLINE NOV 30

Submit your proposal for the #AppsPlantSci special issue: “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”

More info at: botany.org/home/publica... @yannickwoudstra.bsky.social @erikarmoore11.bsky.social @emcassey.bsky.social #genomics
The text at the top reads: “APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Beyond phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data”. The image beneath the title: On the left side of the image is a large circle divided in two halves: the left side of the circle comprises four images of flowers/herbarium specimens and the right side of the circle contains the text “Target Capture.” Five dotted line arrows point from the large circle to five smaller circles on the right. Smaller circles (clockwise from top): (1) “Off Target”, (2) “Biodiversity assessments”, (3) “Population genomics”, (4) “Evo-Devo”, (5) “Species identification”. The text beneath the image reads: “Proposal deadline November 30, 2025”. The Applications in Plant Sciences logo is in the bottom left corner, and a QR code is in the bottom right corner. Image credit: Yannick Woudstra.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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posit.co
testthat 3.3.0 is here! Major updates for #RStats testing include failure messages for easier debugging, 6 new specific expectations, and the SlowReporter to find your bottlenecks.

Heads Up: R 4.1+ is now required, and old mocking functions are removed.

Read the post: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...
testthat hex
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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statsrhian.bsky.social
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either

🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️‍🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data

Get in your abstracts before December 1st.

conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
Abstracts – rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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mickael.canouil.fr
After years of working with Quarto, I've refined a set of editor settings that significantly improve document editing efficiency.
My latest blog post shares these battle-tested configurations.

mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-1...

#Quarto #VSCode #Positron #Productivity #DataScience
Optimising VS Code and Positron for Quarto: Essential Settings for Better Editing – MCU
Discover the custom settings I use in VS Code and Positron to enhance my Quarto document editing workflow, from improved Git diffs to better visual guides for nested divs.
mickael.canouil.fr
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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willgearty.bsky.social
📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!

- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees 🪾
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤

rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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carpentries.carpentries.org
Developers of the "Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism" lesson, currently in The Carpentries Incubator, are looking for Carpentries community members and Instructors willing to to host and teach beta pilot workshops in 2025 and 2026: carpentries.org/blog/2025/10...
Calling for Beta Pilot Workshops: Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism
Researchers from the Department of Urbanism and members of the Digital Competence Centre at TU Delft have worked since 2023 on the curriculum Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism, currently in The C...
carpentries.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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mickael.canouil.fr
🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!

Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:

🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment

quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management – Quarto
Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates.
quarto.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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richmeister.bsky.social
I did a workshop today on the pointblank package for R (this workshop: r-consortium.org/webinars/how...) and I thought it was great! Lots of great questions asked, and I did enjoy answering them. ALSO: the package is up to 1000 stars! Really glad to see people liking it :)
The pointblank R package, now at 1000 stars.
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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barkerms.bsky.social
The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
Polyploidy Webinar Speaker Signup 25-26
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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walinchus.bsky.social
1/13 If the only things you're doing on @bsky.app are scrolling, liking, & posting, then you are still riding a bike with training wheels. Hear me out.

There are several simple and free tools out there which let you take advantage of bluesky's secret weapon: its open-source skeleton.

A how-to🧵:
A few firehose ideas: Pull thousands of posts to look for trends See how key phrases change over time See articles others are recommending
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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carpentries.carpentries.org
Upcoming community sessions next week
carpentries.org/community/ev...
Events are in UTC Time :

📣 Welcome Session with The Carpentries
07 October 12:00
08 October 14:00

🇦🇺 🇳🇿 AU & NZ Instructors: Pre & post workshop meet up
09 October 00:00
Community Events
There are many opportunities to join community meetings, subcommittees and debriefing sessions. Find links to them on this Etherpad, and subscribe to the Google calendar below or use this ics feed to…
carpentries.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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annbot.bsky.social
🎉🆕📰🎉: Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
October 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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dhaelewa.bsky.social
Some lab updates, which you should read while listening to 'Zoutelande' by BLØF and Geike Arnaert. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/lab-updates-... 🍄 #LFEE #TeamLaboul
BLØF - Zoutelande (Official Video) ft. Geike Arnaert
YouTube video by BLOFVEVO
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September 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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mickael.canouil.fr
🚀 New Quarto Modal Extension!

Create stunning Bootstrap modals in your HTML documents with just a few lines of Markdown!
The `quarto-modal` extension makes it dead simple to add interactive pop-ups to your content.

#Quarto #QuartoPub #Modal #DataScience #BootStrap

github.com/mcanouil/qua...
GitHub - mcanouil/quarto-modal: A Quarto extension providing a simple way to create Bootstrap modals in your HTML documents.
A Quarto extension providing a simple way to create Bootstrap modals in your HTML documents. - mcanouil/quarto-modal
github.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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naomibot.bsky.social
Hey #Botany2025! The California Botanic Garden is only a 1 hour drive from the convention center and attendees get free admission when showing their badge at the ticket kiosk. It’s a botanists paradise, the perfect side trip while you are here! Don’t miss the buckwheats in bloom!
California botanic garden sign Garden pic Red shanks in bloom Buckwheats in bloom
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
From digitizing specimens to making biodiversity data accessible for all, iDigBio.org is your hub for advancing natural history research.

Thank you to iDigBio for your incredible support as a #Botany2025 sponsor!
Image featuring the iDigBio logo, text that reads 'Discover how to digitize natural history specimens and apply digitized data in research at iDigBio.org,' and a QR code linking to iDigBio.org.
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#botany2025 if you don’t feel like paying $20 plus tip for an uber to the hotel, the no. 4 bus runs once an hour from in front of the airport and can take you there for $1 cash

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My Location
View details about My Location in Palm Springs, CA United States on Apple Maps. Address, driving directions, images, nearby attractions and more.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🌿 Calling all Botanists of Color to join the: BIPOC MIXER 2025!

Open to all BIPOC-identifying conference attendees of Botany 2025.

📅 Monday, 9–10 AM
📍 Chino AB

Let’s meet and mingle with other plant scientists! We hope to see you there! 💚

#Botany2025 #BIPOCMixer2025
Flyer for the “BIPOC Mixer 2025” with a headline that reads: “Calling all Botanists of Color to join the: BIPOC MIXER 2025.” Below is a group photo of smiling attendees from the BIPOC Mixer 2024, standing together in a conference hallway. Above the photo, the text reads: “Open to all BIPOC-identifying conference attendees. Meet and mingle with other plant scientists!” At the bottom, the meeting time and location are highlighted: “Meeting Time & Location: Monday from 9–10 AM, Chino AB.” Decorative green leaves and brown branches frame the flyer.
July 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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hadley.nz
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
ellmer 0.3.0
The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.
www.tidyverse.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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jesusgm.bsky.social
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com
Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
www.martinezgomezlab.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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mossmatters.bsky.social
Y’all, big news, I found out where they’re keeping them all
Green road sign on the highway that says: Grants City Limit Elev 6470
July 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
joelnitta.com
Wondering if there might be any other fellow crossover plant / #MTG nerds who would want to play a game of commander at #botany2025... 🤓 🎲 🌱 let me know if so!
July 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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clauswilke.com
A simple rule for better public speaking: If you’re using slides that contain text, you must read it out, word-for-word.

clauswilke.substack.com/p/read-out-a...
Read out all of the text on your slides
I have a simple rule for better public speaking: If you’re using slides that contain text, you must read it out, word-for-word.
clauswilke.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM