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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · 11d

Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 25d

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m not travelling until 2026, so if that topic sounds interesting and you’re based in Northern Europe, please feel free to reach out!

Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025 #ChurchillFellow, to find ways to improve data quality at ALA & GBIF

www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...

To investigate global-scale solutions in biodiversity informatics - Churchill Trust

To investigate global-scale solutions in biodiversity informatics - Public Service — Federal, State and Local governments and authorities

www.churchilltrust.com.au

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Sep 9

If you like #DataViz or a curious about it, come on September 29 for a one-two punch of hands-on tutorials and and stick around for Nicola Rennie's talk on building effective data visualisations the next day.

See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space

#OpenSource #RStats

WOMBAT 2025 - Tutorial

Dianne Cook & Harriet Mason - Visualising Unvertainty

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.space

WOMBAT 2025 - Tutorial

Jess Hopf - Building better figures: a scientific graphic design workshop

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.space

WOMBAT 2025 - Keynote

Nicola Rennie - Designing for decision-making: how to build effective data visualisations.

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.space

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 28

You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚

Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!

wombat2025.numbat.space

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’ll be at day 2 of this, along with @daxkellie.bsky.social and @shandiya.bsky.social; very excited to hear from these speakers!

Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com · Aug 27

Early bird registration for #WOMBAT2025 ends this week! WOMBAT is a data analytics workshop in Melbourne featuring the latest open source software.

📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event)
📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia
wombat2025.numbat.space

WOMBAT 2025

The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.

wombat2025.numbat.space

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Ian Brennan @brennian.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨

Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.

Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm

What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!

Let me explain ...

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 20

Lovely event to mark the end of #ICCB2025 last night, congrats to the organisers for a fantastic conference!

Whale sculptures at the Queensland Museum

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Read the paper here:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ditto for duplication, lovely visualisations here 😍

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Very cool dataset-level summaries of major quality issues

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 18

@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025

jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

This sounds pretty cool - the ability to programmatically download any dataset from a DOI is a great feature, and super important for reproducibility.

{galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly

galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...

GBIF @gbif.org · Jun 16

⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!

Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.

Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

I only saw one, but I had to leave before the Q&A unfortunately 🥲

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wasn’t it?! So many cool insights. For me the opening talk was closest to my everyday work, though seen in a fresh light; but all the talks were neat

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ummm, from the GBIF annual meeting perhaps? It was circular, so I had to cut it down to size to match the others 🤣✂️

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thanks to everyone who shared #rstats hex stickers so far at #ICCB2025! Some very cool projects represented here…

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Iadine Chades introducing the new Environmental Informatics Hub at Monash University #ICCB2025

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025

milliechapman.info

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Darryl discussing future of occupancy-based methods

Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

‘A curious elephant is very destructive’ - Matt Luskin on the risks of camera trapping in the tropics lol

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Courtney sharing lessons from eBird for newer observatories - keep in touch with your users and ‘don’t fret’!

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