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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 9h

On the edge of my seat here to see what happens next!

tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted with my past self for pre-ordering this beautiful book from @stevehaddock.bsky.social, then promptly forgetting about it, so that its arrival yesterday was a lovely surprise!

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7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity @wcmb2026.bsky.social · 10d

Abstract submissions for @wcmb2026.bsky.social are now OPEN!

Want to contribute your ideas, research, and insights? Start preparing your abstract today!

Details: www.wcmb2026.org/call-abstracts

@unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I'm surprised how small and furry they used to be (assuming the thumbnail is an accurate reconstruction?)

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 3d

(label_wrap was new to me too!)

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for sharing! A related thing I recently discovered is using free() in patchwork if you use the switch-x-and-y-axes technique and don't want subsequent plots you're assembling to leave a massive white space where the long axis labels are - see patchwork.data-imaginist.com/reference/fr...

Free a plot from various alignments — free

While the purpose of patchwork is often to align plots by their various parts, sometimes this doesn't cut it and we want to compose plots without alignment. The free() function tells patchwork to trea...

patchwork.data-imaginist.com

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 3d

OMG I have this problem All. The. Time. A great post outlining useful strategies. Did not know about label_wrap either! OOOO!

IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 3d

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Quick and easy ways to deal with long labels in ggplot2 | Andrew Heiss

Explore different manual and automatic ways to rotate, dodge, recode, break up, and otherwise deal with long axis labels with ggplot2

www.andrewheiss.com

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 3d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 3d

Periodic reminder of the magic of apache arrow / parquet:

arrow::write_parquet(`5.7M row x 10 col dataframe`,
sink = here::here("data",
"somehow only a 10MB file.parquet"),
compression = "gzip")

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 4d

2025 mood

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 4d

Watching this live I said 'I'm sure that's been shown to be untrue' - another illustration of how following @fullfact.org on here can win you the admiration and respect of your family and friends…

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 4d

An episode of Have I Got News for You was briefly removed from BBC iPlayer over the weekend after it contained a factual error about digital ID cards—a claim we'd already fact checked.

It’s a clear reminder of why fact checking matters.

BBC’s Have I Got News for You error shows why fact checking matters – Full Fact

Over the weekend, an episode of Have I Got News for You was temporarily removed from BBC iPlayer after presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell made a factual error...

fullfact.org

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck! I was gutted that I was unable to meet our internal deadline, although on the plus side it got me out of writing one…

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting long read about the deep hole we’re in. All we have to do now is dig up.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 9d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 9d

Yes I think a few links are dead - e.g. Sean Anderson's really useful post on gamma glms does not seem to exist any more (at least not where it is linked). Still a useful starting point though!

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 9d

I do of course have 'spare rough code.R' or similar inside every project. But I take it one step further and have a dedicated r-doodling.RProj for stuff where I'm not even sure yet what project it fits into…

Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 10d

Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true:
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."

You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats

Screenshot of the top corner of the Positron IDE with three files open and their tabs are named "todo," "violence.qmd," and "play.R." The third one is circled with a pink line.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 9d

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 9d

Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems

Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...

journals.plos.org

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 9d

Useful overview of R packages / functions for modelling different kinds of response variables (continuous, proportional, counts, bounded, zero-inflated, etc.) in a regression framework, with mixed models and Bayesian options too: strengejacke.github.io/regressionmo...

Overview of R Modelling Packages

Overview of modelling strategies and packages. Which model do I need for my data?

strengejacke.github.io

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 10d

My son and I bond over Brooklyn 99. He's been a bit unwell, and I've been channeling Captain Holt in my messages. It comes surprisingly easily to me.

tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 10d

Hmm. On reflection you're right - we perhaps don't want to go too far down this route…

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Alec BM Moore @alecbmmoore.bsky.social · 10d

www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies/pd...

PDRA in Marine Mammal Ecology (D10/25.DR) — Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban UK

SAMS is the UK's oldest independent marine science organisation delivering research, education and enterprise for a sustainable marine environment - The Scottish Association for Marine Science

www.sams.ac.uk

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 10d

You're doing it down. It's also very useful when you have to write something that you know no-one is ever going to read.

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 10d

Really interesting paper. And, as an aside - quite pleasing to see birds chucked into an 'other vertebrates' category, for a change…

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13d

Genomic divergence across the tree of life 🧪🌐https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319389122

Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS

Nucleotide sequence data are being harnessed to identify species, even in cases in which organisms themselves are neither in hand nor witnessed. Bu...

www.pnas.org

tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 10d

Just uploaded my talk - really looking forward to this conference!

GBIF @gbif.org · 10d

⏰ 3 weeks to go until #LivingData2025!

The presentation deadline has been extended to 14 October 🎉

👉If you're a presenter, check inbox for further instructions! ✉️

See you in Bogotá or online! 🌍✨

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

Purple graphic with white text reading presenter deadline 14 october

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