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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Apr 24

{prismatic} has a `best_contrast()` function that should do the trick emilhvitfeldt.github.io/prismatic/re...

Find highest contrast color — best_contrast

best_contrast() finds the color in y with the highest contrast to the color x.

emilhvitfeldt.github.io

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Tom Cameron @ecoevoenviro.bsky.social · Apr 22

PhD AVAILABLE on #Wildlife #harvest and #management policy in the UK - studentship only for Home/UK resident status candidates - Life and social sciences collaboration - deadline 28th May 2025 - get in touch #birds #people #policy
tinyurl.com/3vxkzad9

PhD Studentship: Transitions to Sustainable Wildlife Harvest: Evidence Based Management and The Social Licence to Hunt at University of Essex

jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Transitions to Sustainable Wildlife Harvest: Evidence Based Management and The Social Licence to Hunt. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac....

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Apr 22

Interested in this as a way to extend my R / RShiny skills beyond the academic realm of ecology. I can't DM you but will check back for further updates!

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Apr 18

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

# unz() lets you connect to a .zip and treat it like a mini file system,
# and you can load files from inside it
one_zipped_csv_among_others <- readr::read_csv(
unz("lotsa_zipped_csvs.zip"), "one_csv.csv"
)

# readr::read_csv() can read a .zip with a single CSV in it
one_zipped_csv <- readr::read_csv("big_zipped_file.zip")

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · Apr 16

New visualization tool alert!

The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.

It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().

- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr

#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Apr 17

Join @davidolusoga.bsky.social and Philip Leverhulme Prize winner @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social in conversation this June as they explore the themes of Qureshi’s powerful new book, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction.

Buy your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...

Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction

Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Angela Chuang @arachnonaut.bsky.social · Apr 10

Had a lot of fun reviewing the #boardgame #Finspan w/
@oschwery.bsky.social for @nature.com!

This fish-themed game harnesses some of my favorite aspects of #Wingspan, blending stunning art & trophic ecology with fast-paced play.

rdcu.be/eg2Dx

#Finspan by @stonemaiergames.com

The cover of a board game review in the "Books and Arts" section of the science journal, Nature. The page is mostly taken up by a large color photo of the game board, which features detailed pictures of fish cards. The title of the review is "This board game lets you dip into marine ecology".

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Mar 20

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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Tamlin Pavelsky @globalhydro.bsky.social · Mar 19

Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Map of global lake distribution, colored by the number of SWOT overpasses per 21 day cycle. There are many lakes with a high number of SWOT overpasses at high northern latitudes, but there are also tens of thousands to more than a million lakes on every continent. Lakes are graphed by latitude and longitude on the edges of the figure.

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Chris Hassall @katatrepsis.bsky.social · Mar 18

🔎 🌍 🧪 How reliable are biodiversity trend assessments? A new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by the amazing @wilkesma.bsky.social, reveals hidden sources of uncertainty in monitoring data and modeling choices that can dramatically alter conservation conclusions… (1/5)
🔗 bit.ly/4ibhAgq

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Mar 11

📢 Biodiversity scientists 📢 Ever wondered how the decisions we make during biodiversity trend assessment affects reported trends? Our new @ecography.bsky.social paper shows how we can mitigate biases and be more transparent about trend uncertainty nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Revealing hidden sources of uncertainty in biodiversity trend assessments

Idiosyncratic decisions during the biodiversity trend assessment process may limit reproducibility, whilst ‘hidden' uncertainty due to collection bias, taxonomic incompleteness, and variable taxonomi...

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Feb 3

More opportunities for postgraduateresearch via the @leverhulme.bsky.social #SustainableTransitions programme at University of Essex. Fully funded MSc followed by a PhD. Open to UK students meeting specific eligibility criteria. Closing 18 April. See www.essex.ac.uk/scholarships... for more details

Sustainable Transitions Masters plus PhD | University of Essex

The University of Essex is offering three Masters plus PhD research scholarships on our Sustainable Transitions doctoral training programme for Home / UK applicants from underrepresented groups.

www.essex.ac.uk

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Jan 26

Just two weeks left apply for these opportunities for unique interdisciplinary PhD research on #biodiversity funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social. Apply by 7th February!

Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Nov 25

Two unique opportunities for fully funded interdisciplinary PhD research on #biodiversity #conservation
@Uni_of_Essex, blending #ecology with #sociology and #business as part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Sustainable Transitions programme

jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT611/p...

jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT503/p...

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 9

Messing around with shinylive. For real, how are people not freaking out?!!

Zero hosting costs, no online requirements, no installation required, nothing not a damn thing.

#rstats #databs

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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · Dec 14

I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Dec 17

Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question

🧪🌐🍁

shorturl.at/VYP8f

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Dec 15

By predicting the extent of invasion in the absence of timely interventions, the authors found that management measures were effective in limiting the spread of the yellow-legged hornet in Europe. #bioinvasions
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Predicting the spatio‐temporal dynamics of biological invasions: Have rapid responses in Europe limited the spread of the yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)?

By predicting the extent of a biological invasion in the absence of timely interventions and comparing this to the current distribution of the yellow-legged hornet, we found that management measures ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · Dec 10

Stunning free #science vector art for your next poster, paper or talk 🤩

The #NIH has compiled over 2,000 illustrations including swatches and pattern brushes

bioart.niaid.nih.gov

#rstats #dataviz #phd #illustration

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Dec 9

How do you "become" a boomer. Asking for a friend who wants significantly cheaper housing relative to income 😂

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Tom Prater @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org · Dec 9

This ridgeline plot and the unconventional use of shading from white to blue to indicate sea ice loss is great. It also reinforces the impression of a dense ice pack breaking up.

Chart by @janatausch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/63fb... #dataviz

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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · Dec 7

Could I be added please?

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Dec 3

Exotic plants are better at hitchhiking upslope 🏔 than natives ⬇️ A very important result which supports former findings on exotic plants shifting and expanding their elevation ranges upslope at a rapid pace #RangeX #BioShifts 🧪🌐🌏🍁

shorturl.at/h846l

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Dec 4

Happy to share a new paper—led by Justin Baldwin—exploring how avian dispersal ability shapes species-area relationships on islands worldwide 🐦‍⬛ 🏝️ 🌐 (1/2)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Avian Dispersal Ability Shapes Species–Area Relationships on Islands Worldwide

We show how variation in dispersal ability in island birds worldwide explains variation in a canonical biodiversity pattern—the island species–area relationship (ISAR). Dispersal had scale-dependent ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · Dec 4

Celebrating @altmetric.com with this repost!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Islands harbor 1/3 of the world’s #plant species, including 63,280 endemics—making them #biodiversity hotspots. Yet, only 6% meet global #conservation goals.
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
#nature #science #research

Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism - Nature

A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve ...

www.nature.com

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