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Joel Nitta

@joelnitta.com

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Associate Prof. at Chiba University, Japan. Father. Pteridologist. Outdoor Activist. Nikkei Yonsei. Posts mine. https://www.joelnitta.com

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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 💚

go.bsky.app/UqHk9kT

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 3d

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

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 5d

🎉🆕📰🎉: Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Sep 6

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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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 30

I’m sure they will appreciate it!

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · Jul 27

🚀 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

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Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social · Jul 27

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!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 26

#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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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jul 25

🌿 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.

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jul 25

🐘 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

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 25

Haha thanks 😄

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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 25

Talk 3 is currently loading… 🤪 (I don’t recommend 3!)

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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 25

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!

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 23

Omg one of the formative books of my life

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Jul 20

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

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 20

Thanks!

Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 20

Thanks for putting this together! Am attending and would like to be added 🙏 🌿

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · Jul 18

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: Share it
Step 3: Spend 2 hours helping someone install R and troubleshoot their environment

OR

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: webR sharelink

webr.r-wasm.org/latest/?mode...

Step 3: Profit ✨

#rstats #webr

Screenshot showing Firefox browser displaying a webR REPL interface in the foreground, with an RStudio session visible in the background. The webR interface shows decoded R files (main.R, functions.R, config.R, sample_data.csv) that were embedded in a shareable URL. The RStudio console in the background displays the encoded webR sharelink URL that packages all the local files. On the right side, R documentation is open showing help for the 'Create WebR REPL sharelink for multiple files' function. This demonstrates the workflow of encoding local R project files into a URL that can be shared and automatically reconstructed in a browser-based R environment.

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 18

The AI didn’t immediately give you the perfect answer?

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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · Jul 18

My fav in this vein (markdown, lives in VS code) is dendron. Very unfortunately the project is no longer under active development. But it’s great at what it does.

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Yorgos @gd047.bsky.social · Jul 16

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-a...
#rstats

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R

Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demonstration: using agent mode to create an R package with Roxygen2 docs and testthat unit tests.

blog.stephenturner.us

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