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Amplify Research Fellow at University of Queensland. Using #forecasting in #rstats to understand ecological responses to change. Author of the {mvgam} R 📦 for Bayesian multivariate modeling. Blog 💬: https://ecogambler.netlify.app/ Views are my own

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Research opportunities | GAMbler

If you are interested in joining my research group, or for any other enquiries, please contact me. You can find my most up-to-date contact details on my [University of Queensland page](https://about.u...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15h

My colleagues and I here at UVA are looking to hire a skilled #Rstats developer. You'll be working with me on the project. Here's the posting: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at Univers...

Apply for Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Man...

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · Jul 9

📢 Course alert!
Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) in R with @gsimpson.bsky.social
📅 8–11 Dec (Online)
Learn how to model complex relationships using GAMs, splines & more with mgcv and gratia.
Details & registration 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #DataScience #GAMs #Statistics

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cascadiarconf.bsky.social @cascadiarconf.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨

Cascadia R Conference kicks off this Friday in Portland!

Amazing talks, hands-on workshops, and a community that loves R as much as you do.

🗓️ June 20–21
📍 Portland, Oregon
🔗 cascadiarconf.org

Who’s ready?! #RStats #DataScience

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Jun 17

3 days left until this workshop!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Jun 14

❗️Our next workshop will be on June 20th, 6 pm CEST, on Building fully reproducible DS env for R and #Python with Nix, rix, rixpress by
@brodriguesco.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 4

I feel seen

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Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social · Jun 3

Does anyone have an accessible guide for best practices in presenting DAGs and associated regression estimates in a paper?

This is for a student thesis project (and, frankly, for myself, as I have done it admittedly ad hoc, although no reviewers have so far complained.)

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · Jun 3

I can’t make it but this looks good!

Ottawa Science Policy Network @ottawascipolnet.bsky.social · Jun 2

🌱 What does climate policy look like through a science lens?

Join us for our final SCIPOL102 session featuring Dr. Mary Trudeau.

🗓️ June 4 | ⏰ 2:30–3:30 PM ET
📍 In-person: FSS 4006, uOttawa
💻 or join us via Zoom!

🔗 forms.gle/96ShoySBBUah...
#SciPol #ClimateAction #OSPN #SciencePolicy #uOttawa

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Mar 4

1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

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Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · May 29

New day, new blog. This week I talk about why Functional programming matters and how to adopt it.

#rstats #python

open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...

Why You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)

A History Lesson and Practical Introduction to Core Tenets of Functional Programming

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · May 31

If you are not personally interested in attending this workshop, you can also sponsor participation of a student!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · May 30

❗️Our next workshop will be on June 5th, 6 pm CEST, on Shinyscholar – a template for producing reproducible analytic apps in R by @simonsmart.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
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#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · May 30

Coming up soon (June 16-18)! ... calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app taught by excellent ecological statisticians (and great people) Stacy de Ruiter (Calvin College) and Leslie New (Ursinus College)

2025 Applied Regression Workshop

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · May 29

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities.
Effective immediately, the following are terminated:
NSF AWARD ID:
2120496
NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.
Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date.
Sincerely,
Jamie H. French, Division Director
Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA) Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · May 29

A nice tutorial on distributed lag models using #rstats 📦 {mgcv}. But if you want to fit these to time series you might want to consider the {mvgam} 📦 instead ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/distrib...

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · May 29

Next person to ask me why I use #Rstats and not python has to start using Power Point for their data science work.

youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8

On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)

YouTube video by Tom Wildenhain

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The Random Sample @therandomsample.bsky.social · May 28

📢Just out! Our latest episode🎧dives into the design & development of the tools that have transformed #DataScience & statistical programming - with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz. Hadley is the Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio). To listen, search your pod app for The Random Sample. #rstats

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AUSSDA @aussda.bsky.social · May 28

Join our next #Infra4NextGen webinar to improve your #DataAnalysis workflows and learn how to create a reproducible environment for your #RStats projects! #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch
🕙 Tue, 3rd June, 10:00 am
👉 Register here: infra4nextgen.com/events/webin...

Webinar: Reproducible workflows in R | Infra4NextGen

This webinar offers an introduction to efficient, seamless and reproducible data analysis.

infra4nextgen.com

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Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · May 26

Next week!

Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · May 8

My @imperial-ix.bsky.social talk earlier this week was plagued by some technical issues that make the remote viewing experience unpleasant. In an effort to compensate I'm going to give the talk again when I get home, and this time anyone can join. For details see www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

Generative Modeling Talk Livestream: Wed 6/4 at 9:00 AM EDT | Michael Betancourt

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · May 18

A wonderful reflection by Andrea Gomez Vargas on her experience of the @ropensci.org Champions program, and making Argentine census data standardized and accessible along the way ropensci.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats

(Y en Espanõl! ropensci.org/es/blog/2025... #rstatsES)

Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion

Developing the ARcenso package with rOpenSci and presenting it to R communities

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Research opportunities | GAMbler

ecogambler.netlify.app

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · May 14

Want to move beyond simple forecasting algorithms for modelling real world time series? The {mvgam} #rstats 📦 has you covered nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · May 1

Has anybody used marginaleffects to display the effects of cumulative ordinal models? I'd love to hear how you went about it. Sometimes I feel that interpreting coefficients from such models is still more informative than calculating a e.g. contrasts. #statssky #rstats

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Apr 13

Does Matlab have any decent support for non-Gaussian series, such as proportional or overdispersed non-negative data? There is almost nothing that I'm aware of for #rstats

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 11

#rstats folks: Anyone have an example of making text labels like the ones @thomasp85.com uses for ggforce::geom_mark_* functions, but for individual points, not groups? I want this angled-line-to-underline aesthetic for ggrepel'd text labels of points:

Screenshot of documentation from ggforce::geom_mark_hull, which shows groups of points outlined with text labels that have a style where the line from the hull to the label angles and becomes the underline of the label.

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Apr 8

I have one in the {mvgam} 📦 that gives a referenced methods scaffold for the models that it fits: nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/refere.... Very supportive of this idea so please let me know if you come up with more useful solutions

Generate a methods description for mvgam models — how_to_cite.mvgam

Create a brief but fully referenced methods description, along with a useful list of references, for fitted mvgam and jsdgam models

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Apr 4

Great thanks for the helpful tips! I think this is getting there now :)

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