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Wildlife Conservation and Site Protection Analyst; Technology Council member of SMART Partnership; Associate Editor Herpetology Notes; R programming instructor Ecology in R Online course; IUCN SSC PSG and SCSG

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Nov 29

Excited to announce the release of our latest paper in Scientific Reports: "Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones."

Read the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the dashboard:
rpubs.com/Russell_Gray...

#Drones #Primates

Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones

www.nature.com

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Mar 16

Collapse the function sections as you move along and just add headers to describe what they do. Usually help me a lot.

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Mar 12

‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07614 #Rstats #free #software #ClimateChange

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · Mar 13

The {grafify} #RStats 📦 aims to make it easier for R users to:
* "plot great-looking graphs with few lines of code while exploring data"
* "apply colour blind-friendly palettes to graphs plotted with grafify or ggplot2"
& more. By @avishenoy.bsky.social
grafify.shenoylab.com
#DataViz

Color samples for 17 different color-blind-safe palettes

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Mar 16

Any ETA on the release?

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Mar 11

It's not quite ready for release yet, but side-by-side synced maps are coming soon to an upcoming release of the {mapgl} #rstats package.

You'll be able to create maps like this in just a couple lines of R code...

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Jeff Walker @walkerenvres.bsky.social · Mar 13

Honestly not sure how I ever survived without the {targets} #rstats package. Trying to do this with just plain old R scripts would be completely bonkers 😵‍💫

A huge dependency diagram with hundreds of nodes and edges generated by the targets R package

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Nov 29

Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones

www.nature.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 29

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

January 29, 2025
M-25-14
MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me
SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13
OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the
President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Jan 8

wdpar was also first released in 2019 on CRAN

RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Jan 7

What is the difference between this package and the previously existing wdpar package?

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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · Jan 1

Finally, a shout-out to @drxeo.eu, whose climate circles inspired me (see dominicroye.github.io/en/2021/clim...) and to the maintainers of the fitbitr-package (github.com/mrkaye97/fit...), that makes loading Fitbit data into R super easy.

Climate circles | Dr. Dominic Royé

The climate of a place is usually presented through climographs that combine monthly precipitation and temperature in a single chart. However, it is also interesting to visualize the climate on a dail...

dominicroye.github.io

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · Dec 21

Just published in JOSS: 'gratia: An R package for exploring generalized additive models' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06962

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Dec 25

For years, I've wanted to create an #rstats package bringing the power of Mapbox to R users.

After a few failed attempts, I finally got {mapgl} over the finish line in 2024 (with some help from #GenAI).

Get started with an interactive globe in one line of R code, and build from there!

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · Dec 25

tidyplots is an R package to generate publication-ready plots for scientific papers tidyplots.org/ #rstats

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Dec 19

🌿 Resource for Emerging Conservationists and Environmental Professionals 🌿
I'm excited to share a curated list of online conservation and environmental management training courses and certificate programs! 🌍
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Online Conservation Training List

docs.google.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 19

Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online?

I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎

www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...

The IUCN Red List categories and criteria

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Dec 12

Candidate for most impactful use of local LLMs in an R environment. The lang #Rstats package overrides the `?` help function in R, translating help pages into your system's language, ie from Sys.getenv("LANG"). Also translates your roxygen docs. https://github.com/mlverse/lang 🌎🌍🌏

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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · Dec 15

#Biostatistics R package: interactive learnr tutorials on statistics ranging from frequency distributions to model selection. Videos, text explanations, quizzes and coding exercises. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Biostatistics vignette

cran.r-project.org

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · Dec 13

Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !!

by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪🌐🌍

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Dec 8

📖Published📖

In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇

https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Dec 17

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Dec 1

Our JSS article is out!

And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.

www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Dec 12

As if humans were not part of the natural world? Have we forgotten that we are just one species among many? 🤔 The fate of biodiversity is now so tied up with humanity that it feels more like biodiversity is among us than we are among biodiversity. 🙃

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Dec 11

"It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge and understanding of the Earth, as well as the animal—human connections within it"

We'd add climate and social dynamics, too. 🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS

“One Health” needs ecology

www.pnas.org

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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Dec 5

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds

Link to paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...