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SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 28

You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚

Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!

wombat2025.numbat.space

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BirdLife Australia @birdlifeoz.bsky.social · Aug 12

It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦

Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike

🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au

#BirdLifeAustralia #Birds

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 11

🕰️ Take the time to come to this tutorial by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild. Use the tidyverse to manipulate time series data and fable to create models in a timely fashion. Don't be late! Early bird discount ends 31st of August! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto...
#DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #RStats

WOMBAT 2025 - Tutorial

Mitchell O’Hara-Wild - Tidy time series analysis and forecasting

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.spacea

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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away!

Speakers and full program have been announced 👇

Details:
🐛 Free (Registration necessary)
⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025
🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw

Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social

#ecology #conservation #forum

Hosted by Holly Kirk, Speakers include Dr Eric Nordberg & Dr Kit Pendergast

Speakers include Darcy Watchorn, Dr Michelle Wille, Paul Williams

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · Apr 18

Dotplots

With good defaulta it beats the obvious alternatives, scales better than people think (like 10000+ data points) and isn't as sensitive to binwidth or bandwidth estimators

Density? Nope dotplot
Histogram? Nope dotplot
Violin? Nope dotplot

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Apr 17

what's in your view the best data-visualization technique/type of plot/chart? in terms of concisely conveying information effectively and aiding substantive understanding. obviously depends hugely the use case, etc. but if you had to pick one in a vacuum?

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Aug 9

A lot of people are asking what they can do as individuals. Providing financial assistance directly to Palestinians, no matter how little, is one way to help and keep hope alive
chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · Aug 6

On July 31st Israeli settlers demolished the Palestinian National Seed bank in Hebron.

It housed precious heirloom seeds, protecting local crops from loss & extinction, offered tech support to farmers & supported food security for the Palestinian people.

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks!

Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jul 29

Code: github.com/AtlasOfLivin...

science/comms/2025-07-31_national_tree_day at main · AtlasOfLivingAustralia/science

Repo for code produced by the ALA Science & Decision Support Team - AtlasOfLivingAustralia/science

github.com

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s National Tree Day!* 🌴🌳🌲📊

I visualised patterns of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years as tree rings for 4 iconic Australian species: Mountain Ash, Snow Gum, Moreton Bay Fig, and River Red Gum
#rstats

*well, two days ago but who’s counting

A two-by-two grid with concentric circles of different colours and thicknesses in each, representing numbers of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years. The rings resemble cross sections of trees, and each is set against a different brightly coloured background.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 14

After decades of advocacy, Murujuga has finally been recognised under UNESCO World Heritage status -

A powerful win for Raelene Cooper and the Ngarda Ngarli Peoples who fought relentlessly to protect their Country.

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National Indigenous Times 🤖 (unofficial) @nit-bot.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Federal Court will deliver its long-awaited decision on the Torres Strait climate case this Tuesday afternoon in Cairns.

Decision due on Torres Strait Island climate case

The Federal Court will deliver its long-awaited decision on the Torres Strait climate case this Tuesday afternoon in Cairns.

nit.com.au

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Jun 22

It's #WorldRainforestDay! 🌴

Australia's Gondwana Rainforests hold examples of major evolutionary & geological stages dating ~359 mya, including the largest surviving population of Araucarians (the most phylogenetically primitive species of conifer) 👴

Code & high-res 📷 👇

#rstats #dataviz 📊🧪🌏🌳

A visual snapshot of Gondwana Rainforests’ biodiversity. The visual has a green background. On the left is a map of east Australia, showing the location of Gondwana Rainforests in upper NSW, lower QLD (highlighted in red/orange). On the right is a bubble chart showing images of the most observed species in that area of bird, mammal/marsupial, plant, invertebrate and fungus. The images are ordered by the number of observations they have

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Emily McLeod 🍉 @emilymmcl.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wonderful to share our research at #ICCB2025 showing how promoting captive animal experiences that prioritise animal agency can increase participation intent and positive attitudes towards the venue.

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Society for Conservation Biology Oceania @scboceania.org · Jun 19

If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ!

#NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025

confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is an excellent visual for how bad the North West Shelf extension is
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project

The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries

www.theguardian.com

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Jun 17

There's a uni survey happening regarding birdwatching.
If you go birding at the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary, researchers would love your help.
They are specifically interested in the Parham, Webb Beach, Thompson Beach & Port Prime areas.
To participate, go to: tinyurl.com/aibs2024survey

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 17

Anthony Richardson talks through Shinyplanr, a shiny app for accelerating development of conservation plans by lowering barriers for stakeholders to engage in realtime
#iccb2025 #rstats

Slide describing Shinyplanr, a shiny app for facilitating real time engagement by stakeholders

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 17

Konstantina Spiliopoulou describes the nuances involved in identifying key biodiversity areas using Greece as a case study and introduces KBAscope, an R package for identifying KBAs
#iccb2025 #rstats

Slide showing information about KBAscope, an R package for identifying KBAs

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 17

Robyn James from The Nature Conservancy discusses how our interactions with natural resources are not gender-neutral: capitalist-based conservation systems primarily benefit men, which can lead to inequity in programs and policy
#ICCB2025

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 16

CSIRO principles guiding research and engagement with Indigenous folks in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands #iccb2025

Slide showing 4 CSIRO principles around engaging in research with Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 16

Louisa Warren from CSIRO gives practical guidance around working with Indigenous communities and acknowledging the rights of Indigenous peoples #iccb2025

Slide describing what is Indigenous research

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · Jun 16

Salanieta Kitolelei giving a fascinating talk on traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness in Fijian communities in the context of evaluating climate-resilience attributes #ICCB2025

A slide with examples of ecological knowledge and disaster preparedness among communities in Fiji. The speaker is in the foreground

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