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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 14h

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6th VCWAP - Association for early-career Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 21h

Registration & submissions are now open for the 6th VCWAP 👇

General Information Call For Abstracts Registration Programme Committees Code of Conduct What Is The VCWAP The Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists (VCWAP) is back for its sixth edition! During these three days, we will be shining a spotlight on early-career women researchers and women paleoartists, by presenting their work. We want to emphasize that everyone, […]

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

🗺️ En este curso, aprendemos a crear mapas y a realizar operaciones espaciales en SIG con R, ampliando las herramientas para explorar patrones ecológicos y ambientales.

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Mapas y operaciones espaciales (SIG) con R

Aprende a utilizar R para análisis espaciales y cartografía en nuestro curso ONLINE de Transmitting Science.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

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Mapas y operaciones espaciales (SIG) con R

📅 20–24 de octubre de 2025
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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody reads everything. The goal is building a system that surfaces what matters for your specific work while accepting you'll miss some papers.

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

🟢 Use AI tools cautiously
Platforms like Semantic Scholar, ResearchRabbit, and Connected Papers can surface relevant work you'd otherwise miss. They're useful for mapping research networks and finding connections between papers. But they're not perfect, check their outputs!

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

🟢 Follow researchers, not just papers
Professional networks like ResearchGate and LinkedIn let you track what specific scientists are publishing. The catch: set time limits. Social media can eat hours without adding much value to your research.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 1d

Drowning in papers? Here's how researchers actually find what they need

Over 3 million scientific papers get published every year. Nobody can keep up with that, so here's what a PhD student, mid-career researcher, and senior group leader actually do to stay current

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 2d

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 2d

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New version of phytools on CRAN

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 2d

New phytools 2.5-2 on CRAN!
Latest version adds new models, simulation tools, and plotting capabilities for comparative biology.
Essential package for paleobiologists and evolutionary biologists working with phylogenetic data

This past weekend I was able to get a new version of phytools on CRAN ( phytools 2.5-2). This new phytools version incl...

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

🍂 As the days grow shorter, many of us rediscover the quiet joy of reading, analysing, or writing with a warm drink at hand.

What tasks do you enjoy most in this reflective time of year?

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

We're walking around with DNA from people we only discovered 15 years ago. Makes you wonder what other ancient relatives are waiting to be found.

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

Denisovans weren't just survivors - they were master adapters. They lived everywhere from freezing Siberian caves to high-altitude Tibet. Modern Tibetans even inherited Denisovan genes that help them breathe thin air.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

The evidence kept turning up in unexpected places. A skull hidden in a Chinese well since the 1930s. A jawbone dredged from the ocean floor. DNA preserved in cave sediments on the Tibetan plateau.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the wild part: these people vanished from the fossil record, but their DNA lives on in us. Pacific Islanders carry 4-6% Denisovan DNA, meaning these ancient humans once lived across thousands of kilometers.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 5d

A finger bone hidden for 80 years just rewrote human history

In 2008, scientists analyzed a tiny finger bone from Siberia and discovered DNA from an entirely unknown group of ancient humans - the Denisovans.

Explore the GGPLOT course and learn to create professional graphics with ggplot2 through hands-on class exercises and guidance.

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 6d

📊 Together, we learn to create clear, elegant and informative graphs in R using ggplot, bringing data to life through visualisation.

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Graphs with R’s ggplot

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Last call!
Graphs with R’s ggplot

📅 October 15th–17th, 2025
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June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 6d

Top 40 new CRAN packages
Covering AI, Machine Learning, Epidemiology, and more. Tools like statlingua and vitals expanding R's capabilities for data science applications.

An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN: here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-one categories: AI, Chess, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Lingusitics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Music Theory, Networks, Programming, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 7d

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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 7d

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Making the Most of Bird Sounds

Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 7d

Free Bioacoustics Webinar
It will cover planning and analyzing bird surveys with bioacoustics.
Perfect for ecologists looking to integrate bioacoustics into their monitoring toolkit

Learn how to plan, analyse, and report high-quality bird surveys using sound monitoring in this ecoTECH webinar with Wilder Sensing.

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