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Collin Schwantes

@collin-schwantes.bsky.social
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Statehood for dc Mostly on: fosstodon.org/@collinschwantes Open science, OSS, R, FAIR, Ecology

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
{surreal} 0.0.3 is on CRAN, just in time for jack-o'-lantern season, my favorite time to use this trick back when I was teaching. It hides a picture in a dataset, and the residual plot of a linear model brings it back. YT: youtu.be/JJtKLPDNoMo blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/software-rel... #rstats
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Hide a Message in a Dataset with surreal, an R Package
YouTube video by TheCoatlessProfessor
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hello, since Redbubble did me dirty (suspension without explanation while owing me money) let's experiment a little bit! If I've known you long enough not to abuse my work and you want a print/sticker/whatever from me, pay me what you want, I'll give you high resolution files. Try me! #Art #SciArt
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⏰ Only a week left until this year’s SORTEE conference ✍️ Register today! For all the details, go to sortee.org/upcoming/ See you on Tuesday next week!
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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...
ecologists in the field
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Currently compiling a database of vector competence papers and am having a lot of success finding papers with openalex.org whenever PubMed is a dead end.
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#biodiversity #genomics #course #training DNA Barcode & Genomic (Meta)data Publishing in Journal Articles biodiversitygenomics.eu/training/dna...
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DNA Barcode & Genomic (Meta)data Publishing in Journal Articles - BGE+
Turning DNA-based biodiversity outputs into citable, peer-reviewed, FAIR publications
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GBIF @gbif.org · 01/10/2026
📣 Remote contractor wanted! We're on the hunt for an expert on molecular OTU clustering and target-gene classification services as part of the GBIF SPLICE project🧬 📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026 ⌚ 12 month contract 🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...
Photo of a dumbo octopus with the text remote contractor in white text overlaid
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Issue 64 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Applied Data Skills @psyteachr.bsky.social ➡️ Excel Now Supports Multiple Values in a Single Cell ➡️ NIH Details $170 Million Biomedical Research Reproducibility Effort @science.org and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 064
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look out little chick!
figure from A minimum data standard for vector competence experiments showing a chick being bitten by a mosquito. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01741-4
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
23 subscribers away from 1k! Help #rdmweekly meet that milestone! 🎉 rdmweekly.substack.com
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James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI: Getting more and more advanced, things progressing quickly Me helping researchers: Let's talk about the benefits of documenting any work that you do, or naming things so that you understand them later.
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The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting
ALT: The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
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Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper
Science is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st…
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Need a #mosquito taxonomist to weigh in on the existence of Culex cancer. #entomology #culex
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The 51st @51st.news · 16/09/2026
NEW: For the co-owners and main kitchen staff of D.C.'s viral oxtail pizza carryout, the mission has always been bigger than pizza. Meet the team in @ecwilliams.bsky.social's latest story:
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Behind the scenes at DC's viral oxtail pizza carryout
For the team at Today's Pizza, it's always been bigger than the pies.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How can our research efforts not go unseen and remain utilisable by the broader scientific community? Oakleigh Wilson discusses research waste & how to avoid it with Antica Čulina in this instalment of the #ECRAsks series. Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2026/09...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨 NEW: Biodiversity monitoring can guide surveillance for emerging pathogens. In a new PLOS Ecosystems study led by @mdcatchen.bsky.social, we present computational algorithms to select surveillance sites that capture the most actionable data. Out now: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Fig 3. The case study for South Korea.

(A): Bivariate plot of dose (increasing green) and dose uncertainty (increasing blue). (B): Bivariate plot of dose (increasing green) and prevalence uncertainty (increasing orange; measured as the sum of estimated variance from kriging across each host-virus pair). (C): The spatial strata for which occurrence, prevalence, and both forms of sampling should occur (see main text for how these are computed). (D): The priority scores for regions where discovery sampling is a priority (increasingly blue) and prevalence sampling is the priority (increasingly purple) in their respective strata. (E): The total priority map with sites selected using Balanced Acceptance Sampling. The marker shape of each site corresponds to the type of sampling that should occur there, based on the stratum in (C) that each point falls within. Administrative boundaries come from GADM.
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The true hell here is for fly taxonomists who might try to digger deeper into this story. Lots of calliphoridae and muscidae appear in header images on articles.
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Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
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michael catchen @mdcatchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now out in PLOS Ecosystems! doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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A protocol for biodiversity-informed wildlife disease surveillance
Author summary The majority of infectious diseases that infect humans are zoonotic, meaning they circulate in wildlife populations and human infections arise from contact with wildlife, leading to tra...
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Closing Sept 25! If you or some full stack dev you know is looking for an awesome 6 month project, follow the links below to apply!
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SORTEE recently celebrated five years of its founding! 🪩 Learn more: sortee.org/blog/2026/08... We’d like to thank our incredible community of volunteers for their enthusiasm, energy and commitment towards making ecology & evolutionary biology research more open, reliable and transparent ✨
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Proud of this feature in @nativenewsonline.bsky.social about our recently (as of yesterday!) released Guidelines for the Publishing of Indigenous Data. Check it out!
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Indigenous Scholars Establish Guidelines for Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing
Overview: Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings have developed new guidelines to help ensure Indigenous peoples’ rights, knowledge and data sovereignty are respected in scientific research and sch...
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
data curators are going to have a similar reckoning with AI being promoted as a good data manager
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Nate DiMeo @natedimeo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well, I guess the old HOMES Great Lake mnemonic can just be swapped out for SHAME.
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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Carlos Daniel Cadena will be August's Funk Biogeography Seminar speaker! Join us to hear about the origin and fate of megadiversity: how did today's biogeographical patterns originate? How and why has it changed over time? Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/au...
This is a flyer advertising the monthly Funk Biogeography Seminar series hosted by The International Biogeography Society. The society logo is at the top of the flyer in natural colors, followed by various images of Earth's fauna and flora, such as dolphins and sunflowers. The text advertises the seminar content: the title is "The origin and fate of megadiversity: A look from the northern Andes." The speaker is Dr. Carlos Daniel Cadena from Universidad de los Andes, and the seminar will take place on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 1:00PM UTC. Additional information and registration can be found at www.biogeography.org.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Issue 58 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ OSF is Changing @cos.io ➡️ Agentic Workflows with Claude Code @jhelvy.bsky.social ➡️ Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? @issuesinst.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 058
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🎉🐝 The Cook Lab is giving 2 talks at #IUSSI26! Come see how honey bee brains are dealing with stress and driving task performance to collectively behave and regulate hive environment.
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Help us build better data infrastructure and promote open research! Verena is looking for a full stack developer to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory (PHAROS) data platform. See the details: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! — Verena
The Verena Institute is looking for a full stack developer or full stack development team (hereafter, the “Supplier”) to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen H...
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do you enjoy implementing data standards and creating well designed APIs? Verena is looking for a full stack developer for the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory (PHAROS)! See the Verena website for more details and to apply: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
viralemergence.org
We’re Hiring! — Verena
The Verena Institute is looking for a full stack developer or full stack development team (hereafter, the “Supplier”) to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen H...
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do you enjoy implementing data standards and creating well designed APIs? Verena is looking for a full stack developer for the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory (PHAROS)! See the Verena website for more details and to apply: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
viralemergence.org
We’re Hiring! — Verena
The Verena Institute is looking for a full stack developer or full stack development team (hereafter, the “Supplier”) to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen H...
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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Five years back in Berlin and 10 years of nanopore barcoding for everyone, everywhere. From ~10% read errors to live barcoding on a laptop. Now with additional use of DNA barcodes to turn images into AI training data for small insects. Too many species and too little time. doi.org/10.1111/cla....
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
why?! #rstats ``` > df$vector |> + stringi::stri_enc_toutf8(is_unknown_8bit = TRUE, validate = TRUE) |> + Encoding() [1] "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" [8] "unknown" > all(stringi::stri_enc_isutf8(df$vector)) [1] TRUE ```
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW stuff for Monday morning! Get your new stuff here! Pandemic risk is going up. Can we bring it back down? Probably not - unless we radically reimagine our relationship with nature, food, and each other. First preprint led by the brilliant @torrelavelle.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
A dendrogram showing 64 drivers of pandemic riskNine line charts showing future change in pandemic-relevant variables under five scenarios
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/07/2026
I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tell us how we can improve BHL. As work begins to modernize the BHL platform, we’re inviting users to complete a 3–5-minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities and shape a better BHL experience. 🌱 🧪 Take the survey: t.co/l30WX3u2yB
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It's such a bizarre experience having kids and regularly watching kids content and recognizing how many behaviors are displayed as villainous that are currently being lifted up as virtue in real life
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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I like their big silly heads Cratomus megacephala
Close up photo from behind of a tiny black wasp with a very large, dumbbell shaped head standing on a bit of dead, rotting wood. The wasp has little spikes above its compound eyes and the wings are slightly iridescent.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Issue 53 of #rdmweekly is out!📬 ➡️ ECR Asks: Q & A with @eivimeycook.bsky.social ➡️ data-dict.yaml (data dictionary specification) @hadley.nz ➡️ Modern Python Project Management for Researchers with uv @digiresacademy.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 053
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚀 T v0.54.0 is out! 🚀 Maximum reproducibility for data science pipelines: 📦 Auto-resolves R packages from renv.lock 🐍 Support for Python uv.lock via uv2nix virtual envs #Nix #Python #RStats #DataScience 1/2
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Many of the characteristics that make feral hogs a formidable invasive pest could make them an ideal super-spreader if screwworms take hold in the population.
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What Happens If Screwworm Hits Feral Hogs? We (Really) Don’t Want to Find Out.
The flesh-eating pest that recently returned to our state could overrun the wild pig population, but that probably isn’t the answer to our invasive-species prayers.
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m stunned
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Danny vs jamie
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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Welcome back Flo
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/07/2026
Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats
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Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 30/06/2026
Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! 🤗
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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 30/06/2026
Coworking and Office Hours next week! 🍪 Theme: Debugging in #RStats 🐞 Tuesday July 7th 16:00 UTC Join @pipinghotdata.com and @yabellini.bsky.social General coworking Read up on debugging in R Cowork independently Chat with Shannon and other attendees! 🔗 ropensci.org/events/cowor...
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