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New beta of #Rstats rig: LOTS of EXCITING stuff: - new: web site: rig.r-lib.org - new: user-mode R installation: rig.r-lib.org/admin-vs-use... - new: manage R packages (CRAN + git): rig.r-lib.org/pkg-guide.html - new: manage R projects and virtual environments: rig.r-lib.org/proj-guide.h...

rig.r-lib.org

rig – the R Installation Manager – rig

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ooooh😊 For those who were not able to see my talk, IT IS ONLINE🔊 Link: ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-...

ondrejmottl.github.io

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is actually cool! Let's make the science more accessible, more human, and more fun!!!

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For some reason, I hate the right assignment ('begets') from the bottom of heart. I have strong opinion on the R syntax and you read all about it on my website ondrejmottl.github.io/collaboratio...

ondrejmottl.github.io

Code Convention – Ondřej Mottl

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is going to be the next paper discussion for our Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology!

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have heard someone saying that the actual need for people with good CS knowledge will increase....I can see that but who knows in this crazy world

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👉 "But in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don’t constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases." 🌿

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Super cool paper! Wish @annatoszogy.bsky.social luck with the review process😊 Based on the structure of the text, I am guessing you are aiming high🤞

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can we trust? Yes, we can trust estimates of species turnover, but estimates of changes in species richness are less reliable. Our new article in the Journal of Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365... @journalofecology.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oldie but goldie

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is worth reading as it really well describes the feeling of apathy and alienation of today's world. My current work workflow is pretty AI heavy and one can really feel need for human connection after few days of working in my office (alone).

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In CZ only but really good! I agree that the current system of government parental support is really bizarre in Czechia.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 07/08/2026

Things making me giggle in my work right now: - A debugging practice package using data about beetles - An activity to practice jacknife resampling using name count data about the name "jack" - Teaching about unnesting datasets using data on bird nests #rstats

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Becks Spake @spakey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today I was delighted to discover the meme gallery on the marginaleffects website 😂 marginaleffects.com/bonus/meme.h...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It is awesome!!! Higly recommend for any Win user!

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Our lives today are a gallery of past generations’ heroic efforts"

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François Rigal @frigal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is really great for reproducibility! I can see it being used for Quarto one-off reports but I need to think more about the usage as alternative to Project+{renv}. The rig implementation sounds very useful...which is {renv} really missing!!!

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

eduroam might be the best example of international service and collaboration WHICH👏JUST👏WORKS👏

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our lab has in-person meetings after a long time - Bryan has returned from long holiday...and my PhD students surprised me with a cake🎂 Thanks @natynamesna.bsky.social and Bryan🥲

Students Bryan and Naty in their office with a birthday cake

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

....tempting, but very hard to justify taking on another responsibility...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I was there! And it was very good! Next year Ghana?

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have to say GPT 5.6 Sol feels pretty good (running through the VS Code Extension) It does feel like a small incremental improvement in quality but it feels more consistent (mistakes are less frequent) 🏄‍♂️...going with the flow...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I am still having huge personal/inside fight to make teaching materials freely available online. This👇 might be the last piece to push me over

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm very happy with how this project turned out! Big thanks to @trigonalid.bsky.social for leading this! Now fingers crossed for the review process 🤞

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/07/2026

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

jobbnorge.no

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I like my memes the way I like my science: open

Victoria and David Beckham meme, where Victoria stands for universities and David for researchers. Victoria says we care about open science. David says be honest. Victoria says we signed DORA and CoARA. David says and what do you evaluate us on? Victoria says number of papers, and David says thank you.

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

❗New paper alert❗ in @natureportfolio.nature.com Comm compares alpine biodiversity across mountain systems and taxonomic groups worldwide. Led by PhD @lottaschultz.bsky.social Biodiversity patterns differs among mountains, and plants, birds, mammals, and reptiles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

Contrasting patterns of alpine biodiversity across mountains and taxa worldwide - Nature Communications

This study compares alpine biodiversity patterns for plants and vertebrates across mountains worldwide using an expert-validated dataset. Authors found strong variation among mountains and taxonomic g...

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · 05/07/2026

It's been ten years(!) since I wrote the R package eulerr, which generates area-proportional Venn and Euler diagrams. The last few months I've expanded eulerr into #Python, #Julia, #JavaScript, and #Rust and just published a blog post about this and improvements it brings. jolars.co/blog/2026-07...

jolars.co

Eunoia: Euler and Venn Diagrams in Five Languages

Eunoia is a Rust engine for area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams, now with bindings for R, Python, Julia, and JavaScript.

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"R-is-not-a-real-programing-language"-my-ass! Look at this beauty! #Rstats has such an amazing community of super smart people! ❤️💚🩵

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is great a writing! I was really uncomfortable the whole time deciding if it is a satire or not😬 I do use AI almost every day and I also do not know where we are heading as #academia. Definitely thought provoking!

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For those who missed my talk at #IAVS2026. Here it is all online: 🔗https://ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-vegetation-cooccurrence/Documentation/Website/outputs.html Rendered slides: 🖼️https://ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-vegetation-cooccurrence/Documentation/Presentations/IAVS_2026/_output

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Come join me at #IAVS2026 today for my talk (LT4) 📅 11:30 (after coffee break) room 3. I promise you haven't seen #presentation like this one before😉 #vegetation #paleo #jsdm #conference @iavs5.bsky.social

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We are in Gijon for #IAVS2026 representing @sciencecharles.bsky.social and @cts.cuni.cz Research of our Lab. of Quantitative Ecology () can be seen as my talk (LT4) and poster by @natynamesna.bsky.social (P111). Come to talk to us! 🔗 bit.ly/CUNI_Quantit... #LoQE #conference

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Agree it is great!!! However, I am a tiny amount annoyed that you cannot launch it with refreshing turned off🤷

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