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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you are teaching a class with R this semester, try the `checker` package. It check that students have the correct versions of R, R studio, R packages, etc installed. Have them submit the report from checker as assignment 0. Saves a huge amount of time in the first datalab.

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Come to our course on Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology held at Finse, Norway www4.uib.no/en/research/... quarto, git, data management in R and much more

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Open science

Do you want to gain hands-on skills in data management, make your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want practical training in open-source tools like R and GitHub?

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I've written a small R package for biomisation of pollen data following Prentice et al 1996 - instructions to install and use at github.com/richardjtelf...

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GitHub - richardjtelford/biomer: Biomisation of Pollen Data

Biomisation of Pollen Data. Contribute to richardjtelford/biomer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Do you know any PhD students, postdocs (or professors) who would benefit from a week learning about open and reproducible science while staying in the Norwegian mountains? Just a few days left to apply. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

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Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology | UiB

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New R package in development classquiz helps integrate quizzes for formative feedback in #quarto lectures. classquiz uses observable to plot graphs showing the students responses. richardjtelford.github.io/classquiz/

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Helps Add Quizes to Quarto Presentations

Facilitates using google forms for classroom quizes and using observable to plot the results.

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo! 1/4 #rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @hilaryrosed.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social @martabaumane.bsky.social @kristabirk.bsky.social

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Open position for an Associate Professor in Global Change Ecology in Bergen w4.uib.no/en/research/...

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Try our quarto tutorial if you want to use (or teach) quarto for writing reproducible manuscripts and theses biostats-r.github.io/biostats/qua...

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Enough Markdown to Write a Thesis

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Custom callouts for quarto documents. How to replace the colour and icon of an existing callout flavour richardjtelford.github.io/unpublishabl...

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Custom callouts for quarto – unpublishable

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

If you have repeated community surveys from the same vegetation plot, turfmapper can help find taxonomic discrepancies and other problems between surveys between-the-fjords.github.io/turfmapper/

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Plot Community Composition Maps Over Time

Plots turf maps of community composition over time to aid error detection.

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Richard Telford @richardjtelford.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Introducing shinyleaves, a shiny app to demonstrate how leaf area is calculated from leaf scans. Designed for teaching, also useful to test difficult leaves. Install from github github.com/richardjtelf... or try it at richardjtelford.shinyapps.io/shinyleaves/

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GitHub - richardjtelford/shinyleaves: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case). Contribute to richardjtelford/shinyleaves development by creating an account on GitHub.

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