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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 01/10/2026
2/2 10 awesome years of lovingly curated community experiences! Here's to the next 10 years! ⏳ Greetings from Your Community Manager! 📆 Oct 12, 2016 🔗 ropensci.org/blog/2016/10... ⏳ Introducing rOpenSci new Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene 📆 Jun 21, 2022 🔗 ropensci.org/blog/2022/06...
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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 01/10/2026
1/2 [blog] Throw-back Thursday! 🎉 rOpenSci celebrates a decade of Community Management! 💙 Thank you @stefaniebutland.bsky.social for starting it all in 2016, and thank you @yabellini.bsky.social for joining us in 2022 to take it further.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
✍🏼 blog post: Openscapes Mentor communities are Communities of Practice. openscapes.org/blog/2026-07...
A person in a cape that reads “code hero” who looks like they are flying through the air while typing on a computer while saying “I’m doing a think all on my own!” The coder’s arms and legs have ropes attached to two hot air balloons lifting them up, with labels on the balloons including “teachers”, “bloggers”, “friends”, “developers”. Below the code hero, several people carry a trampoline with labels “support” and “community” that will catch them if they fall.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org
Our new website is live now! Visit: https://palaeoverse.org/.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If you have time to browse bluesky this weekend, you have time to submit your comment on the proposed OMB rule to politicize science funding agencies. This one is important. Here's my comment if some inspiration will help. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...
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Submit your OMB comment this weekend.
This one is important. It's due on Monday.
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It seems to me that we are always ready to criticize or find fault, but seldom tell others positive things. #TellThem
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 23/06/2026
🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups
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EMEA/AMER meet-up
Weds June 24th, 3:30pm UTC

- connect with community members
- rainbowR updates
- R chat and informal ‘show and tell’

More info and sign-up details at
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APAC meet-up
Mon June 29th, 3am UTC, 1pm AEST

- connect with community members
- rainbowR updates
- R chat and informal ‘show and tell’

More info and sign-up details at
rainbowr.org/meetups
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📣Call to Action: civic engagement for science infrastructure openscapes.org/blog/2026-06...
screenshot of https://www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2026-0034 titled Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. Created by the Office of Management and Budget. Open for Comments
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
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New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness
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Arfon Smith @arfon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
After 10 years, I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social. A few thoughts on the decade: www.arfon.org/stepping-dow... The EiC call: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call... #opensource #openscience
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Stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of JOSS | Arfon Smith
After 10 years, reflecting on launching the Journal of Open Source Software and what comes next.
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Journal of Open Source Software, JOSS, is embarking on the search for its next editor-in-chief. Founder EIC Arfon Smith is stepping down after a whole decade of incredible service. Interested in filling those big shoes? Apply by June 19, 2026: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call...
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JOSS is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
After a decade of building and running JOSS, our founding Editor-in-Chief is stepping down. We're seeking a new EiC to lead editorial direction for the Journ...
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com
Homepage of the R Mailing List Archives showing a search bar, three popular lists (R-help with 398,500 messages, R-devel with 63,425, and R-package-devel with 12,125), and a full directory of core lists and special interest groups.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Openscapes update from @juliesquid.bsky.social, Spring 2026. On being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture. openscapes.org/blog/2026-03... #HowWeWork #KinderScience #OpenScience
photo focal point is a narrow river with central sandbar, flowers in foreground along the river are dark pink and white, trees along riverside and hills in background
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Training opportunity: Reimagining complex data-intensive reports. A 5-day course for @icesmarine.bsky.social. June 22 - 26, 2026. Led by @juliesquid.bsky.social (Openscapes), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), Gavin Fay (UMass Dartmouth) openscapes.org/events/2026-... #OpenScience #KinderScience
logo for International Council for the Exploration of the Sea has circular image at left with teal wave shape and navy color above with 8 white stars. To right are acronyms with ICES on top and CIEM bottom
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 06/03/2026
Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
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Job Opening: Data Scientist – Grant Witness
Grant Witness seeks a data scientist for a full-time position on our team tracking changes to U.S. federal grantmaking. We are also hiring for part-time/contract positions. Join us!
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-... #openscience #kinderscience
7 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. In center of line of people, a woman is presenting award certificate to Julie.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
✍🏼📣We're expanding our support of open Earth science with NASA Openscapes Mentors, with additional focus supporting suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows. Welcoming Ronny Hernández Mora to the Openscapes team to support this work! nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03...
nasa logo to left of openscapes logo
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Tanya Cashorali @tcash21.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
tcbanalytics.com/2026/02/28/r... I built a thing!
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Rebuilding ClinicalTrials.gov with AI: A Natural Language Interface Powered by LLMs - TCB Analytics
ClinicalTrials.gov contains one of the most important public biomedical datasets in the world. And yet… using it well still requires: Knowing the API Understanding filter syntax Manually constructing ...
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@duncanmccue.bsky.social Steve Earle in Canada this summer. www.livenation.ca/all-events/s...
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Steve Earle - 51 Years of Songs & Stories Tickets, Tour and Concert Dates – www.livenation.ca
Find Steve Earle tickets at www.livenation.ca | Videos, biography, tour dates, performance times. VIP packages available.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day. They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach! I can help. Let’s chat.
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Of COURSE it's the people that make it work!
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
✍🏼 People, structure, mechanics: How we led the earthaccess Dec 15 Hackday online and in New Orleans earthaccess is a Python library that simplifies access to NASA Earth science data. We designed the event to focus on building the community of contributors & adopters. openscapes.org/blog/2026-02...
creenshot of zoom window with 6 by 5 squares of smiling waving peoplephoto of eleven smiling women and men holding up hexagonal stickers
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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 29/01/2026
What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier? There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/. Drop your ideas below. If there's enough interest, I might just build it. #Quarto #OpenSource
What's Missing? 300 extensions and counting. Help shape what comes next.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026 openscapes.org/blog/2026-01... 1/n
Mount Whitney sunrise. Deep blue clear sky. Reddish mountains with a dusting of snow, with each sharp ridge casting a shadow on the next ridge to the right. Boulders in the foreground.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used! by Sophie Breitbard, Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering. Published at: nmfs-ost.github.io/noaa-fit-res... openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...
image titled asar::cheatsheet is a crowded image of documentation with 7 headings like Install, or Create report skeleton. Below each heading is text, code and blue callout bubbles with additional text.
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Just like the great old #rstats Twitter days. People figure things out, write about it from that beginner mindset, and orgs with the capacity amplify these great messages.
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/12/2025
This is an excellent guide!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/12/2025
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
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RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A much needed reminder in these times. 🧡
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 11/12/2025
New post on the @ropensci.org blog: How to Assess Usage of your #RStats Package 📂 Downloads 🌳 Reverse dependencies 🔍 Code mentions 🎓 Citations ⭐ Popularity measures: likes 🤝 Contributions to the repository 🙋 Use case reports 🕵️ Telemetry ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...
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How to Assess Usage of your Package
Ways to evaluate use of your package, and their downsides.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pretty cool halo around the Moon in Virginia just now. Ice crystals high up in the atmosphere bend the light to form the ring and can also break it up into colors like a rainbow, though the colors are usually faint. That's a hens and chicks plant lit by the Moon in the foreground, BTW.
The overexposed Moon is surrounded by a ghostly ring of light, shining through the trees. A small plant is in the foreground shaped like a pine cone, the edges of the petals lit by moonlight. Overall a lovely and somewhat eerie scene.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess. Links to recording, slides, notes doc nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11...
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Thoughts from NASA Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess – NASA-Openscapes
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Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
La date limite pour soumettre une demande de bourse de formation HCB sera le 1er décembre 2025! Les candidats retenus recevront jusqu’à 2 500$ CA pour participer à un atelier, un tutorat ou une autre formation en 2026. Pour en savoir plus et postuler: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...
Bourses de formation HCB. A propos des bourses: Le programme de bourses de formation HCB offre jusqu'a 2 500$ CA pour le perfectionnement professionnel des stagiaires au Canada. Inscrivez-vous aux ateliers, tutoriels et formations repondant a vos besoins en bioinformatique, biologie computationnelle et science des donnees. Date limite de depot des candidatures: 1er decembre 2025. Des questions? training@bioinformatics.ca
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Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub Training Award application deadline is coming up soon on Dec 1, 2025! Successful applicants will receive up to $2,500 CAD to attend a workshop, tutoral, or other training event in 2026. Learn more and apply: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...
CBH Training Awards. About the Awards: CBH Training Awards fund up to $2,500 CAD for professional development for trainees in Canada. Apply to attend workshops, tutorials, and training events that address your training needs in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Data Science. Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Questions? training@bioinformatics.ca
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 10/11/2025
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️‍⚧️ We are partnering with the @rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below! 📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT) 👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
event flyer, see details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Eel Facts Advent Calendar. Not just for advent! Got for my 81yr old Mum & 19yr old daughter. Mum txts each daily fact to family group chat and they are awesome!!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Advent is a mere 3 weeks away! Consider this. Who in your life... needs to know more about eels? feels joy in learning? likes the ocean? needs a little treat? You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar! Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun! EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel fact advent calendar which has orange and yellow boxes with yellow circles in them that are numbered 1-24. There are 6 eels. One ribbon eel, one moray eel, two splendid garden eels, and an american and european eel. Sarah's holding it up on her roof in front of plants in the bright sun
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Awe man. Two [murmur] signs aka [murmure] still up. I put these signs up Oct 2003. Such respect here - poles painted but signs intact. (murmur was our location-based mobile phone oral history project. Recorded stories about places & people could call & listen while there. Pre smartphone!).
Person pointing at green ear shaped sign Person (me) looking at green ear shaped sign Close up of signClose up of banding
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud. November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...
NASA logo to left of Openscapes logo
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025. Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work... Please share!
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connect – Openscapes
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.
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rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 22/09/2025
📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse #RStats
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R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages · Community Call
Community Call about R-multiverse
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 22/09/2025
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
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Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too! Some examples from last year:
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
There are 20 crab facts advent calendars left from @franzanth.bsky.social’s 2023 run. Idk if I’ll restock these (I’m low on stickering time this year bc I’m running so many events). So! If you are planning to get multiple types of advent calendars, clock’s ticking on crabs. SquidFacts.Net
A sparkly advent calendar with hot pink crabs all over it with a teal background with intricate and beautiful invertebrates and patterns
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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Coolest thing. @bffo.bsky.social, Ryan Brinkman & I started this cross-YVR bioinformatics seminar & networking series when you were lucky to see a sequence alignment in someone's talk. Ppl found collaborators, jobs, grad school supervisors, made friends, learned stuff. Still going after 23 years.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop. 🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions. nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2025-08...
a slide titled ‘Early adopters - take a wild idea, relentless drive to turn it into a workable product’. Left side photo of a black and white sheepdog puppy titled ‘take a puppy’. Right side photo of a mature sheepdog herding sheep titled ‘Patience and skill actually obsession, to do this’.
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