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Will Gearty

@willgearty.bsky.social
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Paleobiologist 🦴, Software Engineer 💻, and Open Scientist 🔍 Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University (He/Him)

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A reminder that our lecture series continues today - 15:00 UTC!
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎉 We've reached 100 users 🎉 Our new Zulip community workspace is growing, and we’re excited to now have over 100 palaeontologists sharing knowledge and discovering new opportunities. Thank you to everyone who has joined so far! If you're interested, sign up here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...
A flyer advertising over 100 users of the Palaeoverse Zulip workspace. The text reads: Join our community workspace on Zulip! Connect with fellow palaeontologists, share the latest news, and discover new research, opportunities, events, and more! 

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️24th September 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Next Thursday, Emilia Jarochowska from Utrecht University will talk about “CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
A flyer advertising Dr Emilia Jarowchowska and her talk entitled: CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology. There is an image of coding on a laptop and Emilia is holding up a fossil.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/09/2026
Geology Class xkcd.com/3292/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person with ponytail addressing students seated at desks.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Welcome to Geology 201. Today we’ll be review-bombing Applebees. (2) [Person 1 points to board on wall.] PERSON 1: Tomorrow we’ll do Costco and Sephora. PERSON 2: Why? PERSON 1: If we cut traffic to the Northgate Shopping Center, it will go to the East Plaza instead. (3) [Board shows map.] This will push the state to cancel the North Bridge Project and shift funds to the Highway 2 Extension... (4) ...creating new roadcuts through Triassic shale. PERSON 2: I *like* Applebees. PERSON 1: Then you should have told the city to approve my dig permit.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🚨 PS SHORT COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GSA 2026 October 10th (location TBD) A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Description in comment below!
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Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Open Palaeontology has a new look 💜 Our brand-new website is live! Same mission as ever: Diamond Open Access palaeo research — free to publish, free to read, for everyone. Come explore ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org #PaleoSky #OpenAccess #Palaeontology
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Cahiers de l'ILTP
Open Palaeontology is an international Diamond Open Access journal promoting open science in palaeontology
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Don't forget to come along to our talk today - 15:00 UTC!
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
⛰️ NPS-PS Paleontology in the Parks Fellowship Program is now OPEN! 👀 We are seeking a candidate to assist with an inventory of fossil birds from NPS lands. 📌 The selected candidate is expected to: ◾Work remotely 20-30 hours per month ◾ Maintain online access and participate in regular meetings.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
A flyer advertising Bruno do Rosario Petrucci's upcoming Palaeoverse Lecture Series talk on the 27th August 15:00 UTC entitled Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy. Bruno is pictured next to a laptop showing a budding phylogeny.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our new Zulip community workspace is live! This is a place to connect with other palaeontologists and discover/share: 👩‍💻 Upcoming conferences & workshops 💼 Job opportunities 📄 Publications 💰 Grants & funding prospects 📚 Resources (e.g. books & websites) Join here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...
A flyer advertising the new Palaeoverse Zulip workspace: Join our new community workspace on Zulip! A place to connect with fellow palaeontologists, share the latest news, and discover new research, opportunities, events, and more! 

Upcoming conferences and workshops.
Job opportunities.
New publications.
Grants and funding opportunities.
Resources such as books, talks, and course materials.

https://palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-zulip/
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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Survey time - we want to hear from YOU! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses @paleodb.bsky.social and will help shape future work on the database. Browsed Navigator once? Entered 1,342 taxa? Either way, we want your feedback! forms.gle/GFZukC1koFAb...
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Paleobiology Database (PBDB) User Community Survey
Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your experiences and insights with the Paleobiology Database team! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses the PBDB ...
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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hope to see you all on August 27th at 15:00UTC (10:00AM Central) for my @palaeoverse.bsky.social lecture! Details on how to register here: palaeoverse.org/events/ I'll be talking about inferring and dealing with budding phylogenetic trees, including a full tutorial!! Hope to see you all there!
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Palaeoverse
A community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨Tomorrow, 15:00 UTC🚨 Join us for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona on "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'"! Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
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Palaeoverse
A community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 25/07/2026
The Assault On Science Funding Continues: www.science.org/content/blog... punches not pulled -->
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
PS Travel Grants!  💰Awards: Up to $1200 for in-person attendees and $250 for online attendees. 📅Deadline: 15th of August 🔗Application form: forms.gle/nxGvQu2gGY4K...   If you have any questions, contact grants@paleosoc.org 📧
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th July 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona from IBIOMAR, CONICET on “Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
A flyer featuring a photograph of Pablo Milla Carmona advertising his talk entitled "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'", which will take place on Thursday 30th July at 15:00 UTC.
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse
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data.table vs. base vs. dplyr | Vincent Arel-Bundock
Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣 Last call for IPC7 abstracts! 📣 Want more information? Visit their website: www.ipc7.site/index.html :link: Or IG page: @ipc7_2026 #IPC7 #Paleontology #Conference #Abstract #PaleoResearch
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@etiennebacher.bsky.social and @piginatutu.bsky.social have spent a bunch of time remaking our @palaeoverse.bsky.social website, to great effect ✨! A few things are still under construction 🚧, but watch this space as we continue to refine and expand our offerings over the next year and a half! 👀
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.4.0 is now on #CRAN: 🏷️ added geom_text_clade() 🐛 fixed lots of bugs related to coord_trans_xy() 🏳️‍🌈 fixed ordering of coord_geo() scales on left and top axes Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The rphylopic package allows users to add silhouettes of organisms from the PhyloPic database to plots generated in base R and ggplot2.
rphylopic 1.7.0 out now! Highlights include local caching of phylopics, and the use of phylopics in igraph and ggraph network plots.
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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@historicalbiology.bsky.social Historical Biology is looking for a Data Editor to join the new Data Team! Dr Brooke Long-Fox (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) & Dr Sarah Shelley are our current Data Editors, interested in joining them? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday
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Data Editor needed for Historical Biology
Data Editor needed for Historical Biology
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Stephanie Drumheller @uglyfossils.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@utknoxville.bsky.social and my home department will be hosting #2028NAPC. The first circular is out now: napc2028.sites.utk.edu
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Welcome to NAPC 2028! - NAPC 2028
Join  the international paleontology community for the 13th North American Paleontological Conference from May 22-26, 2028 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The North American Paleontological Conference is a m...
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed? Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review. sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
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Tracy Heath @trayc7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/07/2026
Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/
Comic. [Two images of Earth, one centered on Africa, with a dotted line behind, and the other in the foreground with a target marked in the Indian Ocean.] [caption] Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly *opposite* the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing *back* the dinosaurs.
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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
Announcement for a new Biodiversity Informatics Research Group at UNC Charlotte, launching January 2027. Dr. Jake Berv is launching a lab studying biodiversity across space and deep time, integrating phylogenomics, fossil and modern specimens, fieldwork, and comparative methods. A major near-term interest is developing and benchmarking human-guided AI research agents for rigorous, reproducible analyses in ecology and evolution. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators in macroevolution, computational biology and AI, natural history, and open science are welcome to get in touch at jacob.berv@charlotte.edu. More information: jakeberv.com. The graphic features McDowell Nature Preserve in Charlotte.
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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...
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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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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📣 Attention to U.S. Paleontologists! See you email for links to take action. #paleontology #geoscience #paleo
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th June 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Corinne Myers from the University of New Mexico on “PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth”. 💻🌍 sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A poster showing Dr Corinne Myers advertising her talk entitled PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳 We are looking forward to hearing from Corinne Myers, Pablo Milla Carmona, @brpetrucci.bsky.social, and Emilia Jarochowska! Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Palaeoverse Lecture Series

Last Thursday of every month at 15:00 UTC

June 25th –  Dr Cori Myers, University of New Mexico
PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth

July 30th –  Dr Pablo Milla Carmona, University of Bristol
Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'

Aug 27th –  Bruno do Rosario Petrucci, Iowa State University
Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy

Sept 24th –  Dr Emilia Jarochowska, Utrecht University
CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cool to see my PhD chapter see some more action in the media 8+ years later!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/06/2026
Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with ponytail: These tectonic plates look pretty eroded. When did you last flip them? PERSON 2: Flip them? (2) PERSON 1: Yeah, to use the underside of the continent. PERSON 2: ...Never? PERSON 1: Wow. Explains the eons of weathering, debris basins, and... is this isostatic depression? PERSON 2: It’s rebounding! (3) PERSON 1: You really should flip it. You’ll get a whole new landscape! PERSON 2: But I like *this* landscape! (4) PERSON 1: Just think how warm and fresh the other side will feel. PERSON 2: A sea of molten rock? PERSON 1: Good for the feet. Helps exfoliate.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
palaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.
palaeoverse 1.5.0 out now! Highlights include: New tax_certainty() function, Grouping support in tax_range_time()/strat(), axis_geo() gains title & autofitting, Lots of under-the-hood improvements.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📖 Published📖 SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample 🧪 🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Read more:
buff.ly
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The What, Why and How of Hackathons
Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it…
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Heading to IPC7 in Cape Town? We'll be running a hands-on workshop exploring the palaeoverse R package and would love to see you there! 👩‍💻📈🐚🦕🌍
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CURIOSS @curiossorg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hidden #repositories. Missing licences. Invisible contributions. #OpenSource in academia has a visibility problem and @juanitagomezr.bsky.social from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO has built a solution! ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGH... #AcademicOSPOs #OSSDiscovery #CURIOSSCommunity #AcademicSky
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Recipe for Discovery: Building the Open Source Repository Browser
YouTube video by CURIOSS
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NPR @npr.org · 03/06/2026
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T
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President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Do check out our companion Shiny App for the project that myself, @willgearty.bsky.social, and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social put together! You can explore, visualise, and download all the data from the project there! www.lewisajones.com/shiny-bes-ha...
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BES Data & Code Archiving
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/06/2026
New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats
Meme of a kitten attacked by monsters. The text says "Everytime you use Claude for something a CLI can do, a kitten dies"
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Posit @posit.co · 01/06/2026
Posit Academy is live. Free courses, hands-on labs, and guided Apprenticeships built for Posit tools. A path for every kind of learner. 👉 academy.posit.co #RStats #PositAcademy
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