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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳
@ondrejmottl.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany🌿 , Charles University.
Head of Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology (bit.ly/CUNI_QuantitativeEcology)
with a main focus on #communityecology 🏞️, #palaeoecology 🕰️, and interest in #datascience 💻. .. more

Environmental science 30%
Biology 28%
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1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

Really looking forward to speaking at the symposium 'Quantitative paleoecology in the era of big data: Trends, challenges, and opportunities'🙋
Preparing your trip to Aarhus for #TIBS2026? 🇩🇰

👀 Our program is online, do check it to learn about the talks of the parallel sessions, the two poster sessions and the four symposia happening in the mornings! ⬇️
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Program
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Preparing your trip to Aarhus for #TIBS2026? 🇩🇰

👀 Our program is online, do check it to learn about the talks of the parallel sessions, the two poster sessions and the four symposia happening in the mornings! ⬇️
share.google/HxSB12qaWtuK...
Program
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Anyone else have a coauthor who is so much fun to write with that you just find yourself grinning in some combination of satisfaction and pride as you edit a manuscript?

If not, get yourself one.

Merry Christmas!
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝

Google search interest shows a stable pattern:

🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier

#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁

📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2

Reposted by Ondřej Mottl

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝

Google search interest shows a stable pattern:

🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier

#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁

📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2

Anyone else have a coauthor who is so much fun to write with that you just find yourself grinning in some combination of satisfaction and pride as you edit a manuscript?

If not, get yourself one.

Reposted by Ondřej Mottl

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨

We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social.

- Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP

- Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

My experience is that in academia, people generally do not understand the difference between R and RStudio (language and EDA). From a student perspective, they run the RStudio app to do the analysis, so they cite that🤷

I think you wanted to tag the actual account as @jvs-avs.bsky.social 😉

I am planning to for the next IAVS! It will be hosted in Gijón, Spain!
Are you working with #fossilpollen? Sign up! There will be a session about vegetation history😉
The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.
The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

This is super cool! Which software are you using to do this?

Congratulations for cool paper! Very happy to see it published😉

Where has this been my whole VS Code story arc (last ~4 years)?
{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately.

Save the plot once 👌

e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)

per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

Reposted by Ondřej Mottl

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia.

Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐

Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

#Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm
{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately.

Save the plot once 👌

e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)

per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

This is very well put together👏👏👏
We absolutely need more of this in ecology🙆
Basically, I am teaching all that in my #SPROuT course, and this guide even strengthen my belief that it is important to teach such things to undergraduates🙌
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!
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!

It is always a good time to start talking about Pokemon!

I like this soooo much!
I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲

Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.

🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲

Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.

🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing

I have to admit that I love to make notes as reading😅. However, I will consolidate/delete/adjust my notes into reviewer comments after finishing my notes🙆

You can place tests anywhere. My method is to have a 'test_all.R' script that set up the environment and then run testthat::test_dir(here::here(<path to folder with tests>)

Looking forward to seeing you in Aarhus!
%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩

developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...
Daily News: R-devel/NEWS
developer.r-project.org

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Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀

Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social
@uclcber.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines through AI at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines through AI at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com

I am very happy and honoured to be part of #JuniorFaculty