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Wildlife Conservation and Site Protection Analyst; Technology Council member of SMART Partnership; Associate Editor Herpetology Notes; R programming instructor Ecology in R Online course; IUCN SSC PSG and SCSG
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RjGray_Ecology/EcologyinR @rjgrayecology.bsky.social · Nov 29
Excited to announce the release of our latest paper in Scientific Reports: "Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones."

Read the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the dashboard:
rpubs.com/Russell_Gray...

#Drones #Primates
Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones
www.nature.com
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ecography.bsky.social
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07614 #Rstats #free #software #ClimateChange
March 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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smachlis.bsky.social
The {grafify} #RStats 📦 aims to make it easier for R users to:
* "plot great-looking graphs with few lines of code while exploring data"
* "apply colour blind-friendly palettes to graphs plotted with grafify or ggplot2"
& more. By @avishenoy.bsky.social
grafify.shenoylab.com
#DataViz
Sample of 24 different types of graphs that can be made with the grafify R package, including "Dots, bar & SD", "Dots & gox", "Bar & SD", "Dots & violin". Also shows grafify hex logo. Color samples for 17 different color-blind-safe palettes
March 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
It's not quite ready for release yet, but side-by-side synced maps are coming soon to an upcoming release of the {mapgl} #rstats package.

You'll be able to create maps like this in just a couple lines of R code...
March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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walkerenvres.bsky.social
Honestly not sure how I ever survived without the {targets} #rstats package. Trying to do this with just plain old R scripts would be completely bonkers 😵‍💫
A huge dependency diagram with hundreds of nodes and edges generated by the targets R package
March 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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rjgrayecology.bsky.social
Excited to announce the release of our latest paper in Scientific Reports: "Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones."

Read the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the dashboard:
rpubs.com/Russell_Gray...

#Drones #Primates
Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Development of a global thermal detection index to prioritize primate research with thermal drones
www.nature.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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patrickstotz.bsky.social
Finally, a shout-out to @drxeo.eu, whose climate circles inspired me (see dominicroye.github.io/en/2021/clim...) and to the maintainers of the fitbitr-package (github.com/mrkaye97/fit...), that makes loading Fitbit data into R super easy.
Climate circles | Dr. Dominic Royé
The climate of a place is usually presented through climographs that combine monthly precipitation and temperature in a single chart. However, it is also interesting to visualize the climate on a dail...
dominicroye.github.io
January 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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joss-openjournals.bsky.social
Just published in JOSS: 'gratia: An R package for exploring generalized additive models' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06962
December 21, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
For years, I've wanted to create an #rstats package bringing the power of Mapbox to R users.

After a few failed attempts, I finally got {mapgl} over the finish line in 2024 (with some help from #GenAI).

Get started with an interactive globe in one line of R code, and build from there!
December 25, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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tommytang.bsky.social
tidyplots is an R package to generate publication-ready plots for scientific papers tidyplots.org/ #rstats
December 25, 2024 at 2:45 PM
rjgrayecology.bsky.social
🌿 Resource for Emerging Conservationists and Environmental Professionals 🌿
I'm excited to share a curated list of online conservation and environmental management training courses and certificate programs! 🌍
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Online Conservation Training List
docs.google.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online?

I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎

www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...
The IUCN Red List categories and criteria The IUCN Red List logo
December 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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stephenturner.us
Candidate for most impactful use of local LLMs in an R environment. The lang #Rstats package overrides the `?` help function in R, translating help pages into your system's language, ie from Sys.getenv("LANG"). Also translates your roxygen docs. https://github.com/mlverse/lang 🌎🌍🌏
December 12, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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robknell.bsky.social
#Biostatistics R package: interactive learnr tutorials on statistics ranging from frequency distributions to model selection. Videos, text explanations, quizzes and coding exercises. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Biostatistics vignette
cran.r-project.org
December 15, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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global-ecology.bsky.social
Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !!

by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪🌐🌍
December 13, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇

https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
December 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM
rjgrayecology.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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vincentab.bsky.social
Our JSS article is out!

And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.

www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
December 1, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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nmouquet.bsky.social
As if humans were not part of the natural world? Have we forgotten that we are just one species among many? 🤔 The fate of biodiversity is now so tied up with humanity that it feels more like biodiversity is among us than we are among biodiversity. 🙃
manlius.bsky.social Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Dec 11
"It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge and understanding of the Earth, as well as the animal—human connections within it"

We'd add climate and social dynamics, too. 🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS
“One Health” needs ecology
www.pnas.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:47 PM
rjgrayecology.bsky.social
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds

Link to paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 5, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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smartenwinter.bsky.social
### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###

Global Joint Synthesis Call

"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"

Funding of:

➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍

PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!

www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Calls | iDiv
www.idiv.de
December 2, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
What can government scientists do now to minimize the damage that’s coming over the next four years, and what can we do to help them? I spoke to several experts to write this story for The Revelator

Please share widely. 🧪🌎

therevelator.org/scientists-m...
Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
therevelator.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟

Folks, a huge new global shark conservation report just dropped. You should read it, and follow @iucnshark.bsky.social as they share highlights.
iucnshark.bsky.social IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · Dec 2
BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives.

portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report
December 2, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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altmetric.com
"Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science"

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 29, 2024 at 10:13 AM