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Catherine
@seacatkim.bsky.social
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Marine scientist, GIS teacher. Likes #rstats, knitting, cooking + baking!
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cghlewis.bsky.social
Sometimes you just need to add a quick row of data to your data frame in #rstats.

tibble::add_row() can help
library(tidyverse) # Review the data df # A tibble: 3 x 3 ID School District <dbl> <chr> <chr> 1 102 SchoolA District10 2 105 SchoolB District10 3 106 SchoolC District11 # Add one additional row df |> add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD", District = "District12") # A tibble: 4 x 3 ID School District <dbl> <chr> <chr> 1 102 SchoolA District10 2 105 SchoolB District10 3 106 SchoolC District11 4 107 SchoolD District12 # Add one additional row with missing data df |> add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD") # A tibble: 4 x 3 ID School District <dbl> <chr> <chr> 1 102 SchoolA District10 2 105 SchoolB District10 3 106 SchoolC District11 4 107 SchoolD NA # Add two additional rows df |> add_row(ID = c(107, 108), School = c("SchoolD", "SchoolE"), District = "District12") # A tibble: 5 x 3 ID School District <dbl> <chr> <chr> 1 102 SchoolA District10 2 105 SchoolB District10 3 106 SchoolC District11 4 107 SchoolD District12 5 108 SchoolE District12
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Don't miss @roycerk2.bsky.social's devastating longread for @drilledmedia.bsky.social

"Now the bloom is underway, there is nothing that can be done to stop it. What was once considered a distant or theoretical impact of climate change is real and being felt."
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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samyeaman.bsky.social
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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yabellini.bsky.social
🚨 Call for contributions is open for #LatinR2025!
📅 The conference will be held online, December 1–5, 2025.
You can submit proposals for:
💡 Lightning talks
🎤 Oral presentations
🛠️ Workshops
👉 Deadline: August 25
More info: latinr.org/blog/es/2025...
Llamado a Presentación de Trabajos – LatinR 2024
31 de mayo de 2025
latinr.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
A free 3-hour workshop: Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R

Learn how to:
- Get pre-joined spatial US Census data;
- Make interactive shaded, circle, and dot-density maps;
- Solve the "AK/HI/PR problem" in US mapping;

And more!
2025 Webinar 3 Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R with Kyle Walker
R includes powerful tools for making informative maps and revealing patterns in datasets with spatial analysis. Participants in this workshop will learn how to use GIS tools in R to make both static and interactive maps with a variety of datasets from the US Census Bureau. The workshop will include
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August 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
seacatkim.bsky.social
Pyllidia varicosa, also known as the scrambled egg nudibranch 🤣
📸 Cristorei, Timor-Leste

#MolluscMonday #MarineBiodiversity #MarineLife #CoralTriangle #TimorLeste #Nudibranchs #Underwater #scuba
A marine sea slug, or nudibrancha, a shell-less gastropod, crawling on the reef bottom in Timor-Leste. The nudibranch is black with whit patches with white and yellow bumps. There are two small rhinophores or antennae like structures at the front. Landscape shot of the nudibranch with a gloved finger next to it for scale. It's a bit smaller than an index finger.
August 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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sten.linnarsson.org
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
ki.se Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Jun 25
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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iochromaland.bsky.social
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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hausfath.bsky.social
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...
August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
seacatkim.bsky.social
The resident school of barracuda in Iliana, westside of Ataúro Island in Timor-Leste. My guess is great barracuda, if any fish people can confirm?

#Barracuda #CoralReefs #MarineLife #ReefFish #CoralTriangle #MarineBiodiversity #scuba #Underwater
A large school of >200 barracuda swimming in a large circle. They are large, almost a meter in length, with pointy nose, crescent moon-shaped tail, and black bars lining the side of the siverly body.
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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andrew.heiss.phd
See the latest version here! datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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laurenfuess.bsky.social
🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨

Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too!

Deadline Nov 1!

Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
seacatkim.bsky.social
I saw an excellent talk on targets but haven't yet been able to implement it in my projects. Future goals.
rladiesmelb.bsky.social R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Aug 12
Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩

The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient.

⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/
#RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines
The {targets} R package user manual
Will Landau
books.ropensci.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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rladiesmelb.bsky.social
Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩

The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient.

⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/
#RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines
The {targets} R package user manual
Will Landau
books.ropensci.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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kathynavackas.bsky.social
I simply cannot get my head around the disconnect- the planet is on fire, or under extreme rain and floods due to climate change. Yet we build these “centres” that consume amazing amounts of power and water, depriving people of affordable utilities.
August 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
I'll be helping to facilitate tonight's action hour!

If you're wondering how to get involved in the #SummerFightForScience, this is a great 1st step.

If you want to meet other folks who care & take an easy advocacy action, this is also great (no long-term commitment necessary).

#StandUpForScience
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 12
💊It’s Day 12 of #31Days Of Action! Attend our weekly Webinar to learn about our mission and how YOU can get involved!

Join #StandUpForScience and Special Guest Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH & NIGMS, for our Tues Action Hour TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT!

Sign up here👉 zurl.co/OmG1N
Promotional graphic for “Action Hour with Special Guest Jeremy Berg” from Stand Up for Science, labeled as “Day 12.” The design features red, white, and blue colors with paint splatters, star outlines, a partial image of the Statue of Liberty, and a QR code. The website link www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-action is displayed at the bottom.
August 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
seacatkim.bsky.social
Recent trip to #TimorLeste saw a large school of bumphead parrotfish!

They were doing a holding pattern swimming circles on the reef - too bad the viz wasn't great. Always amazing to see these gentle giants underwater.

#CoralTriangle #addOcean #ScubaDiving
August 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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dariia.bsky.social
❗️Our next workshop will be on July 17th, 6 pm CEST, on Good vs. Bad Confounders: A Hands-On Introduction with DAGs & Simulations in R by @adambrosiomd.bsky.social !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
July 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.

ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.

This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
June 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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hlburdett.bsky.social
**Join us!**

2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology

Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme

🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p...
📆 18 September 2025
📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden

@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
🦑🧪🌎
underwater cartoon scene, with pink algae on the bottom and the text: join us! postdoctoral research in algal (photo)physiology. Deadline 18 September 2025
June 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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oilfieldwitness.bsky.social
Composting food waste can reduce methane emissions. Easy to do. Proven technology. Really cheap.

“When finished eating, people tend to just toss what’s left: out of sight, out of mind,” Dou said. “But from the resource and environmental perspective, what happens after actually matters a lot.”
Recycling food waste could slash methane emissions and reshape the global agrifood system | NationofChange
www.nationofchange.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
seacatkim.bsky.social
Make your voice heard to stop the US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict!

I just called my reps using @5calls.org for first time, you should too: 5calls.org

#NoWar
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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dutchcycling.nl
In the Netherlands, nearly half of train journeys begin with a bike trip, giving the Dutch train station a unique look. Rather than large car parking lots, there are hundreds and hundreds of bicycles parked.
Cyclist in front of train station
May 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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laurentformery.bsky.social
Our brittle star patterning study is now out at EvoDevo! 🥳
doi.org/10.1186/s132...

@lowelab.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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mayasen.bsky.social
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
mayasen.bsky.social Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Apr 15
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy

Harvard & others must counter this quickly

The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM