sheila saia
sheilasaia.bsky.social
sheila saia
@sheilasaia.bsky.social
(she/her) environmental data scientist. passionate about coding and reproducible science. interested in research questions exploring the relationships between humans, climate, and water resources.
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📢 We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should?

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R-Ladies Rotating Curator Sign-Up - R-Ladies Global
R-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community
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April 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @nitinsingh.bsky.social @sheilasaia.bsky.social @ruchibhattacharya.bsky.social @hooriajami.bsky.social on relating groundwater levels to drought and crop water utilization in the CONUS: crop-specific trends, dominant crops, water availability, and sensitivity analyses.
May 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Today is International Women’s Day! It’s an important day for us (although the R-Ladies mission is not limited to women). 💜Who are we? R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Excited that the useR! conference is coming to my home town. Deadline has been extended to March 10 end of the day anywhere on Earth. Please consider applying!
UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
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March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats
Call for Submissions – useR! 2025
user2025.r-project.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening.

This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail.

The Census API, for now, is still up.
February 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Misinformation about the presidential memo on Lumbee recognition is frustrating but not unexpected given the complexity of the issue. Here is a short FAQ followed by suggested readings to help clear the air.
January 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Apply for a Postdoc Fellowship at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment! (Due Feb 2, 2025) Details 👇🏽
sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione...
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Applications open December 2, 2024 - February 2, 2025 Apply Now
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January 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I present to you, with no context whatsoever

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January 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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💜 Diversity and inclusion on stage matter.
💜 Representation in data science matters.
Be part of the movement:
📝 Submit an abstract: https://buff.ly/4jpXe3W
👩‍💻 Become a reviewer: https://buff.ly/4gQMtWH
#rstats #rladies
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January 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The useR! 2025 site is live! You can check out the key dates to get a head start on writing your submission or travel planning. Who is looking forward to visiting North Carolina? The area should be beautiful in August for sure!

#rstats

user2025.r-project.org
useR! 2025
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January 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🎉 I just wrapped up teaching the Introduction to GIS Programming course this semester at the University of Tennessee! All course materials and lecture recordings (26 hours) are freely available online.

Explore #geospatial 🌍 data visualization and analysis using #opensource Python packages:
December 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM