Collin Schwantes

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the many women who shape rOpenSci every day. 💙

From software development and peer review to mentorship, community leadership, and training, women are building and strengthening open science across our global community.

They play key roles across […]

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

R6 vs RC - the object oriented wars

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

Darnell and Manassa opened a travel agency

Airborne eDNA captures three decades of ecosystem biodiversity - Nature Communications Quantifying ecosystem dynamics is critical in the face of rapid environmental change. This study uses airborne eDNA to quantify changes in organism abundances across the tree of life and reveal a regi...

Reading this for my ecological genomics class. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, even identifying insect-bacterial symbionts from high covariance in airborne eDNA!

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📢 Applications are open for the 2026 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute (MMARI).

This 5-day workshop funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is tailored for early-career education researchers with little to no prior meta-analysis experience.

Apply by 3/15: www.meta-analysis-re...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Streamlining Data Sharing: Practical Tools and Researcher Stories from the NIH GREI. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join GREI for a three-part series showcasing tools and examples that make it easier to plan, share, and submit data under the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. Register for the specific session(s) that fit your interests—one, several, or all. ▶︎ Webinar 1: Simplifying Repository Selection with GREI’s Flowchart and Comparison Chart (Jan 28) Feeling overwhelmed by the number of available data repositories? This session introduces two complementary tools designed to make the selection process easier: the Generalist Repository Selection Flowchart (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11105429) and the Generalist Repository Comparison Chart (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946719). You will learn how to use these resources to efficiently navigate key decision points. The session will also feature real-world examples that highlight how researchers are sharing and reusing data across GREI repositories to advance their work. ▶︎ Webinar 2: Improving Data Sharing with GREI’s Submission Checklist (Feb 11) This session will help you make your dataset more FAIR. We will walk through GREI's Data Submission Checklist (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14278906), which provides practical guidance for planning, preparing, and publishing your data in a generalist repository. This session will highlight stories from NIH-funded researchers that show how sharing and reusing data through GREI repositories can increase research impact and visibility. ▶︎ Webinar 3: Strengthening Your DMS Plans with GREI’s Practical Guide (Feb 25) A clear and comprehensive Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan is essential for meeting NIH policy requirements. This session introduces GREI’s guide to help you incorporate generalist repositories into your DMS Plan (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14278957), offering recommended language and concrete examples. Learn how to write a stronger, more compliant plan and hear stories from researchers benefiting from sharing data via GREI repositories.

❤️ Happy Love Data Week! #LoveData26

Coming up 2/11: Improving Data Sharing w/ GREI’s Submission Checklist
Learn to plan, prepare, & publish data in a generalist repository. This webinar shares steps to more FAIR data, ft. examples from NIH-funded researchers.

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Ten simple rules for teaching data science Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874

A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models YouTube video by Bottom of the Heap

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.

On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R

📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...

#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

RDM Weekly - Issue 031 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 31 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬

➡️ OS resources in Comm Sciences @csdisseminate.bsky.social
➡️ RDA 25th Plenary Meeting Programme @researchdataall.bsky.social
➡️ Ask for R Help by Creating a Small Reproducible Example @libdrstats.bsky.social
and more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Events Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events

ROR Annual Meeting sessions begin tomorrow! Join us for our 7th anniversary edition of the ROR Community Update, for a session on ROR and funders, and for a session on the role of ROR in the national strategies of Japan, Australia, and Korea. ror.org/events

Have you had lunch? Maybe better to get money on a full stomach

we all want you to get two million dollars today

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

Attempts to pay medical expenses with a different payment method.

Gets warning saying wait 24 hours to ensure declined card was not actually accepted.

Stares into the soul of the payment processing site and despairs.

Sets up HSA to cover medical expenses.

Uses HSA card to pay medical expenses.

HSA card declined by medical provider.

Checks HSA website, card active, has sufficient fund.

Sees payment option directly via HSA website.

Discovers HSA payment option is mailing a check to someone.

Gnashes teeth.

Cream coloured background with an illustration of a tarsier and in red text overlaid reads 2026 Graduate Researchers Award with the GBIF logo displayed at the bottom

🎓 The 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is now open for nominations! This award celebrates innovative Master’s and PhD research powered by GBIF-mediated data, with opportunity to win 2x €5,000 prizes!

Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026

#ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity

The Women Saving America’s Climate Data Meet the network saving federal environmental data. But, as Trump enters his second year, how long can this effort last?

"For over a year now, more than a dozen groups have been working together to rescue environment and climate data—and the majority are being led by women."

Do you have data on wildlife pathogens? The days to publish them on PHAROS before it was cool are counted.

@danjbecker.bsky.social is tirelessly advocating for the adoption of better data curation/archival practices: Proc. B is now the 2nd journal to list PHAROS as an archive for these data.

🧪🌎

ROR relationships and hierarchies ROR records store organizational connections in the `relationships` field, allowing for the display of hierarchies and connections between organizations. The `relationships` element is an array,…

With the help of the ROR community, ROR has very carefully worked out a robust method of storing both structural and temporal organizational relationships. Read more in ROR technical documentation. ror.readme.io/docs/relatio...

Great new paper!

Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.

General_Instructions Instructions for Authors Authors who publish their papers under our open access model or who are NIH-funded will have their paper automatically depos

Exciting news to start 2026: for the first time ever, the PHAROS repository for wildlife disease surveillance is a journal-recommended home for your archived data!

Thanks to Integrative and Comparative Biology for taking the leap with us 🦠🔢➡️🌎💻💫 academic.oup.com/icb/pages/Ge...

AlertDC] A Fireworks Show will occur near the Washington Monument tonight, January 5 at approximately 7:55PM. Expect loud noises, flashing lights.

There fireworks in DC this evening

Apparently part of "Freedom 250" but probably for
Trump to celebrate 5th anniversary of his coup attempt