Jeff Hollister

Bearded man in a black T-shirt that says "The only correct date format is YYYY-MM-DD"

Have you seen the shirt I was gifted by a colleague?

You probably were moving twice as fast as the folks in cars around Ogunquit! Crazy crowded, but that beach ...

My colleague got it from Amazon. I think you can have anything put in the shirt.

I work with the best people... Gift from a colleague because I am sticking it out at work. I think my #rstats and #tidydata rants have made an impact!

One of the most troubling misconceptions about science and research held by politicians is that science and research can be turned on and off without consequence, like turning a water spigot.

Data Consultants

More data consultants added, more service tags added, and several new countries represented.

Looking for data help? Check out this list!
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Introducing {avilistr}: The AviList Global Bird Taxonomy is Now Available in R | Daly Analytics The Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the release of AviList — the first unified global bird taxonomy. Today, I'm excited to share that this groundbreaking dataset is now available to R users thro...

🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉

The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week!

🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist...
💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...

I'm very excited to share that Hacking Limno + DSOS are coming back for the FIFTH time 21-25 July! If you're interested in #machinelearning #remotesensing #modeling #limnology #oceanography, this is for YOU! Registration is FREE + open to ALL! #DSOS25 aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

If I follow the rules it is my bluesky image... If I use the next one, I get this.

Excited to announce that I'll be presenting on our #surveydown project at posit::conf(2025)!

It'll be in the Wed afternoon session on #Quarto (surveydown lets you use Quarto to build surveys)

More on surveydown at surveydown.org

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!

dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Road in Bristol temporarily closed due to boat crash | ABC6 A boat on a road in Bristol caused traffic on April 23, 2025. (Bristol Police Department/Facebook)BRISTOL, R.I. (WLNE) — The Bristol Police Department said that Metacom Avenue at Michael Drive was tem...

www.abc6.com/road-in-bris... #rhodeislandproblems

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We should all aspire to be a grandparent with a toolbox!

Study Links Binge Eating To Stress, Contentment, Depression, Joy, Boredom, Anger, Relaxation

Study Links Binge Eating To Stress, Contentment, Depression, Joy, Boredom, Anger, Relaxation
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This is wild…

📝 "Observable for R users"

👤 Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social)

📖 R users: Boost your data viz! Combine R's stats power with Observable's interactive JS visuals via Quarto. Easy, fast, & customizable.

🔗 https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/observable-r-users/

#rladies #rstats

First page of a CBJ Assembly resolution supporting Federal Workers and urging the Congressional Delegation to oppose cuts to federal agencies. Presented by Assembly Member Alicia Hughes-Skandijs.

Second page of a CBJ Assembly resolution supporting Federal Workers and urging the Congressional Delegation to oppose cuts to federal agencies. Presented by Assembly Member Alicia Hughes-Skandijs.

Federal Employees in Juneau have their community behind them. Today my colleagues and I on the Assembly consider a resolution that recognizes the service and importance of Federal Employees and advocates for the cuts to stop.

Aerial view of an ocean peninsula with trees, beach, and a building.

Applications are open for the Stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences workshop! This NSF-funded training, co-sponsored by CUAHSI is taking place AUG 18-19 at Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA. Apply by May 16 www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse While investigative journalists immerse themselves in minutiae to identify waste and fraud, Elon Musk’s team has taken a chainsaw approach to spending based on cursory examinations. That might help…

Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old.

That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud.

By @sengelberg.bsky.social

It's what I do!

Hey, #TeamMuskox, a good friend trained as a meteorologist (with a PhD) who shifted to health data science during COVID was working as a federal contractor on racial disparities in maternal-fetal health outcomes, and he just lost his job. If you know of any remote data science positions, hit me up!

Safe travels!

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:

Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.

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Hits close to home, but funny is funny...

Happy 75th birthday to the #1 reason we should always be grateful to Canada - their greatest export… Mr. Martin Short.

anyway, if anyone needs EPA ecoregions for CONUS and doesn't want to hunt down the right download link for each region in turn...

docker run -it ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-latest ogrinfo /vsicurl/https://mikemahoney218.github.io/epa-ecoregions/ecoregions.parquet

github.com/mikemahoney2...