quarto-revealjs-editable has a new release with 5.0.0!!
It is now much more stable, should now work everywhere, plus:
- Rotation support
- Undo/Redo
- Copy qmd to Clipboard
- keyboard controls
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.
Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.
Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! ๐งก
rworks.dev/posts/claude...
The text at the top reads: โAPPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potentialโ. The image shows a phylogenetic tree on the left side, with images illustrating each genus in the tree on the right. Images from top to bottom are Hypogymnia inactiva, Imshaugia aleurites, Cladonia asahinae, Leptogium sp., Graphis plumierae, Opegrapha niveoatra. A QR code is in the bottom left corner. The text at the bottom reads: โProposal deadline March 16, 2026โ.
DEADLINE IN 1 WEEK
๐ฟSPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS๐ฟ
#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for โPlant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,โ led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers.
More info at botany.org/home/publica...
#botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
#fern #ferns
I just hope the students know sheโs talking about the grass and not them!
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
THIS
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isnโt how much oil prices have spiked, itโs that weโre still burning oil for energy.
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digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV...
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
The text at the top reads: โAPPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potentialโ. The image beneath the title shows a phylogenetic tree on the left side, with images illustrating each genus in the tree on the right. Images from top to bottom are Hypogymnia inactiva, Imshaugia aleurites, Cladonia asahinae, Leptogium sp., Graphis plumierae, Opegrapha niveoatra. The text beneath the image reads: โProposal deadline March 16, 2026โ. The Applications in Plant Sciences logo is in the bottom left corner, and a QR code is in the bottom right corner.
DEADLINE IN 2 WEEKS
๐ฟSPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS๐ฟ
#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for โPlant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,โ led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers.
More info at botany.org/home/publica...
#botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
The first version of FigTree was released nearly 20 years ago and it is still widely used (including by me). But there are currently 85 issues on the GitHub repo (github.com/rambaut/figt...) and some of them I donโt really like the look of.
This is wonderful! Congratulations!
ah that warm fuzzy feeling when you get the monthly email from some stupid hotel or restaurant that you went to ONE time and never plan to go back to again ever but are stuck on their mailing list for life ๐ข
New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Quarto Wizard v2.2.0 is out for VS Code and Positron.
New: schema-aware authoring (completions, hover, validation for Quarto extensions), extension snippets, compatibility badges, and brand support.
m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard
#Quarto #VSCode #PositronIDE #authoring
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
What to learn more about the enigmatic organism Prototaxites?? Have a read of our new Quick Guide in @currentbiology.bsky.social
It includes another great palaeo-reconstruction of the Rhynie ecosystem from @matt-humpage.bsky.social
#rstats 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" scheduled for March 11. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.) This should be the wrap-up release for the 4.5 series.
The text at the top reads: โAPPS Special Issue Call for Papers: Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potentialโ. The image shows a phylogenetic tree on the left side, with images illustrating each genus in the tree on the right. Images from top to bottom are Hypogymnia inactiva, Imshaugia aleurites, Cladonia asahinae, Leptogium sp., Graphis plumierae, Opegrapha niveoatra. A QR code is in the bottom left corner. The text at the bottom reads: โProposal deadline March 16, 2026โ.
DEADLINE APPROACHING!
๐ฟSPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS๐ฟ
#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for โPlant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,โ led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers.
More info at botany.org/home/publica...
#botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
New paper just out deciphering the global speciesโarea relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org
Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
IIRC it was already a lottery?
Episode 221 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
๐ฐ Submissions WG successes and new plans @rconsortium.bsky.social
๐ธ๏ธ Viewing nested lists @yihui.org
h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social ๐
#rstats #databs
Thanks, this looks great! Will definitely give it a try for my next slide deck
+1 to this! I love my Quarto slides but I shudder thinking about how much time Iโve sunk into trying to get text / images in the place I want on a slide
ggannotate: interactively add annotations to your {ggplot2} plots by pointing and clicking github.com/MattCowgill/... #Rstats
They just donโt get it - theyโre trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award.
Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026.
Please share widely! ๐งช #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior
A crochet project featuring several stitch markers (beginning of a Snorlax from Lee Sartori's Pokemon crochet book)
Screenshot of commits on saperlipopette's GitHub repo where each type of commit gets a colored label, e.g. 'docs' or 'feature'
New post: "Git commits: please mark your stitches!"
In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commitsโฆ ๐งถ
masalmon.eu/2026/02/15/s...
The 2026 LinneSys call is open!
Looking for a small grant for systematics work? Check us out! systass.org/linnesys/
All you need is to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social
Caveat, legally, we cannot fund anyone in a country listed here: tinyurl.com/wemwtfrz
