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Statistical Data Artist & Scientist at Australian National University 🇳🇿 Interested in mixed models, experimental design, plant breeding 🌱, bioinfo 🧬, data vis 📊, statistical practice, ML/AI 👩🏻‍💻 Dabbles in UI, UX, front-end & #rstats 📦 dev emitanaka.org
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If any folks are keen to go to #positconf2025 but resources are limited, I highly recommend applying to be an Opportunity Scholar! Read more about the program here: posit.co/blog/discove...

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Australia: Professional Scientists’ Remuneration Survey 2025, by Science & Tech Australia. https://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/have-your-say-scientists-remuneration-survey/

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Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

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another app made using #Quarto live + #Observable JS -- this time finding the best of line of fit by visual inspection

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Using #Observable JS + #Quarto to create an app to demonstrate the central limit theorem from sampling from uniform [0,1] distribution repeatedly and plotting the empirical mean distribution

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Reworking my intro to stats with R materials using #quarto live and it's sooo good! Interactive R code + reactive visualisation right in my slides 💯

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Can’t stress enough about having some code repository (GitHub etc) especially if you are early career and/or looking for a job. If the selection criteria asks for scientific programming skills, everyone claims they can code and use good practice. Show some evidence by providing a link to GitHub etc

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

This 👇. Specifically, for people in the quantitative sciences, I recommend: - Have a well-tended ORCID - GitHub/GitLab repository with some of your research outputs - Personal webpage (e.g. quarto) on a static hosting service such as GitHub/GitLab Pages, Netlify, Posit Connect, ...

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Yikes. What a week to be in Perth 🥵

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Question for PhD/grad students and postdocs ... what professional development courses would you like to have been offered when you started your PhD/grad program? What skills (not technical) would have been valuable in helping you through your PhD journey and beyond?

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I wrote this post to give folks in my centre a broad overview of switching from #Stata to #rstats and some examples of code equivalents. Hopefully it's helpful to others too! benharrap.com/post/2025-01...

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Hear from this year’s winner 👩🏻‍💻👨🏽‍💻 and best applicants to the Di Cook Award on Feb 25 12-1 Sydney time. Details at www.statsoc.org.au/event-6018948 celebrating open source software 🎉

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Would you open your paper to a modular open-collaboration model? It was game-changing for #tidyomics If you love #crowdResearch and #CommunityBuilding have your say on the #crowdToPaper model guidelines Comment on the shared doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share 🙏

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Want to use your #statistics, ML/AI or #bioinformatics skills to solve problems in #agriculture? We are seeking 3 postdocs (up to 3 years) to join at ANU Biological Data Science Institute as part of Analytics for 🇦🇺 Grains industry by 📅 19 Jan We now also have a (WIP) website! 🌐 anu-aagi.github.io

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Want to use your #statistics, ML/AI or #bioinformatics skills to solve problems in #agriculture? We are seeking 3 postdocs (up to 3 years) to join at ANU Biological Data Science Institute as part of Analytics for 🇦🇺 Grains industry by 📅 19 Jan We now also have a (WIP) website! 🌐 anu-aagi.github.io

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year everyone 🥳 We're pleased to announce that this year @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy & Mevin Hooten will be joining at the #Biometrics in the Bush Capital as invited speakers! 📅 24-28th Nov 2025 📍 Canberra, Australia 🔗 biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #statsky #databs

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

There's still a week left to enter your @quarto.org scrollytelling story in the Closeread Prize and maybe win some swag generously provided by Posit PBC! Entries close Jan 5, Anywhere on Earth. 🏁 Enter here: posit.co/blog/closere... 🎓 Learn Closeread: closeread.dev

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a researcher or academic, please make it easy to find your contact details! This is an old talk of mine for the WA Young Stats Event but the advice still holds (just replace twitter with bsky or mastodon). 👩‍💻 "What every young statistician should know" emitanaka.org/slides/YSW2020

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Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Here's another #Quarto #rstats blogpost for you all: Including your publications on your Quarto website benharrap.com/post/2024-12... #dataBS

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

The International Biometrics Conference 2024 in Atlanta comes to an end. Thank you for all the work behind the scenes for a wonderful conference! #IBC2024ATL The next IBC is in Seoul, South Korea in July 2026 🇰🇷 And the 2028 IBC is at Basel, Switzerland in July 🇨🇭 See you next time!

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