Nathan Brouwer

Starting a thread on #rstats #r4ds for brainstorming how to teacher R to first timers. First - use @rstudio cloud , which was free for educators last year. 1/

Endangered ash tree of North America is invasive in secondary forests in Eastern Africa JA Mullah and @odee_david link.springer.com/article/10.100… #ecology

in honor of @PittBioSci work on duckweed I always use a picture of it in my lecture slides when I transition from talking about prokaryotes to eukaryotes in intro bio @swapecoevo @Exp_EvoEco

here's my cheat for using RStudio cloud for first-time #rstats coders. includes some issues that can trip up folks (e.g. cranky pop-up blockers) #lowbrowR docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Here's my (opinionated) written guide to getting started with #rstats/RStudio/RStudio cloud, and online resources for learning which I use in my classes docs.google.com/document/d/1Oo… #lowbrowR

I am working on simple videos for my online #rstats course for total R/coding beginners (sophomore undergrads). Here's "Creating an RStudio Cloud Account" youtu.be/9UL1RhdLNs4 #lowbrowR

in this #rstats video for total beginners, I discuss how to use RStudio cloud primer. super easy to use, but a few quirks that could throw off people new to coding "RStudio Cloud Primers Overview" youtube.com/watch?v=EgWzch… #lowbrowR

Our captioning software things I'm @hadleywickham I think when it hears me talk about #rstats

@jwalkrunski i bet my python joke is better an i can tell it faster

I have a teaching #rstats joke but there are too many ways to tell it

this is interesting physiology-race-social justice intersection @burhanco2 statnews.com/2020/07/17/egf… related stuff has been on twitter recently, can forward if interested

@riridoesthings thanks!

@riridoesthings what's the reference for the study? I'd love to discuss it in my stats and intro bio classes. estimating a general correction factor for any group is statistically tenuous at best 😐

are there #rstats tools for converting a text bibliography to bibtex or another standard format?

@wild_ecology sounds like a great way to test ecological theory and knowledge of the speies

Discussion question: is there value (define as you will) in establishing populations of extirpated wildlife species in isolated habitat patches, even if those populations will be 100% isolated? Think large urban natural areas or oases in the corn desert.

New article out with @elborgo9 and @keith_lohse on "Ten Common Statistical Errors From All Phases of Research, and Their Fixes." DM me for a copy of the pdf (these articles appear to be on a lagged open access schedule!). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

I submitted my grades, took a day off email, and today there are only like 5 emails in my in box. What did I do wrong? @RaineeKaz @burhanco2

I need to check out r-exams.org for classes next year 4/

Starting a thread on #rstats #r4ds for brainstorming how to teacher R to first timers. First - use @rstudio cloud , which was free for educators last year. 1/

@TrashBirdEcol I wonder if the term "informatics" would be useful for explaining how statistics is different than data science. to me, a data scientists has to be able to find, access, clean, and communicate. stats folks (at least in the classroom) usually assume data is given and tidy

@TrashBirdEcol thx; mostly lines up w/ my thoughts. I like your def. of ecoinf; I've been trying to frame how comp bio is different than bioinformatics; thinking in terms of what is ecoinformatics (where data is much more heteregenous) is helpful

@TrashBirdEcol (they're arbitrary labels, but i'd like to be able to justify, at least to myself, why I teach some things and not others)

@TrashBirdEcol random question - have you ever seen anything written on what's the difference between statistical ecology, quantitative ecology, and computational ecology I teach a computational biology course and I'm trying to come up with a way of delineating closely related field. 1/