Biodiversity data scientist • Decision Support Program Lead at Atlas of Living Australia • Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease 🪶 http://tinyurl.com/MankyParrots • she/her • Views my own
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📍Wurundjeri Country
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
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The person reading your code is most likely to be future-you, so if you think about it, learning good coding practices is self care
#ESA2025
If you can afford to give any small amount to help families access emergency healthcare and winter supplies👇🏾
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Host a Invertebrates Australia bug lantern and help scientists understand the Bogong moth’s vital migration: Invertebrates Australia provides training, equipment, and support, with expressions of interest due by February 22.
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@daxkellie.bsky.social on why writing good code as scientists can be difficult - many of us are not formally trained to do it. However, there are a few easy steps we can take to improve our code! The ALA also has resources to help:
labs.ala.org.au/posts/
labs.ala.org.au/books/
🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
We’re at #ESA2025!
Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart!
Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Dax Kellie
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
(1) 🥁 Announcing the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners!
First place: 🥇 @rukayaj.bsky.social (@gbifnorway.bsky.social) for BDQEmail
Sharing first place: 🥇 @daxkellie.bsky.social, Amanda Buyan, @shandiya.bsky.social and @rowdynerd.bsky.social (Atlas of Living Australia) for galaxias!
Dax Kellie
Australian Entomological Society
@shandiya.bsky.social shows how huge data infrastructures like the ALA also show what we *don’t* know about biodiversity, but how Data Mobilisation programs & our new {galaxias} package can help people provide data to fill the gaps 👇👀
www.ala.org.au/abdmp/
galaxias.ala.org.au
🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats
Happy National Eucalypt Day!
I summarised 100 years' of eucalypt data from the Atlas of Living Australia as a landscape
#EucalyptoftheYear #rstats @eucalyptaus.bsky.social 📊🧪
See more here: shandiya.com/dataviz.html...
SE Asian Games for Good
Dax Kellie
GBIF
Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉
We all want to write good code…but…how?
In my talk later today, I’ll give all few tips I’ve learned about good scientific code writing that have really helped me & maybe they’ll help you!
Riverbank room 8, 2:50pm #ESA2025
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
