Martin Westgate
@rowdynerd.bsky.social
Australian ecologist | Scientific software developer (#rstats) | Occasional frogger
I’m proud to be 12.5% of the winners of the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 😆👨🏻💻
(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!
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!
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’m proud to be 12.5% of the winners of the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 😆👨🏻💻
Reposted by Martin Westgate
🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨
📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia
galaxias.ala.org.au
#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟
A thread 🧵👇
📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia
galaxias.ala.org.au
#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟
A thread 🧵👇
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨
📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia
galaxias.ala.org.au
#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟
A thread 🧵👇
📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia
galaxias.ala.org.au
#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟
A thread 🧵👇
Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!
Reposted by Martin Westgate
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025 #ChurchillFellow, to find ways to improve data quality at ALA & GBIF
www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...
www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...
To investigate global-scale solutions in biodiversity informatics - Churchill Trust
To investigate global-scale solutions in biodiversity informatics - Public Service — Federal, State and Local governments and authorities
www.churchilltrust.com.au
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025 #ChurchillFellow, to find ways to improve data quality at ALA & GBIF
www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...
www.churchilltrust.com.au/project/to-i...
Reposted by Martin Westgate
If you like #DataViz or a curious about it, come on September 29 for a one-two punch of hands-on tutorials and and stick around for Nicola Rennie's talk on building effective data visualisations the next day.
See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space
#OpenSource #RStats
See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space
#OpenSource #RStats
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If you like #DataViz or a curious about it, come on September 29 for a one-two punch of hands-on tutorials and and stick around for Nicola Rennie's talk on building effective data visualisations the next day.
See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space
#OpenSource #RStats
See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space
#OpenSource #RStats
Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜
August 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜
Reposted by Martin Westgate
You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚
Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!
wombat2025.numbat.space
Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!
wombat2025.numbat.space
August 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚
Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!
wombat2025.numbat.space
Early Bird registration ends in just a few days!
wombat2025.numbat.space
I’ll be at day 2 of this, along with @daxkellie.bsky.social and @shandiya.bsky.social; very excited to hear from these speakers!
Early bird registration for #WOMBAT2025 ends this week! WOMBAT is a data analytics workshop in Melbourne featuring the latest open source software.
📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event)
📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia
wombat2025.numbat.space
📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event)
📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia
wombat2025.numbat.space
WOMBAT 2025
The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.
wombat2025.numbat.space
August 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I’ll be at day 2 of this, along with @daxkellie.bsky.social and @shandiya.bsky.social; very excited to hear from these speakers!
Reposted by Martin Westgate
🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨
Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.
Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm
What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!
Let me explain ...
Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.
Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm
What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!
Let me explain ...
July 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨
Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.
Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm
What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!
Let me explain ...
Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.
Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm
What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!
Let me explain ...
@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
June 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025
This sounds pretty cool - the ability to programmatically download any dataset from a DOI is a great feature, and super important for reproducibility.
{galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly
galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...
{galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly
galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...
⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!
Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.
Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...
Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.
Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...
June 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This sounds pretty cool - the ability to programmatically download any dataset from a DOI is a great feature, and super important for reproducibility.
{galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly
galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...
{galah} has supported this feature for ALA for some time, but we’ll aim to add it for GBIF shortly
galah.ala.org.au/R/articles/d...
Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great talk by @hannahsfraser.bsky.social on assessing condition of bird communities
June 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Great talk by @hannahsfraser.bsky.social on assessing condition of bird communities
@patmnorman.bsky.social on how to get tree heights out of lidar data at landscape scales #ICCB2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
@patmnorman.bsky.social on how to get tree heights out of lidar data at landscape scales #ICCB2025
Fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 by @shandiya.bsky.social on our teams’ work supporting open data *and* code at ALA
June 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 by @shandiya.bsky.social on our teams’ work supporting open data *and* code at ALA
Reposted by Martin Westgate
🚨galah 2.1.2 is on CRAN! 📦
This version fixes a major bug that prevented queries with more complex filters from returning the correct result. It also adds a way to get species conservation status from authoritative lists
🔗 Details: galah.ala.org.au/news/index.h...
#rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social 🌏
This version fixes a major bug that prevented queries with more complex filters from returning the correct result. It also adds a way to get species conservation status from authoritative lists
🔗 Details: galah.ala.org.au/news/index.h...
#rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social 🌏
June 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🚨galah 2.1.2 is on CRAN! 📦
This version fixes a major bug that prevented queries with more complex filters from returning the correct result. It also adds a way to get species conservation status from authoritative lists
🔗 Details: galah.ala.org.au/news/index.h...
#rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social 🌏
This version fixes a major bug that prevented queries with more complex filters from returning the correct result. It also adds a way to get species conservation status from authoritative lists
🔗 Details: galah.ala.org.au/news/index.h...
#rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social 🌏
Reposted by Martin Westgate
This mobile-friendly & R-friendly app lets you create species checklists for a specified area 📋🐦🦘🌱 It uses global and national data (from GBIF & ALA) to make a list comprehensive & fast!
Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏
unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/
Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏
unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/
June 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This mobile-friendly & R-friendly app lets you create species checklists for a specified area 📋🐦🦘🌱 It uses global and national data (from GBIF & ALA) to make a list comprehensive & fast!
Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏
unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/
Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏
unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/
Reposted by Martin Westgate
Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks!
* Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social
* Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data
#conservation #rstats 🧪🌏
* Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social
* Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data
#conservation #rstats 🧪🌏
June 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks!
* Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social
* Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data
#conservation #rstats 🧪🌏
* Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social
* Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data
#conservation #rstats 🧪🌏