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Kia ora! I'm a #nature nut, addict of #iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao, and an #ecologist at #LincolnUniversity in #Aotearoa-#NewZealand.

I spend an inordinate amount of my time counting nature to watch what's changing (see https://wildcounts.org/).

#TwitterMigration #NZTwits #ecology #EcologicalMonitoring #NaturalHistory #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #wildcounts #RStats #Biodiversity

Born when there was 326 ppm carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Scientists!

Tell us about an lab/field organizational tip that you think can apply to other scientist's lab/field operations!

Is there anything you used to do in a way that cost more or wasted more or made data fuzzy or, but now you've created a way you like better?

Share! @academicchatter @plantscience

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@ml @academicchatter @plantscience Date everything, and get into the habit of using an internationally unambiguous date format (eg 2024-08-07, or 7 Aug 2024 or Aug 7 2024, but never 7/8/2024).

If you’re forced to use Excel, ensure that dates are entered in a way that Excel cannot interpret the column as a date (eg force the column format to character, or type the date as the number 20240807). This avoids date data being occasionally scrambled and corrupted.

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@nxskok @ml @academicchatter @plantscience Neat. I didn't know about Modern CSV. I'm looking at it now and it looks great!

https://www.moderncsv.com/

I deleted Excel a long time ago, but I know some people are stuck on work computers with Office365 and cannot install better software.

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@seindal @nxskok @ml @academicchatter @plantscience Possibly. I get date-scrambled data with postgrad students using Excel, but few use LibreOffice because our university supplies Excel. I use LibreOffice for simpler data entry but I’m careful not use date format columns. I’m wary of columns that don’t store what I type, and only store what they think I meant. In the case of LibreOffice Calc, when something it thinks is a date is typed, it stores the number of days since 12 Dec 1899.

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Most of Plant Science Twitter seems to be on Bluesky. What are your favorite Fediverse accounts (institutional and/or personal) for keeping up with academic botanical news? @plantscience @academicchatter

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@ml @plantscience @academicchatter Here are a few of the folk I follow who post about plant science things (mostly ecology, evolution or natural history): @umehlig, @planty, @silverdory, @flannerm, @dr_norb, @Dendrochronicle, @Theobrominated, @bjenquist, @cbuddenhagen, @LyndaDelph

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