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In today’s scientific landscape, the ability to understand and interpret data has never been more crucial. That’s where biostatistics comes into play. Led by Dillon Jones, biologist, educator, and founder of Learn Adventurously. This “Fundamental Biostatistics” webinar serves as a primer for those stepping into the intricate world of biostatistics. We will use a simulated dataset based on real research. This way we will learn statistics that can be directly applied to biological studies.

For Biologists, the R programming language is a powerful tool to manipulate, analyze, or visualize your research. This webinar covers the very basics of R and Rstudio using real biological datasets! Led by Dillon Jones, biologist, educator, and founder of Learn Adventurously.

This webinar will walk you through how to access biodiversity data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). We will cover what types of data are included in GBIF, how to download this data using the websites interface, and detail some best practices for working with the occurrence data from GBIF.

Phylogenetic signal describes a pattern where organisms share traits due to common descent. This webinar will break down the conceptual components of phylogenetic signal, detail the types of questions we can ask, and how you can detect phylogenetic signal in your own data.

P values are the most widely used metric of significance in statistical analyses. However, they are often misused and misunderstood. This webinar will break down precisely what a p-value is, how to interpret it correctly, and why a significant p-value does not equate to meaningful results.

This webinar will introduce you to the ggplot2 visualization package in R. This package enables users to make publications level visualizations of their results and data in an easy reproducible format. We will cover the basic principles of the ggplot2 package, best practices to create stunning visualizations, and how to customize your own themes

Endemism describes a pattern when a taxa is geographically isolated. However, in recent years more focus has been given to studying how Phylogenetic diversity is isolated, otherwise known as phylogenetic endemism. This webinar covers the basic theory of phylogenetic endemism, details how this method is used to detect cradles and museums of biodiversity, and cover the software/tools you can use to study this concept yourself!

Geographic tags are a cornerstone of biological research and are more accessible than ever through resources like iNaturalist, GBIF, and social media. However, conservation concerns surrounding poaching, habitat overuse, and safe access are ever present in the nature space. This webinar provides an overview of the issues, covers best practices for obscuring geographic information, and details how apps like iNaturalist are protecting threatened taxa.