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February 23, 2026

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THREE BIG THINGS THIS WEEK

  1. We have a few open PRs this week to review from new contributors and one from Matthew (fixing a memory leak).

  2. Bai is working on ecosystemdata to extract selectivity parameters from EWE output.

  3. Matthew is working ALL WEEK on translational units to decrease the number of cores that we need to build FIMS.

HELPFUL RESOURCES

FIMS ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Please consider submitting an entry to the FIMS blog, Elizabeth made this handy template to make it as painless as possible.
  • Version 0.8.1 was released TODAY! Two small fixes and lots of great documentation.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, February 25

FIMS Code Club

Time: 16:00–19:00 E; 13:00–16:00 P; 12:00–15:00 AK; 09:00-12:00 H Location: Virtual Online: Google meet

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Our cheatsheet is now live in the FIMS package.

An infographic containing information on how to format data and the basics for fitting a FIMS model. See the vignettes for the code explained in this infographic.