Jon Sullivan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@ml" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/plantscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>plantscience</span></a></span> 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).</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/FieldData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FieldData</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>