📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too! Some examples from last year:

There are 20 crab facts advent calendars left from @franzanth.bsky.social’s 2023 run. Idk if I’ll restock these (I’m low on stickering time this year bc I’m running so many events). So! If you are planning to get multiple types of advent calendars, clock’s ticking on crabs. SquidFacts.Net

Coolest thing. @bffo.bsky.social, Ryan Brinkman & I started this cross-YVR bioinformatics seminar & networking series when you were lucky to see a sequence alignment in someone's talk. Ppl found collaborators, jobs, grad school supervisors, made friends, learned stuff. Still going after 23 years.

✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop. 🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions. nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2025-08...

From the past: #VanBUG Nov 2002: Lincoln Stein (LS) is the invited speaker. In pic (L2R): @bffo.bsky.social, Roger Foxall (then @ @genomebc.bsky.social ), Steven Jones (@bcgsc.ca), LS, Ryan Brinkman & @stefaniebutland.bsky.social. 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 🇨🇦 #OpenEducationalResources ⬇️ www.vanbug.org/archive/2002...

Hello #dataBS (& especially #TidyTuesday) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see github.com/rfordatascie... for some ways you can help! #RStats

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming. Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac... #rstats #datascience

What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

Here's your Philly bug of the day (well, in this case, night) The Broadheaded Sharpshooter! Why are they called sharpshooters? Because uh. They're just like. Constantly peeing lol. While I was taking pictures it peed like. idek. 10 times? Nonstop.

If you attend *ONE* Data Science Hangout this year, make it this week's hangout with JENNY BRYAN. Trust me ✨ Thursday, July 31st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET - a casual conversation with Jenny powered by YOUR questions. Feel free to lurk or hop in the chat. #rstats #databs pos.it/dsh 👈🏼 👀 (register here!)

Openscapes Community Call Tues July 29: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata. A story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new tech features. Details & register (free) nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-07...

I have a weekly #tidytuesday #pydytuesday calendar event where my buddies and I get together on zoom to work together for an hour. I set timers to keep us on track and we check in after each, so it's ~30 mins of coding. 5 mins - get data loaded in 10 mins - explore data 15 mins - flesh out one idea

The @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview with Mike Myers on the eve of Canada Day is sooo good. And yes, we need more Mike Myers always 🇨🇦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_x...

A bit of an update thread: I resigned from my academic position at UNSW a few months ago now and have been taking a break to rest, reflect, and work out what I want the next half of my career to look like. 1/9

You get real, practical, doable, tangible tasks you 100% can do. If you're feeling "helpless" Andrea's advice will eradicate that feeling.

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday! 5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research. openscapes.github.io/booklet/

I ❤️ @jagmeetsingh.ca

America discovers Chantel.

Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4. Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/

Thanks so much to @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social for running this crowdsourced list of grant terminations by NSF. It's important to know what we are losing. See what's been cancelled, and there's a link to report any new ones you know about: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3

I learned so much in researching this article. Thanks, as always, to the many sources who were so generous with their time, not all of whom made it into the final article, inc. @titus.idyll.org @robp.bsky.social @gvwilson.bsky.social @noamross.net @yabellini.bsky.social and more.

Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building. Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...

Happy Good Friday from the Angus clan. We are lighting the candles of all the great angels of heaven. St. Joe is with us in this time of darkness.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

today is my last day curating this account! before i go, i'd like to discuss one more topic 🌱 learning from and connecting with the #rstats community 🔗

Want to work with me on the Shiny team at @posit.co alongside @jcheng5.bsky.social @winstonchang.bsky.social @schloerke.bsky.social @grrrck.xyz? We're looking for another engineer, apply here posit.co/job-detail/?... #rstats #rshiny #ShinyConf #python #pydata

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Hey #rstats! There's space in my courses this Thurs & Fri in Brisbane! Quarto for Scientists - The art & science of reproducibility, "getting unstuck in R" - statsoc.org.au/event-6132307 R Package Essentials: - Function fundamentals, write a package from scratch! - statsoc.org.au/event-6132303

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

i fucking love science! let’s go science and scientists!

Hello everyone! I'm Alyssa Columbus (@alycolumbus.bsky.social), your curator this week 🎉. I'm a biostatistics PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins who is passionate about trustworthy data analysis, open science, and teaching #rstats. Excited to connect with you all! #rladies

Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...

Good things from @ropensci.org 🤝 Openscapes social coworking discussion of "forking as a world view". ✍️The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository, by Hugo Gruson, @stefaniebutland.bsky.social & @rubyk.bsky.social openscapes.org/blog/2025-02... ropensci.org/blog/2025/02...

Applications now open!

Such delightful and productive connections among communities that build #OpenScince and #KinderScience

SciArt Feed 🐡 on fire today. Amazing work by so many people!

Added a new service to the "develop" branch of the #rstats dataRetrieval package to access USGS water quality discrete data. Read about it here: water.code-pages.usgs.gov/dataRetrieva... Fulfilling my oath to the American people, one git push at a time 🫡

📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025! Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo openscapes.org/events/2025-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

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🧵 (5/5) Enjoy learning about open science? Are you a Black marine or environmental researcher or HBCU student? It's never too late to join Pathways to Open Science 💻✨! If you didn't attend our first event, come to the others and join our first coworking session this Thursday 5-6:30 PM ET⭐️

🧵 (1/5) 👀So what is open science?? Open data science refers to the tools and practices enabling reproducible, transparent, and inclusive practices for data intensive science! Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡 #OpenScience #KinderScience

🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the #RLadies #RotatingCuration program is restarting Monday! 🔍 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/p9fvk7s2 🙋‍♀️ Want to become a curator? Sign up: tinyurl.com/44twdsbu 🌟 Know someone who’s a perfect fit? Nominate them: tinyurl.com/5yny5cae

Allies, please share with your Black colleagues in marine or environmental science. Program starts today! Free registration is open throughout the series of Calls and Coworking sessions.

Whether you’re a data pro or a newbie, open science can enhance your work. Join our 1st “Pathways to Open Science” session tomorrow for stories & data efficiency tips. zoom.us/meeting/regi... #BlackSky @blackinx.bsky.social Thanks @openscapes.bsky.social BIMS @official-bweems.bsky.social