29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

Openscapes update from @juliesquid.bsky.social, Spring 2026. On being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture. openscapes.org/blog/2026-03... #HowWeWork #KinderScience #OpenScience

Training opportunity: Reimagining complex data-intensive reports. A 5-day course for @icesmarine.bsky.social. June 22 - 26, 2026. Led by @juliesquid.bsky.social (Openscapes), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), Gavin Fay (UMass Dartmouth) openscapes.org/events/2026-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-... #openscience #kinderscience

✍🏼📣We're expanding our support of open Earth science with NASA Openscapes Mentors, with additional focus supporting suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows. Welcoming Ronny Hernández Mora to the Openscapes team to support this work! nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03...

tcbanalytics.com/2026/02/28/r... I built a thing!

@duncanmccue.bsky.social Steve Earle in Canada this summer. www.livenation.ca/all-events/s...

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day. They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach! I can help. Let’s chat.

Of COURSE it's the people that make it work!

✍🏼 People, structure, mechanics: How we led the earthaccess Dec 15 Hackday online and in New Orleans earthaccess is a Python library that simplifies access to NASA Earth science data. We designed the event to focus on building the community of contributors & adopters. openscapes.org/blog/2026-02...

What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier? There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/. Drop your ideas below. If there's enough interest, I might just build it. #Quarto #OpenSource

✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026 openscapes.org/blog/2026-01... 1/n

✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used! by Sophie Breitbard, Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering. Published at: nmfs-ost.github.io/noaa-fit-res... openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...

Just like the great old #rstats Twitter days. People figure things out, write about it from that beginner mindset, and orgs with the capacity amplify these great messages.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

This is an excellent guide!

🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

A much needed reminder in these times. 🧡

New post on the @ropensci.org blog: How to Assess Usage of your #RStats Package 📂 Downloads 🌳 Reverse dependencies 🔍 Code mentions 🎓 Citations ⭐ Popularity measures: likes 🤝 Contributions to the repository 🙋 Use case reports 🕵️ Telemetry ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

Pretty cool halo around the Moon in Virginia just now. Ice crystals high up in the atmosphere bend the light to form the ring and can also break it up into colors like a rainbow, though the colors are usually faint. That's a hens and chicks plant lit by the Moon in the foreground, BTW.

✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess. Links to recording, slides, notes doc nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11...

La date limite pour soumettre une demande de bourse de formation HCB sera le 1er décembre 2025! Les candidats retenus recevront jusqu’à 2 500$ CA pour participer à un atelier, un tutorat ou une autre formation en 2026. Pour en savoir plus et postuler: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...

The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub Training Award application deadline is coming up soon on Dec 1, 2025! Successful applicants will receive up to $2,500 CAD to attend a workshop, tutoral, or other training event in 2026. Learn more and apply: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...

rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️‍⚧️ We are partnering with the @rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below! 📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT) 👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Eel Facts Advent Calendar. Not just for advent! Got for my 81yr old Mum & 19yr old daughter. Mum txts each daily fact to family group chat and they are awesome!!

Advent is a mere 3 weeks away! Consider this. Who in your life... needs to know more about eels? feels joy in learning? likes the ocean? needs a little treat? You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar! Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun! EelFacts.net

Awe man. Two [murmur] signs aka [murmure] still up. I put these signs up Oct 2003. Such respect here - poles painted but signs intact. (murmur was our location-based mobile phone oral history project. Recorded stories about places & people could call & listen while there. Pre smartphone!).

Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud. November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025. Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work... Please share!

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

📣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