For those who haven't yet seen this classic: stats.stackexchange.com/q/185507/2126 (someone whose manager was insisting that they do this ...)

Any rainbowR folks planning on submitting a proposal for useR!2026? It would be great to have a strong community presence there, and an in-person meet-up 🌈 #RStats #useR2026

🌈 rainbowR conference is over, but we're still glowing! Massive thank you to all the organisers, speakers, & attendees (incl. pets shown off via the Discord server!). Wanna keep it going? ➡️ conference.rainbowr.org/after & keep an eye out for the recordings 👀 #rainbowRconf

Only 2 weeks left to apply to a 3-day hackathon to build tools to improve the visibility of replications! Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2

Wow #rainbowR conference was a blast! Even in these dark times, we have our community. Hoping this would be annual event! #rstats

SO excited for the rainbowR conference today and tomorrow! conference.rainbowr.org 🌈

🌈 rainbowR is next week! ⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC. If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜 🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience

This meme is dead.

"Scientific literacy has long been a cornerstone of higher education but the open research movement has redefined what it means to be literate as a researcher" with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social & @drcpennington.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/if-p...

"justice in science requires 'epistemic inclusion', not just diversity" - @vlastasikimic.bsky.social in amazing keynote at #PSE8

Don't you f**king dare.

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

"However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind." Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄

🌈 rainbowR meet-up & AGM*: Wednesday Jan 28th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - vote on constitution* - elect leadership committee* - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

happy ‘i will reply to your email on my return’ day to all who celebrate

Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it

Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

here’s a free version: neat_research_panel <- data.frame( id = 1:100, treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE), outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5) )

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

contributing to base R is fun and surprisingly easy! 🧵 by the amazing @ellakaye.co.uk #RStats

'How Open Science Bridges Cultures and Promotes Best Practices' webinar tonight at 20:00 NL time. Organized by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Master's student Antonios Kagialis, and featuring Flavio Azevedo among the amazing speakers! Registration via us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Scientists often don't think about communication goals: "I want to make a podcast", and then make a podcast. But what is the goal of your #SciComm?
- @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday July 23rd, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

my supervisors whenever they get a draft from me:

We are Nowhere Lab 👋 nowherelab.com Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience! 🍃 July-September meetings 📆 Every week on WEDNESDAY ⏰ 3.30-4.30pm (UK) 🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)

🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈 Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee! ➡️ rainbowr.org/conference 🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC

We had a great time at our session at #metascience2025 on Monday! We got a lot of new members and connections that joined our community over the last days. Missed our talk, and want to join PYMS or learn more? Find one of our board members at the last day of the conference!

If it weren't for Andy Sterling and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, today's #metascience2025 plenaries would have centred on Ioannidis' zombie numbers and Google's PR (which when challenged was protected by one of the most elitist voices on stage). Thanks you bringing something worth thinking about.

It was all just vibes! But what shocked me even more was promoting the lab leak theory 🤯 (The podcast “If Books Could Kill” has a recent very good discussion of the evidence around this theory and the political forces pushing it)

I'm sorry but you can't come to a #metascience2025 conference and do slide after slide comparing 2005 and 2025 without a single source. Also, I can think of positive reasons for some of the things he's promoting as bad e.g. retractions. Is it just me that's sitting here spectacularly unimpressed?

What is ‘Open Science’? Or, how is Open Science operationalised in survey research? Come talk to me at the #metascience2025 poster session!

I'll be giving an unconference session at #MetaScience today at 14:00 on Papercheck. It will be a workshop on using and creating modules to detect (and correct) scientific practice and reporting. Come along if you're interested in how to use or contribute. No coding expertise required beyond using R

The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.

"We should talk about 'opening science' as opposed to 'open science'" - Henriikka Mustajoki #metascience

"we need more scientists to start doing politics" #metascience

Who else is sceptic about the UK's use of AI to assess research grant proposals? #metascience

After two weeks, I'm finally done! In this post, I explain different approaches for solving linear regression in R: directly, using QR, singular value and Cholesky decompositions, and do some benchmarking for comparison with in-built approaches. thomvolker.github.io/blog/2506_re...

Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open until Mar 2nd! Pairs will be introduced on Mar 3rd 🌈👯‍♂️ If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), this is for you 😃 rainbowr.org/buddies

One of the warmest and most empowering communities I’ve found in the R world is @rainbowr.org 💜 ✨ Their mission? To connect, support, and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. 🌈📊 #RStats #RLadies

This week’s #RLadies curator is @njokinjuki.bsky.social 🎉

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday April 23th, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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⌛ just 3 more hours until this amazing event! 🌈📚