Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20! Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community. 🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Share your Positron setup! with cohost @noamross Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-02 #rstats @[email protected]

I'm excited to inform you: @hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀 I regret to inform you: I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻 #rstats #databs

📣 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

For the past couple of months I have been working the `heritable` R package with @emitanaka.org 🧬📦 A one-stop shop for calculating heritability from mixed models! Read more: anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

A simple but lovely idea borrowed from the R user community ☺️

#OceaniaR2025 has kicked off! We have wonderful attendees from the UK, South America and the South Pacific 🌎

We are thrilled to welcome fellow R nerds to the OceaniaR hackathon this Sunday on ANU campus. A few more tickets left if you would like to join us! @deanmarchiori.bsky.social @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy @visnut.bsky.social statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

Coming to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting & need a little R&R? 🌿 🚨 Our social activity sign-ups closes this Friday! 🚨 Whether you want to get out and see the wildlife 🦘, enjoy fine wines 🍷or stretch your legs 🚶, we hope you will enjoy your time in Canberra. 🔗: bit.ly/4oSSMwL

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Registration for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting is closing in just over one week! We have an incredible line up of workshops and talks and hope to see you in Canberra soon!! Register here! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

@emitanaka.org talks about key design principles from #tidyverse and how we can improve plant breeding software 😎

Have an open-source project that needs a bit of TLC? Want to meet cool R folks and build capacity within the community? Why not propose a project at the upcoming OceaniaR hackathon held in Canberra Nov 23! github.com/StatSocAus/o... @deanmarchiori.bsky.social

🌾 We had a great time talking about initial data analysis, chi-square goodness of fit and glms with @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social @emitanaka.org 📊🍫👩‍💻 Thanks for having us @futurecropsau.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you to everyone who joined in with their hex photo. It was a pleasure to be part of R Dev Day and to have presented R in Buenos Aires 💜. #RStats #RDevDay

Was wonderful to reconnect with @goandre.bsky.social again after meeting at #posit::conf(2024). Check out her incredible leadership in kick starting R en Buenos Aires community👏 r-consortium.org/posts/r-en-b...

It makes my heart so warm to see our shared love for R bring us together 🫶

Very excited to be reunited with @ellakaye.co.uk + Heather Turner to help out in the #RDevDay! Lots of small wins with @emitanaka.org and others on making R manuals pretty, a continuing project I worked on at last years R Dev Day in Austria 🫶

Re-sharing my starter pack so I can update my pinned post If you're a statistician, data scientist, or someone doing statsy or data sciencey things in Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand) and want to be on the list, just let me know! go.bsky.app/3wERdAo

Join us folks, we are a lovely bunch 💜

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:

📊 Go beyond linear! Learn to model complex relationships with generalized nonlinear models in R using the gnm package with ‪@heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy‬ 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 9am – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

The virtual useR! 2025 event is happening tomorrow (August 1). There's still time to register. Claim your spot, for free, before time runs out! The program: user2025.r-project.org/program/virt... Registration: user2025.r-project.org/register #useR2025 #rstats

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

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies 📍 Father’s Office 🕕 August 14, 6pm 🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour! www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

Prefer to enjoy nature with wine and cheese, then the Clonkilla wine tasting tour might be the one for you 🍇💜 See you there! #BIB2025 membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

There is one *spot* at Tidbinbilla where everyone says there is a good chance to spot these cuties. In my own experience, I've had a hit rate of 2/3 times 😉 🎯 See you there! (Bring binoculars if you have em!) membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

Calling all stats nerds to the heart of Australia to discuss all things #Biometrics! 🐨 at the upcoming Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting #BIB25 ⚡ Abstract submission has been extended! We'll see you there!

@emitanaka.org has been upskilling our team on all things plant breeding. Design, stats, math and cake

The cake was grains themed!!!! 🌾 brains, belly and heart full. Thank you so much @emitanaka.org 🫶

Do my residuals look okay? @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social showed off his R package / Shiny app {autovi} for making visual inferences on residual plots! We also had rainbow cake to make us happy, it also made the slides rainbow. Thank you Elle!! 📈🌈 #BDSI #dataviz 🔗 tengmcing.github.io/autovi/

And I'm excited to see that it uses the {galah} package to get data from GBIF and the ALA too! See what you can do with {galah} by visiting the package website, or checking on the tutorials on ALA Labs galah.ala.org.au/R/ labs.ala.org.au/posts/ #rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social

This mobile-friendly & R-friendly app lets you create species checklists for a specified area 📋🐦🦘🌱 It uses global and national data (from GBIF & ALA) to make a list comprehensive & fast! Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏 unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks! * Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social * Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data #conservation #rstats 🧪🌏

Super excited to join forces with to solve crop breeding problems!!! Let’s go! 🌾🐝😎

Bittersweet feelings finishing a postdoc and starting a new one 🌦️ I wrote a little blog reflecting on some highlights from the past four years 😌 fontikar.github.io/blog/farewel...

This is the way. Join us R friends 🦾

Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n

Our #TidyTuesday event is next week! We hope yo see you there! 💜📊🧑‍💻

If you are Canberra based, then you can alternatively sign up from the #rladies Canberra meetup www.meetup.com/rladies-canb... Many thanks to @fontikar.bsky.social , Virginia Wenger, and other awesome ladies for organising this cross-chapter #TidyTuesday event!

My #rstats friends - R-Ladies Canberra x Melbourne x Sydney are thrilled to bring you a #TidyTuesday event! 🎨📊 Come along, connect with the community + stretch your data muscles 😊 All coding experience levels are welcome! 📆: Tue May 6 ⏰: 1:00 PM AEST ℹ️: bit.ly/42rFX2D

Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush

Our #pizza watch party for the Di Cook Award webinar is about to begin! Register and join us! DM me if you on UNSW Sydney campus and want a slice 🍕 #SSA @visnut.bsky.social

Hey hey! This seminar begins in 1h! Join us! 💜🖤 Adam @adamwang15.bsky.social will present the bsvarSIGNs package with application to Australian monetary policy! #bsvarSIGNs #bsvars #rstats #econsky

If any folks are keen to go to #positconf2025 but resources are limited, I highly recommend applying to be an Opportunity Scholar! Read more about the program here: posit.co/blog/discove...

here are more attendee perspectives from #positconf Clarissa Jade Barratt www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/posit-c... jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2024-1... @fontikar.bsky.social fontikar.github.io/blog/posit_c... @smachlis.bsky.social nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2024-0...

#Rstats hive mind, would anyone have some advice for me? I am scratching my head over this 🥲 TIA forum.posit.co/t/cran-incom...

Come hear from Xiaolei (Adam) Wang, winner of 2024's Di Cook Award about their R package {bsvarSIGNs} #SSA #rstats #StatsSocAus 🏆 📆 When: 12pm AEDT 25 Feb 🎟️ Register: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6018948 🍎 Learn: bsvars.org/bsvarSIGNs/