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/

The collab we all needed: #ESAus2024 X @sortee.bsky.social meet up in Melbourne 🍻 so nice to catch up with like-minded ecologists caring about open, reliable and transparent practices in all our spheres

Introducing ensure, a new #rstats package for LLM-assisted unit testing in RStudio! Select some code, press a shortcut, and then the helper will stream testing code into the corresponding test file that incorporates context from your project. github.com/simonpcouch/...

Embracing new code workflows is hard but @daxkellie.bsky.social has made this easier for ecologists in his talk. Check out his tips on how make your code more reproducible here daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... #ESAus2024

Come chat with us about AusTraits and other ecology open source software while you wait for your coffee order #ESA2024

Wow! Look at all these new faces! Hi 😄 I'm Fonti, I am a Biologist at heart, but have been making #Rstats tools for a while now I ❤️ learning new data science things and sharing this with others on Fossodon/Bluesky/my website I'm so happy to see our once-lost communities thrive here on Bluesky 🌱

Grrr I came across someone's clever blog post in my LinkedIn Feed about making an interactive hex sticker image to embed on a website/QMD/RMD, but I've seem to misplace it. #Rstats hive mind, can you help me find it again? 🙏

Keen to learn how to use large language models like chatGPT using #rstats? Me too 🙋‍♀️ 💻 My attempt to teach this at my recent LLM workshop: emitanaka.org/workshop-LLM...

How very timely of the #WOMBAT workshop 💜

I had such a wonderful time at WOMBAT (wombat2024.numbat.space), I managed to lose my voice! I think that is a testament of all the lovely conversations we had about open source tools the past few days! 💜 Thank you @visnut.bsky.social for inviting me to come along!

@annafergusson.bsky.social asked students to draw what they thought data science looks like and I feel so simultaneously sympathetic and attacked by the person who drew Squidward #rstats 📊

Mind got a little blown at #WOMABT today when Mitch O’Hara-Wild showed us how to break #RStats so we can be better coders

Day 1 of tutorials at #WOMBAT! Dean Marchiori on how to make your R code i to production ready software 👩‍🍳 and Mitch O’Hara-Wild on Advanced R skills 😎

Sooo helpful! Didn’t know where to find my peoples! Thank you @drmowinckels.bsky.social 💜

The #OceaniaR hackathon was a lot of fun! Lots of cool projects and clever solutions. There were hex stickers/cookies/tables! 
@visnut thanks for hosting us! 💜 
 We worked on a #data bias problem using data from Australia: github.com/StatSocAus/o... 
Very proud of our group! 💥

woohoo I'm the new maintainer for the ME-GIS project: github.com/andrewheiss/... with all sorts of GIS shapefiles for Middle Earth! Make your own Tolkien maps with #rstats and other GIS programs! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/04...