Our new Mayor uses alt text? Most politicians and journalists can't be bothered. Amazing! Thanks!

Also, being a high profile person doesn't exempt you from the responsibility of providing access. 

I'm suing the Trump administration for making it harder to protect consumers by illegally trying to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

It is National Science Fiction Day! Affirmation Coyote would like a future where coyotes have opposable thumbs and mingle with humans without having to pile on each other's shoulders wrapped up in a overcoat. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

Don't guide anyone's hand without their permission. It is disorienting and unhelpful. This is what the alt text says is going on in the cartoon. 

December news! 🗞️ #rstats 📼 rOpenSci at LatinR 📼 rOpenSci at uRos 📆 Coworking 📈 New package {mantis} 👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers 🗒️ 3 tech notes! 🧰 Package Development Corner https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/12/18/news-december-2025/

New blog post by @mpadge.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte: Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

📣 #CanineScientists, there's an upcoming conference deadline! #CO3 is a great meeting for researchers studying animals from any taxa, and a fantastic excuse to visit Montréal 🍁🦫 #DogCognition #BigTeamScience #DogBehavior #ComparativePsychology

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

Ya esta! El programa completo de @latinrconf.bsky.social 2025 está aquí: latinr.org/cronograma/p... ¡Les esperamos! La conferencia es gratuita: www.eventbrite.cl/e/latinr-202... #RStats #DataScience #OpenData #OpenScience #AI #FOSS #Package #RSE

November news! 🗞️ #rstats 📆 rOpenSci at LatinR 🌐 rOpenSci Dev Guide Now Available in Portuguese! 📼 Big Team Collaboration on Data Management and Analysis with rOpenSci 📼 rOpenSci at posit::conf(2025): recordings 🙏 Blog contributor roles in rOpenSci and beyond 📆 Coworking 📊 New package […]

Just my yearly reminder friends. Be kind to us retail workers. Sh**ts about to get real and we’re already VERY tired.

Are any of my qualitative research folks around? 

They got some white dude who writes obits about “fascinating lives” - but she wasn’t fascinating, she was meaningful.

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org

The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.

The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10. We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢 I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

Why's your image post not gaining traction? Because you ain't got no alt text. So go ahead & fill in that little box with a brief description of your image & watch the magic happen.

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

The #NoKings website needs some accessibility work. The results of the location search are only available visually as a map. There's no text alternative for people using screen readers. 

Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤 A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls? Find out by filling out our new questionnaire! Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...

The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship! You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS... I'm also happy to answer any questions! #Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Hey Atlanta! Next weekend, Saturday 10/18, is our next NO KINGS rally ❌👑 And I'll be speaking! #StandUpForScience This is a peaceful protest, coordinated with #NoKings protests around the country, together expected to be the largest in American history. Join us! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Autistic humans don’t burn out from being autistic. We burn out from pretending we’re not. From jobs, families, and systems that punish difference and call it “help”. Recovery isn’t about fixing us. It’s about changing the conditions. Even one small one at first is already a huge step.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Yani! You can still register for the @btscon.bsky.social always great to work with at minimal cost and watch the video later. 

Today, @lizhare.bsky.social gave a spectacular talk at the Big Team Science Conf about the peer review software resources developed by @ropensci.org and how she learned about them during the Champions program. The slide with the unexpected benefits is my favorite part of the entire presentation!

Join me and @lizhare.bsky.social at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom Today from 16:30 UTC. Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch our Talk: Big Team Collaboration on Data Management and Analysis with @ropensci.org

First, congratulations Yani! Second, if you want to know how to  verbally describe data visualizations well, use this as an example. 

It’s so frustrating when white ppl have the audacity to speak on the black lives when this country makes it so difficult just to live while black.

Come joimn Steffi LaZerte & I to chat about code review at rOpenSci 's Coworking call in a month! If you're transitioning to open science projects, we'll introduce how teams work together. Also, please come along if you have tips/experience to share. https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-11/

Oh god, yes!

📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life 🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Next Monday at 12:30 EDT. I'll be talking with @yabellini.bsky.social at the Big Team Science Conference. We'll be talking about @ropensci.bsky.social 's community and resources for working together on R code. https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming! Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊

Thrilled to have teamed up with @cderv.bsky.social & Zhian N. Kamvar for this post on @ropensci.org: ✨ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents ✨ ropensci.org/blog/2025/09... It's even available in French and Spanish (🙏 @yabellini.bsky.social) #RStats

Let's please not forget that all this made up science about autism is founded on ableism and hate, not disability rights and acceptance.

This is it, folks.

I'm really excited to be giving a talk w/my friend & respected colleague @yabellini.bsky.social at the Big Team Science Conf October 6-8 (timeTBD. 1/2 https://lnkd.in/eU2jW457 https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/ (Edited 12:31 PM via @skeetsapp.com)

¿Querés compartir tu trabajo con la comunidad de #RStats en Latinoamérica 🌎? #LatinR2025 es tu espacio para: - Mostrar tu investigación - Compartir experiencias - Proponer talleres - Conectar con gente de la región 📅 Fecha límite para enviar propuestas: 25 de agosto Info latinr.org/blog/es/2025...

LOL that the alt text doesn't even tell us what the signs say. 

New funding opportunity for a Master’s Degree by Research from the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) and BSAVA PetSavers @thebsava Up to £42,000 to cover a postgraduate student stipend at BBSRC standard rates, and a veterinary stipend can be requested www.bsava.com/petsavers/ap...

ManyDogs also welcomes organizations that are not traditional dog labs, like working dog organizations. There are also plenty of opportunities to volunteer if you aren't associated with a facility.

It’s wild that “species” is one of the most fundamental concepts in biology but we can’t really define it & there are LOTS of organisms that experts disagree about. Are there other concepts in science that seem simple from the outside but are actually complicated? Plz dish the drama in your field🧪🧬🦠

So great to see that there's a ManyPigs now! THe ManyX projects are big team science consortiums for cognitiv research.they are open science projects that can answer new questions with larger data sets.

🧪 What if we could share genetic sequences in a way that is equitable, and works for the greater good? Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵