#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

blaming bigotry on disabilities is just bigotry with extra steps it's bullshit and I'm sick of it

Yes please don't forget y'all, it may not be in headlines, but DC is still occupied by federal forces. They're all around us patrolling. They haven't left, they've become normalized. And before you accuse us of being lazy chumps, we're resisting constantly.

Too many white ppl conflate who we are with who they *decided* we are. When they engage with Black ppl they're really mostly engaging with the caricatures in their heads.

Stand Up For Science virtually tomorrow! https://www.standupforscience.net/sufs-may-day-2026?utm_source=TAF&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MayDay26

Our last Virtual and Accessible Rally was such a success we thought we would do it again...FOR EARTH DAY!!! Join us April 22nd, 8pm ET. We will have ASL interpretation, Spanish interpretation, captioning, and visual descriptions. We would love to have you.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

Fuck that motherfucker

The hypocrisy is astronomical: Trump slashed NASA’s budget by 23% and then took credit when astronauts made history. Artemis II does not belong to politicians dismantling American space science. Join the fight for science: standupforscience.net zurl.co/JHmEp

This approach is not yet available to screen reader users. 

Without alt text, seriously? It's only for sighted people?

Missed the Official No Kings 3 Virtual & Accessible Rally yesterday? No problem! Here's a link to a full recording of the rally on YouTube: youtu.be/1cyGZmdnL6Q?... #NK3AR #NoKings #NoKings3

The Official #NoKings 3 #Accessible & #Virtual Rally, March 28, will include ASL interpretation, live captions, visual descriptions, & Spanish audio interpretation. Because resistance must be accessible, inclusive, & open to all & our rally will be for everyone, everywhere. Details: tr.ee/nk3ar

Stand Up for Science is excited to announce James Walkinshaw, U.S. Congressional Representative, VA-11 (@repwalkinshaw.bsky.social) as a speaker at the Official No Kings 3 Virtual & Accessible Rally, on Saturday March 28th, 12:30 - 2:00pm.  Sign up here: tr.ee/nk3ar #NK3AR #Virtual #Accessible

Hi all! I'm wearing my @manydogsproject.bsky.social hat today to ask about data science & data sharing agreements.Our project is a big team science project bringing together datia from collaborators &many research sites to try to answer questions that are hard to ask with smaller data sets. 1/2

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

Hi all! I'm wearing my @manydogsproject.bsky.social hat today to ask about data science & data sharing agreements.Our project is a big team science project bringing together datia from collaborators &many research sites to try to answer questions that are hard to ask with smaller data sets. 1/2

Here's an excellent example of alt text for data visualization . 

I am so here for knitting content with alt text! 

Actually this alt text is completely unhelpful to a screen reader user. 

💉 Where can you find accurate vaccine information?💉 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... Other medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...

I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples. So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats. dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...

This is why we need screen reader accessible data visualization tools. 

Aplica antes del 20/02: champions-program.ropensci.org! El Programa está dirigido especialmente a personas que: 🌎 Son de América Latina o trabajan allí 🧠 Tienen experiencia en #RStats y quieren aprender más 🗣️ Se sienten cómodas comunicándose en español 🤝 Quieren fortalecer sus comunidades locales

💭 Interested in supporting greater visibility and recognition for neuroscientists with disabilities? Then this @network-alba.bsky.social initiative is an opportunity for you! 👉 Help shape a more inclusive neuroscience community, sign up and take part: buff.ly/jU3TeHO

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! Hoy @me_andre @mastodon.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero Toda […]

Look, this is just textbook scientific method: Background: Phrenology is pseudoscience. Experiment: Dogs come in many shapes. Conclusion: I use phrenology to evaluate people. Discussion: Buy Huberdude supplements for neck girth and high T flow state optimization.

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Porque es buena idea participar del programa de rOpenSci, por Francisco Cardozo, uno de nuestros mentores que ya ha participado dos veces. 📅Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026... 👉 Mira el evento completo: ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

We would love to take this national...but we can't do it without you! If you would like to host a March 7th event in YOUR area fill out this form: fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/ ✊ rally in a stable location 📣 a march 💪 a march + a rally 🚨 sidewalk protest GET IN, DORKS!

I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general

I made this ASL video about the SALUTE/ACTUAR acronyms re: observing ICE, but @bsky.app won't let me post here because, best I can tell, hands are moving too much? Anyway, if you have a moment to share, many d/hh folks have 1st lang that's not English. www.instagram.com/reel/DT5OPk0...

Think about how annoyed you get when your connection is bad and photos aren't loading so you don't know what people are talking about. That's what Blind people regularly have to deal with when you fail to copy and paste text from your articles into alt text, fellow journalists.

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.